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Song Of Roland Seven Years
1,674 wordsCharles the Great invaded Spain in the year 778. He had been invited in by the governor of the strategic city of Zaragoza, who had promised to turn the city over to him. He entered through a pass in the western Pyrenees Mountains and marched through the lands of the Basques, a people who had managed to maintain their freedom from Muslim domination and who were not too pleased with the Franks entering their land without even asking permission. Charles took care of their objections by seizing host...
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Positive And Negative Symptoms Of Schizophrenia
583 wordsThe term Schizophrenia comes from the Greek; Ship meaning split and Phren meaning mind. It was coined by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bieuler who, in 1911, used it to describe patients who he found to have a mind split from reality. Symptoms of Schizophrenia are generally divided into positive and negative. The former occur in all cases of Schizophrenia and can be thought of as added to the individuals behavior: delusions, hallucinations and thought disorders. The latter occur in only some cases...
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Eighteenth Century Twentieth Century
803 wordsId like to consider Gothic fictions virtuous women: the heroines of sensibility. Born from the eighteenth-century discourse of sensibility[ 2 ] (the study of the correlation between emotional stimuli and physical responsiveness), these fictional heroines are fair-haired and virtuous, whose goodness illuminates the forces of darkness; they are hostages to villains, often in the guise of malevolent father figures; they rely on protection from paternal figures, namely brothers and suitors; and thei...
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Twentieth Century Fox Ays
1,099 words... t spreading it around. But this would send the sign: Why pick up a show from a studio if it's going to eventually end up on its own network? It's bad for business. ''Or perhaps just for the way broadcast network business has been conducted up until now. Given the dramatic shifts in the TV landscape (mega mergers; nets insisting on co-owning shows with producers), others argue that the rules must change. ''If Fox [the studio] did this in the old days, it would be out of business with one thir...
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Television Shows Real Life
936 wordsMany families on television are portrayed using symbolism, religion, and traditional authority. One of the television sitcoms that depicts all of these three focal points is 7 th Heaven. In this show the father is a minister of the Church, which is the symbolic setting for the family to go to concerning religion. Thus the portrayal of families through television is commonly used as a source of education rather than entertainment. The manner in which the 7 th Heaven family is directed to its audi...
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Rest Of His Life Makes The Reader
679 wordsThere are many humorous short stories. Some sitcoms are based on short stories. For example they all have plots, rising action events, and resolutions. Take The Simpsons in every episode the characters make the watchers laugh with their dumb jokes, use of mockery, and clumsiness. Coincidently, they have the elements of a short story. On the other hand in a book you can feel the same humor. The Kuglemass Episode by Woody Allen draws the reader into the story by Sidney Kuglemass (the main characte...
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Epic Hero Trojan War
1,287 wordsAn epic is a poetic account of the deeds of an exulted and grand hero. In Homer's Odyssey, the great protagonist is Odysseus, a man who departed from his home to fight the Trojan War and who comes back after twenty years to find his household overtaken by lofty and contemptuous suitors courting his wife Penelope against her will. Throughout his journey, this rich and complex character battles life's temptations towards purification, since he must overcome his sins and flaws in order to obtain re...
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Part Of Life Culture Shock
1,001 wordsAccording to Freud, people are unable to remember when they are born because it is a traumatic experience, and such experiences are placed in the unconscious, meaning they are forgotten, unintentionally. Being born is a traumatic experience because of the fact that a fetus is, basically, being pulled from an environment that it has gotten used to over the course of nine months. This environment is one in which there was food, warmth, and comfort. When the child is born, it comes into a cold, dry...
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Aid Academy Award
1,412 words... an Academy Award for its animated short film, Tin Toy. The film was created completely with 3 D computer graphics using Pixar's Renderman, a technique that uses 'shaders' or small pieces of programming code to describe surfaces, lighting effects and atmospheric effects. Surface shaders are small programs that algorithmically generate textures of objects based on mathematical formulas. These computer generated textures produce better looking objects, thus creating newer and better special eff...
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Fried Green Tomatoes Homosexual Relationship
1,641 wordsMy first impression of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Caf'e was that it was a "woman's" novel. This was because the movie, which was more popular than the book, was advertised as a "chick flick." To say the least, I was wrong. The novel poses many issues that face the people of the 1920 's and 30 's, and makes one think about what people have struggled through. The novel addresses the issue of racism before the time of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. It tells of t...
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Act Ii Scene Act Iii Scene
1,576 wordsOthello Character of Jago is the clue to understanding all other characters in Othello. Jago appears as a person who starts mean intrigues around Othello's personality. Eternal struggle good v. evil plays its role in the play: the meaner is Jago, the more trustful Othello should be. When you read the play, you create your own picture of the evil: Iago uses all possible tricks and lies in order to reach his aim. One of the techniques used by Jago is deception by using the hidden meaning of his wo...
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High School Students Hand In Hand
1,629 wordsSteve Lips Final TV Essay 10 / 26 / 00 The World We Don? t Live In Television is not real life. It? s not even close. From Friends to Frasier, people? s lives do not resemble TV show plots by any means. Television? s number one goal is to portray what viewers would want their lives to be like. Dawson? s Creek is no different. The world does not revolve around a small group of high school students, yet in this show it seems to. Dawsons Creek chronicles the wry humor the undeniably intense period ...
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American Society Simpson Family
932 wordsCharacters Of The Simpsons: Archetypes Of American Characters Of The Simpsons: Archetypes Of American Society There are stereotypes of different people and beliefs throughout Americans thinking. From early on we learn to associate certain cultural differences to certain individuals. The cartoon representations on The Simpsons are a perfect example of such associations. Each character from the long-running, prime time television show is an archetype of individuals in the American society. Homer, ...
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One Of The Major Major Differences
771 wordsChocky The Novel Chocky was written by John Wyndham and was later adapted into a TV drama by the BBC. The producers, Pamela Lonsdale and Vic Hughes, kept the same title for the TV series as the Novel, and named it Chocky, but the Film text had some changes in events, different character interpretation and alternative way of showing foreshadowing. The Film version differs quite a lot from the Novel. There were a number of changes to the plot, but most of these were only little issues. One of the ...
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Oedipus The King Dramatic Irony
232 wordsOedipus is a very interesting character in Greek mythology. He encounters many episodes on his journey, escaping the dangers of the prophecy he was told. Oedipus the King us the is quite exciting to the readers because of the dramatic irony Sophocles uses throughout the trilogy. Dramatic irony is when the audience is aware of something that is going to happen in the story, and the character really has no idea. Oedipus the King is a Greek tragedy. There are five basic elements of a typical traged...
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Sitcom Writers Sitcom Writing Comedy
743 wordsHow to write a sitcom Have you ever sat through a turgid half hour of humour less television and thought to yourself, I could write a better sitcom with my eyes closed, one hand behind my back and a colony of vicious drone ants living in my underwear? Have you? Well, of course you have. And if youve ever had a go at writing your own comedic masterpiece, youll have found that its a whole lot harder than it looks. Characterisation, pacing, timing and above all being hilarious is tough. The interne...
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Mental Health Professionals Children And Adolescents
1,205 wordsHow was I to Know? Current Perspectives on Adolescent Depression Depression is a disorder that affects the human psyche in such a way that the affected tends to act, and react abnormally toward others as well as themselves. Therefore it comes as no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to teen suicide. Adolescent suicide is now responsible for more deaths in youths aged 15 to 19 than cancer (Blackman, 1995). Despite this increased suicide rate, depression in this age...
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Feeling Of Guilt Mice And Men
539 wordsLennie's Guilt in Of Mice and Men Lennie Small, the strong but dull-witted farm hand, experienced a psychotic break-down near the end of Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck. This episode was brought on by a tremendous feeling of guilt. While Lennie's head was full of the thoughts of the death of Curleys wife, his burden upon George, and his mental relationship with his aunt Clara and the giant rabbit, a somewhat confusing portrayal of Lennie's true guilt was shown. Lennie feels guilty about the d...
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People With Schizophrenia Live A Normal
902 wordsSchizophrenia is defined as: a group of psychoses characterized by confused and disconnected thoughts, emotions, and perceptions. (Grimly, 526) Schizophrenia is a brain disorder, which is identified by specific concrete symptoms. Schizophrenia is not a split personality, or multi-personality. It has been proven that schizophrenia is not caused by childhood trauma, bad parenting, or poverty. Schizophrenia is not the result of any action or personal failure by the individual afflicted with this te...
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Psychotic Episode T Move Doctors
809 wordsJoe Henderson 8 - 29 - 97 The Pain of Death When I awoke one evening with voices in my head, it was about 3: 00 am. I noticed that outside the sky was a reddish black, and there were voices that seemed to come from the street. I decided to take a look outside and see what was going on. As I stepped outside, I noticed a strange putrid odor that seemed to be a part of the wind. I stood there, not knowing what was going on. I noticed a man standing on a porch. As I approached, he didn? t move. He j...
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