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    One of the many jobs in the field of Law Enforcement is a homicide investigator or detective. A homicide investigator is someone who can collect and analyze data from a homicide crime scene in order to justify a case. In order to do so, the detectives must be critical thinkers who are good at working in teams and are able to communicate evidence within their teams. In this field of work, you must be determined and willing to adjust and understand multiple cases at once. This is a good job for someone

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    usually instills excitement and suspense into the audience. A thriller is commonly described as a tense edge of the seat environment. The movie, Vertigo, is one of the most famous thrillers ever made. However, Vertigo does not fit into the stereotypical genre of thriller. Vertigo, often viewed as an experimental film because it was one of the first major thrillers of that time that used many different and innovative camera techniques. These techniques used in this film are different types of lighting, montage

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    Noir genre is the style of film or fiction that is mysterious and gloomy, and the themes usually are crime and emphasize cynical attitudes. This genre came from and deeply influenced by the German Expressionism. The golden Era of film noir is between 1946 and 1951, which is also the time between and after the World War II in America. The stories of the noir genre are always take place in a city like Los Angeles because of The Golden West in the middle of 19 century. Raymond Chandler is a prominent

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    audience. The 'X-Files' is a very popular television series written by Chris Carter. The series can be described as a 'hybrid' genre because it reflects a number of different genres. The obvious genre is Science Fiction because one of the main themes of the series is the paranormal. However there are strong elements of the Mystery/Detective genre as the two main characters, which are FBI investigators, seek to find the truth of the paranormal. There is also a Horror/Gothic

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    Meaning achieved through symbiosis between ideological assumption and dramatic structure (MacMurraugh-Kavanagh, 2000). The classic "detective story'' tends to involve a detective(s) piecing together evidence from a crime and finding the perpetrator. The offender generally confesses and surrenders to authorities, (Sutton, Britts & Landman). The traditional "trial narrative", like the Perry Mason stories

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    they can return to normalcy or their own original world. The format used in both of these films mimics the structure of a science fiction genre. By following the structure of this genre, the writers and producers of The Wizard of Oz and I, Robot, ensure that the narrative contributes to the main theme of good versus evil, with main characters, Dorothy and Detective Spooner, fighting by utilizing and standing steadfast to American values and

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    Combination of genre Gattaca is the creation of writer and director Andrew Niccol in 1997. He wanted its science fiction themes to be set in the future but because of budget issues he used the greatest parts of the past and then made it feel futuristic. Niccol employed two peculiar genres that work very well together Film noir and science fiction. To be convey the idea that even if you were born for perfection unless you try you’ll never succeed or achieve your potential. As they say in the film

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    the mystery-thriller Seven from 1995, we meet the two homicide detectives William Somerset and David Mills, played by Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt. Together they are hunting a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as reasons for his murders. At the end of the movie, the two detectives are out in the desert together with the murderer, John Doe. He has told them that they are going to find the last two corpses. The two detectives have already found five of his victims, so the last two bodies

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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    Liz Marlow was alone in her room, the curtains blowing in the cool, night breeze. She was grading her students papers, and struggling to get through a particularly confusing one, by one of her students, Mary Fields. Mary was a smart one, but thought in a way no one else did. Her mind was full of gore and thoughts of murder. She was sometimes left out of the groups at school, but as she grew older she got used to it. Mary Fields was the daughter of the wealthiest family in town, Gene and Katie Fields

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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    Darlene tried to tell her what was going on, but Lynn didn’t want to hear the words that would make it true. She didn’t want to know that it was true; not about her big sister. The person who made her laugh, bought her clothes and styled her. The sister she’d shared monthly play dates with, even after they were both grown. They were supposed to take a road trip to New York City to shop Savannah’s styles to the fashion industry. There was so much more living to do and it couldn’t have ended with the

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