The second and more conventional type is the boarding school story ; the plots of these have more emphasis on the day-to-day life at school.

He published the first plots of color versus luminosity for these stars.

Small plots of land were given to them for their own use, and they might retain the proceeds of crops they grew on these plots ; by this means it was possible for a slave to become the owner of another slave.

According to the 1990 Census, " 85 % of agricultural holdings were under 10 hectares and 57 % of these were fragmented into four or more non-contiguous plots.

Other times, Hogg hires criminals from out of town to do his dirty work for him, and often tries to frame Bo and Luke for various crimes as part of these plots.

Many plots involve the teen and twenties offspring of these families, so new nuclear families come into existence over time.

Some of these plots begin in the first book, but most are underway in the first ten books.

All of these authors influenced sword and sorcery for the plots, characters and landscapes used.

Little more than a century later, many Sherden are found cultivating plots of their own ; these are doubtless rewards given to them for their military services.

Early leaders of these plots included Brigadier-General Hans Oster, General Ludwig Beck and Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben.

Absence, emptiness, nothingness, and unresolved mysteries are central features in many Absurdist plots: for example, in The Chairs an old couple welcomes a large number of guests to their home, but these guests are invisible so all we see is empty chairs, a representation of their absence.

It supports the general charges in the indictment only by the vaguest possible reference to ' these practices ,' and ' plots and invasions ' of which no more is said ".

In these plots, the negative numbers represent hydrophilic regions and the positive numbers represent hydrophobic regions on the y-axis.

Plots in these gardens are often rented out by the city, starting at plots of just 5 ft × 5 ft ( 1. 52 m × 1. 52 m ).

Very often in these cases the rhythmic message, the pace of the most complicated musical plots is partially or completely lost, music is dull, scarcely involving and apparently meaningless, it does not make any sense.

The novel deals with the plots, personal and army battles, intrigues, and struggles of these states to achieve dominance for almost 100 years.

Rundstedt was aware of these plots, and Beck tried to recruit him to the plotters ' ranks, knowing of his disdain for the Nazi regime.

Outside the mainland of Afro-Eurasia, these megafaunal extinctions followed a distinctive landmass-by-landmass pattern that closely parallels the spread of humans into previously uninhabited regions of the world, and which shows no correlation with climatic history ( which can be visualized with plots over recent geological time periods of climate markers such as marine oxygen isotopes or atmospheric carbon dioxide levels ).

In the atmospheric sciences, these plots are a common way to visualize atmospheric waves.

In the geosciences, especially seismic data analysis, these plots also called f-k plot, in which energy density within a given time interval is contoured on a frequency-versus-wavenumber basis.

This has also altered the nature of the plots ; earlier works often feature a solitary individual whose adventures in the fantasy world are of personal significiance, and where the world clearly exists to give scope to these adventures, and later works more often feature characters in a social web, where their actions are to save the world and those in it from peril.

Farmers with smaller plots who live on the farm, often use family members for labor, making these farms efficient.

Paul lets these plots play out and manages to keep his Empire intact, but not without a price ; he is blinded by the explosion of a stone burner, and Chani dies giving birth to his only heirs, the twins Leto II and Ghanima.

Oriolo's plots revolve around the unsuccessful attempts of the antagonists to steal Felix's Magic Bag, though in an unusual twist, these antagonists are occasionally depicted as Felix's friends as well.

Cyberpunk plots often center on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligences, and megacorporations, and tend to be set in a near-future Earth, rather than the far-future settings or galactic vistas found in novels such as Isaac Asimov's Foundation or Frank Herbert's Dune.

Melodramatic plots often deal with " crises of human emotion, failed romance or friendship, strained familial situations, tragedy, illness, neuroses, or emotional and physical hardship.

Formulaic tales incorporate plots that have been reused so often as to be easily recognizable.

In addition to the relatively looser constraints on character and message at lower budgets, the nature of B production lent itself to the noir style for directly economic reasons: dim lighting not only saved on electrical costs but helped cloak cheap sets ( mist and smoke also served the cause ); night shooting was often compelled by hurried production schedules ; plots with obscure motivations and intriguingly elliptical transitions were sometimes the consequence of hastily written scripts, of which there was not always enough time or money to shoot every scene.

Others consider it to be evidence of a tragedy of the commons, since the large collective plots were often neglected, or fertilizers or water redirected to the private gardens.

Central to the rise of the gens de couleur planter class was the growing importance of coffee, which thrived on the marginal hillside plots to which they were often relegated.

In literature this often involved the rejection of intelligible plots or characterization in novels, or the creation of poetry that defied clear interpretation.

Shōnen ( 少年 ) manga ( 漫画 ) is typically characterized by high-action, often humorous plots featuring male protagonists.

Music Trees, with note-shaped fruit, grew on the planet's surface, and music would often be an integral feature in the simple but amusing plots.

Story " plots " are often constructed via editing or planned situations, with the results resembling soap operas — hence the terms docusoap and docudrama.

Corrupt county commissioner Boss Jefferson Davis Hogg, who either runs or has fingers in just about everything in Hazzard County ( and whose exact powers, much like the terms of the Duke boys ' probation, often vary between episodes ) is forever angry with the Dukes, in particular Bo and Luke, for eternally foiling his crooked scams and is always looking for ways to get them out of the picture so that his plots have a chance of succeeding.

He is more of a " shoot first, ask questions later " type, and is often the one to get the duo into the various scrapes in which they find themselves, although the character did mature slightly as the seasons passed ; he is also the one more likely to have his eye, or heart, distracted by a pretty girl, which proves to be the Achilles ' heel that leads the Dukes into trouble in several episode plots.

Andersen's work sometimes drew on old folktales, but more often deployed fairytale motifs and plots in new tales.

The Elizabethan Age was also an age of plots and conspiracies, frequently political in nature and often involving the highest levels of Elizabethan society.

Listeners remember him for advertising Dobbiroids ( a fictional product for horses ) and the huge number of naïve sound effects he made to assist in the development of humorous and often bizarre plots.

* Dresden Codak, a webcomic by Aaron Diaz, often contains plots relating to the singularity and transhumanism, especially in the Hob story arc

For much of his career, Hailey was either derided or ignored by literary critics, who often felt his plots were contrived and his characters wooden.

The ancient street pattern survives extensively as do a high proportion of the medieval building plots and oak framed houses, albeit often masked with later facades.

Yet, more often than not, though the setting was grittier, the violence more likely to be on-stage, and the style more colloquial, the plots were, as often as not, whodunits constructed in much the same way as the " cozier " British mysteries they were written in reaction to.

Land labs are often marked out in plots or transects for studies.

The screenplay and the stage play on which it was based were both written by English playwright Frederick Knott, whose work often focused on women who innocently become the potential victims of sinister plots.

Comic books often featured characters being tied up and tying others up, particularly in " damsel in distress " plots.

Though the term is applied to a wide range of plays, some characteristics coincide in many of the plays: broad comedy, often similar to Vaudeville, mixed with horrific or tragic images ; characters caught in hopeless situations forced to do repetitive or meaningless actions ; dialogue full of clichés, wordplay, and nonsense ; plots that are cyclical or absurdly expansive ; either a parody or dismissal of realism and the concept of the " well-made play ".