We all have the ability to recognize and create humour, but how exactly do we do it? Salvatore Attardo and Victor Raskin have attempted to explain the workings of humour with their General Theory of Verbal Humor (1991). The central aim of Hamilton's study is to test the usefulness of the General Theory of Verbal Humor on a specific corpus by identifying and interpreting the narrative structures that create humour. How well can this theory explain the way humour 'works' in a particular tale, and can it provide us with interesting, novel interpretations? The genres used to test the General...

Well here it is, the beginning of a new adventure, a life together before God. Sometimes in order to find what your looking for you have to stop looking. For those of us who spent much of our adult lives single we have heard those words many times. The truth behind them does not make them easy to hear. Well at long last I have found the love of my life. But I didn't stop my search as I was instructed, I simply trusted God for the results. The Bible says that faith without works is dead. It was when I made God the delight of my heart that he gave me His great reward. I gave my heart unto God,...