Storytelling

As gracefully spoken by Anishnaabeg scholar Gerald Vizenor, “there isn’t any centre to the world but a story” (32). However, storytelling isn’t an analytical framework that is popularly used; Due to systemically-ingrained tropes of European colonization that have shaped the modern landscape both physically and ideologically, any use of academic alternatives by the colonized is consequently erased. Nonetheless, Indigenous scholars have been reasserting their intellectual autonomy through…

muddy and hard to understand, it becomes hard to separate what really happened to what seems to have happened. Ambiguity is the common denominator of every War. “The Things They Carried” is a book about the Vietnam War, but it is also a book about Storytelling itself, and how this one is based on deception and manipulation of the truth. To be convinced by this claim the reader needs to know the origin of the short story form and its essence. Then the reader will analyze the nature of “The Truth”…

• • Industry partners, travel sellers, corporate and shareholders; images and stories as sales toolkit/shared on their social media platforms. Ghana Tourism Authority will have a bank of stories and photo images. Value of Storytelling and Storymaking Storytelling and storymaking are branding and marketing concepts and as such difficult to initially measure cost versus return. However, the goal is to aggressively increase Ghana’s visibility as a safe, true, illustrious, fun and authentic…

Telling a story! Human-beings have told stories since the beginning of the time.Human-beings have kept going this habit. They told their story with oral and then they have written their story. Telling stories their families,friends other acquaintances even themselves. Telling a story maybe a part of philosophy, literature, psychology,anthropology and other human sciences and even perhaps physical sciences. Stories have carried hints since humans existence. Many experts have used the stories to…

Hollywood is epicenter of the art of storytelling. From the most historical moments in history to moments in time that happened only a few years ago, it's where movies about events come to life once again. With the last movie, Sully, the world is once again watching as a brave pilot decides to land an aircraft in the middle of the Hudson River to save lives (and also take flack for his decision.) This movie is based on a true story and most people are aware of Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger as…

The story, White Socks (Zako, 2017), is a great choice for storytelling because it is based on a true story, which realistic fiction that it can happen to anyone, influences empathy, and has the happy-ending that children love. Children love a story that it actually happen to a someone who they can relate to (Myers, 2012). The main character, Grace, is an ordinary girl who loves her favorite stuffed animal, White Socks, and treats it like her best friend: she takes it to wherever she goes. The…

past under the fear of being left behind themselves. Yet despite this constant necessity to move forward toward future horizons narrative storytelling remains popular. Books, while not always in print, still publish and given credit where credit’s due, and plays are still be shown…

1.) The main point of the chapter “Why Stories Matter” extends from Polletta’s persuasive exploration of why storytelling sometimes does or does not work to leverage social or political changes. Throughout the duration of this reading, she successfully argues that telling a story can either express unacknowledged truths or spread falsehoods, and because of this, people often don't take stories seriously. 2.) During the course of this chapter, Polletta explores how stories (or narratives) are…

Augusta Baker is a well-known librarian and widely considered to be “America’s First Lady of traditional storytelling” (Device A., 2012). Augusta was born in 1911 as an only child and received her degree of library science at Albany State Teacher’s College. After college, she worked at the New York Public Library for thirty-seven years. During her time at the New York Public Library, Augusta established her voice as an influential librarian and a gifted storyteller. She helped found the James…

senior storyteller at Envisioning Storytelling, “the shortest route between two people is a story” (Taylor, 2006, p.2.). Along this route of great storytelling, Corus Entertainment was created in 1999. Built upon the foundation of compelling entertainment, Corus began to enrich the Canadian television, radio, and publishing industry by being one of the country’s leading media company. In the words of Corus Entertainment: “We strive to bring the best in storytelling to our audiences by working…