Adaptation

Adapting and evolving could be two simple words that define Natural Selection. In order for natural selection to work, it has to occur along with a bunch of other things. The process in which natural selection works is where organisms with favorable traits are more likely to reproduce. By doing this they pass on these traits to the next generation! Over time this process allows organisms to adapt to their environment, thus, making the favorable traits increase in population. Genetic variation…

This lack of respect and interest on Martin’s part leads Corene to resorting to repetition in order to attempt to get her point across. Corene repeatedly reminds Martin of their conversation yesterday, for example, “if you recall yesterday I gave you some work to do,” (Reynolds, 2012, :45-:48) and “as I said yesterday, I said I needed it.” (0:57-0:59) Martin does recognize their conversation by using backchannels, which are vocal and non-vocal ways of indicating a person is understanding what is…

Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of the classic novel, The Great Gatsby, was not a good one because of his failure to include key points of characterization, a Fitzgerald esc style throughout the film, and an incomplete ending of the story. Characterization is a crucial part of every piece of literature or a film; it helps the audience determine how that character acts, thinks, and who they really are as a person. That being said the characterization in Luhrmann's movie greatly differs from…

The nurse can use a clinical tool or research instrument to gather information about the current state of adaptation in patients (Kearney-Nunnery, 2012, p. 51). Although I did not have a tool to assess the current state of adaptation for the patients in the cancer support group, I was able to determine that there were many women in different emotional states. Some of the women who were new to the support group and recently…

To create a modern adaptation out of an older work is a challenging task. Talented writers must devise different ways to keep a story faithful without turning the audience’s attention away. One adaptation that successfully captures and takes a creative approach is Easy A. Easy A is an American teen comedy film partially inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter. Written by Bert V. Royal and directed by Will Gluck, the story follows a teenage girl after telling a white lie about…

The aim of this paper is to posit that Soyinka’s adaptation of The Bacchae reveals that the allure to and support favoring Dionysos and the Dionysian religion has far less to do with an attraction towards the God Dionysos and the beliefs and rituals that go along with practicing bacchanalia, and far more to do with the aversion and rejection of the tyrannical King Pentheus, his oppressive ideology, and his inability to rule Thebes. In the very first line of the scene description on page one,…

5.3.1 Elementary- The modern adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle As a new television series in late 2012, how Elementary attracts people’ attention among other Holmes’ adaptations, or other crime series? By exposing it is another Sherlock Holmes adaptation. According to Linda Hutcheon, adaptations generally show their origins and have to determine the relationship between original texts and themselves openly. (Sanders 2005) Creators of Elementary do reveal their sources, but since paratexts…

over the past 6 – 12 months. Adaptation Adaptation is when an individual is growing to process and is adjusting to the world around them, creating new schemas (Piaget, 1936). A nephew of mine is having new experiences at the moment, for example when he first saw a toy truck, it was not until I showed him that by moving the truck the wheels’ spin. Thus stimulating and intriguing him to want to have and play with the truck. Another example is when we took him to see sand at the beach. My nephew…

crime, America during the 1920’s, became known as the “Roaring Twenties”. All this makes up the cultural backdrop and setting for the Great Gatsby novel and film adaptation. Upon analysis of director Jack Clayton’s 1974 film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, the film would be categorized as a close adaptation as most of the narrative elements in the literary…

Zeffirelli’s 1990 adaptation of Hamlet, with its streamlined plot, may be a Shakespearian purist’s worst nightmare, but it’s a godsend to struggling students, writes Finnian Cooney. Hamlet is the longest Shakespearian play totalling 4,042 lines. For any typical high school student, this Herculean task is daunting and quite frankly unattractive to read. English teachers recognise this and often try to help students get a better understanding of the play by showing them a film adaptation.…