SITUATION COMEDY Situation Comedy or sitcom is a style of comedic drama where characters share a common environment with dialogue that includes humor. Sitcoms usually have a story line with the same familiar characters. Situation comedy originated on the radio but is now found primarily on television and the internet. In the United States director and producer William Asher has been credited with being “the man who created the sitcom”. He directed over a dozen of sitcoms including I love Lucy
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Notes: • The French Revolution and Industrial Revolution had an important influence on the fictional and nonfictional writing of the Romantic period‚ inspiring writers to address themes of democracy and human rights and to consider the function of revolution as apocalyptic change. • Romantic poets presented a theory of poetry in direct opposition to representative eighteenth-century theories of poetry as imitative of human life and nature by suggesting that poetic inspiration was located
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Module Seven: Text Questions Review Questions 1.What is nationalism? How did this impact the music of the Romantic period? Nationalism began to emerge in the nineteenth century between nations and groups‚ it was the rise of a strong identification with a particular political group‚ sometimes an ethnic group. It had an impact or affected the composers in many ways‚ composers showed this was basing their music on the songs and dances of their people‚ they also composers wrote dramatic works based
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15 points about romantic poetry 1) Romantic poetry was written during the period of Romanticism‚ which was in the late 1700s in Western Europe. 2) Romanticism was a movement that strongly emphasized on emotion and was against the norms of the “Age of Enlightenment”. 3) Romantic poets are known for their vivid and colorful language‚ and for their highly elevated ideas and themes. 4) The “Big six” poets of Romantic poetry are: William Blake‚ William Wordsworth‚ Samuel Coleridge
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The romantic period is a term applied to the literature of approximately the first third of the nineteenth century. During this time‚ literature began to move in channels that were not entirely new but were in strong contrast to the standard literary practice of the eighteenth century. How the wordromantic came to be applied to this period is something of a puzzle. Originally the word was applied to the Latin or Roman dialects used in the Roman provinces‚ especially France‚ and to the stories written
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The Romantic era was a period of great change and emancipation. While the Classical era had strict laws of balance and restraint‚ the Romantic era moved away from that by allowing artistic freedom‚ experimentation‚ and creativity. The music of this time period was very expressive‚ and melody became the dominant feature. Composers even used this expressive means to display nationalism . This became a driving force in the late Romantic period‚ as composers used elements of folk music to express their
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paper discusses the ending of Jane Eyre‚ discussing whether it is a "good" ending. The paper draws on three criticisms of both the novel and Romantic literature in general to conclude that‚ yes‚ it is indeed a good ending because it both fits the prevailing realism of the main character’s worldview‚ and conforms to the predominant literary trends of the period. The climate in which Charlotte Bronte wrote her magnum opus was one that had almost fully recovered from the rationalist excesses of the Enlightenment
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Greek Theatre – Tragedy & Comedy As part of the festival called Dionysia which honoured the God Dionysus‚ tragedy‚ comedy & satyr play were the three genres to emerge from the theatre of ancient Greece. Tragedy is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes in its audience an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in the viewing. From its obscure origins in the theatres of Athens 2‚500 years ago‚ from which there survives only a fraction of the work of Aeschylus‚ Sophocles and Euripides
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on academic or athletic pursuits‚ I choose to hone in on the social realm. This is what defines me. I choose comedy to define me because it is a subject where everyone can win. In athletic activities‚ there is always a hierarchy of players based on talent. In academics‚ the hierarchy is defined by GPA and SAT or ACT scores. In the social realm‚ there is a ladder of popularity‚ but comedy can be used anywhere on the ladder. I am not the most popular person at my school‚ but I use jokes and
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Hardware and software 20/09/13 Jaide Cavanagh - Smith What is hardware? Tools‚ machinery‚ and other durable equipment: "tanks and other military hardware". The machines‚ wiring‚ and other physical components of a computer or other electronic system. What is software? The programs and other operating information used by a computer. Types of software; Generic General-purpose software‚ such as word processors and spreadsheets
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