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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"storylines"”.
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Selling the drama: A content-analysis of prescribed storylines in Abc's "Monday Night Football"
… is a qualitative content-analysis of prescribed storylines used in ABC's Monday Night Football. The sample is of five broadcasts that were recorded during the 2002 National Football League seaSon The analysis of the programs is twofold: (1) to identify the storylines set forth during the pregame …
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Depictions of Donation: A Thematic Analysis of Organ Donation Storylines in Television Medical Dramas
… utilizes entertainment television to portray storylines related to organ donation. The analyzed shows included in this study were: Grey's Anatomy, The Good Doctor, New Amsterdam, Chicago Med, and The Resident. From the analysis, six major themes emerged: Urgency of Transplant, Ethical …
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International Education as Policy: A Discourse Coalition Framework Analysis of the Construction, Context, and Empowerment of Ontarios International Education Storylines
… DCF have typically identified oppositional storylines, the findings of this study reveal one dominant storyline: Internationalize. All discourses agree, to varying degrees, that IE is desirable and beneficial to the postsecondary education sector and Ontario. However, within the overarching …
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Algorithmic Distribution of Applied Learning on Big Data
… observed relationships to establish meaningful storylines. When performed sequentially these computations become a bottleneck because the massive number of entities make space and time complexity untenable. We present DISCRN, or DIstributed Spatio-temporal ConceptseaRch based StorytelliNg, a …
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Sacred Screens: Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism and Islam in Popular Culture
… for inspiration when conceiving many of the storylines we find in mainstream entertainment today. This thesis will study key examples of film, video game, literary, and television media to show how these artists weave their religiously inspired themes into their respective platforms. In using …
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Deception in Super Bowl Advertisements: An Analysis of Deceptive Story Lines
… issue of portraying deceptive acts within the storylines of Super Bowl advertisements from 1988-2008. Results indicate that 196 of the 2,172 advertisements studied, contain deceptive storylines. Most often the advertisements depicted white males, ages 30-64, using deception. Also, deception was …
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Elements of Enchanted Forests: On Writing Child of the Forest
… part of 20-year-old Charlotte’s story. With two storylines to consider, the critical piece dives into how the storylines are made to fit within one another by placing scenes in the correct position and revealing information at precisely the right moment. With the use of two distinct Storylines …
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Stories of Experts and Influence:A Discourse Analytic Approach to Bureaucratic Autonomy in the Cold War Era
… perspectives by better understanding how storylines help administrators to define the agency's mission and tasks and to develop its reputation for effectiveness. The findings suggest that storylines serve as causal drivers toward autonomy, operating in complex ways to influence individual …
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Enriched Story Experiences with a New Video Interaction Model
… at fixed points. This supports non-linear storylines, as the user can influence what happens in the plot by making decisions. However, such films are tightly scripted, and limited in handling users with different needs for interactions. Passive film viewers may find frequent choices …
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Alzheimer's Disease Narratives and the Myth of Human Being
… of the experience and reinscribes cultural storylines---storylines about what it means to be a human person. The loss of self as it occurs in AD narratives functions most effectively in reasserting the presence of the human self, in contrast to an anonymous, inhuman nonself; as AD discourse …
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An Arts Based Narrative Inquiry into Children's Experiences of the Five Foundations of the Social-Emotional and Academic Learning Program you can do it! Program Achieve.
… revealed numerous threads and plotlines such as storylines of YCDI foundations, storylines of the program's impact, storylines of competition, marginalization, resistance, tension, family, school, belonging, and care.
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Understanding the experiences of community hospice volunteers : a narrative analysis
… the interview data and explore common storylines. Systems theory is drawn on to explore these storylines and the rules, meanings and belief systems which influence how volunteers manage their relationships with dying people, the hospice and death. Analysis revealed how volunteers found …
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From civil society to the level of politics: the evolution of narratives about Muslim immigrants in Italy
… narrative, are deconstructed to determine the ‘storylines’ from the news media and the ‘ideographs’ in political discourse of which they are constructed. The ‘storylines’ and ‘ideographs’ that fuel the dominant narratives are based heavily in language characterized by public order, security, …
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The Object of My Abduction
… literary models necessary to create lasting storylines.
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Öresundsregion - bli till! : De geografiska visionernas diskursiva rytm
… and critically discussed, presented as storylines: -The r/evolution of regional organisms -The "high-speed" region -The social integration over the Sound, or, the political disciplinary project
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Social TV : the future of television in the Internet Age
… properties such as liveness, character-centric storylines and flow and to what the YouTube phenomena means for television. The thesis concludes with a forecast about television's future, which confirms the main argument of this thesis: television is increasingly social.
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Anime as an adaptation. Anime‘s approach to the original source
… Japanese culture. While some anime have original storylines, most of them are adapted from various other sources. The goal of this research is to find out how anime that are based on other sources approaches the original work. For this researched many manga and Light Novels were read, as well as …
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GLBTQ characterization in young adult novels, 1998-2004
… from stereotyped characters and conservative storylines and into more realistic portrayals has been slow in materializing. This study utilized a content analysis of 22 YA novels with homosexual content to investigate whether changes have occurred in the portrayal of gay, lesbian, bisexual, …
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Energy consumption and smart growth in Massachusetts : does smart growth make a difference?
… for the town of Littleton, MA. Four scenario storylines (Business as Usual (BAU), Baby Steps (high residential density, no mixing), Mixed Use Village (higher residential density, mixed uses), and Thoroughly Green (similar to Mixed Use Village with added green building requirements)) were used …
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"You're not portraying me as the villain this season, are you?": Formula 1: Drive to Survive and Netflix's serialized sports docuseries
… from episode to episode and season to season. Storylines are not resolved within one episode or even one season, which contributes to audiences wanting to return to the television show to find out what happens next. This establishes a mutually beneficial relationship between Netflix and Formula …
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