Danger Of A Single Story Research Paper

Stories sometimes are true and sometimes they are false but it is up to the public to believe in what is right and what is wrong. In this day and age, where information is available at the touch of a mouse, it’s not surprising that the media is a particularly dominant and powerful

As human beings, we tend to not understand that what we see or hear about social media, television, books, etc. can guide us towards this one piece of the puzzle. Not knowing the rest of the puzzle creates the assumption of a single story. In her TED talk, Chimamanda Adichie has spoken about the dangers of only knowing a story which leads to stereotyping. By this being said, to what extent do we as a society form a single story about others? To answer this question, there is a great extent when people create their single stories about others because we make these single stories without even realizing it. Chimamanda is a mere example, a representative of how our society thinks and is treated  when making a single

In the world we live in now it has become easy to stereotype and create a single story about certain people and situations, whether it’s intentional or not. In 2009, a Nigerian novelist named Chimamanda Adichie gave an amazing TED talk called “The Danger of the Single Story”. A single story more or less means an incomplete or inaccurate viewpoint of a person or culture based on a story created from a single experience. When one hears the same story over and over again, we start believing only that story. Adichie claims that creating single stories is problematic and rely on power, a single story I decided to present is how people believe police officers are abusing their power, and I believe the media is at fault. For one to truly understand a story we must listen to the root of the story. Her speech made me realize and view things differently.

The Danger of a Single Story - A speech that was said by Chimamanda Adichie that inspired me to write this report.

I am writing about three stories “Muffin”, “What's Inside” and “Fortune cookie.” I will be telling you about the three stories "Muffin", "What's Inside and " Fortune Cookie." I will comparing and contrasting the character traits in these stories. I will also find a theme and provide evidence for that theme.

The stories relate to my topic because each story has a character or a subject that makes you change your point of view on certain things. Each character demonstrates they’re different experiences in their story. For example, ever feel like trying something new? Or have you ever gone through something not knowing what you were getting into? This exactly what each story demonstrates, Daniel Webster goes against the devil to fight for a commoners rights who has sold his soul to the devil. No one is oblivious enough to just go against the devil himself, and yet Martin Luther King Jr. went against a whole community of white’s in order for black’s rights.  These stories go to the topic because all stories relate to experiencing new

After closely following Chimamanda Adichie's Ted talk regarding "single stories", I have realized a re-occurring topic in the stories we study: Judgement. In the "single stories" talk we know and love, Adichie touches base on why judgments play such a big role in today's society. In this case, not a very positive one. The essence of a single story is to profile others without knowing the context of their situations or actions. An example of this type of judgments relevant to me is the racial profiling of our local secondary schools. Before entering high school, I, along with many of my peers believed we knew everything about the schools we were going to without ever stepping foot in one. Pinetree is dominated by "Asians", while Gleneagle is

“There 's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.” (J.K Rowling). While this may be true for some stories, other stories tend to lead misbeliefs about a time period or place. That is what Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie explains throughout her telling of “The Danger of a Single Story.” She states how a story can mislead people to generalize how a place is or how the people are. Everyone at some point has heard a story that made them believe a misconception about a place. Adichie starts off her speech by introducing how the first stories she read made her believe that British people drank ginger beer even if she doesn’t even know what ginger beer is. Many stories about Africa impoverish it as a place with few resources with only the necessities needed to survive. She would later state how she grew up in a middle class family with parents with a job. Chimamanda Adichie claims that stories can create stereotypes and her purpose is to not let one story influence a person’s thoughts on a person or place.

There is no such thing as too busy! People make time for what they want to make time for period. Just say I am too busy to make time for you and end it there. However, that is not the case in most relationship, so allow me to elaborate on how to handle a situation where compromises are null and void and communication is a bunch of bullshit ass excuses.

A “single story” to Adiche is a lack of authenticity about a group of people or a place. Growing up in a middle-class family in Nigeria, Adiche had an authentic view of Nigeria and Nigerian people because she experienced the diversity of her culture every day. That being said, when she began to attend university in the United States, she met someone, her roommate actually, who had not been experienced any authentic Nigerian identities. She proceeded to ask Adiche “where [she] had learned to speak English so well, if she could listen to her “tribal music,” and assumed Adiche did not know how to use a stove. Her roommate had accepted a single story about not only Nigeria, but Africa as a whole and defaulted to patronization. This is where the danger can ensue.

What’s the danger of a single story? The danger of a single story is the person hearing the single story will not get the full story and could not understand what they are being told. The person eating a single story might even act a different way because they aren't actually aware of the full story.

"Over-thinking ruins you. Ruins the situation, twists things around, make you worry and just makes everything much worse than it actually is". This quote reflects my high school journey because I am always stressing over the small things and over-thinking every situation that pops in my head and all my assignments that were given to me I use to freak when I procrastinated and I thought I was going to fall behind. Also, I had many projects and they were all a final grade and I worried so much and was so stressed out when I felt stuck or had no idea how to start them. Over-thinking has really been a problem for me and affected my grades and attitude towards class.

The word imaginative, in all ways of its use, carries a positive connotation with it. Being imaginative resolves to being inventive. Take the word's definition for example: having or showing creativity or inventiveness. Being inventive, or imaginative, is more beneficial to society than being fanciful. Fanciful, by definition, means existing only in the imagination or fantasy. How would thinking in a fictional way bring any contribution to day to day life? This is the reason fanciful tends to carry a negative connotation with it.

These stories will either be good or bad, depending on a particular News Paper’s ideology or conception of the events. Yes, they take sides too; which is okay, don’t we all?

5. Who is the protagonist of the short story? Who is the Antagonist? Is the Protagonist a dynamic or static character? What Character traits does the central character reveal?