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Harvard University
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Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world.
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Its asking have you ever done anything that you know from the beginning would fail
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different ethnicities can different languages and often times when you know a certain language that puts you in a certain group of people
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knowing a language means that you can converse with people that know the same language and share ideas with them. If i speak english and i have to choose wether or not to talk to a person that knows english or a person that speaks spanish, im going to talk to the person that speaks english because its easier to share your ideas with them. technically, knowing the language puts you in the group of speaking that language and people never want to go the hard way to try and talk to the person that wants to speak spanish. not to mention the fact that when someone knows your langauage, you feel more comfortable around them. If i am asian and I speak cantonese, but im in the middle of a english speaking crowd, i definatly feel more comfortable if i meet someone that can speak cantonese as well. Does that help??
Question 1:
Humorous passage 1: "It (the umbrella) was made to be carried on the arm like an enormous ornamental bat and to allow one the opportunity to put on British airs as the atmospheric conditions demanded."
Humorous passage 2: "(The umbrella is) An item to be carried in the street, to be used to startle friends and—in the worst of cases—to fend off one’s creditors."
Question 2:
Passage 1 is funny because it compares the umbrella to an ornamental bat, which sounds weird in the first place. Plus, the umbrellas is said to be used by people who want to seem British, which is even more outrageously funny.
Passage 2 is funny because it treats the umbrella as a scary object which can be used even to fend off people you owe money to, which is absurd.
In both passages, the author uses tone and voice in a very witty way: he speaks seriously about absurdity, about unimaginable stuff. It is like an encyclopedia of weird and fun facts. That is what makes it funny: the contrast between a serious tone and larger than life images.
Situational irony. Jeremy's test was on time management, which he wasn't displaying as he was cramming.