Russell T Davies Essays

  • Nathan Maloney Essay

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    role as Jason in three episodes of the show. He also had a brief modeling career where he did a shoot for kanhols Caps and then decided Modeling was not for him. Aged 18, his first major role came when he was cast by Russell T Davies as fifteen-year-old schoolboy Nathan Maloney in Davies’ Channel 4 drama queer as Folk. The role of Nathan Maloney proved to be a turning point in his career. He beautifully administered the challenging task of turning the character from being a shy, introvert and innocent

  • The Role of Science Fiction Serial Doctor Who in British Culture

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    This essay will attempt to illustrate the role of science-fiction serial Doctor Who in British culture, comparing the classic series (aired from 1963 to 1989) with the new one (airing from 2005) by analysing the “birth” of Doctor Who in 20th century and its “regeneration” in 21st. Far from being just a filler in Saturday evening show schedule, Doctor Who became a cult not only in Britain but in the whole world, emerging as a model for all the sci-fi series to come. Throughout the years, the “Whoniverse”

  • Doctor Who History

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    Doctor Who started running on November 23, 1963 and hasn’t stopped since. Fifty years of adventure have given us hundred of stories, twelve Doctors and too many monsters to count. Since the Doctor started running there have been many firsts and lasts, comings and goings, tearful farewells and exciting new beginnings. March 1962 was the first time the British Broadcasting Channel’s (BBC) new Head of Drama, Sydney Newman, came up with the idea of Doctor Who. Between March 1962 and June 1963 the BBC

  • The Beatles and the Paul McCartney Hoax

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    people to believe that maybe Paul did die in that alleged accident. In the late summer 1969, the Northern Illinois University campus newspaper, Northern Star, obtained a list of clues from a student who wrote a research paper on the hoax. (Saki) Russell Gibb, a disc jockey for the Detroit radio station, WNKR, then got a copy of it from a friend of his, and on his radio show, proceeded to read them and even make up his own on the spot. Within a few days, Gibb and his coworkers were astonished to see

  • Measure For Measure on the Stage

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    Measure For Measure on the Stage Near the end of his well known treatment of transgression and surveillance in Measure for Measure, Jonathan Dollimore makes an observation about the world of the play that deserves further consideration by feminist scholars: the prostitutes, the most exploited group in the society which the play represents, are absent from it. Virtually everything that happens presupposes them yet they have no voice, no presence. And those who speak for them do so as exploitatively

  • Bhabha's Contribution to Postcolonial Theory

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    Colonialism is and has been a reality during previous centuries. As a political and economical reality it entailed significant consequences in the colonized country's politics, geographical maps, and people's lives, fates and temperaments. As the consequences are hard to ignore the writers of the formerly colonized countries never forgot to write about it and their people's lives before, during and after their country's colonization. As Emecheta is one of these writer who is born and brought up

  • Miyazaki's Spirited Away as a Storytelling Tool

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    In Spirited Away, emphasis is placed on the importance of collectivism for Chihiro to achieve her goals - most prominently through the varied interaction with different characters, driving this narrative plot. Such a method of storytelling thus express how the force of the community is fundamental to the Japanese society. Chihiro’s success in saving her parents hinges on the help she receives and gives in the spiritual world. In particular, Haku’s emotional support allows Chihiro to survive in a

  • Buchi Emecheta and African Traditional Society

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    Buchi Emecheta’s literary terrain is the domestic experience of the female characters, and the way in which these characters try to turn the table against the second-class and slavish status to which they are subjected either by their husbands or the male-oriented traditions. Reading Buchi Emecheta informs us of the ways fiction, especially women’s writing, plays a role in constructing a world in which women can live complete lives; a world that may provide women with opportunities for freedom, creativity

  • The Life Course and Social Workers

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    (2000). Teens and their parents in the 21st century: An examination of trends in teen behavior and the role of parental involvement. Washington, DC: White House Walker, S. (2008). Social work and child and adolescent mental health. Dorset: Russell House Publishing Ltd. Thompson, N. (2009.) Understanding Social Work. Third Edition: Palgrave Macmillan

  • Impressions of Aging and the Elderly in Country Music

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    scientists have investigated the ways in which informal agents of socialization provide or support current stereotypes and attitudes held toward the elderly. A review of previous studies in the area indicates that researchers have examined aging in jokes (Davies, 1977; Palmore, 1971; Richman, 1977), birthday greeting cards (Demos and Jache, 1980), television drama (Harris and Feinberg, 1978), poetry (Clark, 1980; Sohngen and Smith, 1978), newspapers (Bochholz and Bynum, 1982) and literature (Janelli, 1988;