Storytelling

This paper is going to look at the Story of Rebekah and her twins, a mail order bride who believed that getting married to a westerner would be her escape from poverty. As the social worker that is working with this client, certain things that I would look for in this particular case would be…

Both Rumi and Mirabai express a profound yearning for something sacred in their poetry, albeit in different ways. Mirabai, by occasionally referring to herself in the third person, intensifies her desperate desire to be heard by the dark one. In terms of poetic structure, Mirabai’s poems are typically no longer than one page, whereas Rumi’s…

My Surroundings Ah, the breath of fresh air and the wide open range of earth is soothing as I glance out into the world. My eyes scan across the landscape of God’s country, and the tall trees that have sprung forth are starting to shed their leaves. With each warm breeze, a new leaf finds…

            The essay “Universality of the Folklore” is an excerpt from Stith Thompson’s book, The Folktale, a text which tackles the subject of folk tales around the world, their importance to societies and the various types of tales that exist. Thompson is America’s foremost scholar in folklore, having devoted most of his professional life in…

Blind dates are full of uncertainty as you can never really know someone until you spend time with them and communicate. Several years back, my initial blind date occurred at my workplace. A colleague would often bring up her daughter and propose that I should go out with her. This colleague depicted her daughter, Kelli,…

The Chunhyang tale, based on a Korean love folktale in the early 18th century, similar to “Romeo and Juliet”, is portrayed in various versions, a pansori, a film, a novel, and a manga. Chunhyang, the beautiful, sharp-witted, talented daughter of a courtesan shows strong resistance to authoritarian powers and represents a female role model of…

For the purposes of comparison the two texts being discussed are Graham Greene’s “The Destroyers” and Mildred D. Taylor’s “The Gold Cadillac”. Both texts are set in the 1950’s but on different sides of the Atlantic: ‘The Destroyers’ in east end London and ‘The Gold Cadillac’ in Ohio, USA. The settings are as appropriate to…

Topdog/Underdog is a fated play in which all Americans instantly know the fate of the two main characters Booth and Lincoln; the emphasis becomes how Parks will go about portraying this death with African American characters. Parks’ main tool is the “rest” taken from a jazz influence to portray a structure in which African Americans…

Upon my return to New Orleans, I discovered that it remained unchanged from my previous visit. The scorching heat rose to a staggering 98 degrees and the humidity was so intense that reapplying deodorant became essential. The fusion of French and Spanish architecture further enhanced its enchanting and enigmatic allure. Regrettably, the air quality did…

Imagine waking up one forenoon on the sound of the birds whistling. Walking out side looking at the blue sky, while the cool zephyr blowing through your hair. Siting on the grass with the flowers environing you make fulling the air with its beautiful olfactory property. Suddenly the whistle turns into a loud harsh sound….