Some good places to start: Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr.,
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.
Seidel cites a passage from
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave in which Douglass recalls the impact of hearing fellow slaves singing in the middle of the night.
Last year we read
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, a former slave turned abolitionist and juxtaposed its reading with a viewing of Ava Duvernay's prolific documentary «13th,» which discusses modern - day slavery in the guise of mass incarceration and its direct correlation to a clause in the 13th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.
The «
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass» and poems by Walt Whitman and Robert Frost, which the teachers currently introduce in high school, were labeled middle - school texts.
Not exact matches
From a personal standpoint, poetry has a way
of making me remember
life's beauty, something mere prose or
narrative storytelling can not do with the same grace.
By being a part
of an exciting
live experience, they're able to reshape the
narrative around their own brand.
«But the
narrative about St. Louis leaves out the fact that St. Charles County and its elected leadership have helped make several communities in this area some
of the best places in America to
live, and that the region has one
of the best startup scenes in the country.»
Despite a real -
life narrative stuffed with secrets and suspense, the film version quickly feels bloated as Stone treats us to scene after scene
of Snowden struggling with his inner dilemma and, especially, with his devoted girlfriend, Lindsay, who is a major character in her own right.
Narrative is the sinew
of life; it gives context and depth to the information we share.
Humans have been telling tales for thousands
of years, which is why it's a great idea for the flow
of your demo to follow a
narrative pattern, whether it's a
live walkthrough
of your product or via a slide deck using visually appealing templates from solutions like Slidebean.
From its beginnings, it's been a place where
narrative artists — writers, filmmakers and the like — welcome the discipline
of structure in their work
lives, and build a community
of peers.
But for most
of her professional
life, Ms. Clifford has been a woman in control
of her own
narrative in a field where that can be uncommon.
Yet this personal
narrative prevents us from reaching our true potential and transforming the quality
of our
lives.
From Stories to ads to
live video, Instagram offers a variety
of strategies that marketers can use to craft a brand
narrative that produces measurable results.
A
narrative by campaign organizer Mandy Goodman read: «A kind, caring hero sacrificed his
life to save the
lives of children.
As we have said on many occasions, sometimes a theme or
narrative around an industry or trend can take on a
life of its own.
In this inspiring, multimedia keynote presentation, Carmine explores the art and science
of narrative to help leaders sell, inspire, motivate, build brands, and change
lives.
Most
of the content is about them, a mental snapshot
of who they are at that point in our
lives that often morphs into a painfully long
narrative for anyone under 25!
U nder the influence
of western painters who settled in Bali in the 1930s - Balinese artist started painting single scenes instead
of narratives tales, using images from everyday
life as their theme,
The origin
of the universe, origin
of life on earth, resurrection
of Jesus, historicity
of the Jewish nation, historicity
of the biblical
narrative.
Brigitte: to me, the
narrative of the death and resurrection
of Jesus means that there is hope
of eternal
life.
Slight update on SIGNPOSTINGS: I also found there Colin's reflections on what's good and bad about
living in THE GOLDEN AGE
OF TV — yet another postmodern yet conservative theme: Too much disdain for convention and ordinary storytelling and narrative, way too self - indulgent when it comes to the imaginative display of excesse
OF TV — yet another postmodern yet conservative theme: Too much disdain for convention and ordinary storytelling and
narrative, way too self - indulgent when it comes to the imaginative display
of excesse
of excesses.
This a staggeringly unhealthy
narrative to promote to our children about the way sexuality works, and plays directly into the hands
of a rape culture such as the one in which we
live: If you are a woman and ever get catcalled, abused, molested, raped or any number
of other sexual advances, you are probably at least partially to blame.
But something that has, I think, been neglected in the development
of this
narrative theology is the
narrative dimension
of individual Christian
lives.
But despite MacIntyre's eloquent exploration
of what makes a human
life coherent, theologians tended to find more compelling what he says about the
narrative coherence (or incoherence)
of whole traditions.
The problem is not just that we have become consumers
of our own
lives, but that we can conceive
of no alternative
narrative since we lack any practices that could make such a
narrative intelligible.
One
of the chief themes
of the
narrative theology that came to prominence in the Anglo - American world in the late 1980s and early 1990s was the centrality
of communal experience to the
life of Christ's Church.
This essay is adapted from his book
Life Genres: The Personal Dimension
of Narrative Theology (forthcoming from Eerdmans).
Wells describes his massive tome as «an attempt to tell, truly and clearly, in one continuous
narrative, the whole story
of life and mankind so far as it is known to - day [sic].»
The
life of the individual Christian, on this account, makes sense and achieves meaning through participation in this communally recounted
narrative.
This is somewhat surprising in light
of the fact that one
of the key texts prompting the renewal
of narrative theology, the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue (1981), is seriously concerned with the
narrative integrity
of a given single
life.
Reuters: Pope Benedict's third book on Jesus reaffirms doctrine
of his virgin birth Pope Benedict published the last part
of his trilogy on the
life of Jesus on Tuesday, delivering an early childhood
narrative which strongly reaffirms the doctrine
of the virgin birth as an «unequivocal» truth
of faith.
It is memoria, in this sense, that enables us to think
of our
lives in meaningfully
narrative terms: the whole project
of identifying and pursuing a coherent
life would be impossible without memoria.
Bertrand Russell, in his book, «Why I Am Not A Christian», He discredits the inspiration
of the New Testament: «I am concerned with Christ as He appears in the Gospel
narrative... He certainly thought that his second coming would occur in clouds
of glory before the death
of all the people who were
living at the time.
Also, the order
of creation in the genesis
narrative is directly contradicted by the available physical evidence, e.g. Gen — seed / fruit trees before fish v. fossil record — seed / fruit trees long after marine
life; Gen — birds before land animals v. fossil record — birds evolved from land animals, etc..
We don't just investigate the world at a scientific level: We also seek to give meaning to our
lives, and to connect our own small
narratives with the larger
narratives of the world around us.
The
narrative an individual chooses to embrace is largely dependent on the culture and society in which he was born and in which he
lives, and the beliefs
of people in his
life he's respected.
A short description
of all religions: A fictional
narrative intended to help people avoid dealing with some
of the harsh realities
of life and encourage them to be better citizens and members
of the society in which they
live.
I know many who have been made into quasi-libertarian radical federalists by this
narrative — after all, if we lower the stakes, surely the fights will grow less vicious — others, including MacIntyre himself, recommend the founding
of autonomous communities with a shared vision
of what a good
life entails.
It also places it in continuity with the experiences
of the early church, and within the continuing
narrative of the development
of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense
of and articulate their
lived experience
of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression
of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.
Christianity isn't a religion as much it's a religious smorgasbord, ideal for the church - shopping crowd, people who want all the benefits
of the core
narrative but want to be able to pick and choose how and to what extent they have to incorporate it into their daily
lives.
In this sense we say things like, «it is in the nature
of human beings» or «it is natural for human beings» to, for example, conceive and be conceived in male - female coitus, nurse their young, employ productive and practical reason, desire to know,
live in walkable settlements, think in symbolic
narrative,
live well, etc..
Christianity isn't a religion, it's a religious smorgasbord, ideal for the church - shopping crowd, people who want all the benefits
of the core
narrative but want to be able to pick and choose how and to what extent they have to incorporate it into their daily
lives.
But regarding the creation story, it makes specific factual claims (albeit, internally contradictory when comparing the two different creation
narratives) regarding the order
of creation which are directly contradicted by observable, physical evidence, e.g. earth before sun, the order
of the appearance
of particular forms
of life, etc..
But, in the biblical
narrative, the spirit
of the individual
lives on in heaven in communion with God and others or eternally separated from the Creator.
As a writer — or any kind
of minister or artist perhaps — it's hard not to turn one's
life into content or impose
narrative for every moment.
But mostly it has gotten me to finally look at the
narrative roadmap
of my
life.
The Continuity
Of Divine Life And Love St. John introduces his account of the passion and death of Jesus with an explicit statement that the narrative of the death of Jesus that follows is a.
Of Divine
Life And Love St. John introduces his account
of the passion and death of Jesus with an explicit statement that the narrative of the death of Jesus that follows is a.
of the passion and death
of Jesus with an explicit statement that the narrative of the death of Jesus that follows is a.
of Jesus with an explicit statement that the
narrative of the death of Jesus that follows is a.
of the death
of Jesus that follows is a.
of Jesus that follows is a...
This show suggests this is a common
narrative among our generation — that though Dory longs for a greater sense
of purpose,
life can turn out to be numbingly normal.
Jesus declares this truth to Martha at the heart
of the
narrative: «I am the resurrection and the
life.»