Define Drama

May 07, 2007 @ 01:48 PM | posted by carmelyne

(last updated: 06.24.07)
Drama

Drama (Classical Greek δρᾶμα) is a literary form involving parts written for actors to perform. It is a Greek word meaning "action", drawn from the (Classical Greek δρᾶν), "to do".

Dramas can be performed in various media: live performance, radio, film, and-or television. "Closet dramas" are works written in the same form as plays (with dialogue, scenes, and "stage directions"), but meant to be read rather than staged; examples include the plays of Seneca, Manfred by Byron, and Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Other dramatic literature may not resemble plays at all, such as the Imaginary Conversations of Walter Savage Landor. Drama is also often combined with music and dance, such as in opera which is sung throughout, musicals which include spoken dialog and songs, or plays that have musical accompaniment, such as the Japanese Noh drama.

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Comes to a PR4

May 05, 2007 @ 07:12 AM | posted by carmelyne

(last updated: 07.04.07)

I just noticed that it's that time of the year. Well, the rankings updated. Maybe the update was quite sometime ago but I just noticed. I use this page rank extension on FF.

Surprisingly this site earned a PR4. So if you do a link:www.carmelyne.com, I got 2 results. I am thinking that maybe cause the domain is 3 years old? I've done little to nothing with regards to promoting this site cause why would I? There is no substantial content and just musings that's not that(!) notable. I am exposed to alot of SEO at work and I tend to pick the brains of our SEO staff when I work side by side with them to develop/improve sites. I suppose PR4 is no PR8 but it's still nice to see that it went up from PR1 to PR4.

old site look

Looking back from last year's archives on whois, I found a thumbnail of the old look. It was intentionally made plain and boring for testing purposes. The content was just a book list and the PR jumped back and forth from PR1 to PR2 for about a year. I put a blog on it just around March of this year and now I got a decent PR. Google likes pages. Honestly, my content is blah. I am now encouraged to improve my blog writing skills and rise to the blog writing needs..............(not!) That was in my best Borat not! mimic version. :)

On a parting note, my middle name should have been Maria. There are 3 people in my family celebrating their b-day today - Cinco de Mayo. My Aunt Maria, my cousin Maria and me. Happy b-day to them!


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def self.sort(sort)
  if sort
    find(:all, :conditions => ['name LIKE ?', "#{sort}%"])
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  end  
end

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