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    Research Paper on Plagiarism

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    Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "purloining and publication" of another author’s "language‚ thoughts‚ ideas‚ or expressions‚" and the representation of them as one’s own original work.[1][2] The idea remains problematic with unclear definitions and unclear rules.[3][4][5][6] The modern concept of plagiarism as immoral and originality as an ideal emerged in Europe only in the 18th century‚ particularly with the Romantic movement. Plagiarism is considered academic dishonesty and a breach

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    within the television programme Arrested Development through postmodern theories‚ postmodernist techiniques and textual analysis. Through historical context‚ genre conventions‚ intertextuality and continuity; the essay will investigate the use of pastiche in modern satire. As popular situation comedies fulfil the generic conventions of using multiple cameras‚ linear narratives‚ stand alone catchphrases and aspirational ideologies‚ the essay will deliberate whether post modernism is legitimate in television

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    Stephen Sondheim

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    Stephen Sondheim - Biography Stephen Sondheim was born on 22 March 1930‚ the son of a wealthy New York dress manufacturer. But‚ when his parents divorced‚ his mother moved to Bucks County‚ Pennsylvania and young Stephen found himself in the right place at the right time. A neighbour of his mother’s‚ Oscar Hammerstein II‚ was working on a new musical called Oklahoma! and it didn’t take long for the adolescent boy to realise that he‚ too‚ was intrigued by musical theatre. Although

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    Beowulf Seamus Heaney Essay

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    Seamus Heaney on Beowulf and his verse translation                And now this is ‘an inheritance’ – Upright‚ rudimentary‚ unshiftably planked In the long ago‚ yet willable forward Again and again and again.   1  BEOWULF: THE POEM The poem called Beowulf was composed some time between the middle of the seventh and the end of the tenth century of the first millennium‚ in the language that is today called Anglo-Saxon or Old English. It is a heroic narrative‚ more than

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    POSTMODERN FILM

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    Open Rubric “Postmodernism has enriched film theory and its analysis by calling attenti0n to a stylistic shift toward a media conscious cinema” (Gonarkar 2012)  Postmodenism can be characterised by various aspects including:  Pastiche  Nostalgia  Disjointed narratives  Emotional detachment  Self-referentialism  Time bending  Altered realities  ‘Quoting’ from different film genres and film     movements/periods as well as from other visual media and actual historical periods

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    The English Renaissance

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    What was there a revival of? Humanism; Prior to the Renaissance‚ arts and learning were all channeled through the Church. With the flowering of the Renaissance‚ there was a renewed interest in (acceptance) of secular humanism‚ as represented by interest in secular philosophy. Interest in the sciences; Galileo‚ anatomical dissection as represented by Da Vinci The Arts; Prior to the Renaissance‚ virtually all art was religious in subject and the Church was the major patron of the arts. Think of

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    How to Read Literature Like a Professor (Thomas C. Foster) Notes Introduction Archetypes: Faustian deal with the devil (i.e. trade soul for something he/she wants) Spring (i.e. youth‚ promise‚ rebirth‚ renewal‚ fertility) Comedic traits: tragic downfall is threatened but avoided hero wrestles with his/her own demons and comes out victorious What do I look for in literature? - A set of patterns - Interpretive options (readers draw their own conclusions but must be able to support it) - Details ALL

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    Lodge

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    MASARYK UNIVERSITY IN BRNO FACULTY OF ARTS Department of English and American Studies Comic features in some of David Lodge’s novels Veronika Šaurová Supervisor: doc. Mgr. Milada Franková‚ CSc.‚ M.A. Brno 2005 I declare that I have worked on my thesis independently‚ using the primary and secondary sources listed in the bibliography.

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    The French New Wave (La Nouvelle Vague) emerged in the 1950s as a core of articulate young film-makers. Amongst the most successful of the group were soon to be famous names such as Claude Chabrol‚ Francois Truffaut and Jean Luc Godard and to a lesser extent Jacques Rivette‚ Jacques Daniol-Valcroze and Eric Rohmer. All were critics for the influential film magazine ’Cahiers du Cinema’‚ where they worked under the guidance of film theorist and co-founder of ’Cahiers’‚ André Bazin. Intellectual

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    another Main Street to serve as a symbol for the events that happened in America in the early 1950s. Hence‚ this is a "representation of representation"‚ which is characteristic of many Postmodernist films. Furthermore‚ in the film‚ the technique of pastiche is used. Although this film is part of the Modernist period‚ it is filmed in black and white when many movies at that time were filmed in color. The entire film was shot with long scenes‚ and the background music came from the 1950s--all of these

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