...Nina Hagen Wrtg 1010-20 Using the Genre of a children’s story to articulate with monsters In Gordimers story “Once upon a time” uses the genre of a children’s story to articulate monsters in a suburban family by using the theme of a fairytale that clashes with the theme of a childrens story so he can use “monsters” in a suburban family. Gordimer uses phrases that kind of gives him the excuse to go in and articulate the monsters into the genre of a children’s story. Gordimer knew how to put everything in place to make it be called a “children’s story” Also, she the setting of the story in a good neighborhood, just people trying to be safe and you could kind of tell reading into the story a little disaster is coming, it is nothing brutal but it works for a children’s story type of theme. A fairy tale genre always ends up kind of automatically clashing with children’s stories. Gordimer is using a fairytale by saying in “For when they began to live happily ever after they where warned by that wise old witch, the husbands mother, not to take anyone of the street” This sentence right here is kind of what you get out of a fairytale genre and a children’s story genre. When they mention “happily ever after” You usually hear that phrase all the time in childrens stories or children type of things. For example: when you are watching a disney movie, which is a children’s...
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...Genre is defined as “a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like”, while film genres are defined as “various classifications of films.” When it comes to naming the Science Fiction genre, the technical definition is the exploration of human evolution on a technological or cosmic scale. The genre utilizes a setting placed in the future or outer space, and typically involves aliens, the applications of technological advances, or even alternate timelines. Sci-fi (science fiction) In the terms of 2001: A Space Odyssey, it was a film that, created by Stanley Kubrick, was able to both set the tone for sci-fi films and redefine them by restating what the genre was about and what it could do as a standalone narrative device....
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...A GENRE ANALYSIS OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STAFF MEETING MINUTES ABSTRACT Interest in genre analysis has increased over the years with studies done by several scholars such as Swales, Bhatia, Berkonkotter, Hyon, Bazerman, Miller, to mention just a few, on various genre ranging from the research article in general to letters. Studies on genre analysis into meeting minutes are however, very limited and so the aim of this study is to investigate the communicative purpose, schematic structure and lexico grammatical features which characterize this genre. Swales' (1990) rhetorical approach to genre analysis was used to investigate eighteen meeting minutes which revealed the occurrence of seven moves with each having its own communicative purpose and linguistic features which characterize the genre as a formal one. The study has implications for genre studies in the area of pedagogy and further research. Key words: genre, minutes, discourse, moves, steps, Ghana. 1.0 INTRODUCTION Minutes is a highly formal written genre situated in the domain of business discourse and is an official record and considered a legal document by auditors, IRS and the law courts. Oxford defines it as a written record of what is said and decided at a meeting. It is used by institutions, corporate bodies and varied organisations. Its main communicative purpose is to record and relay information to the members of that discourse community. It also gives members the platform to express their views and opinions...
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...WRT 104 March 6th, 2014 Genre Analysis Today’s world is unimaginable without Internet. It has brought the world in our fists. Most people use Internet in their day-to-day lives for looking up something, watching videos, and what not. But for the teens, Internet is all about social-networking. Most of them are always besides a laptop or mobile phone chatting on Facebook, tweeting about their new experience, or sharing photos on Instagram with friends. I am going to talk about Facebook. Facebook is the most used social-networking website today. It connects almost 1.2 billion people out of the total of 7 billion people living on the earth today. Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook on February 4, 2004 with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andre McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. On February 1, 2012 the company applied for 5 billion US dollars Initial Public Offering (IPO), making the company one of the biggest in history of technology and the biggest in the history of Internet. Facebook valued its stock at 38 US dollars per share, which priced the company at 104 billion US dollars – the largest valuation to the date for a public company. I first joined Facebook on January 7, 2011. During first ten days or so I explored the features of Facebook. There are many factors that makes Facebook as the number one social-networking website. It revolutionized the world with it games, picture sharing feature, status updates...
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...Rapacz 1 Heather Rapacz English 101A Professor Cochran 19 October 2015 Being the Owner is Not at All What it Cracks Up to Be Top of Anaheim Hills, California there is a commercial street where various manufacturers had settled for many years. A late thirties newly married man had been working as a machinist for almost 2 decades, and has decided he wanted to start his own aero spacing manufacturing company. It is middle of summer on a hot humid day, inland of Orange County, Michael Rapacz, his wife, and a realtor has looked at over 5 buildings and nothing has really caught his eye. After hours of looking they stumbled upon Hunter Ave near the Imperial Freeway (West 91 Hwy) they stumble upon a mid-sized white building, with bright colored daisies by the front entrance, and a nice well kept lawn area and a path going towards the front of the building. In that moment Michael Rapacz knew that his dream of owning his own machine shop has finally started to become clear. Being a machinist takes long hard hours, and dedication to the job. Knowledge skills a machinist have to acquire is high school algebra, measurement skills, basic interpretation, basic QC skills, knowledge of safety standards for equipment being run, some mechanical abilities, strong communication abilities, critical thinking, ability to easily adapt to changing the environment, ability to produce parts within tolerances, and ability to cut, measure, or work on items with great accuracy. Michael...
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...How are the codes and conventions of the thriller genre used to engage responders in two of the thriller texts you have studied in this module? Thriller is an engaging genre of text, characteristically making the responder react in a way that reflects their own values and experiences. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, North by Northwest 1959) and The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman, The Bourne Identity 2002) are examples of effective thriller texts. In these two texts, the responder is engaged with unease, worry and satisfaction through the protagonist’s characterisation, iconography, film technique and themes. In both North by North West and the Bourne Identity the protagonist is a dominant and capable male. This capability positions us...
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...Understanding rhetoric genres that include the genre comics, the article I have read is "launching into the future genres". In the comic they talk about the different magazine genres and how they are all different rhetorical choices. An important aspect is that academic displine includes many different genres as well as magazines, tv shows, poems, etc. Each type of genre has a different way that you should communicate. For an example texting is very informal unlike an email which is formal; to write an email you would write hello name but for texting you just write hey! Therefor when it comes to formal writing it could be taken and re-used which is called rhetorical velocity. Rhetorical velocity is defined as a third party being able recomposition...
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...◆The fact that you have this book in your hands means you may already believe that informational text should be included in primary classrooms. Perhaps you have had professional or personal experiences that have led you to that belief. Perhaps you have thought of some potential benefits informational text may hold for young learners. We hope this chapter helps bring together much of what you have been thinking. It is designed to extend your thinking and provide access to research and theories that support it. What’s the Difference Between Informational Text and Nonfiction? Often the terms “informational text” and “nonfiction” are used interchangeably. In our view, however, they are not the same. Informational text is a type of nonfiction—a very important type. Nonfiction includes any text that is factual. (Or, by some definitions, any type of literature that is factual, which would exclude texts such as menus and street signs.) Informational text differs from other types of nonfiction in purpose, features, and format. Purpose The primary purpose of informational text is to convey information about the natural or social world, typically from someone presumed to know that information to someone presumed not to, with particular linguistic features such as headings and technical vocabulary to help accomplish that purpose. By our definition, therefore, biography is nonfiction but is not informational text, because its primary purpose is to convey information about...
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...When thinking of science fiction television programs, one usually thinks of aliens, space ships, and laser blasters, this tends to shed a more childish light on the genre and most people tend to dismiss it as being no more than mindless entertainment. While there has certainly been a surplus of the campy science fiction shows on the air, some shows have used the science fiction genre to tackle serious social issues as well. This essay will take a look at two shows 54 years apart and will analyze how both use social concerns of the time period and create memorable narratives that speculate about human behavior and interactions. The first show this essay will look at is the generation defining classic The Twilight Zone (1959-1964), and the second show is a modern cult hit from the United Kingdom Utopia (2013-2014). //Through a comparative analysis of the episode “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” from The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) and “Episode 5” of the British cult hit, Utopia (2013-2014) this essay illustrates how the science fiction genre can be and has been used generation after generation to highlight certain social issues. Whereas The Twilight Zone uses America’s anxieties of communism and consumer culture to cause paranoia in the early sixties, Utopia uses big business, government conspiracies, and overpopulation in a plot that stirs up concern for the environment. Ultimately this essay will illustrate how social issues lay the foundation for a compelling science fiction...
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...in comparison to longer papers like the Familiar Genre Analysis (four pages), doing a momentous amount of revisions is unpractical. However, the changes I did make significantly altered the piece. To start off, I made some corrections to various middle and lower order concerns, like grammar (added “am” before “from” in the first sentence) and transitions (first sentence of second paragraph links the two, creating flow that was previously absent). After that, I focused on these, more important higher order concerns: audience, pathos and genre conventions. Previously, the reference to the audience for my blog was vague and practically missing. By adding the fact that “one of the primary uses of this blog is for my English 1020 class at Wayne State University,” I was able to hone in on my prospective audience: my professor and fellow classmates. Next, I added in more details about myself to help the reader feel better connected to me. By stating where I lived through my life and what country I identity myself as being from, as well as one of my biggest goals in life, I am allowing future readers to know me and my writing, not just the latter. Finally, I attempted to improve my use of genre conventions. About Me pages typically include a reason why the writer started a blog, so I included that. Also, I tried to be more interactive with my readers by asking them to provide feedback to my blogs, another characteristic of the genre. In terms of the Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs)...
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...These black women raised white children and the children loved them and they loved them back, but yet were not allowed to use the toilets in their employer’s house. These are the moments of the black maids in 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi. These moments come when you see a black maid absurdly vacuuming a large stuffed bear or when one states: “Love and hate are two horns on the same goat.” Now that’s the spirit!” (The Help, 2011). Audiences know what to expect from movies from their Genres,” they tell their audience up front what to expect from the product they are buying. If they like a particular kind of story, chances are they will like this particular film, especially if the writer and director give the expectations a little twist” (Truby, 2010). Genre theory is used in the examination of films in order to enable the classification of films. Genres are dependent on many influences, such as story line, what the audience expects and who the director is. Genre theory is how we describe films; it is the method of shortening literary works. Plot and Story The feature-length film I chose was The Help (2013), which is an American Drama film depicting the lives of black maids and their white employers exposing the racism that the black maids faced on a daily basis. The time is 1963 set in Jackson, Mississippi during the civil rights movement. The film that follows the lives of two black maids and a southern society girl (Emma Stone), who returns home from college...
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...friends who have very unique individual personalities. We follow their everyday life in New York; mainly staying at the local bar/coffee shop or in an apartment, which some of the characters lives in. But then again they are not completely similar. “How I met your mother” is, as the title reveals, about how the main character met his wife, which he tells his kids in the year 2030. Then the sitcom takes us through his life in the year 2005 among his friends, trying to find his future wife. “Friends” is on the other hand about 6 friends relationship to each other and their yet different lives. They are both themed as romance and comedy. 3. I have chosen two different TV-series but at the same time, they have lot in common. In this analysis, I want to say something about the TV-series cinematic techniques and also something about the character sketches. And then, I would like to say something about the differences and similarities between the two...
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...stone troy +life Table 2. Cluster-Specific Means Cluster Rat_10scl (mean) Useful (mean) RevLen_Words (mean) 1 6.121 0.388 241.981 2 5.461 0.413 277.301 Table 3. Cluster-Specific Genre Distribution Cluster thriller romance action drama comedy animation Sum 1 11.65% 5.43% 40.39% 25.71% 15.97% 0.93% 100% 2 0.36% 0.36% 13.07% 86.21% 0% 0% 100% Description of the clusters: Cluster 1: This cluster has larger number of observations under it which is 80% of total reviews with a frequency, that is, number of reviews of 2248. Total number of reviews processed is 2799. Even though this cluster is larger, from the value of RMSSTD of 0.124 which is higher than that of Cluster 2, it shows that this cluster is more heterogeneous. That is, the reviews are more varied and inconsistent. Overall from the list of terms displayed under the ‘Descriptive Terms’, we see quite a different variety of terms. Terms like ‘plot’, ‘characters’, ‘cast’, ‘director’, ‘watch’, etc, shows that this cluster is more concerned with the type or quality of the movie dependent on the characters and plot. Even though we cannot definitively say what is the overall view of all the reviewers under this cluster, we can still however say that the reviews are more about the all-around quality of the movies. Even our cluster analysis shows that the reviews are more scattered as we can understand from the value...
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... Genre is a term which defines the different categories which things are categorized into. For example, when defining different forms of music; music is put into categories in which we use the term genre. Different music is put into these genres depending on the different rhythms used in it. It allows Rhythm and Blues to be differentiated from and Rock and Roll, and Rock and Roll to be differentiated from Gospel. In writing, a writer’s choice of style is the determining factor in how we choose his/her genre. When the genre of the writing is determined, then the particular audience can be determined to who its interest of reading might be. The audience in writing is defined by the person or group of people that is reading or listening to a certain choice of writing. Depending on what kind of writing genre is presented, determines the audience of the writer and how the writer choose to reach his or her audience. In order for a writer to reach a particular audience, the writer has to be able to compose his writing. The writer can do so in such a way that a rhetorical situation is formulated in a particular genre which reflects the type of audience that it interests. A rhetorical situation is situations in which a story and a scenario is presented and explains a situation that could possible occur in real life, therefore giving a situation in which the reader can assume the outcome; a certain form of communication to entail a situation. Different genres may...
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...Biography/Historical Drama Assignment Biography- A biography or simply bio is a detailed description or account of a person's life. It entails more than basic facts (education, work, relationships, and death) - a biography also portrays a subject's experience of these events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality. Historical Drama- The historical drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous people. Some historical dramas are docudramas, which attempt an accurate portrayal of a historical event or biography, to the degree that the available historical research will allow. We have watched the film Gandhi which describes the historical events surrounding the man Gandhi who was born on October 2nd 1869 – and died on January 30th 1948. The film covers Gandhi's life from a defining moment in 1893, as he is thrown off a South African train for being in a whites-only compartment, and concludes with his assassination and funeral in 1948. Although a practicing Hindu, Gandhi's embracing of other faiths, particularly Christianity and Islam, is also depicted. Your Assignment: You have a chance to make a film about a historical figure (a person in history). Who would you make your film about? Why would you choose this person? What parts...
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