What Makes an Exceptional StoryCorp
Often people’s lives are changed by events that have a story to be told. StoryCorps is a way that people are able to take their own stories and share them for people to hear. Although there is not much to it other than telling your story there is a great deal of planning and work that goes into making the story. StoryCorps need background, significance and detail to tell the story well and make an impact.
StoryCorps need thought out background to be understood and make sense. Background needs many types of detail to give the correct information. One of the important concepts to say is what the event was and how it happened, because if you go straight into what the outcome was there is no meaning to the after.
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This question caused there to be time for the lady I was interviewing to explain how her son getting hit by a texting driver happened. During this time she covered information about how people were reacting as it happened.
Giving the listener the information about what happened and why, yet it did not go into information about the outcomes and her feelings now. The story told was briefly but drawn to the point and gave insight to the rest of the StoryCorp. This did not give too much information about the event, but set up a situation for me to ask questions that dove deeper into the life changing event. Without the short time at the beginning of my story, many questions might not have seemed as important, and lead her to say why it was important.
Background does not make sense without a reason. In my second question I said “What has been the hardest thing about losing your son” (My StoryCorps). In the following seconds there was silence because there was almost no way she could think of one idea when there where was many memoriess she missed each day. Finally she thought of a response; “Everything” she said (My StoryCorps
Storytelling is something we all do naturally. It is an innate ability that has been practiced since the dawn of civilization. Stories can be told through literature, visuals, performances, or word of mouth. As time elapses, the way in which we tell stories involves. Although, the way in which we tell stories change, the essence of them remain by incorporating the basic elements of good storytelling.
In the video “It Can Wait”, AT&T shows how texting while driving can lead to accidents that can severely impact someone's life. Many accidents still happen today, resulting in numerous of deaths per year. The person behind the wheel is not only putting his or her life in jeopardy, but as well as those individuals lives surrounding them. Simply by not being aware of the road ahead while getting a glimpse of a text message, risks and puts many lives in danger on the road, making each person a victim of this situation. AT&T directs this message to phone users on the road who can not drive without just getting a glance of their phone. Jacy, just at 21 years of age was extremely impacted by the incident, that left her paralyzed and barely fighting for her life. It likewise left her without her parents, killing them both by the collision. In the “It Can Wait” video, AT&T persuades people to stop using phones while driving on the road because they want people to realize of how much of an impact texting while driving can have on someone's life.
The effectiveness of sharing stories was demonstrated when Tim O’Brien was able to transition from the war life to real life with free
resident of the Alpha company and the storyteller tells story consisting of myths to the
Narratives have massive importance in the driving of big ideas about how we view our world. They use many different techniques, to either subtly or plainly plant ideas into our minds. The author can point out big problems in our world, and by making it relevant to the consumer, lead them to think more about what is going on around them. They can turn something that doesn’t make sense to someone and by changing something very simple, make it more relevant.
Stories are surrounding us. Whether you're in school or at work or simply listening to somebody let you know about their day. We learn through stories. As humans we all share experiences through stories. We learn from ones experiences while they tell us the story of what happen to them. We learn about a 12 year old girl named Lisa Chavez. She tells us her story about the first time she has experienced racism. We also learn about a woman named Chimamanda Adiche's and she tells us about the dangers of a single story. While Chimamanda Adiche's tells us her story she explains to us why people have racist thoughts and it’s because of storytelling. Then we learn about Hampl’s piece about memoirs. He tells us what he thinks a memoir is and how true can a memoir be. Stories affect our everyday life, they affect how we see people and how we learn about things.
By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, like the night in the shit field, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain. (O’Brien 152)
In the essay “Arguing on the Internet” the author tells of his inexperience in political debate, and how it shaped his future. (Poza, 2005) His story starts out by telling the readers, about the first time he posted a comment on the internet about gun control. Poza, was simply sharing his personal thoughts on the subject and what he got in return was profanity, disgust and the desire to persuade others by debating effectively. Poza shares some of his thoughts on learning to debate with others.
In many instances, the person who is texting while driving walks away from the incident without a scratch to be found while the victims, who were committing no wrong-doing, are left injured, or even worse, dead. On Fox 41 News, a high school student named Wil Craig shares his story of the day he almost lost his life. The telling of this story occurs at Louisville High School one morning in hope to bring awareness to fellow students about the dangers that come along with using a cell phone while operating a vehicle. He was only 19-years old when the crash happened. The crash that almost took his life away. The crash that almost left his family breathless. As Wil tells his story, it is evident of the issues and dangers that are present while texting and driving. He begins by stating that his girlfriend was the one driving. She had been the one who was texting and driving (Jennifer Baileys, Fox 41 News). Just like any other day, Wil does not expect for anything to go wrong until the unpredictable happens. They crash. “I was dead at the scene of the accident,” Craig explains as the students listen intently. He explains the severity of the crash telling them, “I had to be cut out of the windshield”. He goes on explaining that his girlfriend had walked away from the scene “without even a scratch” (Jennifer Baileys, Fox 41
Many teens, so-called “younger generation”, seem too connected to their phones and have begun to text and drive. According to Sherry Turkle, “Roman, eighteen, admits that he texts while driving and he is not going to stop. ‘I know I should, but it is not going to happen. If I get a Facebook message or something posted on my wall, I have to see it. I have to” (Turkle 429). Even though teens know that they are doing something wrong, they still do it because they think nothing will happen. Just because we have not experienced accidents, does not mean it will not happen. Just think of all the people who have said the same thing. They think accidents are a world away from their own reality. No one seems to think about what can happen to other people as well as themselves. Everyone should think of others because just a little glance on your
Well, maybe this one will. Imagine this is your child, grandchild, or bestfriend. “Where u at” – These were the simple last words that a senior in high school who was one day away from graduation, saw in this world. On that pivotal spring night, she was texting her friend on the way to the baseball game she was planning to attend. As she looked down at her phone to read the new text message, she lost control of her car. She slid across the median, hit a bridge, and was immediately killed. An Officer was one of the first to arrive on the scene. He later described the horrific scene to reporters saying, “When I got to the scene, her face was disfigured from sliding down the roadway. Lying in the roadway in a large pool of blood I noticed her shoes and I thought this is a young child. That’s the first thing I thought when I saw this. And at that point was when I noticed their cap and gown was still in her car. They were going to graduate the next day. It was just a really horrific scene all because of a senseless text message” (“Stories”). This is a sad story and the crazy thing is, there are so many more stories and testimonies of the harmful effects of texting and driving.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of teen fatalities. Teens, mainly, don’t always see the risk of being distracted while driving, but can you imagine your world changing in a complete second due to someone being on their phone while driving? SummerBreak, a channel on YouTube sponsored by AT&T, brought in people to interview with the intent of talking about texting and driving, or distracted driving in general. Throughout the interview titled “Wait for it… this could save your life” the goal is to have the audience change the way they think about distracted driving, with the hope that it would prevent it from happening. The use of emotions, shift of the mood, as well as the
Stories are told through various forms of literature, and the overall point of telling a story is to convey a message, a meaning that the author wants the reader to interpret and understand. The author does
It is also assumed that the act of telling a story can provide insight into past, present and future events (Espinoza, 1997). By going through this process, individuals can find the importance of certain events and assign roles to people who are a part of their story. This act can allow a client to find new meaning and understanding to their reality (Espinoza, 1997). Not only is a
They way stories are told may morph, but never will storytelling cease. From their people skills to their memories, there is no argument that storytellers possess boundless talent and intelligence. They were the first educators. And now, storytelling is a large part of everyday life. The news in the morning, the gossip throughout the day, the casual response to the casual “What’s up?” – It’s all a form of storytelling. Our lives are steeped in it. In almost every conversation a story is told. At every turn a story is born. So we all are storytellers, and the world is our audience, just waiting to hear the gospel leave our