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This essay focuses on British Soap Opera and its conventions. It gives a brief history of the soap opera genre and it origins. It gives examples of current and past british soap operas and their popularity and reasons for it. It also looks at theories of audience enjoyment and uses for such media.

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"The soap opera genre originates from the American radio serials of the 1930's so called because of their sponsorship by major soap powder companies. Due to its incredible success the genre grew and by the 1950's it had developed into television productions. The first soap to be televised in Britain was The Groves, which first aired in 1954 and lasted for three years. It was followed by what is now the longest running and most successful soap in Britain, Coronation Street. Rival terrestrial channels soon picked up on the success of Coronation Street (and the soap opera genre in general), this resulted in the arrival of Channel 4's Brookside in 1982, followed by the BBC's EastEnders in 1986."

Tags:conventions, eastenders, genre, soap, television, viewing, opera, British, BBC

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This paper states that, although some people feel that contemporary, image-laden U.S. political party conventions are no longer important, for every dull convention, there are those where vital issues were decided such as the divisive split between the Democrats and the 'Dixiecrats' in 1940. The paper relates the debate on the effects, created by televising the national convention, on the nature of the conventions themselves. The paper also reviews several Democratic and Republican conventions from the 19th to the 21st century. The paper concludes, that, no matter how carefully scripted the convention and how certain the nominee, that politics is a volatile mixture, which cannot be micromanaged by any political party.

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"This is why, in the 21st century, the current Democratic race is causing such anxiety within the party. It is feared that if the convention is called to play an important role in determining the candidate, as conventions were traditionally 'supposed to' in the 19th century it will simply present a negative image of the party to the public, and suggest that the Democrats are not really a party, but two opposing camps of contentious ideologies at war."

Tags:drama platforms resolutions ideology, televised violent protests

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This paper provides a discussion and comparison and contrast of the different conventions used by three authors in their autobiographies and the effect of these choices. The works used are Mary Rowlandson's "The Sovereignty and Goodness of God", Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Blithedale Romance", and Frederick Douglass' "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave".

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"Perhaps autobiography permits as many conventions for the author to express his or her life story as any other form of literature. An examination of Mary Rowlandson's "The Sovereignty and Goodness of God", Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Blithedale Romance" and Frederick Douglass' "Narrative of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave" demonstrates the variety of conventions available to authors writing autobiography. This analysis will compare and contrasts the various conventions used by Rowlandson, Hawthorne and Douglass in the above works. Autobiography is problematic from the..."

Tags:slavery, education, religion, God, dramatic recreation, journalism, diary, characterization, Hawthorne, Douglass

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The paper examines the societal context in Richard Wright's "Black Boy" and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" and focuses on the conventions of autobiography as a literary device.

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"First person storytellers use conventions of autobiography such as descriptions and details of family life, parents and siblings, friends and neighbors, school anecdotes and memories of the social conventions of the day to create the setting and ambiance for their stories and-in some cases-to contribute to the making of their point. In "The Great Gatsby", for example, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the conventions of autobiography to set up a dichotomy between two classes of society, the people with old money and the newly rich. This..."

Tags:autobiography, Black Boy, Richard Wright, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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This paper discusses how one of the common qualities possessed by successful poets throughout the ages is the profound ability to stimulate the senses through subtle and original means. It demonstrates the truth of this statement by closely examining the works of several poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Wordsworth and Percy Shelley and the ways in which they persuade their readers to be led by their poetry. It looks at the manner in which the poets employ conventions such as simile, metaphor, rhyme and syntax, to stimulate the reader's subconscience into sensing subtle feelings in the precise way intended.

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"Simile and metaphor are well recognized as being two of the most common conventions present throughout the history of poetry. Most poets have no difficulty in using one or the other to vary their description of events or to add diversity to the structure of their piece. Far rarer, however, are the poets capable of employing their use with such appropriate application as to heighten the texture and feel of the poem in order to increase the reader's perception of the sights and sounds within the work to a more three dimensional level. That is to say in order to draw a deeper, more detailed realization of the situation described. Elizabeth Barrett Browning took the use of these conventions to extreme lengths in part XXIV of her Sonnets from the Portuguese."

Tags:simile, metaphor, rhyme, syntax, wordsworth, shelly, browning

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The paper discusses how to attract more convention business to a city. The economic benefits of conventions and expositions are outlined. The paper addresses the issues of space--hotel facilities, exhibit space. It also looks at monetary issues.

Tags:conventions, trade shows, marketing, cities

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This paper analyzes Jane Eyre's rebellion against patriarchal Victorian gender norms in the novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte. The paper defines Jane's early rebellion against the patriarchal norms enforced on her at Gateshead, and shows how she avoids and digresses from the gender intolerance towards women in Victorian marriage.

Tags:eyre, literature, victorian

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This paper traces the development of the history of art in Ancient Mesopotamia through a specific study of four well known and well preserved pieces of art. The range of dates runs from 2600 B.C. with an examination of the "Standard of Ur", through to 260 A.D. and the "Triumph of Shapur I". It looks at how this period of art history is critical to an understanding of the art of the ancient world and logically precedes Egyptian, Minoan, Greek and Roman Art.

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"Of Standard of Ur's two main sides, the 'war side' has immediately recognizable conventions similar to those found in Triumph of Shapur I; four-wheeled war chariots ride down enemies, the bodies of which are trampled beneath the hoofs of the animals. The depictions of war and victory are common motifs in Mesopotamian art. Here, as in Triumph of Shapur I, conventionalization is used, and the four bodies trampled beneath the war chariots, like the trampled body of the Roman soldier from Bishapur, represent the many killed. On the middle tier, the victorious army leads away naked and defeated captives."

Tags:ashurnasirpal, shapur, standard, ur

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This paper provides an essay that discusses the conventions of autobiography employed by two African-American authors, Zora Hurston in "Dust Tracks in the Road" and Richard Wright in "Black Boy". Various methods used by the authors to convey their stories and the point of their use are presented.

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"In "Dust Tracks in the Road" and "Black Boy", Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright respectively, convey experiences from their life stories using a number of conventions of autobiography. Among these conventions are self-disclosure, flashback, poignant humor, first-person narrative and many others. In "Dust Tracks on a Road", Zora Neale Hurston provides us with her life story in a poignant, humorous and candid manner. She does so through a number of conventions of autobiography. Chief among these is her tendency to use first-person narrative and flashback..."

Tags:slavery, racism, prejudice, oppression, voice, expression, identity, Thurston, Wright

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The paper explains how the recent decision of the Israeli government to close the Karni Crossing has sparked a great deal of debate within the international community. This paper delves into the tense history precipitating the closure, states the law which the Israeli decision to close the crossing appears to contravene, outlines the facts of the present situation in Gaza (that is to say, what the closure means for Palestinians), provides an analysis of why the closure is clearly a breach of international law (chiefly, the closure constitutes the use of force by an occupying power as per international conventions and protocols) and lastly, looks at what can be done to resolve this troubling situation without further rancor.

Tags:international, laws, israel