Orality

crafted to reflect the social conscience of a writer whose aesthetic creation aims to resist, subvert, and de-center the hegemony of the center and of the master discourse over art creation in the periphery" (Innovative Cultural Writing in Secondary Orality, pg. 5). An example of resistance is Mary Prince. Mary Prince was a feminist that understood that the Europeans never gave freedom on a silver platter. She did not believe in the continuity of slavery; as in to a slave, slavery is a home and there

In chapter 4 of Orality and Literacy, Ong discusses the effects of writing and how it restructures consciousness. Plato discussed writing in the Phaedrus which was described as inhuman, pretending to establish outside the mind what in reality can be only in the mind. It is a thing, a manufactured product (Ong, 2012, pg. 78). Ong ties this to computers and Plato also suggests that writing destroys memory. If we take the aspect of writing, which has been around now for thousands of years we can shift

The development of the print revolution has affected the practice of orality and oral traditions (Bagchi 2012). This essay will firstly discuss the development of print, in particular the revolution of the printing press, and secondly explain the impacts of the print revolution on oral traditions in the indigenous Australian tribes. The medium and meaning theory will be applied and discussed, which will allow for a stronger supporting argument. This is in relation to both medium and meaning theories

The Talmud, surely a work defined enigmatically in a categorization unique to itself, escapes definition by traditional means. That is, as much as we may study—religiously or academically—we may always fall short of a perfect description of its genre. David Kraemer chronicles this in his Reading the Rabbis: The Talmud as Literature, asserting that, as a student, one often proceeds “more on the basis of intuition than on the foundation of a self-conscious method,” choosing rather to chase shadows

Over 4000 years old and from the third millennium, The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest pieces of literature that was written and that has survived. It was not discovered until the 1800's when it was found in Nineveh. As the Epic is very old, the context of the time period in which it was written must be taken into account when trying to interpret it. No one person can give an accurate and infallible interpretation of it because of that. To this day, there are multiple different ideas and

Nommo is the generating and sustaining powers of the creative word, which is manifested in characteristics of African orality (Bates, Redrawing Afrocentrism: Visual Nommo in George H. Ben Johnson's Editorial Cartoons). Orality is the notion that the word has power and force (Howard). In this literature review, I will review the key theorists who analyze the oratory of Nommo and their specific definitions of Nommo. In addition, this review will make note of the evolution of Nommo and its different

investigating Hip Hop’s relationship to Aesthetic, impacts of popular culture and connective marginalities on Africanist aesthetic and Hip Hop, and African diasporic cultures. Contemporary technology advancements adapted hip hop, and Nommo compposing orality, through divine linguists. Africanist aesthetic is culturally reflecting African communities through music and dance. Halifu Osumare’s book The Africanist aesthetic in global hip-hop states “Africanist

In his article, “Orality and Literacy in Ancient Israel”, William Schniedewind discusses the research done by many scholars tackling the issue of literacy and formalized education in Ancient Israel. He discusses both those who have done primarily Biblical research for evidence

The article describes the influence of religious books such as the bible on the past and present states of literacy. Past literacy based on religious books shows the origin of the biblical practices of exorcism and the culture of Protestantism in England. It describes the superstitions surrounding the early forms of education and the difficulty they bring as regards the understanding of religious books. The article shows that the understanding of the bible influenced the present state of literacy

Video game play can be very beneficial in the educational process. It can enhance cognitive abilities and skills in children and adolescents. In fact, studies have found that improvements in cognition have been related to grey matter changes in the prefrontal cortex. Specifically, a study conducted by Simon Kuhn, in which magnetic resonance imaging scans of 152 14-year old adolescents were collected and used to estimate cortical thickness, showed an increase in cortical thickness in the left dorsolateral