... some of the programmes by major soap powder companies. Television soap operas are long- running serials concerned with everyday life. Christine Geraghty notes that the longer they run the more impossible it seems to imagine them ending'. When soaps came to television in the 1950s they tended ... trying to pin genres to feminine and masculine forms. In soaps female characters are portrayed as more central than in action drama, as ordinary people coping with everyday problems. Certainly soaps tend to appeal to those who value the personal and the domestic world. Therefore females are cons...

• Word Count: 3096
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... along the edge of the bluff in the early morning sunlight, trying to find the quickest path to the beach below. "Is somebody going to get shoved off the cliff?" I asked innocently. "Nope," dad answered as he stepped through the open front door carrying two overstuffed suitcases. "I think that's too obvious. We need something more ... "The main point is that the ghost of the murdered woman is trying to come back in order to identify the person who killed her to the people who are now living in the house she was killed in ten years ago. They, of course, have no idea that the murder had ever...

• Word Count: 2994
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

... Eco involves his readers in the complications of early-fourteenth-century theological and political controversies and philosophical debates over nominalism. He further perplexes ordinary readers with the linguistic challenges of numerous snatches of classical and medieval Latin, French, and German, not to mention the peculiar polyglot ... lot size, features of the site, or economics. Like the abbey, St. Gall was a self-contained community. Intended to house 270 people, both monks and laymen, it contained all the functions necessary to sustain body and soul without contact with the outs...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate