How do Authors of Short Stories Create an Experience of Meaning? _

How do Authors of Short Stories Create an Experience of Meaning? Task: Flannery O’Connor says that a story is “experienced meaning.” Writers create this experience through tone, plot, point of view, characterization, and setting. Choose one of the stories we have read for class and use one or more of these elements to analyze how […]

Finding humor on twians stories the notorious jumping frog of

In an essay entitled “how to tell a story,” twain wrote: “the humorous story may be spun out to great length, and may wander around as much as it pleases,and arrive nowhere in particular…. it is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects there is anythhing […]

Themes across the stories of loss.

 Data Analysis Activity – Using the stories of loss from transcripts with women whose mothers were living with Alzheimer’s disease (Jonas-Simpson & Mitchell, 2004). Discuss categories and themes that you identify emerging in the stories. When you read the stories analyze this data from your chosen theoretical lens and/or ontological tradition (paradigm/worldview). Identify the categories […]

Read the book: Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in

Please read the book: Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business, Aswath Damodaran. This book addresses how “storytellers can better incorporate and narrate numbers and how number-crunchers can calculate more imaginative models that withstand scrutiny.” You will do a write-up on the book-minimum of five (5) pages (750 words) that discusses the book’s […]