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    All three types of literature are examples of the word genre. Genre can be used as a broad term to identify certain literary categories such as story‚ poem‚ or play. It can also be used for more specific categorization under a broad term. With these stories we have examples from the genre of satire‚ which can be further broken down into the genres story‚ poem‚ or play. All three types of literature are examples of imagination. From our reading we know that imagination is defined as “The human power

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    Movie Genres There are many movie genres out today than there were before in earlier years. Movie genres are basically different types of movies‚ such as: horror‚ suspense‚ mystery‚ drama ‚romance‚ etc. Today it seems that most peoples favorite movie genre is horrow or action. Action movies have a lot of different stuff in them that is pleasing to the eye. Action movies are typically loud and have a lot of fighting‚ racing‚ and adventurous things in the film. Horror movies on the other hand have

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    Music: The Beat to our Mind‚ Body and Soul Music is a powerful tool that has been scientifically proven to be useful and harmful in many different ways. The interconnection between music and the physical and mental health of human beings has been researched for centuries. Many people use music as a tool for brainstorming and motivation. Some look at music as a hobby; for some music is their passion‚ while others pursue music as their career. It is essential to choose your music wisely because

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    Explore how far the ’Vampire Diaries/Being Human/Misfits’ DVD cover conforms to genre conventionsIn this essay‚ I will be analysing the DVD cover of the ’Vampire Diaries’ which is a television programme in the teen-supernatural hybrid drama genre. I will also be analysing the covers of ’Being Human’ and ’Misfits’ and I will compare and contrast them with the ’Vampire Diaries’ cover. The typical genre conventions of supernatural dramas are that there are supernatural beings such as ghosts. Werewolves

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    Music Genre Classification with the Million Song Dataset 15-826 Final Report Dawen Liang‚† Haijie Gu‚‡ and Brendan O’Connor‡ † School of Music‚ ‡ Machine Learning Department Carnegie Mellon University December 3‚ 2011 1 Introduction The field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) draws from musicology‚ signal processing‚ and artificial intelligence. A long line of work addresses problems including: music understanding (extract the musically-meaningful information from audio waveforms)

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    Who Wasn’t There Introduction to Film (GSK1419C Instructor: Matthew Warren May 19th‚ 2014 The Man Who Wasn’t There Explain genre theory and‚ using Chapter 8 of the text as a reference‚ thoroughly describe the conventions and attributes of your selected genre. Genre theory is used in the study of films in order to facilitate the categorization of films. Genres are dependent on various factors such as story line‚ who the director is‚ and what are the audience expectations. A better understanding

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    Genre Definition Paper The science fiction film genre is absolutely the hardest to define. It can easily be confused with or applied to Fantasy films and some horror films as well. Genres are used to identify types of films‚ and outside of science fiction this is a fairly simple process. A Western is set in the west and has cowboys and Indians. A gangster film has a plot revolving around the mafia. A horror film is centrally purposed to scare the viewer. Science fiction‚ on the other hand‚ is not

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    Glen Debello LA 182 OL2: Genres in Film Denah Johnston 01 Aug 2014 Genre Cycle via Film Noir Film Noir was an American movement that defined its own style of characters‚ settings and plots. This could have only been brought on by the tumultuous post World War II society. Directors were able to establish a counterpart to the leading man with a seductive and cynical femme fatale. Dark‚ smoky atmospheres that barely showed the characters as they were committing or organizing a violent crime. Film Noir

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    Individual Research Project FIRST-HAND INVESTIGATION BIOLOGY The Effect of Different Music Genres on the Human Mind: * Concentration * Spatial Reasoning * Short-Term Memory * Reaction Time Timothy Yee Joy TABLE OF CONTENTS Why I chose this topic ............................................................................3 Summary of Prior Research......................................................................4 Appendix of Research and Assessment of Reliability ........

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    Genre-bending: “the negotiation of genre in the representation of women in twenty-first century Shakespeare’s” Introduction Genres can dictate and negotiate how women are represented. According to Linda Bamber‚ Shakespeare’s comedy and tragedy genres propose problems and contradict one another in relation to the representation of women. She suggests that women in comedies are ‘more brilliant than men‚ more aware of themselves and their world‚ saner‚ livelier‚ more gay’. In relation to tragedies‚

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