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Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times is a 1994 book written by American writer James Finn Garner, in which Garner satirizes the trend toward political correctness and censorship of children's literature, with an emphasis on humour and parody. [1]
Children's short stories are fiction stories, generally under 100 pages long, written for children. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
By the late 1980s, the "Napalm" cadence had been taught at training to all branches of the United States Armed Forces.Its verses delight in the application of superior US technology that rarely if ever actually hits the enemy: "the [singer] fiendishly narrates in first person one brutal scene after another: barbecued babies, burned orphans, and decapitated peasants in an almost cartoonlike ...
Hector Hugh Munro (), photographed by E. O. Hoppé"Tobermory" is a humorous short story by Hector Hugh Munro written under his pen-name, Saki.It was originally published in The Westminster Gazette in 1909, first collected, in a revised form, in The Chronicles of Clovis (1911), and has frequently been reprinted in anthologies.
Dawn Powell (November 28, 1896 – November 14, 1965) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and short story writer. [1] Known for her acerbic prose, "her relative obscurity was likely due to a general distaste for her harsh satiric tone." [2] Nonetheless, Stella Adler and author Clifford Odets appeared in one of her plays.
"Advice to Youth" is a satirical essay written by Mark Twain in 1882. Twain was asked by persons unspecified to write something "to [the] youth." [1] While the exact audience of his speech is uncertain, it is most probably American; in his posthumous collected works, editor's notes have conjecturally assigned the address to the Boston Saturday Morning Club. [2]
Political cartoon by Dr. Seuss depicting Japanese Americans as sleeper agents ready to attack the United States from within following the attack on Pearl Harbor. While a student at Dartmouth College in the 1920s, Theodor Seuss Geisel drew cartoons for the campus's humor magazine, the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern, some of which contain anti-black racist and anti-Semitic elements [citation needed].
My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom in May 1919 by George Newnes. [1] Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, while the others concern Reggie Pepper, an early prototype for Bertie Wooster.