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A conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.
While many films are not as obvious as Disney fairy tales in respect to the employment of myth, the plots of many films are largely based on the rough structure of the myth.
Pokey comics are drawn crudely and minimalistically, and they consist largely of a string of non sequiturs and absurd journeys, with a token effort towards more traditional plots and continuity ( such as the conflict with the Italians over arctic-circle candy ) that tend to be established through oblique references to off-screen characters and non-events.
Subsistence farming, widely practiced from the northeastern jungles to the southwestern grasslands, consists largely of corn, bean, and tuber plots.
Coming full circle, the soap operas Port Charles and Passions emerged in the 1990s, both largely driven by supernaturally-themed plots involving vampires, witches, and werewolves.
They are largely known for a unique brand of ambitious fantasy programs, often featuring large-headed puppets, high-concept plots, and extensive use of low-budget special effects.
The plots and subplots of the episodes are established in an outline written by David and the dialogue is largely improvised by the actors.
The term and the concept were popularised by Isaac Asimov in the short stories collected in I, Robot, which featured robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin, and whose plots largely revolved around the protagonist solving problems connected with intelligent robot behaviour.
Against Jack's wishes and largely for their amusement, the trio deliver Santa to Oogie Boogie, a gambling-addict bogeyman who plots to play a game with Santa's life at stake.
Although the matter of these plots was largely fictitious, they reflected two uncomfortable political realities: first, that Charles II had ( somewhat insincerely ) undertaken to take measures to convert the kingdom to Catholicism ( in a 1670 treaty with Louis XIV of France ); second, that his younger brother and heir presumptive, James, Duke of York, had in fact converted to Catholicism, an act that many Protestant Englishmen in the 1670s saw as only one step below high treason.
In subsequent years, housing developments have been built on most of the remaining free plots, but the area remains largely green, in line with garden suburb principles, with the only businesses based in small or medium-sized retail units.
Also unconventional for a Perry / Croft series was the fact that plots directly continued from episode to episode like a soap opera as opposed to being largely standalone episodes such as in Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum etc.
This included a map showing 135 plots of an area largely bounded by Cookridge Lane to the east, Moseley Wood Lane to the south, and Cookridge Avenue to the north-west.
The title of the series is of Cantonese word-play and innuendo ( the title itself means " The Hilarious God Detective "), and the series itself sets itself apart from other TVB comedies before it thanks largely to the comedic stylings of Dayo Wong, plus new styles of acting and directing and camera work, different styles of plots unheard of before in comedies, and a surprisingly tragic conclusion.
The plots of these and his other major works largely treat the lives of poor urban and rural black and mulatto communities of Bahia, as well as the land wars that raged in Ilhéus, where cocoa barons killed each other for power and cocoa plantations.
These are largely conducted on family-owned plots or areas owned by Atlanta ( one of the most recent being former mayor Maynard Jackson, whose plot was contributed by the city ).
These families turned the vacant town blocks into fields and garden plots, though soon, even this community largely disappeared.
With the exception of Sidney and Diana's storyline ( and Brian and Billy's in the play ), the plots are largely comedic.
Land ( in the economic sense ) is similar to positional goods in that it cannot be created, and land rent arises largely because of a parcel's ranking in desirability against other plots.

plots and concern
The two main plots concern the fictional African state of Beninia ( a name reminiscent of the real-life Benin, though that nation in the Bight of Benin was known as the Republic of Dahomey when the book was written ) making a deal with General Technics to take over the management of their country, in a bid to speed up development from third world to first world status.
The plots of these often concern:
Storylines throughout the series dealt with plans to expand the business into an international concern, coupled with more family-oriented plots as Edward and Jennifer fall in love and marry.

plots and juxtaposition
Some of the characteristic features of this kind of fiction are the mingling and juxtaposition of the realistic and the fantastic or bizarre, skillful time shifts, convoluted and even labyrinthine narratives and plots, miscellaneous use of dreams, myths and fairy stories, expressionistic and even surrealistic description, arcane erudition, the element of surprise or abrupt shock, the horrific and the inexplicable.

plots and between
We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.
In the four TNG movies, the flirtation between Dr. Crusher and Captain Picard remains, though it is not as obvious as previous episodes and most certainly not part of the substantial movie plots.
This second season featured additional plots such as a love story between Teresa ( Trelaina ) and Yamato crew member Daisuke Shima ( Mark Venture ), and an onboard antagonism between Kodai and Saito ( Knox ), leader of a group of space marines.
The plots vary from writer to writer, but there are distinct similarities between wuxia protagonists and characters from the modern Western fantasy genre.
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 moved to Athens where tradition says he became a pupil of Diogenes of Sinope ; the precise relationship between Crates and Diogenes is uncertain, but there is one apparent reference to Crates referring to himself as " a fellow-citizen of Diogenes, who defied all the plots of envy.
Many of mobile home plots are offered by RV parks that allow for all sorts of camping and offer extra plots for mobile homes ( static caravans ). The cost for such a plot tends to be between 400 € and 1. 500 € a year, depending on the location and facillities.
In the 1920s African-American families bought plots of land and built their own homes in the " Little Farms " section of the West Babylon school district between Straight Path, Little East Neck Road and Gordon Avenue.
Most of his plots spring from the deeper conflict between freedom and fate and culminate in a dramatic crisis in which the hero, in the face of a great temptation, loses his moral freedom and is forced to fulfill the higher law of destiny.
In 1878 the land was acquired from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners by the Beeston Land Society, a group of citizens, who divided the land out into 28 plots of between three-quarters and and set out the wide straight streets.
The individual size of a parcel generally ranges between 50 and 400 square metres, and often the plots include a shed for tools and shelter.
As well as capitalising on the obvious voyeuristic appeal of showcasing life in prison, the storylines which drove the series used familiar elements — smuggling, personality clashes between the prisoners, staff politics between the officers, organised prisoner resistance such as strikes and riots, a range of issue-based storylines, court cases and police investigations and escape plots.
In England, although there may once have been a presumption of perpetuity, plots are now effectively bought on leasehold for between 25 and 100 years.
This is first seen in Russian Formalism through Victor Shklovsky's analysis of the relationship between composition and style, and in the work of Vladimir Propp, who analysed the plots used in traditional folk-tales and identified 31 distinct functional components.
Nor in estimating his dramatic position and his effect upon his time must it be forgotten that his classical and mythological plots, flavourless and dull as they would be to a modern audience, were charged with interest to those courtly hearers who saw in Midas Philip II, Elizabeth in Cynthia and perhaps Leicester's unwelcome marriage with Lady Sheffield in the love affair between Endymion and Tellus which brings the former under Cynthia's displeasure.
The first plots of land were purchased between 1914 – 1918.
The programme frequently comments on other programmes, most often a spoof soap opera called The Bureau, set in a 24-hour bureau de change, incorporating clichéd soap opera-style plots, which apparently produces and airs 2, 000 episodes between the first and third segments of The Day Today and becomes a hit in Italy.
As detailed in the plans for St. Gall, these gardens were laid out in rectangular plots, with narrow paths between them to facilitate collection of yields.
Twenty-four plots of similar age were chosen ( 16 logged, 8 burned by wildfire ); they varied in residual tree density between 0 and 180 trees / ha.
After the assassination of Erzberger on August 26, 1921, the conflict between the government and the Bavarian ministry von Kahr came to a head, von Kahr showing the same recalcitrancy against carrying out the special ordinances against plots as he had previously exhibited in regard to the dissolution of the illegal volunteer force, the Einwohnerwehr.

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