Sentences with phrase «person narrative accounts»

The materials also include first - person narrative accounts from racialized licensees.

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He focused on how Comey called Trump and his staff «liars,» saying that Comey «thought so little of President - Elect Trump's first briefing reaction he started documenting everything» and pointing out that Comey «gave a first person account of an obstruction narrative.»

Crane's concept of plot can be adapted for historical narratives and for historical events if we make the transition from «people - centered» fiction to «event - centered» accounts of the past.

Before Chichester set out on his own around - the - world voyage in Gipsy Moth IV he read everything he could find in the way of first - person accounts of sailing the old clipper - ship route from Britain to Australia, and he has assembled the extracts in a stage - by - stage narrative with his own comments holding it together.

The works of Max Brooks, who wrote 2003's satirical and subversively political, «The Zombie Survival Guide», and 2006's, «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War», provided the kernels of inspiration for this mega-budgeted horror - action - thriller that mostly makes up its own narrative, independent of much of the book content (jettisoning the first - person account style and most of the events), to make it fit more with the ranks of current, eye - candy loaded popcorn movies than a thoughtful adaptation of the best - seller.

The Faulkner novel it most closely resembles is The Sound and the Fury, which unfolds over four days, beginning with the viewpoint of the character who understands the least about the events taking place — an idiot named Benjy — before moving backward in time to the viewpoint of Benjy's brother Quentin, then forward to the viewpoint of a third brother the day before Benjy's narrative, and concluding with a third - person description of the day after Benjy's account.

My colleagues at the website Hammer to Nail (where I am lead film critic) have watched the narratives Lemon (a meditation on race and gender starring Michael Cera and Nia Long), Person to Person (a dreamy murder mystery, also with Michael Cera) and the aforementioned Sylvio (based on a popular series of short videos from the «Simply Sylvio» Vine account), and praised them, so I am eager to check them out, myself.

For firsthand accounts from oral narratives, have students contact local African American community organizations for people who might provide oral histories.

Paul Revere, American Patriot Submitted by Steven Vetter Students learn about Paul Revere by examining first - person accounts, works of historical fiction, a popular narrative poem, and other resources.

Told in a subdued first - person narrative and colorful, dynamic Ledger Book — style art, this enthralling account outlines the life of the great chief and warrior Sitting Bull.

Interwoven with Laura's first - person narrative is the text of the book she's writing: a fictionalized account of her grandparents» meeting in Aleppo, Syria set against the backdrop of the Armenian genocide and during the last days of the Ottoman Empire.

Interwoven with Laura's first - person narrative is the text of the book she's writing: an account of her grandparents» meeting and subsequent romance in Aleppo, Syria, set against the backdrop of the Armenian genocide and the last days of the Ottoman Empire.

Narratives of loss, intrigue, histories and peoples move from the objective to subjective through the conflicting accounts of authoritative and apocryphal research.