...could feel the squishy green algae between my toes, and the smell of dirty lake water kept invading my nose. Behind me was a heavy, waterlogged kayak, two paddles, and my ten year old cousin, Jaiden. Ahead of me was almost a mile of lake to slog through with my load. The task ahead of me seemed insurmountable for my twelve year old, ninety pound body. “I don’t think I can do this alone,” I told Jaiden. But when I looked back, she was already far ahead of me. Sure enough, I would have to do this alone. It was really her fault anyway, but there I was, stuck cleaning up a mess that wasn’t mine. We had been kayaking across Summit Lake in Lassen National Park when our combined weight became too much for the little kayak. It simply stopped moving, so Jaiden tried to jump out and lighten the load. Instead of me going on smoothly, the kayak flipped over and became submerged in the water....
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...Kay, 26 from Stratford When I first started my journey to a clean and healthy life, water was at the very top of my list for the simple fact, it was pretty much all I drank. Ok, 95%, there was still the odd alcoholic tipple in there too. You probably won’t believe that but I really have never drank soft drinks of any kind but that was never a health choice. It was just down to the fact that I didn’t like them. When it comes to the amount I drink, I drink a lot too. I drink around 12 large glasses or more a day, which might sound a lot but when I don’t drink enough I can really feel it. When it came to my choice of water however, I never drank tap water. It always tasted a little off so for years I’ve just stuck to bottled water, which as you can imagine isn’t cheap. I was quite happy (apart from the expense) when it came to drinking my bottled water and would have continued regardless if it weren’t for a friend of mine telling me about a few studies from health...
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...It is clear that throughout this trip, that lasted a mere three and a half months, we have experienced a great deal of narratives. These have ranged from incredibly uplifting to deeply solemn. These stories have shaped the people, places, and history that we have learned about, and continue to shape the people who encounter them today. Some of these narratives are extremely hard to express, verging on the border of the inexpressible. However, there lies an importance in being bale to articulate certain memories and experiences to pass them on to the ones who did not have the privilege of experiencing them. These experiences have shaped me beyond belief, and I hope to express how these varied experiences have changed me for the better. One...
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...good, we had a perfect day in the pool, we got to swim till it was dark, and had a lot of good laughs. When all of a sudden it got really dark in the sky. And one of the worst things that can happen, at a sleepover slumber party happened. At it all started with the rain, and the big “Water Proof”, tent. My friends Madison, Mckenna, Brooke, and Julia, all came to my house in the afternoon, ready to have a good time. At first we went into my room, and talked for like a hour, it only felt like five minutes. Then we decided to make sub sandwiches with the bread my mom bought. And while my mom was...
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...It was a hot day and I was shooting my water gun in the air when I noisted a brown bee hive next to the chimney.I desited to hit the bee hive with the water gun.When I did the bees came zipping out! I was a little glad they weren't dreched like I was!With there six black legs dangling off there reddinsh brown and black with orenge body they started chasing me!I didn't want to get stung because I know that the bees stinger has venom on it! With out warning,I squated down and all the bees flew over!Instently I ran to the open slider to get in,dived though it,got up and shut it! "YES!"I shouted and did a little dance. In all the comotion, I saw the back door...IT WAS OPEN!!!!The bees saw it too.I dived for it and missed! The bees made...
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...I could see water leaking into the boat.I thought nothing off it kids walked in and out off the boat after going into the lake all the time. I grab a soda and hope off and back onto the small island like beach. A small breeze goes by as I sit down.I watched Devin and dean walk over to the latter and climb up onto the boat.My brother shouted “Why is there a ton of water on the boat?”.Again nobody cared it was normal. Then all the adults run over and try to push the boat onto the land. I watch from a distance.Everyone was trying to push the boat back up but it keep sinking. I hear mumbles from the people helping. I felt a shiver .I was completely stunned not knowing what to do .”I told you were was water all over!”. Then about 5 minutes...
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...On September 27, 2015, in front of my family and friends, my life changed forever. Now I wasn’t just living my life, I was living my life with total trust and reliance on God. On that late September morning, my life was changed forever. Since being been baptized, I’ve not been the same person. I’ll try to put into words how powerful this was for me. Many will question this symbolic event and how one’s life can be changed after simply being dunked underwater. The water isn’t anything special, it’s just Lago Vista tap water. However, what that water symbolizes is my public and personal identification with Jesus Christ and how I’ve decided to give my entire life to Christ. I’ve never been a fan of public speaking and having all eyes on me, but...
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...Africa through Theatre This paper sets out to explore how processes of theatre making employed by The Mothertongue project, provide spaces for women to remap their personal narratives. Mothertongue works from the premise that the development and subsequent performance of stories in theatrical processes affords women the opportunity to re-write and remap their personal narratives and in so doing insert their voices into the landscape of South African Theatre. In an attempt to redress the gender imbalances and androcentricism prevalent in post-apartheid theatre, this paper speaks to the relationship between theatre, liminality and communitas. I am interested in unpacking how collaborative processes of theatre-making provide spaces for women to remap their personal narratives. Remapping in this instance refers to processes of transforming lived experience through story. I address how, through engaging in ritual activities that are central to the stories performed, actors, audiences and the owners of the source stories are invited to physically participate in remapping and transforming lived experience. Linked to this is the choice of form(s) and how this affects or impacts on the performed stories as well as on the construction of performed rituals and ultimately on the processes of remapping personal narratives. I focus specifically on Mothertongue’s 2004 production, Uhambo: pieces of a dream. The production was an integration of theatre and visual art in the form of performances...
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...Lake” and Judy Brady’s “I want a wife”, both authors write on personal encounters they experienced. The author chooses two different methods of writing styles. E.B. White utilizes a nostalgic reflective descriptive piece, whereas Brady uses a more sarcastic narrative. Arguably both writers do a great job in their story telling skills. Both stories are respected and pleasing, yet similar but different at the same time. The authors’ choice of writing style is what gives one story more of an advantage to the other. Though descriptive and narrative essay have identical intent – to tell the reader a story- narratives are more effective in capturing the audience because the uses of different voices, they bring ideas into perspective and they are relatable. There are special components that both style of writing possesses. Narrative writing usually does not stress adjectives to give the physical details of characters, setting or events in the story. Nothing like descriptive writing, narrative writings are written in the first person in order to convey the author's attitudes, beliefs and memories. Narratives are conventional, while descriptive writings content often emphases on a single event, object or place. Occasionally, writers utilize narrative writing style to tell about the past or the future in broad terms. A narrative often reflects personal experience, clarifying what happened during some sort of incident. Narrative essay topics include recounting an experience where the learned...
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...skepticism with which he believes audiences should treat all ‘true’ war stories. His most effective strategy for doing so is the interweaving of a potentially fictitious narrative within a formal essay, further developing “How to Tell a True War Story’s” message of disillusionment with the attributes characteristically attributed to war and the dubious nature of war stories by creating a sense of suspicion and general distrust between the reader and the speaker. As O’Brien interweaves narrative within his essay, such stories are...
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...Whale Rider Themes In the film the Whale Rider, the once complimentary narratives that governed the Maori culture: Gender, Identity, and Traditions are competing against one another. The fundamental elements of these narrative has stayed unchanged; However, some characters are interpreting these liturgies to their own personal narratives, causing conflict within the Maori Culture. Synopsis of film During a time of modernization, poverty, and the decentralization of the role the Maori culture play in the people lives, one local leader (Koro) looked upon Hope in a form of a prophet. According to the Maori's traditions, the ancient ancestor Paikea descendants: the eldest son are the rightful tribe leader and will centralize the community again...
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...On the Horizon Emerald Article: Review of Storytelling in Organizations: Why Storytelling Is Transforming 21st Century Organizations and Management by John Seeley Brown Sharon L. Comstock Article information: To cite this document: Sharon L. Comstock, (2006),"Review of Storytelling in Organizations: Why Storytelling Is Transforming 21st Century Organizations and Management by John Seeley Brown", On the Horizon, Vol. 14 Iss: 4 pp. 175 - 177 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120610708104 Downloaded on: 16-09-2012 References: This document contains references to 3 other documents To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com This document has been downloaded 687 times since 2006. * Users who downloaded this Article also downloaded: * Hui Chen, Miguel Baptista Nunes, Lihong Zhou, Guo Chao Peng, (2011),"Expanding the concept of requirements traceability: The role of electronic records management in gathering evidence of crucial communications and negotiations", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 63 Iss: 2 pp. 168 - 187 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00012531111135646 Brian Matthews, Catherine Jones, Bartlomiej Puzon, Jim Moon, Douglas Tudhope, Koraljka Golub, Marianne Lykke Nielsen, (2010),"An evaluation of enhancing social tagging with a knowledge organization system", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 62 Iss: 4 pp. 447 - 465 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00012531011074690 Paul Clough, Jiayu Tang, Mark M. Hall, Amy Warner, (2011),"Linking archival data to location:...
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...Come back, he emphasises the feelings of emptiness that death can bring. He uses half-rhyme to create a disjointed, unnatural feel that makes the poem feel strange and creates a strange disjointed harmony. It doesn’t quite sound right. This is superbly appropriate for the subject itself. Even though the dead soldier looks as if he is just sleeping, he isn’t. It isn’t quite right. He also builds on the series of questions he asks in the poem to build up to the most profound of all: “Oh what made fatuous sunbeams toil to break earth’s sleep at all?” Here we see how he cannot understand why the universe bothered to raise anything, to build a civilisation, when it is all for nothing. We destroy each other. Although Come on, Come back is a narrative poem, it still uses the structure to build up to a climax, just as Owen did. The line lengths and the way the lines fall, as well as the odd rhymes of ‘stone’ in the first stanza are also disjointed and fragmented. Thus we see how the poet uses rhythm and rhyme to create a sense of a fragmented, confused, disharmonious world. The...
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...used in religious rituals by shamans. It also argues that personal ecstasy was used by the Nasca as a mean method to contact the supernatural. This article evaluates the role of plant hallucinogens commonly used by Nasca and this culture’s belief system and ceremonialism. In more detail the article analyzes an image named “flying god of Paracas”, which is found on many famous embroidered cloths, this image is argued to be regional religious-political leaders who controlled aspects of daily life and the difficult ecological limitations of the...
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...Which Essay is Better: A Narrative or A Descriptive? Ever read a story and say to yourself, “What’s happening?” Whenever I read a descriptive essay, that’s what I would say. In this essay I would be comparing and contrasting two types of essays, a narrative and descriptive. I have chosen “Are the rich happy?” by Stephen Leacock 1916 and “Sister Flowers” by Maya Angelou, n.d. By writing my essay, I want to give my views on each and decide which I would rather write. Narrative Essay A narrative essay reflects a personal opinion that is based on your own experiences. This helps you bring a reader into your very own mind and shows him/her the topic you’re writing about through your eyes. Telling a story or event the way it happened for you. It also could provide a sort of lesson or moral to be learned from the outcome of the story as well as what the writer did that contributed to it or not. It’s more on a personal level that any one reading could say that happened to them or that they learned from the story by not doing whatever it was that the writer did. In Stephen Leacock’s “Are the Rich Happy?” the author writes about his experiences with his friends, with of modest income. Most of it, all in his opinion, points out the problems or troubles those with an existential amount of funds in their bank accounts. He goes on to give some examples that he encountered several of his friends going through. “A friend of mine who has ten thousand dollars a year told me the other...
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