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What is Genre?

Genre is a foundational concept in the arts, referring to the categories and conventions that organize creative works — whether in literature, film, visual art, or performance. Students encounter genre across disciplines including literary studies, film studies, art history, and cultural criticism. What makes it academically interesting is the tension between genre as a stable set of rules and genre as a living, evolving form shaped by audience expectations, social context, and artistic innovation. The works and movements appearing in this body of student writing — from Rococo and Neoclassical painting to lowbrow art, from dime novels to Western film, from short fiction to hip-hop and street dance — reflect just how broadly genre operates across the arts.

The papers here approach genre from several distinct angles. Some take a comparative approach, placing two works or styles side by side to examine how each handles form and convention, as seen in analyses pairing short stories or contrasting artistic movements. Others focus on a single genre — the Western film, the crime novel, the short story — tracing its defining characteristics and cultural role. Case-study analysis is also common, with writers using a specific work or artist to illuminate broader genre questions. A few papers address how genre intersects with social change, looking at how shifting audiences and cultural moments reshape artistic categories.

A strong essay on genre establishes a clear, arguable thesis about what a genre does, not just what it is. Evidence drawn from close reading of specific texts, films, or artworks carries the most weight. One common pitfall is treating genre as a fixed checklist rather than a dynamic framework — strong essays acknowledge that the most interesting works often push against or redefine the conventions they inherit.

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Cervantes' narrative technique and parody in Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda

Miguel de Cervantes' is famous, in both his epic work 'Don Quixote" and also in his other works of literature, for making comic capital of the sentimental conventions of courtly literature.

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Race and social class in Blazing Saddles and The Toy

An analysis of how issues of race and social class are depicted in comedy films such as Blazing Saddles and The Toy. It is argued that commentary on race and class in Blazing Saddles is successful because of the film's narrative and satirical structure, which depicts blacks in a positive light and gives them upward social mobility. On the other hand, The Toy is unsuccessful at commenting on these issues because it not only degrades the protagonist through voluntary slavery, thus depicting downward social mobility of blacks, but also depicts whites as entitled, power-hungry megalomaniacs.

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Autobiography as a tool for self-understanding and personal development

Autobiography: Not Simply the Telling of One's Own Story

SkyWest Airlines' corporate strategy and competitive positioning in the regional airline industry

The company was founded with a vision to be able to connect passengers to smaller airports and smaller routes. It objectives were to maintain a high level of customer service, develop and maintain a strong safety image, maximize on-time arrivals and acquire new aircraft in order to service their customers without compromising their ‘scope' contracts. The company sought to achieve this vision by using strategies, and having alliances and partnerships with other major airlines, and to this end was successful in doing so. Currently, the company envisions itself serving emerging markets such as China, Brazil and Mexico. Corporate Strategy The company, SkyWest has been looking at a variety of strategies concerning with how the business environment has been. Initially with the set up of the business in 1972 the company was looking at stability and expansion in terms of alliances, increasing internal capabilities at the same time. The initial step it took was to acquire a company by the name of Sun Aire, which was an external expansion, followed by an alliance with Western Airlines, and then internal expansion by going public and expanding its ownership strength.

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How television influences American attitudes toward sexuality

This paper is about the relationship between sexuality, television, and the marketing. The shows discussed are "Ellen" and "The L Word." Specific themes are what are dominant thoughts on sexuality, how is it portrayed on television, where does marketing play a role, and how does the shows "Ellen" and "The L Word" represent sexuality differently.

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Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time and Mary Shelley's literary legacy

Women Science Fiction Writers as Probing Pathfinders

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Peter Lovesey's portrayal of postwar female identity in "On the Edge"

Mystery novels have a habit of portraying murder as a discrete affair for the middle class. Nowhere is this more apparent than in English mystery novels, as novel writers in England, being a literate caste, usually…

Drug use and character development in The Big Lebowski

A brief overview of what constitutes drug cinema and what a drug is defined as. These characteristics are then applied to The Big Lebowski in which the influences of drugs are analyzed to determine how they impact the audience's perspective of The Dude and how others in the film perceive The Dude. Although The Dude is highly influenced by drugs, these drugs do not influence the film's narrative.

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Southern Appalachian belief culture in the Foxfire archive

This paper looks at archival evidence collected over the past forty years regarding the beliefs of the people in the rural southern appalachian mountains. The archive examined had a gross amount of information so it was necessary to take just a small portion of it to write this paper. The beliefs encompass religion, ghost stories and other beliefs and how they were used to shape culture.

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Martial arts training and its physical and psychological benefits

This is a "textbook" type of paper that presents the geography of martial arts. For every martial art, where are they originally from, where are they practiced (% in each country), where they most popular, where are there more practitioners, more women, more children. It is an overview, a map, of what is practiced where, why and how and by whom.

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