I will begin by discussing the history of the Sitcom as a genre; secondly I will trace the history of the Science fiction Genre and finally, I'll analyse how Red Dwarf has taken elements from both of these to create its own unique hybrid entity. ... This is a reason why the sci-fi genre has become so diverse as it has many issues to explore. ... France's George Melies, a cartoonist and conjurer is credited with inventing the sci-fi film genre. ... The genre of science fiction came into its own in the fifties. ... A revolutionary film in the science fiction genre was Jurassic Park...

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He is known for writing three voice sacred pieces, settings of antiphons, hymns and mass sections. ... One of the most influential and characteristic genre of the Renaissance was the Madrigal which is a vocal composition combining homophonic and polyphonic textures that is set to a short poem. ... Other innovations such as new instruments such as the trombone and the violin came into play as well as new genres including: variations, prelude, fantasia, toccata, ricercare, canzona, and sonata. The genres provided more challenging approaches to playing than was offered in sacred or secular music....

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He went on to say that they boasted about incredible or completely fabulous deeds but were careless about writing them down. ... Fisher, which is a form of writing that can be dated back to its earliest literary genre called Mennippean Satire. ... The only two forms of literature that exist in the Minnippean Satire genre is the Satyricon of Petronius and Apolocynotosis which were attributed to Seneca the Younger. ... What I will do is correlate the Book of Invasions to the purpose of The Tain, and compare the writing to Greek epics and the Bible. ... When the story was put back together the ...

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They include a wide variety of genres ranging from poetry analysis essays of James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and abstracts on epilepsy research projects to my own Shakespearean (or should I say, Santamarian) sonnets and elegant e-mails to a girlfriend. ... What do you want to learn about writing? ... In seventh grade, I discovered a marvelous new genre of literature: the short story. ... Growth, then, is my future in writing. ... This is typical of my writing process. ...

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Course Outcomes Outcome 1: Writing Process Students will understand and engage in writing as a process. ... Related Objectives • read a variety of texts and analyze their rhetorical situations (i.e. context, audience, and aims) • write papers with a clearly developed thesis and support designed to appeal to various audiences and contexts • read for various purposes Outcome 4: Rhetorical Strategies Students will read and write a variety of nonfiction expository and argumentative genres. Related Objectives • summarize, analyze, respond to, and evaluate pr...

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The types of reading and writing are found within the Reading and Writing Workshops. My students will know the purpose of them reading and writing every day. ... Children's literature should be presented to children in a variety of genres. ... The amount of time students spend writing in these notebooks can vary. ... The writer's notebook is a key component of the writing workshop, which includes independent writing, guided writing, and investigations. ...

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It is impossible to discuss the purpose of fairy tales for a contemporary audience and even more so to discuss their relative value for present audiences in comparison to audiences in the past without looking at a definition and history of the genre. ... More writers chose to take up the challenge of writing in this style, and many simply developed different versions of pre existing fairy tales. ... This changed in Russia, with the performance of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Sleeping Beauty, which saw the cross fertilisation of genres in a successful attempt to adapt a modern craze to Russia&...

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The genre of detective fiction is often compared to crime fiction, yet there are striking differences between them. ... In "The Speckled Band", the setting of the main part of the story is very typical of the murder mystery genre. ... This could be because of the change in genre over the 100 years. ... When Conan-Doyle was writing, televisions or computers hadn't been invented so people had a lot more time to read, this is perhaps the reason why the story "The Adventures of the Speckled band- has a slower pace and is more detailed. ...

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The ideal image of the epic hero continues to live in valuable memory of a novelistic genre. Reader's expectations are deceived and at the same time come true in new convincingly motivated turn of events as the idea of the novel as a genre is defined with becoming the person. ... Since these "instants" before the reader's eyes, at his interested partnership as he is involved and willingly gives himself to involve in discussion of variants of development of a plot, the aleatorica of the novel is unwrapped, supported by author's references on Alan Rob-Grije, Rolan Bart and other ...

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Online games have many genres, including FPS games, MMORPG, Casual games and multiplayer games. A game will become an online game if it involves in using a computer or a series of computers with one player in each computer to battle it out with other players using the Internet depending on the game genre. ... Children today are forgetting how to write and many blame their awful hand writing on this machine which has taught everyone to type at a speed of at least 50 to 60 words per minute. ...

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Although the writing of the play came much earlier, the play was not published until 1623. Genre: The play of Julius Caesar can be classified as historical fiction, tragic drama or even historical drama. Characteristics if genre: Julius Caesar was based on the true story of the real character and ruler of Rome. ... Around the 1950's he left his family behind and began acting and writing in London. ... The tone of his writing can be described as serious, proud, virtuous, enraged, vengeful, idealistic, or anguished. ...

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A tension in writing between the popular and the esoteric, and the popular and specialized, the commercial and the avant-garde, became a feature of twentieth-century literature. Isolation and alienation, together with experimental forms of expression, came to characterise serious literature, while cinematic techniques and the elaboration of popular genres came to dominate other forms of cultural expression. ... Against Modernism it was said that it produced chaotic and difficult writing, that it moved beyond the capacity of many readers and became elitist. ... What is significant is that both ...

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During this time, young Mozart had the opportunity to work in several different musical genres composing symphonies, string quartets, sonatas and serenades and a few operas. ... Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart quickly found work in Vienna, taking on pupils, writing music for publication, and playing in several concerts. He also began writing an opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio). ... But the stay promoted Mozart to begin writing a mass in C Minor, of which only the first two sections, "Kyrie" and "Gloria," were completed. ...

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Listening to music is a way for people to express their emotions and I also find it somewhat beautiful that for the most part everyone has a specific artist or genre that they prefer. ... While researching on google scholar I found a book titled The Norton Anthology of Poetry which is a published collection of poems and other pieces of writing which includes many different writers' works, Writer Jon Stallworthy writes an essay in this book titled "Versification " which relates to the topic of music and poetry. ... In this interview though he talks about how he began to write when he was ...

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Thriller, by genre, is classified as a disco-funk song. ... Thriller was created and recorded in 1982, which was a very strange time to release a Disco/Funk song because during the late 1970's, there was a decline in the entire Disco genre of music. ... So many people showed up due to the growing hate towards the entire genre during the late 1970's. ... During the time this song was dated, Beethoven was also writing many other bagatelles as well, but could be said that it was written towards the end of this time period (11). ...

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Shelley again uses her clever writing skills here by making Frankenstein ill; it takes a few months for Frankenstein to recover from this. ... I am now going to talk about the author's craft; the way in which Mary Shelley uses her writing skills to convey different messages and feelings across to the readers. ... This seems a bit cliché, but I think it works well and presents the horror genre in an effective way. ... This is a clever writing technique, because it makes you feel as Frankenstein might - you feel his anxieties and anticipation for the monster to come to life, and this...

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Beginning piano study with Johann Gottfried Kuntzsch at the young age of six, Robert almost immediately started writing music; with his father's encouragement, he began composing small pieces at the age of seven. ... Eight months later he finalized his decision by writing again to his mother, "I have arrived at the conviction, that with work, patience, and a good master, I shall be able within six years to challenge any pianist."" ...

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Beginning piano study with Johann Gottfried Kuntzsch at the young age of six, Robert almost immediately started writing music; with his father's encouragement, he began composing small pieces at the age of seven. ... Eight months later he finalized his decision by writing again to his mother, "I have arrived at the conviction, that with work, patience, and a good master, I shall be able within six years to challenge any pianist."" ...

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The literature will emphasized a new flexibility of form adapted to varying content, encourage development of complex and fast-moving plots and allowed mixed genres and a freer style. ... During the time Whitman was writing fiction, he remained a successful journalist. ... After been fired From the Long Island Star because of been writing against slavery, fortunately in 1846, the editor of a New Orleans paper the Crescent made a deal with Whitman in order to work in his newspaper. ...

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Because of this diversity, composers found themselves writing for either end of the spectrum, but never both. ... In 1932, a union was set up, "The Union of Soviet Composers" which was then split up into sections which governs the various musical genres. ... -Stanley Dale Krebs, Soviet Composers Up until the publication of "Testimony: the memoirs of Demitri Shostakovich" edited by Solomon Volkov in 1979, it was unclear what the composers intentions were when writing the Fifth Symphony. ... In the early 1940's, Prokofiev criticized Shostakovich's lack of musical daring, accusing ...

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During Elizabethan times, 1550-1625, a great writer's explosive way of writing brought forth a new life to poetry. ... Shakespeare had to somehow exert his ability in another area of writing. ... Shakespeare thought of this common way of writing as an outlet to do just what everyone else was doing, subjectively expressing themselves through poetry. ...

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Mother Savage In the short story of Mother Savage by Guy de Maupassant, we learn of what life was like for a widowed mother whose only son goes off to war, the setting taking place in Virelogne, France during the Franco-Prussian war. Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) lived during this time and parti...

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Research Paper Peter Tchaikovsky has been a very influential person in the music world during and even after his death. The many symphonies, concertos, operas, and ballets that he has written set the standards for the composers that followed him, and much of his music has never been surpassed. Many...

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One of them is the genre of the film itself. ... And without Herman Mankiewicz's connections to Hearst, this character portrait would've almost certainly lost the intimacy that it has.It is interesting, that Mankiewicz, before writing the screenplay had several meetings with Hurst, his wife, and even visited them in their California castle. ... Although, Welles reportedly worked long and hard to revise the screenplay before shooting, writing himself more and more into the role, and changing it to the point that he wanted the sole writing credit for the film. ...

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In writing the history of the Peloponnesian War he limited himself to matters of state and war; he tried to establish chronology and facts with some exactitude, avoiding the digressions of Herodotus; though his attempt at writing a factual and impartial history was not entirely successful, he wrote a grave work, conveying the lessons he drew from his story. ... The great commentaries of Julius Caesar were more like inspired reporting than pure history writing, and the personal element in them was strong. ... The biographical or semibiographical accounts of knightly deeds in the Crusades gave r...

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