National Television Awards Essays

  • Analysis of Hollyoaks Title Sequence

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    Analysis of Hollyoaks Title Sequence At the beginning of the programme, before the title sequence rolls in, there is already the first difference from many soap operas on commercial television. Whereas the likes of Coronation Street and Emmerdale and others on commercial based television, Hollyoaks does not have a sponsor, instead it has a now and next screen, and has a voice over of a slight summary of one of the storylines that happens. I believe that this could be done to encourage people

  • Dr. Daniel J. Boorstin: Great American Author and Historian

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    Boorstin: Great American Author and Historian Dr. Daniel J. Boorstin (1914- ) holds many honorable positions and has received numerous awards for his notable work. He is one of America's most eminent historians, the author of more than fifteen books and numerous articles on the history of the United States, as well as a creator of a television show. His editor-wife, Ruth Frankel Boorstin, a Wellesley graduate, has been his close collaborator. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, and raised in

  • The Writing of Stephen King

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    and won many awards including the Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, 6 Bram Stoker awards, 6 Horror Guild awards, 5 Locus Awards, 3 World Fantasy Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004), the 1996 O. Henry award, a Hugo Award in 1982 for the non-fiction Danse Macabre. He was given a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 by the Horror Writers' Association and, controversially, a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation

  • “Inclusion in Today’s Literary Canon”

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    Stephen King is a creative and massively popular author of horror fiction with the ability to make his readers squirm. Rated one of the best writers since early 1970s due to his prolific work, which is immensely intriguing. Stephen King is acknowledged for producing a novel each year or more. Some of his best sellers comprise the “The Shinning” (1977), “Salem Lost” (1975), “Carrie” (1974), and “Dead Zone” (1979). Even though, Stephen King’s writing style is bizarre and bloodcurdling, his characters

  • The Dumbing Down of American Fiction

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    The Dumbing Down of American Fiction The 1976 film "Network" is an acerbic satire of television's single-minded obsession with mass ratings.One of the film's main characters, Howard Beale, is called the "Mad Prophet of the Airways," and his weekly harangues produce a "ratings motherlode"--yet he constantly admonishes his viewers to "Turn the damn tube off!"During one such rant Beale berates his audience as functional illiterates: "Less than three percent of you even read books!" he shouts messianically--and

  • Analysis of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

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    first-person narrative story of Arnold Spirit Jr., a 14-year-old Native American teenager, and the events in his life about pursuing his dreams. This book is a semi-autobiographical novel and it has won the 2007 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the Odyssey Award as best 2008 audiobook for young people. The language in this book is simple, humorous and spontaneous, however, tragedies have played a more important part than comedies. The famous novelist C. S. Lewis once said:

  • Analysis of Triveni’s Sharapanjara

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    The intention of this paper is to focus on the inevitability of change during adaptation, from fiction to film, which is essential and unavoidable, mandated both by the constraints of time and medium, with the example of Triveni’s Sharapanjara. Some film theorists have argued that a director should be nonchalant with the source, given that novel and film are entirely dissimilar entities, two singular art forms, and should be seen as such. Another line of argument is that though the director is invested

  • Gwendolyn Brooks Research Paper

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    (Poets.org) In 1949 Annie Allen (a series of poems related to a black girl's growing up in Chicago) was published and received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950. Gwendolyn Brooks would become the first African American women to receive the award in poetry. Quickly did she know that her book would create several additional opportunities for her life. President John Kennedy invited her to read the book at a Library of Congress poetry festival in 1962. (Poemhunter.com) Gwendolyn Brooks would

  • Story Of A Girl Essay

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    slut in her school. She wants to escape her life that is defined by her past. Her brother and his girlfriend live in the basement with their baby, and they are the only people that care for her anymore and treat her fairly. This book was a National book award finalist, and the School library Journal said it was “Realistic fiction at its best”, and “An emotionally charged story”. Overall, there was some positive and negative criticism towards this book. One review that had some negative criticism

  • A Face in Every Window by Han Nolan

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    Secondly, the cover seems to be a bunch of pieces of abstract art put together, which also didn't really appeal to me. However, at the very top it says, "author of the National Book Award winner Dancing on the Edge." This was the tiebreaker between the books I had picked out to choose from. I figured if she has won a national book award that this book has to be somewhat decent, and thus my journey began. When I first started reading the book I wasn't quite sure what to expect. It showed a functional

  • When We Dead Awaken

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    radical or out of control. I have to disagree and consider her as a writer with controlled thoughts who refuses to be defined by what society says is politically correct. This is shown in part of her statement when she accepts the national book award. “We together accept this award in the name of all women whose voices have gone and still go unheard in a patriarchal world, and in the name of those who, like us, have been tolerated as token women in this culture, often at great cost and in great pain. We

  • Analysis of the Article: "Reading in a Whole New Way" by Kevin Kelly

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    who uses more of the digital screens and who reads often. Kelly proves to the reader that due to digital screens, reading alone has increased tremendously. He is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine. Which Kelly was awarded the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. He founded Walking Journal in 1... ... middle of paper ... ...tion. Doing this allows the reader to imagine this idea. Giving digital screens human qualities allows Kelly to expand on the how we input everything

  • Positive Effects of Television Upon Children

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    Positive Effects of Television Upon Children Without a doubt, television is the central and principal form of communication in many people’s lives. This form is most often exposed to a child who instantly becomes accustomed to its presence. Children are televisions largest audience, as Morris shows, “Children aged two to five look at the TV tube on an average of 28.4 hours a week; those between the ages of six and eleven average 23.6 hours a week”. Television has played an important role in many

  • Donald Barthelme

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    children’s fairy tale, the novel. He won the National Book Award for Children’s literature for the book titled “The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine: or, the Hithering, Thithering, Djinn'; (1971) (Marowski and Matuz, 3?). In 1976 he received the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for his book The Dead Father. His book Sixty Stories was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner award for Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

  • Dale (2007) argues that quality and service improvements lead to enhanced company revenues and higher margins. Discuss Dale’s argument.

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    situation, it is necessary to firms that to make service quality improvement efforts financially... ... middle of paper ... ...l investigation. Quality Management Journal, Vol. 4, pp. 43–59. Hill, R.C., (1993), "When the Going Gets Rough: A Baldrige Award Winner On the Line," Academy of Management Executive, Vol. 7, pp. 75-79. Kelemen, M. L., (2005), Managing Quality, SAGE Publications Ltd. Rust, R.T., Zahorik, A.J., & Keiningham, T.L., (1995) Return on Quality (ROQ): Making Service Quality Financially

  • The Woman Warrior

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    The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior discusses her and her mother Brave Orchid's relationship. On the surface, the two of them seem very different however when one looks below the surface they are very similar. An example of how they superficially seem different is the incident at the drug store when Kingston is mortified at what her mother makes her do. Yet, the ways that they act towards others and themselves exemplifies their similarities at a deeper level. Kingston

  • Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior - No Name Woman

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    Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior - No Name Woman The excerpt, "No Name Woman", from Maxine Hong Kingston's book, Woman Warrior, gives insight into her life as a Chinese girl raised in America through a tragic story of her aunt's life, a young woman raised in a village in China in the early 1900s. The story shows the consequences beliefs, taught by parents, have on a child's life. Kingston attempts to figure out what role the teachings of her parents should have on her life, a similar attempt

  • Macon's Change in Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist

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    Macon's Change in Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler at first glance depicts the struggle between two people to find happiness together, but in actuality it shows the struggles a man faces with himself to find happiness in his own life. Tyler presents a character, Macon Leary, satisfied with just going through life unchanged. Eliminating all the luxuries of life Macon feels he will find happiness by going through a scheduled routine everyday. Struggling

  • The Road by Cormac McCarthy

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    he revealed that some of the conversations he and his son shared in the novel were real conversations they had shared in real life. In 2006, McCarthy was given the Jame Tait Black Memorial Prize in fiction and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Later, in 2007, The Road was awarded the Pulitzer prize for fiction and soon after the novel was adapted into a film. In turn, The Road generates many themes throughout the book, but the most prominent is the unbreakable

  • The Woman Warrior Analysis

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    For the last two weeks, I have partaken of a book not on the reading list submitted back in July: Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior. What Kingston has written exudes majesty plus lyricism to a point where readers cannot help sensing enchantment. Her writing doesn’t use advanced images for impressing anyone. The language she uses assists readers with seeing differentiated truthfulness kinds. Within one section, entitled “White Tigers,” Kingston explains how becoming trained in warriors’ ways