Teachers could encourage boys to enjoy reading and writing with "boy-focused" approaches such as themes and characters that appeal to them.

And the characters have to be black and white.

They are two leading characters in the film

"Snow White" is available for everyone to use, but the "dwarfs" are still under copyright, so Cornetti invented sound-alike characters Grumpy Gus, Dopey Da to illustrate specific pay roll law principles.

Several years ago, she became interested in eggs and learned the traditional Ukrainian technique to draw her very modern characters.

Twitter's huge success is rooted in the simple but profound insight that in a medium with infinite space for self-expression, the most interesting thing we can do is restrict ourselves to 140 characters.

One free social networking website turned out to successful because it limited each posting to one hundred and forty characters

a parent, relative, friend, or doctor outside the family, had higher self-esteem, higher grades, and lower substance use than peers whose role models were sports figures, singers, or other media characters.

Overall, the study found half the films and TV shows had no Asian speaking characters and more than one-fifth of them had no black characters with dialogue.

This is still disputed, but it's clear that the woman reputed for writing it was one of America's most fascinating characters.

When looking at how women are depicted, the study found female characters were four times more likely to be shown in sexy clothing, and nearly four times as likely to be referred to as physically attractive.

Actually, children learn early the psychology of characters in TV shows.

Brooks carries this through to the death of one of his characters.

Guide government agencies to follow the characters in Shakespeare's plays.

If the plot, characters, or word usage is confusing for you, likely won't be able to remember what you read.

Its characters show feelings without words.

Randall flagg is one of the scariest characters ever.

The Adelmans' programme proves biased as the roles of characters are maximized.

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 2005 is the first full-length feature film made by directors nick Park and Steve Box with their amazing plasticine characters Wallace and Gromit.

Truly elegant chopsticks might be made of gold and silver with Chinese characters.

We can do this in real life or ask questions about characters in stories.

We were respectful of craft and focused on digging into the characters we were going to play.

When he was writing his novels, Charles Dickens would act out the parts of the characters, he'd make faces in the mirror, and change his voice for each character.

While Harold and Erica are certainly not strong or memorable characters, the more serious problems with the social animal lie elsewhere.

A moralist, satirist, and social reformer Dickens crafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama of English society.