... "punishment" due to the child. It gave me a very sensational view of the incident, and made me think the boy was certain nothing short of a juvenile delinquent. The ABC broadcast gave less build-up, and little resolution, and a different version of the events, leaving me to wonder ... 5th on ABC news. However, the biggest difference in the reports was the time allocated to each. The GWN story allocated a very short amount of time, going into very little detail or explanations, mainly showing impressive graphics of paratroopers. The ABC coverage was far more in ... The unavoidable nece...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... seen in the different aspects of digital storytelling. Digital storytelling can be described as telling a story using a multiple of different digital mediums, text, audio, video etc. In effect to make short multimedia works. "Digital Storytellers are artists and writers that are passionate about combining the ancient arts of storytelling with the new and powerful tools of multimedia technology." (Harden, 1999) Leading ... communities, where readers can share and remember the happenings of their lives become established. Digital storytelling supposedly shares many of the qualities that ma...

• Word Count: 2215
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... -press premiere (The Business of Fancydancing, Hanging Loose Press), enjoys and celebrates the interplay between mythology and history, between "dreams" and "stories" and "visions" and "reality." Unlike many Native American authors, Alexie is as apt to evoke British rocker John Lennon or African American ... pay homage to other Native American artists such as Leslie Silko or Gerald Vizenor. The visions Alexie sews together in this new collection of short stories possess power--the power to "pick up the pieces of a story from the street and change the world for a few moments," ... lived."...

• Word Count: 413
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

On The Antler, by Annie Proulx is an excellent short story that deals with the issue of revenge, clearly through the story of the two main characters. This story, I feel, falls into the situation that there can be no new stories anymore, only different treatments of the same broad themes, which Annie Proulx put to me very well through her use of language ... revenge. In my opinion characterisation played a large part in this story and ultimately the resulting theme. The writer chose to start the story with a quite extensive build-up of the stories two main characters, Hawkheel and Strong, whi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... their bombs dropping in good formation (for the purpose of good-looking aerial photos) than the actual destruction of their targets. Catch-22 is actually more of a collection of related short stories and anecdotes than a story with a defined timeline; nevertheless, they are all loosely connected with each other, and they all lead back to Yossarian. The story is mostly based upon Yossarian ... at the complete mercy of their superiors who send their men into deadly situations to up their reputations. But, even as Yossarian is facing his own struggles, a collection of subsidiary stories de...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"There Will Come Soft Rains" is one of Ray Bradbury's most notable short stories, taken from one of his most popular books, The Martian Chronicles. However, despite his rather extensive revisions in past years (Eller 251), there are many "loose threads" that still deserve ... attention more than fifty years after the initial publishing. One of Bradbury's continuous improvements was to add more detail to his stories as he could between later published editions of a given story or book. While he did in fact add more vivacity to "Soft Rains", as in the case of refining the ... ...

• Word Count: 965
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In various stories, the setting is crucial and drives the action and behavior presented. Factors such as the time period, place, weather and surroundings can make a significant difference in the success of a story. ... a few more days must pass before that cheerful orb, due south, would just peep above the sky-line..." (London 127). Contrasting, if a man and his dog were merely traveling a short trail beneath the sultry sun in Florida, the purpose and action of the story would be remarkably divergent. If not within that actual specific time period and stimulating circumstances of ... ...

• Word Count: 1086
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate