English Extension HSC The genre of crime fiction reflects shifting social‚ cultural and political conditions. Each composer is influenced by these shifting paradigms and thus incorporates them into their texts‚ pushing past the conventions and boundaries set in earlier eras to create new sub-genres. Daniel Chandler in An Introduction to Genre Theory‚ identifies this phenomenon: "genres change over time; conventions of each genre shift‚ new genres and sub-genres emerge and others are discontinued
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How do the authors of the two texts Not Without My Daughter and The Pianist use their protagonists to explore a response to violent social change? A response to violent social change is explored within the two texts‚ Not Without My Daughter written by Betty Mahmoody‚ with William Hoffer and the film The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski. In these texts the authors use their protagonist to explore the idea and impact of the violent social change that these characters must survive. Protagonists
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While all texts originate from the imagination of their composer‚ they also explore and address the issues of their contexts. This is clearly the case with Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein (1818) which draws upon galvanism and the industrial movement and Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner (1992) which has been heavily influenced by Thatcherism and Reagonomics. Despite there being over 150 years between their compositions both these texts explore several common themes such as mankind’s loss
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In today’s generation the use of electronics and viewing of television has grown rapidly. Children are exceeding their maximum amount of screen time which is affecting their overall well-being. Children are growing more attached to these devices day by day. The excessive time that is spent on any of these screen time choices causes children to have less bonding relationships with those around them and also decreases their physical activity. Parents have said that the reason they allow their kids
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Death affects young children much differently than it affects adults. Most children see death as this weird and confusing thing that makes everybody sad and they know that their friend or family member is never going to come back. Adults look at death as an inevitability and as the end‚ so they want to get out and enjoy life as much as possible. The unique thing here is that death is something that can happen to anyone at any given time. It can happen to a kid just as easy as it can to an adult
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Is it a good idea to vaccinate children? Whether for religious or personal reasons some parents choose not to vaccinate their children. Although there are no current laws about vaccinations‚ according to “Risk Factors Associated With Parents Claiming Personal-belief Exemptions to School Immunization Requirements: Community and Other Influences on More Skeptical Parents in Oregon‚ 2006‚” “48 states allow exemptions to immunizations for medical‚ religious‚ or philosophical reasons‚ but legal definitions
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cough. Getting vaccinated helps protect infants and others from catching whooping cough. (Pertussis Whooping Cough) Vaccinations save lives‚ so for infants or any children don’t get access to them‚ it could cause deadly diseases to spread in families and to the children themselves. (Liz Szabo. "Vaccine Gaps Cause Outbreaks.") Children are the future of the human race and if we don’t vaccinate them then they could
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The first extract is from a novel called “Chocolat” by Joanne Harris which was published in 1999‚ whereas the second extract is from a website of the “From Bean to Bar” chocolate company which was published in 2006. Both extracts concern themselves with chocolate and the way it is manufactured‚ although they both have different intentions. The first extract is from a novel and describes the delightful pleasure of creating chocolate‚ whereas the second extract is used to promote and advertise the
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Religion is a set of practices and beliefs that allow human beings to search for the meaning of life and the purpose of their existence. These common practices set the foundation for such beliefs to have validity. Every individual must wonder why he/she exists on earth. Questioning about the purpose in one’s life and whether or not there is meaning allows an individual to seek a supernatural‚ Supreme Being or some form of deity. Technically‚ religion is essentially the passing of stories‚ embedded
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Introduction Accounting and management are two popular majors of university disciplines. In this report‚ the disciplines of these two major will be compared and contrasted. There are four main areas enabling the two disciplines to be distinguished‚ which in terms of substance‚ source of data‚ knowledge source and teaching modes. Substance The first area of the contrast is the substance of the two disciplines. Coffin & Hewings (2003) illustrated that these two disciplines are classified into
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