DRAMA: the specific mode of fiction represented in performance‚ from a Greek word meaning "action‚" "to do‚" or "to act". The enactment of drama in theatre‚ performed by actors on a stage before an audience‚ presupposes collaborative modes of production and a collective form of reception. The structure of dramatic texts‚ unlike other forms of literature‚ is directly influenced by this collaborative production and collective reception. ELEMENTS OF DRAMA * Music/Rhythm: Aristotle - the rhythm
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Glossary of Literary terms – Drama Act-: A lengthy segment of a play‚ comprising several scenes. A major division in a play. Each act may have one or more scenes. Greek plays were performed as continuous wholes‚ with interpolated comment from the Chorus. Horace appears to have been the first to insist on a five-act structure. At some stage during the Renaissance the use of five acts become standard practice among French dramatists. Plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries have natural
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Are you a personal fan of TV crime dramas or are you just disturbed by them? The past couple of months and/or in the past year tv crime drama have been becoming more popular. Whether people enjoy them or there’s been a case of boredom and there’s nothing to watch. Either way the viewers of tv crime drama have increased from the last couple of years. A crime drama is a type drama show‚ which has its primary focus or heroes‚ people whose main job or occupation is to investigate‚ punish or commit crimes-
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Media Portrayals of Groups: Distorted Social Mirrors While television may provide a distorted social mirror‚ there are programs which break down social stereotypes. This week’s programs were selected because they do not perpetuate stereotypes but they do show that it is ok that we are all different. Scrubs The NBC program‚ Scrubs is an offbeat comedy that has received numerous Emmys‚ Golden Globes and the prestigious Humanitas Prize which honors film and television writing that showcase humanity
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Picasso’s painting "Girl Before A Mirror." For this second assignment‚ you will need to make sure you have read chapters 4 & 5 (pages 75 thru 137) of the 9th edition of the "Living With Art" textbook. This topic will also be covered in class during the 4th or 5th week of class. After reading chapters 4 and 5 of the "Living With Art" textbook‚ you should be able to carefully look at Pablo Picasso’s oil painting "Girl Before A Mirror" (shown above) and evaluate how some of the Visual Elements
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Drunk driving has a tremendous effect on the lives of people. The effect of drunk driving can influence the lives of those drinking the family of the victim and even an entire community. If someone drinks and drives with blood alcohol levels of eight hundredths of a gram or .08 grams and above or the point at which a person is legally drunk they are at least 6 times more likely to get involved in an accident than if you were to drive under the same circumstances while you were sober. On average one
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‘Bassett’ Introduction- For our task to explore play texts we were to examine James Graham’s play called ‘Bassett’. We had 6 lessons to explore aspects of the play which followed reading the text. In each lesson we learnt something different about the story and investigated‚ in different ways‚ key parts of the play using the strategies of still image‚ narration‚ role play‚ cross cutting‚ and imagination. We used the mediums of movement and mime‚ spoken language‚ space and levels‚ sound‚
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The Drama Based on Peter Szondi’s studies‚ the Drama of modernity had its beginning in Renaissance. After the collapse of the medieval worldview‚ an artistic reality in which a human being could fix and mirror himself on the basis of interpersonal relationships was created. Man disclosed himself to his contemporary world: nothing outside the interpersonal relationships was accepted in the drama. Drama is absolute and unique for it is separate from everything outside itself and it
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But unfortunately this good news would never come. Sitting in this blue chair with my dad‚ all good memories came to my head‚ all my regrets‚ what I could have done but I didn’t because I didn’t know to appreciate what I had. My mother’s light of life was slowly vanishing‚ and I couldn’t do a thing about it‚ not even pray‚ nothing would work. I guess we all knew there was no hope left‚ but we all were children‚ we were naïve and innocent‚ always waiting for a miracle. Finally the doctor
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Do Different Judgements Matter? Michael Jackson once sang the following lyrics in his song‚ Man in the Mirror: “I’m starting with the man in the mirror. I’m asking him to change his ways‚ and no message could have been any clearer. If you want to make the world a better place take a look at yourself‚ and then make a change.” When someone reads a book they often have a view about one or more characters. It is sometimes made before even knowing the person. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird many of
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