Personal Narrative: If I Become A Points Scholar

western academic writing approach harms the indigenous Cree narratives. According to McLeod, the Cree narrative process, which involves poetic thinking, embraces new possibilities and keeps changing (9). This evolution process not only depends on various occasions of speaking but also depends on different storytellers and audiences who absorb stories, thus allowing Cree poetic discourse to possess dynamic feature (McLeod 9). Such dynamic narrative approach compresses space, like Neal McLeod, said, “Like

Comprehensive Exams: Culturally Responsive Literature and the Role of Technology in Improved Literacy Instruction Moira Moynihan Lipscomb University In the quest to make education a more equitable, empowering force for all scholars, irrespective of racial and demographic background, no fight garners as much urgency as that to close the literacy gap. Whereas science, social studies, or math may or may not enter the daily discourse of a wealthy family as it raises its child, reading

data in the form of a performance, or dialogue between characters (Parry & Johnson, 2007). Collective stories drawn from interview transcripts, field notes, memos, and other research data, help to create a fictionalized narrative (Solórzano & Yosso, 2002). Within the narrative are fictionalized characters based on interview transcripts and field notes. Cook and Dixson (2013) posit that characters in collective stories are often representative of several participants rather than just a single participant

Kirk Hoppe suggested that there could be issues with the representations of life histories works, notably by Western female scholars. Hoppe concluded that the woman’s story in the Baba of Karo was not “true” and that, “economics kinship, and marriage, politics, clientage, and bond friendship – all evolve around women as producer and reproducer…” Hoppe’s assessment may not be

historicity, have inspired scholars and artists of all ages to take a closer look. The traditional and popular view, circulating mostly in faith-circles, recognizes the Biblical David as a perfect individual, a pious, young shepherd boy who had a heart that was after God’s own heart (1 Samuel 13:14; 16 NIV) and through humility and perseverance of trusting God, was honored to be the King of Israel with a lasting legacy. With that kind of impression of David, there were many scholars who decided to look

INFORMATIONAL/ORGANIZATIONAL EVENT REPORT On October 21, 2015 I and some friends attended an event sponsored jointly by the Humanities and English department. The title of this event; “Adoption Narratives of the Human”. Four women sat on the panel; Maggie Jones, Visiting Assistant Professor, Nonfiction Writing, University of Pittsburgh; Margaret Homans, Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies, Yale University; Frayda Cohen, Senior Lecturer, Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies

A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The Power and Paradox of Literacy The “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” has been regarded by many as one of the most influential slave narratives in American history. This colorful autobiography has and will forever situate Douglass at the forefront of the American abolitionist movement. Many scholars involved in the study of African American history, including James Matlack, a writer for the Atlanta Review of Race and Culture assert that

between the preservation of historical authenticity and the author’s narrative techniques such as emplotment and figuration. Several theorists, including Hayden White, Barbara Foley, and Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, discuss this issue in relation to the Holocaust. They comment on the effectiveness of various narrative

perpetuate and validate linear experience, thought, and narratives, which buttresses a hierarchical educational structure that shapes the roles of writers, readers, teachers, and students. Challenging our trust in the

disease. This book has reached an outsized and diverse audience or readers, including the sick, health professionals and scholars of literary theories of sickness. Both the collective portrait which was known as the “remission society” of those who experience some type of disease or disability and a compelling analysis of their stories within a larger framework of the narrative theory. This book presents sick people as wounded storytellers. In this book, Frank examined the presence of a "remission