We see these locations every episode, which reinforces the idea of everyday life and also the audience needs some familiarity so that they feel that they know the characters and location in the soap. ... The narrative structure invites the viewer's involvement in the personal relationships and family lives of the characters. ... Certainly soaps tend to appeal to those who value the personal and the domestic world. ... However personal relationships are still at the heart of soaps but it also emphasizes the male grip on themes of business and work. So British soaps have adopted storylines,...

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Multiple parts of narrative perspective are examined: how the narrative perspective is used to surprise the reader in different ways and how the irony, symbols, and emotions are used to help the narrator explain the characters and events throughout the story as well as understanding the psychopath himself. ... Minor research into the significance of narrative symbolism and motifs, and third-person narration of the reader into a novel is gathered to inform my understanding of the significance of narrative perspective. ... Body Paragraphs Searching up the different kinds of perspectives and na...

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This idea can be seen within the chosen advert as the encoder uses the narrative of the protagonist, identified as Grandpa, to communicate the intended message that in order to address issues such as health and obesity, consumers should consider a healthier diet and a more active lifestyle. ... The narrative portrays the average working day of both a young 1950s Grandpa and that of a modern day Grandson. ... Mise-en-scène within the video is also used to support the narrative of juxtaposition. ... The uses and gratifications theory is a mass media communication theory which proposes th...

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Another idea, which can be suggested by closeness, is discomfort, as with a character who invades the personal space of others. ... Such elements of mice en scene as objects, performers and sets can not only communicate meaning or mode but also help to reveal ideas and attitudes a film intends to express. ... Narrative Structure Film tends toward more fluctuation in narrative point of view than the novel. ... The consciousness can be presents in one of the following forms of narrative, among which are "camera-as-narrative", "witness-as-narrator", "protoganist-as-na...

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Lion (1987) is a novel which takes place in Toronto in the years following the First World War. Ondaatje's next novel, 1992's The English Patient, won the Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize, and was made into an award-winning film. In The Skin Of A Lion is a love story and an irresistib...

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Inter-personal learners need to have social contact with someone else, even just talking about ideas learnt in class or debating with the teacher is a very effective way for this person to learn. Intra-personal is when you are alone and have time to reflect upon your learning, or learning straight out of a textbook. ... This means that I was using my inter-personal and intra-personal intelligence to aid me. ... The main ideas are different ways of teaching, and during the trial period, they assessed how present teachers already used some of the ideas and once taught, how they then used the ...

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In a progressive democracy, news should stress its discursive constructedness, should nominate all its voices... and should open its text to invite more producerly reading relations'1 The idea that TV offers 'a window on the world' still seems to be common in the newsroom. ... The form is also important, we know a narrative, photos, two-screen, etc... - Structure/ narrative News is cast like a narrative. ...

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Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. ... Mulvey is initially concerned with people's obsession with narrative cinema. ... She uses Lacanian and Freudian theory to explain her castration complex: the idea that men and women have a fear of lacking a penis as a function of our patriarchal society. ... This gives men in the narrative an enormous amount of power in film and their women are either glamorized or tamed. ... An emotional rollercoaster, she flirtatiously plays with the idea even though s...

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The essay will also explore Murdoch's ideas on illusioning fantasy which she believed provides people with a sense of completeness. These ideas will be questioned and challenged by opposing arguments. ... Hence, if one wishes to understand the Self, one can read a multitude of literature on the topic and reach a personal conclusion, as no one theory can be proven correct. ... Narrative Psychologist Jerome Bruner is an influential writer on the topic of Self. ... Further, autobiography is generally used to create a particular type of identity, which is generally a socially desirable ...

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This novel follows the idea of the labyrinth from some of it's predecessors who had written about a labyrinth in some sense. ... The formalist lens is one's own opinion on a subject based on previous knowledge, ideas, and beliefs held by a person. ... The appearance of the hallway may symbolize Navidson and his wife's personal labyrinths. ... Zampano's narrative is in Times New Roman, Johnny Truant's is in Courier, and the editors narration is in a font called Bookman. ... The author who is credited with the use of the idea of this symbol in modern writing is Jorge Lui...

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As a successful poet of his day, Byron established a proud, passionate, and rebellious image supported by painful and mysterious experiences of his personal life (Safier 527). ... The idea of himself is that which holds Byron's work together and makes it especially hard to mimic (West 2). He was not only an English Romantic poet but also presented historical tragedy, romantic narrative, ode and especially epic satire to Romanticism. ... Byron often associated self-realization with guilt in his poetry; a personal identity was both attractive and repulsive (West 53). ... In 1812 Childe Har...

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Laced throughout this gothic novel arise many of these sexual expressions, however, despite this underpinned sexuality there remains a conservative ideology of woman subversive to man; the idea of the pure woman being seduced by the overpowering man, in what is thought to be a lurid sexual act, yet also strives to maintain a level of the conservative and uphold the social morals of the nineteenth century. ... The idea of the damnation of the victim was perhaps the most damaging aspect of the curse of vampirism in past ages. ... As Lestat pursues this quest for meaning, the reader establishes...

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Ralph Macchio in The Karate Kid (1984): American action film and television, involving martial artists as heroes, tended to be dominated by narratives revolving around Euro-American protagonists. ... In the intervening twenty years, American action film and television, involving martial artists as heroes, tended to be dominated by narratives revolving around Euro-American protagonists played by actors as diverse as Tom Laughlin as Billy Jack, Ralph Macchio in The Karate Kid (1984), Steven Seagal in films like Above the Law (1988), Jean-Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport (1988) and Kickboxer (198...

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This lecture has two purposes: both to illuminate some of Annie Hall's central concerns, through analysing both its aesthetic and narrative structures; and to allow you to consider a way in which a film can be approached as a visual text. ... Annie Hall engages with this idea of the constant flow of people and the possibilities they offer both of a romantic relationship, but also loss and regret - if everything is always changing, then loss is always a possibility. ... The contrast, indeed conflict between, old-time romance and the confusions and complexities of what we might term m...

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This idea also occurred in British cinema. ... This was heavily used in his Jury Prize winning L' Avventura, where Antonioni created a film that contained seemingly aimless narrative and lacked final resolution. ... (pg. 536) " This untold story of their disappearance exemplifies the impermanence and fragility of personal relationships while providing a perfect formula for a trilogy whose theme is about the hopelessness of love in contemporary life. ... With their stunning visuals, ambiguous narratives, and still relevant focus on modern alienation, films of this period have stood the ...

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Melville's final years were marked by personal tragedy. ... His narratives of adventure in the South Seas are small masterworks of the genre. ... But more and more, as he became landlocked, his books grew to be inside narratives, the voyages of a mental traveler. ...

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Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. ...

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Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the fears, the joys, the ambitions and failures, the terror and the conflicts, finally the sense of balance that once attained will allow the characters to withstand the outer world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. ...

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That being said, the narrative of literature has changed drastically from the 18th Century to the 19th/20th centuries. ... Therefore, there are circumstances when a writer's personal experience can influence the story told in their novel, with changing the narrative and characters to transform a personal experiences into a realistic fictional story. ... The personal experience can create a significantly more realistic vibe to a story that readers can relate to. A main theme in "The Open Boat" is the idea of that constant fear that is lingering in human nature regarding the u...

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The tide country was not yet ready for Hamilton's progressive ideas. ... The tide country people have an epic narrative of origins which they pass on orally from generation to generation. ... The narrative space is taken up by them and a handful of other characters, each on a personal quest through life. ... Linking the two narrative strands is Fokir, an illiterate fisherman who knows the watery labyrinths of the Sundarbans better than anyone. ... Kanai's narrative brings to life the character of his uncle, Nirmal Bose, who is dead before the story begins. ...

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Style In a recent personal interview with Rick Bragg, I asked him about the process by which he has developed his style and approach to his subject matter. ... You take the tasty ingredients and cook them down "thick, almost burnt to a dried blood-colored paste"" (personal interview). ... Like Truman Capote and others, Rick writes non-fiction in a narrative style sometimes called New Journalism that employs a fictional method to tell a real story. ... I won't embellish the truth, but I will tell it in a way that engages the reader and pulls him into the story"" (personal interview). ...

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In the traffic environment one aspect that occupies several disciplines is the aspect of traffic safety. All disciplines have to think about that different traffic safety measures have other effects than just reducing the risk of being killed or injured, such as increased travel time, inconvenience,...

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The idea is to analyze the relationship between particular identities that these figures have acquired in popular discourse and particular modalities of power. ... The fact that the self is not only reconstituted but is actually produced by the mediation of images is contested by the idea that there is a reality independent of the image. ...

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Whether it depicted the Shire as 1900 rural England or the war of the rings as World War I, these events were reflections of Tolkien's personal experiences. ... Tolkien was able to use his personal experiences to serve as influences for his works of fantasy. ... In this group, members discussed their current works in progress, and notably praised narrative value in fiction and favored the writings of fantasy. ... During the 1930's, children's books consisted of realistic and anti-magical ideas. ... In these novels, Tolkien is able to express his own personal opinions through his...

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