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    Octavia Butler Summary

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    Butler (1947 – 2006), who was one of the best sci-fi writers in the genre. I say this not only because she was a skilled writer among the best in the genre, but she tackled social and political issues that many in the genre would not. This practice has made her novels as power as most stories written as literary fiction. Prior to her introduction to the sci-fi scene, this was not done and in fact, is not done commonly because the genre is still dominated by white male writers. To examine the content

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    English Reflection

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    writing. From a personal essay, to a review, a research paper, a rhetorical analysis, a group research project, and a remediation. Through writing these pieces, I have developed my skills in rhetorical knowledge, processes, critical thinking, reading, and composing, and knowledge of conventions. Included with this letter are two pieces of work from the semester that I have chosen to revise. The first is my rhetorical analysis titled Fires in California, and the second is my review of a tea shop titled

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    Definition Essay - Genre

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    Definition Essay – Genre "Genre," in the most generic definition, takes the meaning "kind; sort; style" (OED). Prior to the term's inception, the notion of genre in the study of media emerged in The Poetics, with Aristotle's discussion of the mode or manner of imitation in poetry. Of this Aristotle writes, "the medium being the same, and the objects [of imitation] the same, the poet may imitate by narration - in which case he can either take another personality as Homer does, or speak in his

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    Challenges of Genre for EFL teachers In teaching English as Foreign Language (EFL), teachers face a number of challenges when the pedagogy is changed to EFL method. One of the questions is how can teachers know what genre the students need to learn? This is because based on researches, genre are dependent on the discourse community. Therefore, how to explain which genre to teach by school teacher to the students? So, this has become a problem/challenge for EFL teachers to teach genre as researchers

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    Genre is known to change discourse by the format the information is presented to the audience (Varela, 2008). It is also a category of composition that is characterized by a particular style, form or content as dictate by Webster Third Dictionary. However Trosborg (n.d) stated that for the past decade, genre identification, classification and description have been scholarly concern. Certain scholars dictate that genre is defined primarily around its basic external criteria such as journals and newspaper

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    Genre Analysis During the Victorian time period roles regarding gender, education, the work force, and politics were all set and rarely had any changes made to these predisposed ideologies. By conducting an analysis of the time period using a variety of genres, it became apparent that Florence Nightingale’s role in breaking social norms was a starting point for the revolution of women. It is also evident that her actions are still influential in today’s society. Using two different sources, I compared

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    by different genres – “a French word meaning ‘type’ or ‘kind’” (Neale Stephen, 7), including melodrama, comedy, and tragedy. Genre has occupied an important place in the study of the cinema for over thirty years. One of the biggest genres that has been evolved over the years and has many implications is melodrama. “As a theatrical genre, melodrama came into existence in the late eighteenth century in France and Germany” (Neale Stephen, 184). In the following century melodrama genre has spread and

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    focusing on the aspects of genre theory and irony, Gass argues that it is the multiple genre expectations that give Moll the reputation of being deep and complex, which leads to her controversial character. He uses historical context to show how Moll can be seen as a villain, but continues to argue that it is primarily the expectations brought on by genre theory that make people see her as a villain, based on those certain expectations. Gass’ interpretation using genre theory analysis, irony, and historical

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    film that follows the classic semantics and syntactics of an original western film through the common traits, attitudes, characters, shots and locations that attribute to the building blocks of the Western genre. My Darling Clementine also includes syntactic elements that incorporate the genres fundamental grammar and the structure into which building blocks are placed. This can be compared and contrasted with the film Unforgiven which represents the revisionist western. The revisionist western includes

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    Man’s Will to Survive Genre Analysis (Paper 2) Genre-Post Apocalypse The American post-apocalypse drama TV shows “The 100 “developed and produced by Jason Rothenberger, and “The Walking Dead” developed and produced by Frank Darabont, embodies the true nature of man’s will to survive. Through countless acts of heroism, life altering decisions, and sheer instinct the characters of these two shows do what they must in order to stay alive and preserve humanity. The heroic characters of these two shows

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