Storytelling

Imagine being stuck in a box with absolutely no way out. Everyday becomes another struggle to escape only to find that you are being controlled and confined for no apparent reason. One would eventually let reality slip through their hands and welcome insanity into their empty minds. This is the life of the men in…

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…

Rumi and Mirabai’s poetry, in different ways, has the ability to convey a deep longing for something sacred in their time. Mirabai sometimes refers to herself in the third person that deepens her desperation of being heard by the dark one. In overall poetic structure, Mirabai’s work is seldom more than one page whereas Rumi’s…

            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…

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…

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…

Blind dates are always interesting because you never know what the person is going to be like until you actually spend time with them and communicate. A couple years ago I got to have my first experience with one. It all started where I used to work, a lady that I worked with always talked…

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…

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…

One of the worst rumors ever created is that an 8-ball has to be shaken in order to reveal ananswer. Too many times I have had friends walk into my room, shake the 8-ball, and flip it for ananswer. Then when they see that the water is all bubbly and the answer cannot be seen,…