Elements of Drama * Characters: Characters are the people (sometimes animals or ideas) portrayed by the actors in the play. It is the characters who move the action‚ or plot‚ of the play forward. * Plot: This is what happens in the play. Plot refers to the action; the basic storyline of the play. * Theme: While plot refers to the action of the play‚ theme refers to the meaning of the play. Theme is the main idea or lesson to be learned from the play. In some cases‚ the theme of a play
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Elements of Design Sheila Lewis ENG 225 Introduction to Film Prof. Kathryn Graham May 26‚ 2013 The scene that I chose that was in movie clips was from “Waiting to Exhale”‚ which was when Bernadette burnt all of her husband’s clothes in the front yard after he made a statement that he was leaving her for another women which was white. This movie was based on the book written by Terry McMillian. In this movie there were a lot of people involved in this movie and some of them that was included
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------------------------------------------------- VIETNAM – Transition throughout the years Background: Vietnam was conquered by France in 1884 and became part of French Indochina in 1887. It was declared independent after World War II‚ but still ruled by France until 1954; eventually dividing into Communist North and anti-Communist South (led by the Americans). Planned Economy: In 1975 North Vietnam overran the South‚ and reuniting Vietnam under the Communist rule. This is technically the first transition of the economy. The
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Shatkin‚ J. (2015). Transition to College: Separation and Change for Parents and Students. From https://med.nyu.edu/child- adolescent-psychiatry/news/csc-news/2015/transition-college-separation-and-change-parents-and-students Dr. Jess P. Shatkin‚ MD‚ MPH‚ leads the educational efforts of the New York University Child Study Center‚ where he is Vice Chair for Education and Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the New York University School of Medicine. He is one of the
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Reading Response: Through the Tunnel——by Doris Lessing Meaning: In the short story Through the Tunnel‚ Jerry and his mother spent their holidays near the sea. Jerry‚ the eleven-year-old English boy‚ was trying to become more independent and be accepted by the local boys so he left the safe beach where his mother stayed and turned to a more dangerous one. The main conflict appears when Jerry was convincing himself to practice holding a longer breath and dive through a long underwater tunnel made
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Elements of the cinema TIME * Since the images of moving pictures move in time‚ time is the most important element of the cinema. In the cinema it is subject to contraction‚ expansion‚ breaks or leaps through the manipulation of the director. The three aspects of the time 1. Physical time is the time taken by an action as it is being filmed and as it is being projected on the screen. A film may actually show what is happening in real life. * Physical time in the cinema can be distorted
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Through the Tunnel- Doris Lessing 1. The inner journey that the boy takes on his self-imposed physical rite of passage is his transition from childhood and emerging into young manhood. This transition is mostly symbolised in this short story by the Jerry’s experience of preparing to go through the tunnel after watching the other boys swim through the tunnel. Jerry practised holding his breath in order to get over the first barrier in achieving his desired destination‚ the light at the end of the
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Elements of Poetry When you read a poem‚ pay attention to some basic ideas: Voice (Who is speaking? How are they speaking?) Stanzas (how lines are grouped) Sound (includes rhyme‚ but also many other patterns) Rhythm (what kind of "beat" or meter does the poem have?) Figures of speech (many poems are full of metaphors and other figurative language) Form (there are standard types of poem) Voice Voice is a word people use to talk about the way poems "talk" to the reader. Lyric poems and
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Prepare an opening statement in which you describe the five (5) crimes Paul committed. List the elements of each crime and a short statement about the facts that support each element. In reviewing the criminal acts commited by Paul‚ there were five different crimes committed from the moment he enters Jill’s car and decided to draw a pistol. He then forced Jill to drive him to a different city at gunpoint and by doing this the first offense is kidnapping. This is the act of unlawfully seizing and
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How is it that 4 out of the 118 elements comprise over 96% of all living organisms? It is due to their reactive nature and ability to form bonds. One might ask why or how they are so reactive with other elements. Just as anything else in the universe seeks stability‚ so do atoms. Each of these 4 atoms seeks stability through their electrons. For example‚ hydrogen has 1 electron in its valance shell and it has the ability to fill that shell with up to 2 electrons thus it seeks another atom that
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