What makes people laugh? Why do people laugh?

Their names are Allyson Burbeck, Senna Nilsson and Emily Ricks in order of speaking

What is Literature? What is Civilization?

Kiley Hiett, Kira Markus, Ali Rafetto

ENGL 20923

Each person was asked to come up with a ‘definition’-type answer to the questions asked below.

• “What is literature?”
• Mary Kate: “Books! It’s the written expression of the human condition.”
• Madeleine: “The art of written work.”
• Teryn: “What is it not?”
• “What is civilization?”
• Mary Kate: “The inhabitants of a place, but also the culture that they make.”
• Madeleine: “A group of people that live together with common things about them.”
• Teryn: “A bunch of people living together.”