The similar burial customs, changes in setting and plot, and changes of theme parallel those in the other three funerals.

Moreover, this passage, like the other funerals, signifies changes in setting and plot.

As with any good narrative, the story of Jonah has a setting, characters, a plot, and themes.

Although secondary to its hack and slash gameplay, Castle of the Winds has a plot loosely based on Norse mythology, told with setting changes, unique items, and occasional passages of text.

* Author: The GM plans out ( in the loosest sense ) the plot of the story of which the Player Characters will become heroes ( or villains, or rich, or whatever ); creating ( or adapting, or just choosing ) the setting, populating that region with villains and other NPCs, and assigning them any necessary backgrounds, motivations, plans and resources.

Besides using Gothic architecture as a setting, with the aim of eliciting certain associations from the reader, there was an equally close association between the use of Gothic architecture and the storylines of Gothic novels, with the architecture often serving as a mirror for the characters and the plot lines of the story.

Quake III Arena ( 1999 ), the next title in the series, has minimal plot, but centers around the " Arena Eternal ", a gladiatorial setting created by an alien race known as the Vadrigar and populated by combatants plucked from various points in time and space.

The two timelines were implicitly joined by Niven in the story A Relic of the Empire, in which the background elements of the Slaver civilization ( introduced in World of Ptavvs, from the Belter series ) was used as a plot element of a story in the faster-than-light setting.

The film's plot, setting, and style echoes that of the Hammer Horror films, which had their own instantly recognizable style ( just as Universal Studios ' horror films did ), and is reminiscent of the Hammer production of The Revenge of Frankenstein starring Peter Cushing.

Each SRM season develops an overarching plot focused on a specific city from the Shadowrun setting.

Two modules also re-created the plot and setting of the movies 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010: Odyssey Two.

Usually a short story focuses on one incident ; has a single plot, a single setting, and a small number of characters ; and covers a short period of time.

As in plot and setting, Tolkien brings his literary theories to bear in forming characters and their interactions.

Kenneth Von Gunden's 1990 novel Starspawn takes the same basic premise into a Medieval setting: England in the time of the Third Crusade is secretly invaded by parasites from space who attach themselves to knights and gain control of castles, and whose plot is eventually foiled by a wise and dedicated monk.

Elements of the plot and setting of Marathon are similar to The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom.

While opera seria deals with gods and ancient heroes and only occasionally contained comic scenes, opera buffa involves the predominant use of comic scenes, characters, and plot lines in a contemporary setting.

At the height of neorealism, in 1948, Visconti adapted I Malavoglia, a novel by Giovanni Verga, written at the height of the 19th century realist verismo movement ( in many ways the basis for neorealism, which is therefore sometimes referred to as neoverismo ), bringing the story to a modern setting, which resulted in remarkably little change in either the plot or the tone.

Duck Amuck is widely heralded as a classic of filmmaking for its illustration that a character's personality can be recognized independently of appearance, setting, voice, and plot.

The characters and its setting have been compared to those in William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and its plot contains certain story analogs.

Cardinal Richelieu's Académie Française acknowledged the play's success, but determined that it was defective, in part because it did not respect the classical unities of time, place, and action ( Unity of Time stipulated that all the action in a play must take place within a twenty-four hour time-frame ; Unity of Place, that there must be only one setting for the action ; and Unity of Action, that the plot must be centred around a single conflict or problem ).

the explanations are never dragged in for their own sake, and the plot grows naturally out of the setting.

He then schemes with Sidious to invade Coruscant — thus setting the stage for Revenge of the Sith — in what he believes to be a plot to kill Obi-Wan Kenobi and initiate Anakin Skywalker into the Sith.

Some changes were made to the plot of the film, including changing the setting date from 1960 to 1959 and the location of Castle Rock from the state of Maine to Oregon.

Preminger liked the high-society setting and the unusual plot twist but felt the work needed a major revision and offered to rewrite it with its author.

The general setting of the Moroccan election may also encourage the deterioration of local party organization.

The hybrids are quite distinct in that the many shades of pink also have stripes, veining, darkened edges, white centers and light yellow centers also setting them apart from the original light pink.

He also obtained the capitulation of Fiñana ( in the modern province of Almería ), after setting fire to its suburbs.

Finn Coren also created a different musical setting for the poem on his album The Blake Project: Spring.

Virtually all productions today, however, use the original ending, as do nearly all of the film versions of this play, including Dariush Mehrjui's Sara ( the Argentine version, made in 1943 and starring Delia Garcés, does not ; it also modernizes the story, setting it in the early 1940s ).

The Bronx was the setting for the 1983 film Fuga dal Bronx, also known as Bronx Warriors 2 and Escape 2000, an Italian B-movie best known for its appearance on the television series Mystery Science Theatre 3000.

The anoxic setting had been thought to not only protect the newly dead organisms from decay, but it also created chemical conditions allowing the preservation of the soft parts of the organisms.

Wilfrid did not respond to the accusation, but a monk present relayed the episode to Bede, who replied within a few days to the monk, writing a letter setting forth his defence and asking that the letter be read to Wilfrid also.

Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified as " black ", and often social variables such as class and socio-economic status also play a role, so that relatively dark-skinned people can be classified as white if they fulfill other social criteria of " whiteness " and relatively light-skinned people can be classified as black if they fulfill the social criteria for " blackness " in a particular setting.

Continuing Arab disquiet over Allied intentions also led during 1918 to the British Declaration to the Seven and the Anglo-French Declaration, the latter promising " the complete and final liberation of the peoples who have for so long been oppressed by the Turks, and the setting up of national governments and administrations deriving their authority from the free exercise of the initiative and choice of the indigenous populations.

The setting also had an unofficial conversion in 2004 to be used in Risus: The Anything RPG by Boyd Mayberry under their " Rules for Free Fan-Supplements and Articles ".

The British government also took direct steps to counter the influence of CND, Secretary of State for Defence Michael Heseltine setting up Defence Secretariat 19 " to explain to the public the facts about the Government's policy on deterrence and multilateral disarmament ".

Chicago has also been the setting for many popular television shows.

It is also the setting for Glee's 2012 Nationals Show Choir Competition.

It has also tried to protect Canadian culture by setting legal minimums on Canadian content in many media using bodies like the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ).< ref >

It also included “ information such as weather forecasts, farmers ' planting dates, astronomical information, and tide tables, Astronomical data and various statistics, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, lists of all types, timelines, and more .” Mather had within the text of the Almanac the positions and motions of these celestial bodies, which he must have calculated by hand.

In addition to setting out the scope of the jurisdiction of the federal judiciary, it also prohibits courts from issuing advisory opinions, or from hearing cases that are either unripe, meaning that the controversy has not arisen yet, or moot, meaning that the controversy has already been resolved.

Similarly science fiction is another key influence, not only in the spaceship and the futuristic setting but also in several direct and indirect ways.

The 1991 " Joxe Statute ", in setting up the Collectivité Territoriale de Corse, also provided for the Corsican Assembly, and charged it with developing a plan for the optional teaching of Corsican.

A Dungeon Master serves as the game's referee and storyteller, while also maintaining the setting in which the adventures occur and playing the role of the inhabitants.

Besides the obvious instances of setting records, absolute scores are also used for rankings and qualifications for higher level meets.

Daughter Gina Campbell has been heavily involved in the project to restore the " Bluebird ", and has also contributed to the family legacy in a more direct way, by setting the women's world water speed record in 1984 in " Bluebird II ", at.

A close-up shot can also be used at the beginning of a scene to establish the setting ( such as, for the lecture hall scene, a shot of a pencil writing notes ).