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    Music Genre

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    Everyone’s choice of music is greatly affected by influences. The genre we get into is all caused for the same reasons; family‚ friends‚ or social environments. A child who has grown up in the country might be exposed to mostly country music‚ while a child in the city might be used to rock or new pop music on the radio. We all come to enjoy the music our parents played in our early life but as we grow up we add our own genre of music. The genre of music you choose mostly places you in a similar group of

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    Genre

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    featured as itunes Single of the Week in October 2013 and achieved in excess of 150‚000 downloads. She describes her music as "sparkly folk pop”  She met long-time manager Bob James and started collaborating with different writers across multiple genres. Work included writing and performing on Britains got talent finalist Andrew Muir’s debut album for which she wrote the lyrics to Can’t Say That It’s Over in 2009. Soon after‚  It was during songwriting sessions in Los Angeles she began to seriously

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    English 131 W 2010. Jan. 28 Genre Conversation Although genre is commonly regarded as a tool for conventional assortment‚ it is necessary to recognize that a genre is not defined by its formal features‚ but by its situational factors. The contextual identification of a genre is highlighted by Carolyn Miller‚ who describes genres as the “typified rhetorical ways of acting in recurring situations” (qtd. in Bawarshi 7). The word “situation” is crucial in her definition because writing results

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    Movie Genres

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    Movie genres By Saba Sadeghi By the start of 20th century movies started to play a big role in entertaining people all around the world‚ the earliest movies were made only in one shot with no editing or specific story but little by little movies started combining different scenes to tell a story. Slowly by producing different movies‚ different movie genres were shaped. Nowadays we have nearly 20 different main movie genres and some of them contain subgenres. Most of the movies are a combination of

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    Genre Analysis

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    Prevention of Prescription Drug Abuse: Genre Analysis of Flyer and a Picture Whenever we get sick‚ we see a doctor. We go to see a doctor to get a prescription to a drug which will make us better. We take the drug until we are better and once we are we store the drug in a cabinet for later. Many of us do not know that by keeping the unused drugs we are putting people around us in danger; especially children and teens. Children and teens are more curious to try the drugs and see the different

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    “Apparently no strictly logical distinctions can capture the variety of factors which create the genres we have” (Nicholas and Price‚ 1998) This quote demonstrates the complexity of allocating a particular genre to a film‚ as various aspects need to be considered. Although concrete groupings such as horror‚ science-fiction‚ crime and drama exist‚ the majority of movies contain more than one aspect which renders them difficult to categorise. For example‚ the difference between an ‘action’ and a

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    ENG 225 Instructor Bryde December 15‚ 2014 Genre theory is the “stereotype” of the genre. Meaning‚ what one expects from a specific genre. For instance‚ a horror film is expected to illicit fear in the audience‚ while a musical is expected to have minimal spoken dialogue‚ and a dramatic tragedy is expected to have conflicts and end in a tragic or sad manner. Genre conventions and attributes contribute to the fulfillment of the genre theory. The genre conventions or techniques of a horror film such

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    Analysis Of genres

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    Analysis of Popular genres: ‘Genre’ is a French term meaning "type" or "kind". Putting things into categories is useful in any form of study; it’s a way of establishing some kind of control over an amorphous mass of information. Each medium in the mass media has its own kinds of language‚ characteristic signs and sign systems. Genre is part of the Key Concept of Language‚ and can be applied to all kinds of media text. Putting media texts such as film‚ television programmes‚ print media‚ or

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    Genre theory is used as a motion picture category based on similarities in either the narrative elements or the emotional response to the film. In using genre theory we create a short cut in the way we describe films. In order to understand genre we may look at several examples. When we speak of horror we know that in this category we expect to see monsters‚ blood‚ or the expectation for everyone to die. As for in a western movies we know that there will be cowboys‚ dry climate‚ guns‚ mild violence

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    Glory the movie has many different types of genres which includes: drama‚ epic film‚ action film‚ costume drama‚ war film‚ period piece‚ and political drama. 2. The main characters is Glory are Matthew Broderick as Col. Robert Gould Shaw‚ Denzel Washington as Trip‚ and Morgan Freeman as John Rawlins.. these three chracters changed the movie dramatically making it easy for the viewers to feel the passion and pain going on throughout this movie. 3. The genre throughout the film flips back and forth

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