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Plot is the basic structure of any story but narrative can have a variety of internal structures related to style, temporal elements and codification of the message. Plot describes a series of events that happens to the characters in a described setting. Ideally, all events should follow logically in order to maintain the continuity of the story. Larger texts often have subplots that run simultaneously with the main one.
On "Super-Noticing"
"People are always surprised when they realize how many things they are actually experiencing but not really noticing".
What Makes for a Good Blog? | 43 Folders
As I think about the blogs I’ve returned to over the years — and the increasingly few new ones that really grab my attention — I want to start with, ironically enough, a list. Here’s what I think helps make for a good blog. --Merlin Mann
High Self-Esteem Is Not The Same Thing As Healthy Self-Esteem
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People with fragile high self-esteem compensate for their self-doubts by engaging in exaggerated tendencies to defend, protect and enhance their feelings of self-worth.
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Also, individuals with high self-esteem sometimes become very unlikable when others or events threaten their egos.
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The Phoenix > Features > Our superheroes, ourselves
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The concept of someone who just wants to have fun, and be like everybody else, but at the same time is compelled to do the right thing — I think that’s a lesson that kids can’t see too often, and there isn’t enough of it anywhere else. Our culture is filled with celebrated figures who do morally reprehensible things, and kids are getting mixed messages about that all the time. So to have these models is very useful, I think.
The Phoenix > Features > Our superheroes, ourselves
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Batman’s great struggle is between revenge and justice — he’s really the go-to guy for that issue. And, of course, that’s something we’re struggling with as a country right now.
Our superheroes, ourselves
"What the current crop of comic-book action movies tell us about America's identity crisis"
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Movies, of course, are just movies. These projects have been in the works for years — chugging along Hollywood’s trillion-dollar poop-chute, now stalled or un-financed, now flush and moving again. Nobody associated with their production planned to make any great statement. And cinematic trends are not clinical symptoms. But the Zeitgeist works by coincidence, and the fact is that all of them, all these noisy dramas of superheroic identity crisis, have popped out now — at a moment of intense national self-interrogation. Are we liberators or torturers? Decent men or sadists? Are we chained to our fears or ready to embrace “change”?
The Perfect Human
Dean Karnazes ran 50 marathons in 50 days. He does 200 miles just for fun. He'll race in 120-degree heat. 12 secrets to his success.
The Microfame Game and The New Rules of Internet Celebrity
There’s a new class of celebrity powered by the Internet. The stakes are smaller, but the rewards are within anyone’s reach. These are the rules.
Koren's New Photographic Language
Photojournalist Ziv Koren shows how he combines still photographs and video to create a new photographic language for the Internet.
“The Hype Cycle”
This cycle tends to abrogate pop culture for those who want to experience it as connoisseurs (the brunt of the n+1 complaint). Hype makes us (happily, for many of us) have to consume culture as zeitgeist; it ceases to be an occasion to express our refined tastes. Instead, it liberates us from having to worry about tastes at all.
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In other words, we don’t judge art by its underlying fundamentals; instead we trade on their momentum.
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So how we “use” culture depends a great deal on how we regard it contextually. Without context, there isn’t much there to consume—it’s not as though the intrinsic qualities are so deep and sophisticated.
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