Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Dresden Technical University (Amerikanische Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaften), course: American Film Comedies, 0 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: "Something's Gotta Give" / "Cactus Flower", abstract: This dialogue from "Cactus Flower" is very likely to catch the attention of a 21stcentury woman instantly because of its chauvinist, discriminating tone against women. It is very intriguing to find this conversation in a film which was shot in the so-called liberal sixties, and which raised the question to me whether patriarchal values are only detectable in older romantic comedies such as "Cactus Flower" (1969) or whether these values became obsolete in newer romantic comedies such as "Something's Gotta Give" (2003). In spite of the constant success of romantic comedies "There's Something about Mary" (2001), for instance, passed the "gold record line" of $100 million with flying colours little attention has been paid to analyzing this film genre. The few critics who analyzed and interpreted film comedies tend to focus on masterpieces and on auteur films such as "The General" by Buster Keaton, but they are likely to neglect romantic comedies. Therefore, this paper focuses deliberately on romantic comedies which are neither in the canon of masterpieces nor directed by an auteur. Interestingly, critics have not been able to agree on a final definition of romantic comedies, for which reason I chose to draw on Thomas Schatz's definition: Romantic comedies are "fast-paced, witty comedies of manners exploiting the foibles of America's leisure class" (Classical Hollywood Comedies 126). An additional characteristic of romantic comedies, is the fact that focus is put on the mating of the major characters, with the result that gender quarrels play a major role. Consequently, romantic comedies propose to the spectatorship how to find true love, and they c

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A student’s avatar navigates a virtual world and communicates the desires, emotions, and fears of its creator. Yet, how can her writing instructor interpret this form of meaningmaking? Today, multiple modes of communication and information technology are challenging pedagogies in composition and across the disciplines. Writing instructors grapple with incorporating new forms into their curriculums and relating them to established literary practices. Administrators confront the application of new technologies to the restructuring of courses and the classroom itself. Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres examines the possibilities, challenges, and realities of mutimodal composition as an effective means of communication. The chapters view the ways that writing instructors and their students are exploring the spaces where communication occurs, while also asking \u201cwhat else is possible.\u201d The genres of film, audio, photography, graphics, speeches, storyboards, PowerPoint presentations, virtual environments, written works, and others are investigated to discern both their capabilities and limitations. The contributors highlight the responsibility of instructors to guide students in the consideration of their audience and ethical responsibility, while also maintaining the ability to \u201cspeak well.\u201d Additionally, they focus on the need for programmatic changes and a shift in institutional philosophy to close a possible \u201cdigital divide\u201d and remain relevant in digital and global economies. Embracing and advancing multimodal communication is essential to both higher education and students. The contributors therefore call for the examination of how writing programs, faculty, and administrators are responding to change, and how the many purposes writing serves can effectively converge within composition curricula.

This book starts with the introduction of English language and further covers the topics of work stress, using word stress in effective speaking, useful terms in English conversation, public-speaking and important tips for improving public-speaking, etc. We hope that readers will find the book very useful.

Story and Structure tells the untold story of how story works. Using just six primary symbols, author Leon Conrad outlines eighteen story structures and shows how they all optimally solve the problems which give rise to them. The book also demonstrates the much wider application of story, presenting new insights into story as a dynamic force of life, allowing the reader to access more harmony and flow in their life. Writers, storytellers, creative writing teachers, folklorists, narrative therapists, anthropologists, poets, and readers interested in how story works will all find this book useful and informative. Rethink your idea of story.

This book examines ten major political scandals involving the White House in the past 50 years, revealing how the investigative reporters behind the stories uncovered the hidden truths. On numerous occasions, the dogged efforts of investigative journalists have led to a dissemination of information that had a direct effect on the course of American history—the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the Watergate scandal, "Monicagate" of the Clinton administration, and the Enron accounting scandal. The Inside Stories of Modern Political Scandals: How Investigative Reporters Have Changed the Course of American History features in-depth interviews with all living journalists responsible for revealing major political scandals involving the White House, including Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the reporters responsible for bringing the Watergate scandal to the light of day. The author presents a fascinating view into the "story behind the story" regarding the ten most momentous, modern-day political scandals in America. Containing both anecdotes from the investigative reporters involved and specific examples from published articles, this text reveals the specific methods used by these award-winning journalists to successfully pursue their stories and earn their titles as watchdogs of our government, our military, and big business.

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Primarily intended for students and learners who want to sharpen their spoken English, this book will also be useful for those who have long-felt need to communicate in English.

Nuestros peces fluviales es fundamentalmente una obra de lectura tem?tica. A pesar de los t?rminos cient?ficos que se leen en ella --- incluye un glosario que los aclara --- no est? ni mucho menos dirigida a los especialistas en la materia; sino al lector medio de cualquier edad comprendida entre la adolescencia y la madurez.
En cierto sentido, este libro viene a llenar parte del vac?o informativo que en los ?ltimos dos decenios han estado creando las Gu?as de los peces de Europa y de Espa?a, publicaciones extranjeras admirables en todos los conceptos pero en las que --- quiz's por falta de espacio --- se representan muy pocas de nuestras especies y se da de ellas una descripci?n excesivamente sintetizada.
La primera parte de nuestro libro re?ne art?culos no extensos en los cuales se comentan aspectos variados v. gr. el estado actual de la hidrosfera, los nombres de nuestros r?os principales y sus afluentes, y la clasificaci?n sistem?tica de los peces; haci?ndose tambi?n un resumen de la ictiolog?a del pasado, con menci?n de nombres de icti?logos hist?ricos. Contraviniendo la existente costumbre de dedicar en libros de este estilo unas p?ginas a la pesca deportiva de r?o, no hemos redactado ni un solo p?rrafo con semejante objetivo, por considerarlo en esta ocasi?n innecesario.
En la segunda parte o Rudimentos de ictiolog?a se incluyen conocimientos elementales de morfolog?a y estructura interna de los vertebrados acu?ticos, coment?ndose tambi?n los caracteres esenciales y el funcionamiento fisiol?gico de sus principales ?rganos. La tercera parte trata de la descripci?n e ilustraci?n de las especies de nuestra fauna ictiol?gica continental, formando un cat?logo que es laparte m's voluminosa del libro. Cada art?culo de pez comentado en detalle incluye una ficha con nombres cient?ficos y vulgares de la especie.

Communication Skills For The Health Care Professional Is The First Text Of Its Kind To Address The Connection Between Communication Practices And Quality Patient Care Outcomes. It Provides Future And Practicing Patient Caregivers In All Specialties And Services With Basic Communication Knowledge And Skills And Is An Invaluable Resource For Those In Administrative Functions As Well. The Second Edition Is A Thorough Revision That Features Five All New Chapters Covering: Communicating With Patients With Low Literacy; Health Communications And Quality Care; Health Communications To Enhance Behavioral Change; The Internet And Communications Between Patient And Provider; Altering Systems Of Care And Implications For Health Care Communications. Features: Provides A Psychosocial And Physiologic Contextual Background For Understanding Sensual Development And Verbal And Nonverbal Expression. Teaches Communication Skills One At A Time Allowing For Contiguous Mastery Over A Set Of Therapeutic Interventions. Includes An Extensive Glossary Of Terms And List Of References Including Websites And Resources Available To Enhance Student Learning. Is Accompanied By Online Instructor Resources Including An Instructor'S Manual And Powerpoint Lecture Slides. New To The Second Edition: - New Chapter On Communicating With Patients With Low Literacy - Four New Chapters On Expectations For Health Care Communications, Evidence For Quality And Behavioral Change - All Chapters Have Been Revised And Updated - Updated Resources - New Tables - Up-To-Date Evidence Instructor's Resources - Coming Soon: Instructor's Manual Powerpoint Lecture Slides Click Here To Access Our Transition Guide--And Make Changing Your Course Materials From The First Edition To The Second Edition As Easy As Possible

On a fateful day in 1889, the Oklahoma land rush begins, and for thousands of settlers the future is up for grabs. One of those people is Creed McReynolds, fresh from the East with a lawyer's education and a head full of aspirations. The mixed-blood son of a Kiowa mother and a U.S. Cavalry doctor, Creed lands in Guthrie station, the designated Territorial Capital, where he must prove that he is more than the half-blood kid once driven from his own land.

In recounting the precipitous rise and catastrophic fall of the jerrybuilt city of Guthrie, author Sheldon Russell immerses us in the lives of Creed and other memorable characters whose ambitions echo the taming of the frontier--and whose fates hold lessons as important today as they were more than a hundred years ago.

Among the people McReynolds must contend with is Abaddon Damon. A ruthless newspaper publisher, Abaddon is quick to strike any bargain that will bring him the power he craves, and like many others, Creed McReynolds is swept into his whirlwind of greed and deception. Creed becomes the wealthiest man in the Territory--but at an unbearable cost to himself, the dreams of others, and the dignity of his mother's people.

"Dreams to Dust" takes readers back to the early days of Oklahoma Territory--a sometimes dangerous place filled with nefarious dealings, where violence lurks behind even casual encounters--to tell the story of frontier men and women gambling everything to find their fortune on the windswept southern plains.

Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of academic scientists and to the public legitimacy of scientific knowledge. But that was not always the case. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, academies and societies dominated elite study of the natural world. Journals were a relatively marginal feature of this world, and sometimes even an object of outright suspicion. The Scientific Journal tells the story of how that changed. Alex Csiszar takes readers deep into nineteenth-century London and Paris, where savants struggled to reshape scientific life in the light of rapidly changing political mores and the growing importance of the press in public life. The scientific journal did not arise as a natural solution to the problem of communicating scientific discoveries. Rather, as Csiszar shows, its dominance was a hard-won compromise born of political exigencies, shifting epistemic values, intellectual property debates, and the demands of commerce. Many of the tensions and problems that plague scholarly publishing today are rooted in these tangled beginnings. As we seek to make sense of our own moment of intense experimentation in publishing platforms, peer review, and information curation, Csiszar argues powerfully that a better understanding of the journal's past will be crucial to imagining future forms for the expression and organization of knowledge.

Calling on the image of the Midwest s vanished inland sea, Susan Neville has written a compelling collection of essays that ponder writing and the "landlocked imagination." The essays range from interviews with Indiana writers Kurt Vonnegut, Scott Sanders, Marguerite Young, and others, to discussions on techniques grounded in a Midwestern sensibility. As director of Butler University s Visiting Writers Series, Neville has had the rare opportunity to converse with such literary giants as Salman Rushdie, Ray Bradbury, and Toni Morrison, and some of those exchanges have been incorporated into this exciting new collection."

This classic text, which contains the complete Greek text of the "Apology" and of "Crito" with other selections, offers an introduction to Plato's language as well as an introduction to Socrates as presented by Plato. These two goals determined Lewis Leaming Forman's ample selection of passages from the writings of Plato.

Forman's detailed and helpful notes enhance appreciation of how Greek prose--particularly Plato's--produces its effects. They include helpful discussions of syntax, the uses of particles, the effects of word order, and rhetorical devices. Forman also includes an appendix with an additional set of notes containing information chiefly on various syntactic patterns in the Greek language. Particularly suitable for second-, third-, or fourth-year students of Greek, this volume is also a useful resource for the Platonic scholar.

Step into the kitchen and stir up a batch of storybook treats with literary recipes based on the books and lives of 50 of your favorite children's authors and illustrators, including Eric Carle, Mary Casanova, Keiko Kasza, Steven Kellogg, Yuyi Morales, Janet Stevens, and Jane Yolen and 40 others. Whip up a heavenly coconut cream cake enjoyed in Jacqueline Briggs Martin's recent story, On Sand Island; savor the spicy pumpkin pie inspired by Toni Buzzeo's Sea Chest. You'll also learn some fascinating facts about each author and read anecdotes and stories connected with the recipes. Biographical details, author photographs, book lists, and reading connections make this a perfect resource for library, classroom, and home. A great gift for booklovers. What a delicious way to learn about authors and their books! Step into the kitchen and stir up a batch of storybook treats with 50 literary recipes based on the books and lives of 50 of your favorite children's authors and illustrators, including Eric Carle, Mary Casanova, Keiko Kasza, Steven Kellogg, Yuyi Morales, Janet Stevens, and Jane Yolen and 40 others. Whip up a heavenly coconut cream cake enjoyed in Jacqueline Briggs Martin's recent story, On Sand Island; savor the spicy pumpkin pie inspired by Toni Buzzeo's Sea Chest. You'll also learn some fascinating facts about each author and read anecdotes and stories connected with the recipes. Biographical details, author photographs, book lists, and reading connections make this a perfect resource for library, classroom, and home. A great gift for booklovers. What a delicious way to learn about authors and their books! Grades K-6.