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A Level Media Studies - Holby City Narrative Case Study

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Narrative Construction of TV Hospital Drama (Case Study) – Holby City, Tuesdays 8pm, BBC One Holby City is a TV hospital drama based on the wards of Holby City Hospital in the fictional city of Holby. Airing weekly on BBC One, the show explores the work lives of everyone working within the facility and also looks at problems concerning patients, their families and love lives. Because it is set in a hospital, the plot revolves mostly around medical incidents. This drama features continuous narratives that play out during the course of at least one episode. As mentioned previously, many storylines run simultaneously in Holby City, making the show have a multi-strand structure. This is common in soaps as it will intrigue loyal fans who have a connection to the characters, but will also draw the attention of people watching for the first time as they will need to tune in to the next episode to find out what happens. An example of this in Holby City is when a trainee doctor, ...
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A Level Media Studies - Teen Films

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Codes are the rules . Conventions are features that you expect to see. Codes and conventions of the teen film genre vary depending on the cultural contest of the film, but they can include proms, alcohol, illegal substances, high school, parties and all-night raves, losing one’s virginity, relationships, social groups and cliques and American pop-culture. Apart from the characters there are many other codes and conventions of teen film. These films are often set in or around High School as this allows for many different social cliques to be shown. This is different in hybrid teen films, but for the classic romantic comedy teen films this is almost always the case. Teen films include typical stereotypes which can be immediately associated with teens. It includes things which appeal to and are familiar to the teen audience. It varies depending on whether the film is a hybrid of two genres. Representation Stereotyping The classic codes and conventions of teen fil...
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A Level Business Studies - Responding to a fall in industry capacity utilisation

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A Level Business Studies - Business Objectives and Missions

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A Level Religious Studies - Idiot's Guide to Naturalism

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Idiot’s Guide to Naturalism Naturalism is the view that 1.      Ethical terms can be defined or explained using the same ‘natural’ terms we use in maths and science 2.      Morals can be based on the same kind of observation of the world as used in science 3.      All ethical statements can be translated into non-ethical ones Naturalists are absolutists . Morals are not about opinions and points of view and are objectively true . For example: ‘euthanasia is evil’ – they are expressing a moral truth, not an opinion. A person uses their senses and logic to conclude ethical truths. Moral truths are facts like numbers. You can conclude something is wrong from observation and analysis . Moral facts aren’t views or opinions, nor are they based on spiritual or intuitive sense. When you observe something is wrong, it’s a moral fact of the universe. Theological naturalists, like Thomas Aquinas,...
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