Fan Fiction: The Impact of a Fan-made Genre Essay

The Fiction of Literature: Folk Tales, Fan Fiction, and Oral Tradition in the Internet Age In 1951, JRR Tolkien wrote a letter to his publisher, Milton Waldman, in an attempt to describe his vision for The Lord of the Rings. After outlining the scope of his many interconnected plots, Tolkien self-consciously articulated his hopes for his novel’s reception: "Do not laugh! But once upon a time (my crest has long since fallen) I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from…

do Lewis' job for him and complains about Lewis' directions. 'Couldn't direct a poofter.' (Pg10) Lewis gets emotionally attached to the patients and more or less throws his relationship and education out the window to help fulfill their dream, 'Cosi Fan Tutte'. ‘It’s not the fact that you’ve let me down, Jerry, it’s more the fact that you’ve let everyone down. [He looks at the theatre] This theatre could have been ringing with the music of the spheres, instead of that, a dreadful silence has descended…

Sports Fans Professional sports has become one of the most popular industries in the world today. The media spends billions of dollars on advertisements and teams spend millions of dollars on professional athletes all for one reason, the fans. The fans ticket sales and merchandise purchases are what keeps all the sport teams around and prevents professional athletes from losing their jobs. There are three types of fans in the sports world, average fans, fanatics, and fair-weather fans. Fans that…

Ethnography of Basketball Fan Culture Part 1 - Introduction As a basketball fanatic, I choose to investigate how fan culture surrounding basketball has grown and has become such a fan-oriented league. Basketball has expanded and has become a global phenomenon allowing fans to interact with athletes and change the way fans watch basketball through social media. Being a basketball fan where you could only watch your favorite teams games on television and listen on the…

Sports fans must have certain rules and regulations against them in order to maintain violence outbreaks during games. For the past decade, fan violence has gotten more and more out of control. There should be certain limits for fans so that violence can be prevented during games. The route of fan behavior comes from many different things, all of which can escalate into very serious situations during games. That’s when it can get very dangerous for the fans and even for the players. There are lots…

number of home runs hit in 1998) would appear to have a significant impact on the many sports fans who regard these athletes as sports heroes. Yet what is most interesting about this phenomenon of more and more popular, highly paid athletes admitting to using performance enhancing drugs is the fact that for the most part, these admissions do not appear to significantly affect people's view of them. Instead, it appears as though most fans simply care about the performance of their heroes, regardless of…

feature of a factory or an industry. In most of the case the temperature plays a vital role in the process of manufacturing or the process carried in that factory or industry. The most common and simplest way of controlling temperature is by using a fan which is automatically connected to a network such as it is switched on when the temperature of the surroundings increases. The change in temperature of the surroundings can be sensed with the help of thermistor or a sensistor. These electronic components…

Clayton Crockett 11:00 a.m. Raving Fans I chose to read and review was Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles. Raving Fans begins with a recently promoted Area Manager familiarizing himself with his new office while his mind races with his thoughts of the recent conversation he has just had with the president of his corporation. As the new Area Manager he is struggling to wrap his mind around the concept of customer satisfaction. As he is steadily thinking his fairy Godmother, Charlie…

4. RESULT AND DISCUSSION 4.2 FAN PERFORMANCE Figure 2 Performance curve of change of pressure against flow rate The grey curve corresponding to high fan speed (100%) lies above the orange curve corresponding to medium fan speed (50%). The orange curve lies above the blue curve corresponding to low fan speed (30%). This is due to the increase of fan speed, the amount of medium flows through the fan in a direction parallel to the pump shaft increases; impeller pushes the liquid and adds momentum…

increases profit through increased attendance. In 1974, when the Cleveland Indians' fan attendance was down, the owner implemented "Beer Night" where they sold beers for 10 cents at the first game of a three game series against the Texas Rangers (Berger, 1990). Attendance was up by 3500. The night turned out to be the first and last "Beer Night". When a brawl occurred during the 5th inning, hundreds of Indian fans charged the field and beat up the Texas Ranger players. Seventy-six people were arrested…