Plot is about cause and effect, but, most importantly, plot is about choice: a character’s choice. In other words, the difference between plot and story is that a plot is not just the recitation of facts; the facts you include in your plot each have a purpose, putting a character int...
As defined by Beata Caranci, chief economist at TD,the most basic definition of recession is two consecutive quarters where the economy contracts, which usually equates to a reduction in gross domestic product (GDP). A recession can vary in length, however, it typically ranges between two and...
Suddenly, tracks veer into rock and punk territory, and these transitions come as a static shock, the equivalent of shuffling across the floor in warm socks and touching a doorknob. In discussion with GRAMMY.com, Miranda is vivacious and curious, speaking at a rapid clip, pausing for Davis ...
“But when you're Igloo and you sell coolers for every single use case across every single outdoor activity - lunches, commercial applications - our job with the resource allocation is to understand what are the big swings.”“So we've actually defined four key consumer groups that account ...
When the preprocessor sees the following code, it checks to see whether the macro DEBUG is defined and, if so, passes the line containing fprintf() on to the compiler. Otherwise, the preprocessor skips this line and continues to process the file after the #endif: 以下是一个条件指令的示例...
Culture shock is defined as the confusion and discomfort caused by the conflict in perceived motives and expected behaviors between the home culture and the foreign culture. Several quantitative and graphical methods employing techniques of cluster analysis and similarity mapping are offered for predicting...
The college football landscape, once the bedrock of tradition in sports, now seems to shock us every few months with more changes and teams on the move. And with the transfer portal, NIL and this year's expanded college football playoff, just about anything and anyone is up for grabs. W...
Governance (defined too often as “meetings” and not often enough as “how decisions are made”) is perhaps, in our experience, one of the biggest pain points for top public-sector leaders. And the Gordian knot of process and culture is usually at fault. Government leaders, t...
It cut through the fog of sorrow and shock. “I felt,” Barden told me recently, “immediately connected to him.” They talked for more than an hour—about shared priorities, about their families. “Lean on that,” Barden said Biden told him. “Tap into that.” And he gave him some...
“Let us define plot. We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. ‘The king died and then the queen died,’ is a story. ‘The king died, and then the queen died of grie...