Essays on Story-telling

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The art of public speaking is the key to engage and spur audiences in to action. Many people are natural public speakers and some have learnt the art because they were forced to. One such example is Pastor Joel Osteen from Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. Joel Osteen’s 17 year journey in public speaking as a Pastor can only be termed as phenomenal. He took over the role of Pastor since his father passed away. Joel had not background in preaching ...

The Wolf of Wall Street movie overview

In the movie, DiCaprio of the Wolf of Wall Street plays Belfort, a penny stockbroker from Long Island who served prison term of 36 months for massive defrauding of investors in 1990s securities scam that involved widespread corruption in the corporate banking world and on Wall Street, including Steve Madden a shoe designer. Jordan Belfort teamed with Donny Azoff in 1990s, his partner and started Stratford-Oakmont a brokerage firm. Their company grew quickly to a staff of more than 250 from a staff of 20, and their status was elevated in Wall Street and the trading community by their exponential growth. So much ...

Almost God-Like

Although for various generations dramatic forms of tragedy and comedy were universally comprehensible and their subsequent embodiment in various literary and expressive art works were clear, contemporary world perception had changed to the extent that reality became so complicatedly tragicomic that narrative art had to review the very essence of tragedy and comedy and pay more attention to their mixture. Various cinema critics might argue that classical Hollywood perception of tragedy and comedy remains the same and does not violate the rules of those dramatic forms. However, contemporary cinematograph witnesses the phenomenon of Roberto Benigni’s comedy and subsequent ...

Introduction

Narratives and storytelling have been espoused with the development of our sense of self and personal identity. Illness on the other hand has been shown to potentially impact on the development of the self and identity. Medical sociologists create a distinction between disease and illness describing disease in terms of biology that is the underlying pathology and illness as the social response to diseases especially in light of the fact that we exist within a social context. Illnesses therefore have no biological basis and are termed social constructs of diseases. In essence therefore, the way a particular illness is perceived varies from ...