MEDIA – Film Genre Task Film Genre Genre is a class or category of artistic endeavour having a particular form‚ content‚ technique‚ or the like. In film theory‚ genre refers to the method based on similarities in the narrative elements from which films are constructed. Most theories of film genre are borrowed from literary genre (eg. books). Besides the basic distinction between fiction and documentary‚ film genres can be categorised in several ways. Setting The setting is the environment
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"Children of the City" is a short story written by the Filipino contemporary author‚ Amadis Ma. Guerrero. The story is about the life of Victor‚ an eight year old boy whose father was involved in a company menace because of unjust salaries and compensations. His father joined the employee’s strike and there he met his death when he was shot by the police officers managing the chaos in the strike. Victor was shocked to know the sudden death of his father on a newspaper. He and his mother were
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| Street Drugs | Research Writing By: | | Christine | 8/22/2010 | | Street drugs can be very harmful to a body if they are not aware of the effects of what they are and what they can to do it. To show how street drugs can damage a body and why these drugs need to be off the street‚ children at young ages need to be taught what these different types of drugs are and the meanings of them. This should be taught throughout all schools including colleges because
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relating to my surroundings which are Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention of College Students (BASICS) and Interventions Targeting Street-Connected Youth. In recent times‚ the crime rate in my community has diminished drastically; however‚ the problem of drugs and street connected youth has been gradually increasing. As a direct result of this‚ the streets are now saturated with drugs and the youth are now indulging in the binging of those drugs especially alcohol. The youths involved in those
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English 12 Research Essay Proposal Ashley Jeffers Overview: My thesis will be that the children’s TV show Sesame Street‚ despite the attempts to make children learn from a young age actually questions some opinions with the changes that it occurs. Sesame Street is an extremely popular children’s TV show in America since the 1970.‚ and has a huge impact on children growing up. Changes have been made to certain characters that have affect of stereotyping certain people. Despite the changes that
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YOU MAY HAVE A HOUSE BUT NOT A HOME In the novel The house on Mango Street‚ written by Sandra Cisneros many themes are discussed but one major theme is a house but not a home‚ homelessness‚ which catches a reader’s attention. Sandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in the year of 1954. Sandra Cisneros is a brilliant writer. Her novel is read not only by adults but also by children. This novel is used in elementary school‚ middle school‚ high school and even Universities and all because of the Simplicity
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the Streets Culture in urban communities‚ also referred to as inner-cities‚ are growing increasingly violent. In the article‚ The Code of the Streets by Elijah Anderson‚ he begins to take an in-depth look at the root of the evil. He deduces that economic factors‚ parenting and the troublesome environments largely influence the violent norms within this culture. Anderson notes that two groups coexist simultaneously in the inner-cities which he labels as the “decent” and the “streets.” Although
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“10 Mary Street” by Peter Skrzynecki and “Neighbours” by Tim Winton both contain elements that contribute to a sense of belonging. In “10 Mary Street”‚ their connection to their house is established through the nurturing of their garden. A simile is used “tended roses and camellias like adopted children” to emphasise this strong connection to their garden and their immense care towards it. Peter gains joy and fulfilment from his garden and this enables his attachment to his home to grow. The personification
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on a door and was coined in 1944 after an NBC documentary was made on this occurrence of children forced to live in this manner during and after the second World War‚ when ‘Dad’ enlisted and ‘Mom’ had to go find work (Mertens 57-61). The term might not be used as loosely as it was back then‚ but ‘latchkey children’ still exist today. Although unsupervised children can potentially cause harm to other children‚ and have long lasting effects towards how authority will handle these young people once
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As we were looking for a street child in Divisoria last August 01‚ 2012‚ we found these 2 children‚ April and Dodong‚ getting busy licking on the leftover seashells given to them by a lady from a streetside Carenderia. We then approached them to have a conversation with us‚ and they got very excited. On our way to the cemented benches behind Park Café‚ they told us if we can give them food to eat for they are very hungry. If you would try to imagine them with just their names and nicknames
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