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    Although, there rules that apply to both forms of storytelling. The first rule is that the story incorporates paralinguistic mechanisms such as pausing, space, etc. (Bauman). The second rule is that the story flows naturally, and clearly makes sense. It is not allowed that a storyteller has a story that is

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    is about a celebrated storyteller, who loses his talent for telling stories when his wife leaves him. His son, Haroun, is pulled into an adventure that finds him at the sea of stories to defeat a powerful enemy and rescue his father's gift for storytelling. In this book, Rushdie argues the importance of stories and how there must be a proper balance of freedom of speech. Haroun lived in a city that was so sad, it had forgotten its name. However, in the shadow of the sadness factories, there was

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    Life Story Of The Chief Storyteller At SAP, Julie Roehm: Being Different Like Steve Jobs “Julie, we are moving again.” her father would echo those words every few years of her school life. Most kids would have found that physical move of schools and making new friends in a new place too intense of a change. Julie was different. She thrived on that change, taking her chances and embracing variety. In her words, “I knew nothing better. I absorbed what I saw – my mom’s bubbliness and my traveling

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    telling the story in a unique way, reverse chronological order. In “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”, Julia Alvarez uses the anachronistic story line to show the perspective of an immigrant and to have the reader think like one. The unique storytelling method emphasizes the struggles and the difficulty of living as an immigrant in America in a realistic way. The anachronistic writing style makes the story told as though someone was recalling the past. It is choppy and partially incomplete. There

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    The Narrative Paradigm

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    The narrative paradigm is a communication theory that argues the strengths of storytelling over argumentative communication. Narrative is any verbal and nonverbal interpretation which is arranged logically to generate a meaning. This communication process is influenced by the experiences and other factors from the past. The concept upholds the idea that communication happens between a narrator and the listener in the form of a story. The story includes the events that the narrator wants to communicate

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    Hello Poetry Haters Essay

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    then there must be a part of you that is curious as to what is considered poetry and the reason that it has existed in our human culture for so long. From the beginning of our development as an intellectual species, there has always been ways of storytelling. It is something that is a common thread in all cultures and goes back to the days of early man. Pictures were the first way of telling a story and have been discovered in cave paintings dating back over 30,000 years ago(Wendt). As our development

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    Storytelling is an outlet that allows an author to describe his or her life experiences in a unique way in hopes that their readers take something meaningful away from the story. My Music: Explorations of Music in Daily Life is an interview style story which consists of Steve, a fifty-seven-year-old salesman, being asked some questions about how music has impacted his life by his daughter. Steve shows examples of initiating young people into the lore of the tribe by explaining how music has increased

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    Metafiction is “stories [which] have something to tell us about stories themselves”. In “Jubilee”, the author differentiates between the storyteller and the narration of the short story and the metafictional qualities reveal the insignificance of the storytelling. Walter Benjamin defines a storyteller as someone who “makes [the story] the experience of those who are listening to his tale”. In “Jubilee” Arthur is the storyteller and his narrative challenges Benjamin’s view of Davies: a “novelist [who] has

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    The nature of one’s identity is attributed by the environment that influences the experiences that the individual intakes. Self is the fundamental being that separates individuals due to the uniqueness of their minds and the experiences that influence the distinctiveness of identity. Martha Stout’s background in psychology initializes a deeper understanding of self through the analysis of stories told by her patients who suffer from dissociation in her writing called “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning

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    speech but how he presents his speech. He truly has a way to captivate his audience. Reading through the comments people have left, there all positive. Almost everybody likes the way he represents the information to the audience. Public Speaking and storytelling is not only about the content of a speech. Maney times what make a great speech is how you represent it. I think Mr. Barnett will be a good example of this and hopefully, through this paper, we can understand why that is? Mr. Barnett starts his

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