...Aaron Stainrod GDD 101 Storytelling Assignment A. I. The Process i. There really was no process used to create my story. I know that based on the first adventures I was a part of, I wanted to create one that had a setting that was a little unexpected. I kept hearing about the party starts out in a forest, so I decided to start out in an abandoned base camp in a wasteland to mix things up. One adventure I was in had an abandoned mansion, so based on my current setting, which was desert like; I chose to lead the party into a temple. Everything in the temple was made up as the story went along, which lead to some momentary pauses in the storytelling. B. II. Worked Well ii. I thought the adventure in general worked out pretty well. I’m very satisfied with the amount of pleasure gotten from the temple. Admittedly, the players most likely remembered more aspects of the temple than I did at times. Besides the “creative gaps” I created, I did not see any noticeable declinations of interest during the adventure. I did notice that the players did enjoy the RPG elements I added to the adventure. I purposely intended and suggested more use of the HP in the game. I was actually hoping for the incapacitation of a player, but I am satisfied that I managed to get a player to 2HP. III. Worked Poorly iii. The gaps were probably the poorest aspect of the game. I did not know how to plan the game out. I attempted to plan the game...
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...Before stories and other works of literature were written down, a multitude of cultures and societies told these stories orally usually to teach a lesson or how to live in those ancient societies. This idea of storytelling dates back all the way to Mesopotamia with the epic poem Gilgamesh which has been created into written literature in recent history. The ancient Greeks are not an exception to this way of storytelling since many of their stories are used to teach about the important virtues of ancient Greek culture, such as hospitality. When discussing ancient Greek literature, the Odyssey by the legendary author Homer is known as one of the greatest works of that culture as it is still being read today. Utilizing the device of having multiple storytellers in his work, Homer is able to...
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...The Power of Storytelling Stories have a very important role in society. They affect people in a way nothing else could. Every story, by nature, has a message. Even if it’s not an overt or intentional message, it’s there. Stories have different messages to different people. When people hear a story they automatically begin to process it. Subconsciously, everyone’s perspective has been shaped by the stories they’ve heard. That’s why people tell stories; that is their purpose. They’re a consequence of our need to make sense of what happens the real world, to label people “good” or “bad”, and actions “right” or “wrong”. No author could’ve better conveyed a message about stories in a story than Tim O’Brien with The Things They Carried. Soldiers go to war having heard stories about patriotism and honor and sacrifice. What they find is that the world isn’t a story. They’ve been duped. As O’Brien wrote, “If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue”(O’Brien 68). When Mitchell Sanders says, “There’s a definite moral here”(13) he’s being sarcastic. Things happen in war for no reason. That, O’Brien says, is the only truth to be told in a war story. Anything else is a lie, even if it’s the truth. “Absolute...
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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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...Storytelling as a business communication Why storytelling in business? 1. Storytelling is an ancient art that has not changed in several thousand years. 2. The effective use of storytelling in organizations involves crafting and performing a well made story with a hero or heroine, a plot, a turning point, and a resolution. 3. A storyteller catches and holds attention of an audience by evoking the sights and sounds and smells of the context in which the story took place. 4. A compelling, well made story is regardless of the purpose for which the story is being told. 5. Storytelling is a rare skill in which relatively few human beings excel. Eight different corporate narrative archetypes If the objective is | You will need a story that | In telling it, you will need to… | Your story will inspire such phrases as … | Sparking action | Describes how a successful change was implemented in the past, but allows listeners to imagine how it might work in their situation. | Avoid excessive detail that will take the audience’s mind off its own challenge. | ‘Just imagine’ ‘what if’ | Communicating who you are | Provides audience engaging drama and reveals some strength or vulnerability from your past. | Provide meaningful details but also make sure that the audience has the time and inclination to hear your story. | ‘I do not know that about him.’ ‘Now I see what she is driving at’ | Transmitting values. | Feels familiar to the audience and will prompt discussion...
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...When storytelling becomes dialogue Starbucks has decided to try to capture some of the stories about people who has met their future wives and husbands at starbucks or people who had gotten married at starbucks, and then they will celebrate them as a part of a valentine’s day push. Starbucks believes that sharing some stories about people who has met their future wives and husbands at starbucks or people who had gotten married at starbucks, would reinforce the idea that starbucks is a great destination for a date or a chance meeting. Before moving forward with the idea, starbucks sponsored a telephone survey that included a lot of singles, and where most of the adults believed that a couple that met in a coffee-house has a better chance of succeeding in love than a couple that met in a bar. The reason is that bars tend to be noisy and expensive, where a coffee-house is more safe and affordable. With the match made over coffee contest, starbucks hoped to highlight the emotional dimension of the brand. The third place is the place between work and home where people congregate to find a sense of community, a place where you can be yourself and hang out – alone or with friends and family. starbucks is more than just coffee, it’s a certain experience and a good atmosphere. By tapping these stories, starbucks invites their customers to become a part of the brand, which is more appealing than anything they could do through traditional advertising. These new possibilities...
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...Does True Epic Survive the Transition from Oral Storytelling to Literary Work? Oral storytelling has been a cherished tradition for thousands of years. All cultures have adapted their own unique form of painting a picture with words. Whether it is teaching lessons, instilling moral values, recording history, bringing meaning to the unknown, or simply entertaining an audience, the oral tradition is a necessity to all societies. Though the written word is a well respected art form in and of itself, there are many ways in which the oral telling of stories can achieve more than a literary work. I do not believe true epics, such as Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey, survive the transition from oral storytelling to literary works. I believe this to be true because a reader will not get the same story as an audience listening to an oral telling. One of the ways that the literary transitions of epics falls short of the oral telling is the lack of control the author has over the reader’s understanding of the intended emotional response. Devices such as emphasis, volume, delivery, intonation, cadence, and facial expressions are all together lost when a work is being read as opposed to heard and seen. An oral storyteller has the ability to change a single sentence from a sorrowful tragedy to a comedic parody using simply their voice and tone. The first lines of Homer’s The Iliad could be argued to be the most important in the book. Within the first stanza, the whole tone and...
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...in taking on a bully such as the Hare, but emphasizes the foolishness of the Hare’s over-confidence. Growing up hearing this story, I now realize that many people have good natural abilities in regards to race, size, and statues; not knowing what our opponent is capable of. Just as in “The Tortoise and the Hare”, the hare from the start is confident of his ability to defeat the tortoise because of his characteristics and abilities. Thinking his hasting would cause him to get ahead, the hare finds himself behind. A wise man once said “haste makes waste” and in this case it is so true (Milleray, 2013). Storytelling has long held an important role in history. People have passed down stories from generation to generation. Storytelling has many key values for both the individual telling the story and the people listening to the story being told. Among the values that storytelling instills in its participants as stated by Margaret Read Macdonald, in The Storytellers Start-up Book. We improve our ability to listen, speak, imagine, compose...
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...Storytelling This week’s reading on presentations was very insightful and provided tips and suggestions for all aspects of the process; from planning and practicing, to actually presenting. The text offered several strategies for effectively preparing and delivering a presentation in a way that is not only informative, but also engaging for the audience. It is interesting to note that modern methods of presenting have evolved from the ancient Greeks and many of the same tools are used today including rhetorical devices as well as structure of the presentation. The Greeks way of presenting focuses on telling a story and keeping the audience engaged. They rejected the conventional format of an introduction – tell your audience, what you’re going to say, then say it – and incorporated a more personal approach which suggests; talking about the audience, talking about a previous speaker, talking about an event, talking about a moment in history, talking about a place, or talking about a point in the speech. The second part of the speech is the narrative, which the Greeks viewed as opportunity to present information in the form of a story. Next the argument and refutation allows the speaker to present key points as well as refute counterpoints. The Greeks used the conclusion to appeal to the audience for approval as well as present a plan of action as opposed to summarizing what had just been said. Chapter 8, Show Time, is particularly effective and explores various factors...
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...long before written literature in the ways of storytelling, poems and song. * We think good story telling is neatly organized and original. Clichés are a make of bad writing. * But per literature societies tend to love stock phrase, tradition sayings and proverbs. Helped them to remember the story. * Per literature societies didn’t have an author instead they have poets, singers and storytellers to echo old tales. * Of course most oral stories were lost due to not having been written down or recoded in some fashion there for can’t be collected in any anthology records. * As one can expert written literature didn’t take hold all at ones, it was used for inventory, commercial, admin., political and legal form mostly at first. * Plato s Phaedrus gives us some induction of Athenians enormous cultural change with the invention of writing. * By the time of early Roman Empire poets started to emulate oral literature. * Mesopotamia was where writing was first developed around 3300 to 2990 b.c.e. * Writings at this time where done with clay tablets left in the sun to dry. Pictographic used list livestock, food etc * By 2800 b.c.e began to use wedged -shape end sticks to make marks rather than shape ended sticks to draw pictographic. * Known as cuneiform from the Latin word cuneus meaning wedge. * By 2500 b.c.e cuneiform was started being used the record historical events. And then storytelling. * The writing system invented by the Egyptians...
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...A few years ago, it was discovered that the most effective way to activate the human brain is the act of storytelling. This is because human brains are deciphering the meaning or value of a story when it is being told to them. This makes storytelling a powerful way to connect with an audience, whether it is a personal story or the story of someone else. Authors and storytellers must know the most successful methods to tell a story, in order for it to be effective. Authors use metaphors, similes, and personification in order to tell their personal stories and the stories of others. Metaphors are used by authors to invoke a sense of bleakness to the reader. In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, he recounts his own personal experiences while...
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...Storytelling is a crucial aspect in the development of culture worldwide. Every story is told by a narrator whose views and perspective alter the final product. As such, a person’s perception of a story can be drastically changed based on the viewpoint of its narrator. The same story can be told by a different narrator and it will get a whole new meaning. The first person point of view in Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” is used strategically to elevate the mystery and tension of the story, illustrating the importance of the theme: perspective. The same story told from a different perspective can have a completely different interpretation. Throughout the story, there are many clear differences between the narrator and Roderick Usher. These differences range from mental state, to family life, to character traits. It is these traits that shape the character into who the reader sees them as. The reader then sees the story from their perspective. The same story told from a different perspective can have a whole new meaning depending on how different the characters are. In the “Fall of the House of Usher” the two prominent characters are very different. Poe talks about the characters using such detail to allow the readers to...
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...Sheryl Sandberg - Leadership Communication Analysis Written Report Sheryl Sandberg is an American business leader, activist and writer currently serving as the COO of Facebook. After graduating high-school in Miami, Sandberg attended Harvard where she earned a A.B. in economics, followed by an MBA at her alma mater. After graduate school Sandberg worked for a former professor at the Treasury Department, where she became a chief of staff before moving to Google, and finally to Facebook. Sandberg’s first book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, was published in 2013. A feminist call for increased female leadership in the workplace, the book was received with broad critical acclaim. Throughout Lean In, Sandberg synthesizes academic studies and her own professional experiences to encourage women to strive for leadership positions in the workplace. Through her book, speeches, and other writing, Sandberg weaves several leadership communication approaches into her overall communication style, including meaning maker, storyteller, and direction setter. Meaning Maker In her book and speeches Sandberg discusses the common experience of women in the workplace, describing a shared stake in the future as members of that group. She frequently uses terms like “we” and “our” when discussing female experiences and opportunities at work. Her language and point of view communicates supportiveness to both genders, articulating the shared goal of equality at work and at home...
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...Historically, storytelling is one of the oldest forms of recorded, sequential human thought told for the purpose of entertainment to ever exist here on Earth. At its core, the art of storytelling contains many elements that make up a story. Such elements include characters: imagined individuals within a story, setting: where the story takes place- sequentially, and plot: the story being told chronologically. I shall be writing about two other ingredients of literature found within the stories “Godfather Death” by The Brothers Grimm and “A&P” by John Updike, universally identified as protagonist and antagonist. Primarily, I will be identifying and analyzing the protagonists and antagonists of both stories according to Kennedy’s and Gioia’s definition of the terms. According to them, the definition of a protagonist is: the principle person who thrives” and an antagonist is “a character who opposes and interferes with the protagonist as he seek his objectives”. In the first story, “Godfather Death”, the protagonist is the doctor. Even though the doctor is the protagonist, there were multiple actions taken by him,...
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...A Soldiers Home and How to the War Story Told I decided to choose the “A Soldiers Home” by Ernest Hemingway and “How to tell a War story” by Tim Obrien. I will explain each story and how the story are very similar in theme. “How to Tell a True War Story” examines the complex relationship between the war experience and storytelling. It is told half from O’Brien’s role as a soldier, as a reprise of several old Vietnam stories, and half from his role as a storyteller, as a discourse on the art of storytelling. In Tim O'Brien's short story, "How to Tell a True War Story", Rat Kiley's friend is killed. He writes to his friend's sister and when no response is given, he becomes frustrated. Due to this frustration he calls her a "dumb cooze." Following this O'Brien argues that this is a true war story because it is not moral, never to believe a war story if it seems moral. Next the story jumps to a forest where men need to be quiet for weeks. After a period of time goes by they are no longer sane. They begin to hear noises that scare them, and when they cannot take the silence and the creepiness of the forest they return to camp. When question about their return, the men do not respond, their story is in their eyes and that is enough for anyone who knows that a true war story "never seems to end," it is continuous even after it is done being told. A true war story is also never moral and does not generalize. The truth is so hard to reach. A person can go looking for the moral...
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