The medium offers an enormous source of different genres that almost everyone could identify himself/herself with (a favourite one) (Lury, 2005, p. 6). Among these genres, TV sport is considered as a "major" category in terms of audience size (Dayan & Katz, 1992). ... Second to mention, considering these shows' genre- French word for type or kind (Lealand & Martin, 2001, p. 27)- it is clear that they are both catagorised under television's broad sport genre. ... Code has obviously applied to most of the genre's conventions, however adjusted itself into a form of light ...

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Though her writing career began on the Montreal newspaper, The Star, she was to make her mark in the United States. She lived most of her adult life in Boston, Seattle, and San Francisco, writing articles and short stories using the Chinese pseudonym Sui Sin Far. ... This study builds on White-Parks' conclusions by exploring the role of genre manipulation in Sui Sin Far's literary and political innovations. ... Amy Ling characterizes Sui Sin Far's writing as among one of "the earliest attempts by Asian subalterns to speak for them" . ... At the same time, literary critics are ...

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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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In order to grasp the underlying concept of feminist theatre, its successes as a genre and the challenges it faces in contrast with mainstream theatrical forms, it is essential to begin with a definition of terms. ... However, the writers also assert that there is so much diversity within this genre as to render this definition inconclusive, and that the term is so broad that it is almost singularly impossible to pin it down to specific tenets. ...

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In addition, the Gothic tradition in literature, Dark Romanticism and the challenging effects this genre of writing has on human mind, whether for the writer or the reader of horror stories will be debated. ... " This strain in Poe's thinking and philosophical outlook leads us to psychology of his inner personality and is also one of the key techniques he employed in writing most of his stories. ... Moreover, Poe is particularly important to the ongoing influence of the Gothic on contemporary literature, moving the genre from an external to an internal psychological focus. ... A...

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In her research, Jamieson explores presidential rhetoric as a genre of rhetoric itself. She argues that presidential State of the Union Addresses is a genre characteristic of the American presidency (Jamieson 5), and because of such a standard format, the audience has been conditioned to expect a specific rhetorical oratory. ... While remaining in the genre of presidential rhetoric, Teten further elaborates on the notion of the evolution of presidential rhetoric. ...

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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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(Barton,3) Given a period with such socio-historical background and male dominated constraint, an era where women publishing their writings tantamount prostitution, Aphra Behn remains the first professional woman who boldly and openly entered the masculine area of play writing. ... This genre focused more on the plot rather than the development of the characters and therefore was able to capture the audience in the tides of continuous changing situations. ... The use of intrigue, deceit, conspiracy and disguise therefore allowed Behn to create a play that questions appearance but at the same ...

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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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The drama of revolution is a political text through and through, but it cannot separate the political from the theatre; the drama of revolution is in search of a form, a meta-theatre, in which the overcoming of an order is thus first and foremost the attempt to suspend the law of genre. ... Brecht's use of the V-effect, the adoption of an episodic type of writing, and his promotion of gestic writing and acting "whereby underlying social attitudes and transactions should be brought out in the scripting and playing of scenes "had an influence on many subsequent writers, directors...

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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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In the early days, CGI was mostly limited to science fiction (sci-fi) and action genres. ... Recently, the use of CGI has began to spread to almost all genres that it is hard to find a contemporary Hollywood film that does not use VFX. ... Should VFX be limited to specific genre? ...

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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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"A woman," Caroline Bingley of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice affirms, "must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages."1 Her comment demonstrates the rigid view that members of the upper class had regarding the requirements a woman needed to be called...

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He described literature as, "imaginative writing in the sense of fiction" (Eagleton 1). If one then believes that 'writing in the sense of fiction' is the meaning of literature then who is it that decides what is true and untrue - and thus ultimately, literature? ...

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Abstract Reading Comprehension research has a long and rich history, when examining the process of reading comprehension and the effective instruction of it. What comprehension is, how comprehension occurs and how to teach comprehension have driven hundreds of research studies in the last 30 years. Most of what is known has been learned since the early 1970's. Reading comprehension and how to teach it, is probably the area of literacy about which we as educators have the most knowledge and most consensus. However, it is also probably the area that receives the least attention in th...

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In the mid-1980s, just as the new historicists, with their invocation of "the historicity of texts and the textuality of history," were transforming the way readers understood the English Renaissance, Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose became both a critical success and a bestseller. (1983) Widely celebrated as a postmodern historical novel, this dazzling mixture of thick historical research and popular detective fiction invited its readers to view historical fiction as an academically respectable genre and a vehicle for recovering and reimagining the past in unconventional ways...

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These skills such as listening, speaking, reading, writing and viewing are used as the primary vehicle to obtain a certain language and to serve as a passage to encompass widely the interrelated realms of communication and global area. ... The learners' ability to speak is tremendous and his control in other areas of learning such as listening, reading and writing gives a clear denotation that he has the distinct chance of being a learner of a wonderful classroom teacher. ... Good reader is more probably perform well in school, understand and structured piece of writing, they have the ...

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The Construction of the Palestinian Social Movement. In Order to remember I shall continue to carve All the scenes of my tragedy And all the stages of the disaster On the olive tree in the courtyard of my house. In order to understand the origin, development and current status of the contemporary movement for reconciliation within Israel, we must first take a look at the historical impact that Zion colonialism has had upon Israeli Arabs, or the Palestinians. While the terms colonialism and imperialism are familiar, the term Zion colonialism is argua...

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benefits and threats of globalisation Introduction There are processes in the international order--driven by revolutions in communication and information technology--that exhibit seemingly inexorable globalising tendencies while, at the same time, there are a range of actions, adopted by states an...

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Sex offenders are a highly diverse group of people, but all are individuals who have at least one of the following crimes in common: have committed violent sexual assault on a stranger, have had inappropriate sexual contact with a family member, have molested a child or any other inappropriate and criminal sexual behavior. Currently, in the United States, there are a total of 722,499 individuals who are registered sex offenders (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). However, this number does not reflect every person who has committed a sexual offense. Research shows that a lot of cases go unreported whi...

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This helped the young audience relate to the high stakes involved for the couple, and brought the main conflict into a realm they could readily understand, as opposed to writing it off as an antiquated relic of yesteryear. ...

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