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    be seen as shameful. Christopher Morley understands this. In his short essay, “On Laziness,” he indirectly confronts the slothful in an effort to make them see the error of their ways. Morley deals with the topic of laziness in a overly sarcastic and satirical tone to stress the absurdity of the trait. Early in his essay, Morley utilizes irony that made it evident that his essay on the supposed benefits of laziness is meant to be treated as a satire. He in no way is actually believing what he is

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    race for most of our lives. We often shun the significance of stillness that we dismiss it as laziness. There has always been a negative connotation on the word “lazy” and always utilised in a pejorative fashion. We were often reminded that we would never amount to anything if we spend time unwilling to muster the extra energy. Typically, hard work is the definite route to success. However, what if laziness could actually help you advance in your life? Due to modernisation, our society has emerged

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    negative connotation, but Morley takes a different stance and challenges his readers to uphold laziness as one of the true means to become happy. Morley is similar to a salesman, as he promotes his product, laziness, in hopes of gaining the attention and support of others. Like many salesmen, Morley has a catch. By concealing his satirical viewpoint, he is able to distract his audience and continue to promote laziness undetected. Masking this satire, Morley diverts the attention of his audience by incorporating

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    that this essay poses two arguments about the indolence of the Filipinos, Rizal, in the beginning of his essay alleged that Indios are indolent, but only in the sense of little love for work or lack of energy, and not indolence as in the context of laziness. With this belief, he even attributed to climate the indolence of the natives. However, as I read through the essay, there were lines which I believe presents the idea that the natives were not indolent. According to the line, certain unsubdued tribes

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    In my opinion, I believe our future generation will be the laziest generation they’ll ever be. With new technology coming out here and there. People are just way to lazy to do things so they relied on the technology way too much that our future will be like the movie Wall-e. Our future will be run by robots and computer with a brainless human using them. We as the human are so lazy that we can’t even drive ourselves and have to rely on self-driving cars to take us places. The human race will go extinct

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    “There’s an app for that”. I find myself pointing out this somewhat obvious fact on a regular basis. What is there not an app for? Honestly, every aspect of a person’s average day can be assisted in some way by an app. App for the alarm in the morning, for your Starbucks coffee, an app for the morning news, apps to track your weight and calorie intake, a pedometer app to count your steps, GPS to get you to an appointment, banking apps, calendar, grocery list, coupons, Safeway even has an app. Apps

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    TTOTM WWTLF How can I be as lazy as David Lamb? David Lamb mastered the way to be successful with little work, so basically be lazy, and if I was able to do little work and get work done, it would be magical. For example, if I was able to apply this to school life and homework, I would have a lot more time for me and just extra time to relax, but by having poor time management and putting things off I progressively add more to my shoulders. The main way I could apply David Lambs concept to my life

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    Lazy, stubborn, and strength are commonly construed with the American people. An American archetype is a person that represents universal American human patterns. People have said that the character Bartleby from Bartleby, the Scrivener demonstrates resemblance to an American archetype. The novella is set during the mid 1800's on Wallstreet. During this time period there was a rise in change and the world was moving at a rapid pace. Bartleby struggle with change and relates to an American archetype

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    “On Laziness”, Morley attempts to convince his readers to take time for reflective thinking instead of just continuing through their effective, restless lives. He achieves this purpose through redefinition, irony, details, as well as his concrete assertions. A primary rhetorical tactic used is Morley’s redefinition of the word laziness. While the reader defines laziness as the quality of being unwilling to work, Morley wields a complete transformation of the word’s meaning. To him, laziness is not

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    Taylor Professor Ristroph ENGL 1101 22, June 2015 Laziness: Is it the American Way? Laziness is defined by the Webster’s Dictionary as: Not eager or willing to work or exert oneself; indolent; slothful, slow and heavy, sluggish. (Webster’s college dictionary) There are a number of things that can cause laziness. A new study finds eating too much junk food may make you mentally slower or less motivated. Depression can also be a cause of Laziness. Jessica Firger, writer for CBS NEWS writes, “Junk

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