I always thought a mini-series was a series of shorter episodes that fits into a canon of larger episodes.
The outbreak of illness last week due to bacterial contamination of bagged spinach is one of the larger episodes of its kind, with at least 94 victims, including one death, in 20 states.
Underpinning the approach is the functional/rhetorical analyses which indicate the intentions of authors and the ways sentences are crafted and framed under larger episodes of descriptions, explanations, expositions and justification of claims.
The unit of analysis (microstructure) is the propositions in the document where the sentences (i.e. subject and predicates which may be compound) are sequenced and connected into larger episodes and themes (e.g. paragraphs providing the macro-structure).
And that the Gordon Riots of 1780, which started as anti-Catholic persecution and ended as attacks on the establishment, were the largest episode of civil unrest in British history.
One key reason is that longer and intense confrontations involving multiple units may be falsely reported as several separate incidents by each unit instead of being coded as one large episode.
Not only because it's by far the largest episode that they've ever made, but the tectonics and the story are the largest that have ever happened, and that's not counting the x-number of battle sequences, x-number of gigantic digital effects sequences, and x-number of how many characters are alive and standing and even on the continent when it's over.
It was one of the largest episodes of violent protest over family planning policies in recent years, and it underscored continued tensions over the country's top-down efforts to limit the growth of its population, which stands at 1.3 billion.
The literature on large episodes of fiscal consolidation focuses on the possible expansionary effects linked to the forward-looking behaviour of agents (e.g., Giavazzi and Pagano, 1990; Alesina et al., 2002) and on the effectiveness of these episodes in durably improving the state of public finances (e.g., Alesina and Ardagna, 1998).
