Essays Tagged: "Storytelling"
Story-Telling using 'The Woman Warrior' by Maxine Hong Kingston
Story-TellingStorytelling has helped humankind evolve into a wiser species by allowing those with enough attentiv ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Charles Dickens
ular writers in the history of literature. In his enormous body of works, Dickens combined masterly storytelling, humor, pathos, and irony with sharp social criticism and acute observation of people a ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens
John Irving's "The World According to Garp"
imited.'(51) It has also been said that Irving's "instincts are so basically sound, his talents for storytelling are so bright and strong..."(55) I agree with all that has been said to an extent; Irvi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Steven Spielbergs Amistad
mbolic of what America has become now. The film represents...'the necessity of articulation through storytelling as a means of empowerment...how storytelling empowered victims of racial injustice in t ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Is He Serious? (An opinionated report on the Unabomber's Manifesto)
the entire manifesto and every viewpointexpressed therein, was a strange mix of confusion, fact and storytelling. Althoughwritten with an abundance of detail and many strong convictions, I finished re ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
The Life and Works of Charles Dickens
r those who are in the process of growth. 'In his enormous body of works, Dickens combined masterly storytelling, humor, pathos, and irony with sharp social criticism and an acute observation of peopl ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens
What Makes Those X-Men So Darn Great? A personally opinionated paper
oks in general, are a unique blend oftwo classic art forms; drawings, sometimes even paintings, and storytelling. A comic artistmust be able to convey the right mood and feeling for his or her art. Th ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Kate Chopin Biography + comments on her writing.
s very close to her great-grandmother, Madame Charleville, who first introduced her to the world of storytelling. Madame Charleville spoke only french to Kate and told her elaborate stories.At the age ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
Comparison of Star Wars & The Matrix in relation to the Hero's Quest
less universal appeal do not.The Matrix is not especially revolutionary in terms of presentation or storytelling, although the special effects are great, but it is well written, slickly produced, and ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
How effectively does de Bernieres manipulate the stories of classical Greek mythology to create a modern legend in Captain Corelli's Mandolin?
Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a novel that merges the storytelling skill evident in Homer's Odyssey with the issues of war that are emphasised in the Ilia ... background of the Trojan War. De Bernieres weaves the tragic tones in the Iliad with the novel-like storytelling of the Odyssey to create a three dimensional insight into the fates of his characters.L ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
Similarities and differences between Odysseus and Theseus, Jason, Hercules, and Perseus.
In The Odyssey, the act of heroism and storytelling plays a significant role in portraying the story of Odysseus. According to the standard ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Urban Legends.
dsUrban Legends emerge mysteriously and spread spontaneously in varying forms. This popular form of storytelling or folklore usually contains elements of horror and or humor and tries to relay a moral ... r and or humor and tries to relay a moral or message. These myths are often memorable and make good storytelling. Some urban legends are true and others are false, but it is the quality and believabil ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" as an existential exercise.
oples of all times and cultures. Joseph Campbell, quite famous for his work in mythology, says that storytelling is "the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Discuss the effects of Francis Spufford's 'The Child that Books Built' on readers of Ian Serrialer's 'The Silver Sword'
ould be transported to a world of solidity. He explores how the child's absorption of the notion of storytelling gives an insight into the realms of child psychology. Embedded in the analysis of Piage ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
Film Language. In search of a definition. A linguistical approach.
ime of the earliest films. Even though cinematography occupies a position between moving images and storytelling, it seems to have grown into a technical, visual competitor to spoken language. From th ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics
A comparison of the two plays angels in america by tony kushner and jerker by Robert Chesley
able to accomplish their individual portrayal of the restriction of a homosexual life through their storytelling means and style. The literary presentation also greatly has been influenced by the play ... ywright's lives affected the individual messages of each of their plays, also the unique styles and storytelling methods in Angels in America and Jerker are able to further convey their separate messa ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
A Few Greek Gods
ause Greece was divided into differentcity- states, many of the myths are different. The culture of storytellingbegan to involve explanations of nature such as the creation of the horse,spider, and su ... e rewarded by the gods." Some myths were even created tosupport other myths. The myths started with storytelling and developed intoacomplex system of morals and explanations.The Greek myths were almos ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
What Is A Hero
the ancient, heroic qualities: honor, courage, determination. Nothing has changed since the dawn of storytelling. We still look for the same things today in a hero. A hero should be strong enough to s ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Style and Storytelling in The Things They Carried
Haresh SoormaLiterature |10 GKaren Chase12 March 2004Style and Storytelling in The Things they CarriedThesis: Tim O'Brien has created a unique novel in The Things ... vesC. "Gut Instinct"Haresh SoormaMrs. Karen ChaseLiterature Composition | 10G31 March 2004Style and Storytelling in The Things they CarriedTim O'Brien crafts an unique novel in The Things They Carried ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Maybe Tomorrow
Storytelling is an integral part of life for Indigenous Australians. From an early age, storytelling ... t the telling that make it distinctly Aboriginal.Pryor wins audience confidence in the power of his storytelling through his experiences with the kite hawks. He had been dancing the Kite-Hawk dance at ... help?" Boori said "well u are helping by listening" the girl put her head down and cried.Effective storytelling is a skilled form of communication. Pryor uses the conventions of his own culture in wh ...
Subjects: Art Essays