Abstract
This paper discusses soap operas and focuses specifically on "Bold and Beautiful." It describes the generic features of the soap opera format and then looks at their narrative structure. Finally, the paper discusses the relationship between the narrative structure and the genre or soap operas. The paper presents examples from "Bold and Beautiful" from March 24, 2008, Episode #5274.

Table of Contents:
Step #1: Generic Features of Soap Opera Format
March 24, 2008, Episode #5274
Step #2: Narrative Structure of the Soap Opera Format
Step #3 Relationship between Genre and Narrative

From the Paper
"In John Fiske's essay ("The Codes of Television") he is talking about the CBS documentary with General Westmorland (Vietnam era general running the war for the U.S.) in which extreme close-ups are used for emphasis. Writing in the New York Times (and quoted by Fiske) Alex Jones explains "the extreme close-up can be especially damaging when an interview is carefully scripted and the cameraman is instructed to focus tightly on the person's face at the point when the toughest question is to be asked."
"The same genre of camera close up is used in soap narrative, albeit there is noting damaging about the result. In fact, it plays into the hands of the director and writers to have the camera zoom in tightly on Brooke's face as she is making her stand against Taylor. Immediately after Brooke makes her strongest protestation, the camera goes very tight on Taylor, whose head is nodding slightly but not in agreement; she nods because she understands where Brooke is coming from, and what she (Taylor) can expect to be confronted with for at least this episode, and likely one or more - or dozens - in the foreseeable future."

Tags:camera, drama, series

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This paper summarizes and reviews the book, "Forgiveness: A Bold Choice for a Peaceful Heart", by author Robin Casarjian. A brief yet concise personal response to the issues presented by Casarjian in this book is used to compliment the main theme of the book, in addition to the general summary and review. Comparisons with other sources and a fabricated response by an adult survivor of child abuse complete this paper.

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This paper explains that, domestically, two of the most important current economic problems are inflation and interest rates; whereas, internationally, long term stability and America's shift to an aggressive mode of economics are the central issues. The author points out that these factors mean that financial managers must be up with the game--alert, prepared and bold--by adopting a more aggressive regime with better communications and heavy investment in the private sector. The paper stresses that being bold and aggressive does not always refer to investing because excessive growth is as dangerous as excessive recession; therefore, the best financial managers are the ones who most successfully operate within this balance.

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"This long-term growth in America, peaking now in the last two years, with hopes to continue to steadily grow, has been in sharp contrast to the general recession the rest of the world has felt over the last decade. Especially hard hit in recent years were countries in Asia, who collapsed when many of their principal financial institutions crashed. While America's economy has been steadily growing and expanding, many countries around the world are facing difficult restructuring to maintain competitiveness in the global market. America's aggressive, private-sector has pushed the bar further in creating the monster that has become a truly global economy."

Tags:stability, interest-rates, aggressive, balance, excessive

Abstract
"In Edmund Goulding's Grand Hotel (1932) the main set, the hotel's lobby, has a circular reception desk at its center. Around the desk Cedric Gibbons designed a bold pattern of alternating black and white squares that resolve into increasingly extended diamonds as the pattern turns into a vortex with the desk as its center.

From the Paper
"In Edmund Goulding's Grand Hotel (1932) the main set, the hotel's lobby, has a circular reception desk at its center. Around the desk Cedric Gibbons designed a bold pattern of alternating black and white squares that resolve into increasingly extended diamonds as the pattern turns into a vortex with the desk as its center. Circular movement around the hub of the desk is the guiding structural principle of the film. This principle literalizes the desk's allegorical standing as the center around which the characters' lives revolve. The film's metaphor of the gigantic urban hotel as a microcosm of life relies on this central point of reference. The Grand Hotel itself is an enclosed world--the scenes are seldom enacted outside it and are always attached its exterior. The building, especially in dramatic process shots of its internal balconies..."

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This essay discusses how Martin Luther diverged theologically from the Catholic Church, the ways in which Zwingli's and Calvin's theology differed from Luther's, and the long terms effects of the Protestant Reformation movement on European politics and society. Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and John Calvin were the central figures in the Protestant Reform Movement of the 16th century. Since Luther had initiated the process of religious reform and taken a bold stand against the hitherto all-powerful Roman Church, he is widely considered to be one of the most crucial figures in modern Western history with his influence extending beyond religion into politics, economics, and education.
Zwingli and Calvin also played significant roles in simplifying the Christian theology and in consolidating the Protestant Reform movement in Europe, though they had their theological differences with Luther.

From the Paper
"The Roman Catholic Church and the papacy based in Rome had enjoyed an enormous amount of power in Europe and the rest of Western civilization for over a thousand years until a young German monk named Martin Luther (1483-1546) sparked off the Reformation movement of the 16th century in 1517."

Tags:Catholicism, Protestant, Europe

Abstract
This paper discusses how the characters in William Shakespeare's "Othello" are what really make the play come to life. It provides a brief summary of each of the main characters with a character analysis and a description of their contribution to the plot of the play. It shows how Othello is bold warrior and a good person, how Iago brings all of the evil and fallacy into the play, how Desdemona is young and innocent and how Cassio's character is vulnerable and easily manipulated.

From the Paper
"The character of Desdemona is young and innocent. When she is wrongly accused of infidelity, her innocent response to his rage is "I never gave him cause!" (III.iv.155). Desdemona's innocent nature is highlighted in the play, through the contrast with the two other female characters, the cynical Emilia and Cassio's mistress, Bianca. These women are harsh and ugly, and make Desdemona seem all the more pure. Her love for Othello is a major part of her character. She permits his abuse of her, although it shakes her self-confidence. She is an obedient and devoted wife. She carries her love for Othello with her even as he strangles her to death."

Tags:desdemona, cassio, iago, infidelity, jealousy, madness, murder

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This paper discusses Adolf Hitler's life, ideologies, effective speeches and mass communication usage and applies basic theories of communication practices and their relevance throughout history.

From the paper:

"In reading the speech given by Adolf Hitler on his intentions for conquering and evacuating the Czech Sudetenland for the German people, it became quite apparent to me just how important communication was to this leader?s success and to the involvement of other countries that would later enter into WW2. It has been said that, ?that Hitler came into existence at all is directly owing to radio and public-address systems?. That?s a bold statement, but a respectable one. It reminds us how important mass communication was then and is now in reaching out to make one?s self heard."

Tags:communication, hitler, speech, propaganda, mass

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Author Ruth Perry claimed that writer Mary Astell was one of the first feminist theorist. The purpose of this essay is to evaluate these bold claims made by Perry. It focuses on Astell?s essay on the subject of marriage.

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"Mary Astell was born during the 17th century and died in the 18th century. It was during the early part of the 1700s when her most influential books and political and religious treatises were published. Astell wrote long before Elizabeth Cady Stanton, even long before Mary Wollstonecraft penned her influential tracts on women?s rights, even before these women were born. Yet the author Ruth Perry has named Mary Astell as one of the first "feminist theorists" and stated that Astell?s ?first three books were feminist books"."

Tags:divorce, husband, wit, pioneering, sexuality, liberal, education, contemporary, philosophical, security, femininity, prudence

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"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" is an interesting, well-crafted collection of short stories. The author of the book highlights the significant role of women and the hardships that women folk have to go through. This paper focuses on the main character of the collection, Granny Weatherall, who, by studying her experiences, one gets an idea of the battles she had endure and how she did so in a very bold manner.

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"The author emphasizes on rebellious and conceited American women who just like Ellen Weatherall are "weathered all", absolutely down and out yet take pride in being pompous by not forgiving the man of their dreams who jilt dare to ditch their female lovers. Her unreciprocated love, incomplete and sorrow-ridden, problematic marriage, birth of five kids at a young age, early widowhood, relentless labor and diligent work to earn a living in order to raise the children, milk-leg and double pneumonia, the irreparable loss of an indispensable child, severe health problems due to old age and triumph over all life adversities reveal the matchless strength of women folk world over."

Tags:women, america, feminist, marriage, health, bias, sexism

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This paper examines the Islamic fundamentalist movement's effect on Middle Eastern politics. The paper describes the cultural history of the region in relation to Europe and Asia. It takes into account the issues of technology, which divide the growth of the west from the Middle Eastern nations. The author writes that as the centuries passed, and the Arabs became encased in a sort of time warp, forgotten are the days of the medieval merchants who traveled from Morocco to China, of the bold adventurers who led caravans through the desert in quest of wealth. It examines the effects of the oil trade in creating a wide economic gap between its citizens, and only a return to pure Islamic values would purge the state of corruption, restore the equilibrium between rich and poor.

From the Paper
"A disturbing trend has gripped the Middle East over the course of the past two decades. In country after country, Islamic Fundamentalist organizations have gained increasing influence over the political landscape. What began, as dissatisfaction with secular Westernizing leaders and political factions has become a full-blown movement in favor of restoring Islam to its time-honored central place in the Arab state. Millions of Muslims, both Arab and otherwise, feel left out of the modern world. They have benefited little from the enormous wealth generated by oil. "

Tags:islamic, islam, country, nation, political, secular, western, arab, state, muslim, modern, wrold, wealth, oil