Storytelling

Stories are a powerful way to get a message across. In the TED Talk, "If a Story Moves You, Act On It" by Sisonke Msimang, she talks about the limitations of storytelling and how storytelling can help make the world a better place. Msimang claims that justice is what makes the world a better place, not stories. The reason why she says that is because stories usually fail to paint the bigger picture. Although stories don’t make the world the better place, the audience can help by being more…

Salman Rushdie explores the freedom of speech in his novel, while metaphorically relating to past experiences in his life. From this, Salman Rushdie narrates the journey of a boy named Haroun, and his quest to reclaim his father, Rashid’s lost storytelling skills, having lost his muse, his wife, Soraya, whom had left him and fled with Mr. Sengupta, the clerk living above them, “Rashid Khalifa, the legendary Ocean of Notion, the fabled Shah of Blah, stood up in front of a huge audience, opened…

Not many view Instagram beyond a place to share the snapshots of their daily lives and the visual compilation of their favorite moments, yet it’s so much more than just another social media platform! The platform has helped numerous brands script some truly amazing Instagram Case Studies or success stories as they really are. One of the most comprehensive marketing channels today, social media has evolved, and at the forefront of this evolution stands Facebook, with its family of platforms, of…

Dramatism, a communication theory developed by Kenneth Burke and is used to analyze human interaction. A drama angle of communication equates life and interaction to a theater play or a dramatic movie. The theory strives to reason why people engage in acts and understand the motive behind the acts. Burke created the pentad to use the theory to analyze different acts in human life by applying the five elements. Pentad method is versatile because a specific act can be studied from various…

In Alexander’s autoethnography, he aims to use his personal experiences to examine the way black male teachers and black students performatively interact in classroom settings. In his research, he also incorporates interviews in order to gain a broader understanding of people's experiences surrounding this topic. He tells stories of his experiences as both a black student and teacher and includes excerpts from interviews with other students and teachers. Alexander describes the intersection of…

monstrous aspect as the unnameable horror that terrorizes the populace. Given Wimberly’s own history and locale, it should be interesting to watch him reimagine something he has watched occur in person. The unique perspective combined with Wimberly’s storytelling style may offer up one of the most original and engaging works to release this…

The Coyote’s Voice or The Author’s Imagine if an individual had decided to write up a scholarly article based on a creation of their favorite author; how would they go about dissecting the material that they were given and present it in a manner that would convey their intentions? They might go about it by inspecting the author of the piece of literature, the topic in which author is presenting, or may try to cross examine the topic with a similar academic discipline that was brought up in the…

with a title card at the beginning of each segment giving the scene’s context, such as “Baptizing Christ” and “Mary Magdalene at the Feet of Jesus.” While the scenes are given roughly in the narrative order of the Gospel stories, this fragmentary storytelling comes across more as many short films based on biblical stories rather than one complete narrative…

Cultural traditions. It demonstrates the way how a person lives in their own family. It can depict the discrimination within a community in which they face. Through dialect, repetition, and asyndeton, discrimination is faced in not only one but multiple people's’ lives. The dialect in the book portrays that people should not forget where they come from. People often forget where they come from, olvidado, “el olvido is a dangerous thing,” people drift into another culture and branch off from the…

“Fifteen Dogs” written by Andre Alexis is a interesting novel that consists of many adventures,Laughter, and storytelling. This Scotiabank Giller award winning book, is written phenomenally by the author and expresses great morals and advice for the young youth reading it. The author makes great connections to his personal life and through his experiences.Andre Alexis was born in Trinidad and Tobago, but moved to Ottawa at a very young age. He started writing at young age. His first…