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    The documentary genre has changed over time. Changes in society have had an impact on the change. There are large commercialist pressures for documentary to become more entertaining and engaging to capture a wider cinema going audience. Documentary has become increasingly popular. Documentaries such as Bowling for Columbine by Michael Moore have been given numerous awards and were widely popular at the box office. The Grey Gardens is a 1975 documentary by Albert and David Maysles. The film depicts

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    What are the most common mythological themes across different culture? Why do myths from culture around. The world address‚ such similar or universal themes? Think about how myths explain the unknown and the tribulations of mankind. A. Myths for the most mythological themes across the world or universe have different culture‚ and have different beliefs. The way myths are presented in movies is the way the

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    Comparing the themes in two poems by Les Murray The poem Broad Bean Sermon and the Burning Truck are two contrasting poems by the poet les Murray. The poem Broad Bean Sermon explores various themes such as; the beauty of nature and positiveness e.g. the positive outlooks on the environment. It is about the person giving a spiritual speech about these beans; however he’s not focusing on the ordinariness of the beans but rather he is concentrating on the uniqueness and different types or personalities

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    Discussing Literary Genre

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    To define genre is to embark on a conjectural journey within a theoretical minefield. Genre theory has drawn immense debate and contemplation throughout literary history‚ however‚ several conclusions have emerged. Genre types are unfixed categories whose characteristics differ considerably among the specific genres; furthermore‚ the role of literary history plays a significant role in discussions of genre‚ for genre types evolve and shift with each new literary text. An approach to the discussion

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    Introduction to Genre Theory Daniel Chandler 1. The problem of definition A number of perennial doubts plague genre theory. Are genres really ’out there ’ in the world‚ or are they merely the constructions of analysts? Is there a finite taxonomy of genres or are they in principle infinite? Are genres timeless Platonic essences or ephemeral‚ time-bound entities? Are genres culturebound or transcultural?... Should genre analysis be descriptive or proscriptive? (Stam 2000‚ 14) The word genre comes from

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    THANG LONG UNIVERSITY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION Cultural Similarities and Differences between Eastern and Western INSTRUCTOR: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Do Student name : Vu Thi Huyen Trang Student code : A21888 Ha Noi‚ 2015 Table of Contents 1.Introduction……………………………………………………………………….01 2.Definition……..…………………………………………………………………..01 3.The Similarities…………………………………………………………………..02 3.1. Religion…………………………………………………….. 3.2. Zodiac………………………………………………………. 3.3. Communication……………………………………………

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    Different Oral Genres

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    Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – Faculdade de Letras LET060 INGLES: EXPRESSAO ORAL - M4 Profa.: Gladys de Souza Leonardo Henrique Machado Topic: Oral Genres The language user is in a position to act in different communicative situations and with different purposes. To be able to express oneself fluently‚ the language user draws on a number of different competences or linguistic resources which‚ together‚ make up language proficiency or communicative competence. Many of

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    Across the Water

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    Michael Murray English 101 Theresa Stein Across the Water “There’s a large posterior fossa mass. Surgery is scheduled for two o’clock.” Those words launched a journey of nearly ten years for me and my youngest child. A journey largely responsible for shaping the people we’ve become since that horrendous‚ God-awful moment. “That’s only an hour from now… I need more time and I need more information‚” I finally responded. It felt as though I’d been slammed between two steel plates and pushed

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    Horror Genre Dissertation

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    Introduction PG. 4 Discussion - 4. History of the Horror Genre PG. 5 - 9 - 5. Slasher Films and the Gender roles PG. 9 - 13 - 6. Comedy Horror PG. 13 - 16 - 7. Postmodernism and the Horror Film PG. 16 - 18 - 8. Case Study: Scream Vs. Scary Movie PG. 18 - 22 9. Conclusion PG. 23 Bibliography PG. 25 - 27 1. Abstract Page I have researched on the Horror genre‚ looking at when it begun‚ the decline in popularity it has foreseen

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    Music Genre Classification with the Million Song Dataset 15-826 Final Report Dawen Liang‚† Haijie Gu‚‡ and Brendan O’Connor‡ † School of Music‚ ‡ Machine Learning Department Carnegie Mellon University December 3‚ 2011 1 Introduction The field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) draws from musicology‚ signal processing‚ and artificial intelligence. A long line of work addresses problems including: music understanding (extract the musically-meaningful information from audio waveforms)

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