Wwii Veterans - 3 Stories From This Vanishing Breed

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Many of our veterans have now told their stories. And some have even had them recorded for posterity. These three Orange County, California residents decided to description their life stories in veterans' videos in 2008. Now, in 2010, only two of these three are still with us.

Jim Peirano: Firing back at Pearl Harbor
Jim Peirano fired at Japanese bombers from the deck of his submarine Uss Dolphin during the charge on Pearl Harbor in 1941. He remembered with nightmare as the Arizona blew up scattering burning oil over the water - burning hundreds. Jim remembered the looks on the faces of the young Japanese pilots as they swooped in to drop their bombs. "They had the scarves and everything. You could see them real well because they were flying so low. It was just like you see in the movies!"

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Jim was consuming throughout the interview. Happy to have been a peruse to so much history and somehow able to consist of his sorrow at the terrible loss. Soon after Pearl Harbor, Jim's submarine left to carry the war to the Japanese:

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"We did not know anyone about fighting a war," he said. "We knew how to dive and practice the submarine. But the rest we had to learn as the war progressed."

Jim was at the battles of Midway and Tarawa and he saw service in the Solomon Islands where he helped save a group of 29 missionary nuns and children. He was in the middle of the "Battle of Japan" as he termed it, his submarine sinking many enemy ships. He stressed that American troops would drop leaflets on civilian populations before bombing runs, warning them to evacuate - a fact he said is often overlooked.

Jim left the service very decorated and with the rank of Lieutenant Commander and later revisited Australia, where he introduced the sport of ten pin bowling to that country. As he told these stories on his veteran's video, Jim's eyes shone. He was back in the moMent.

Jim died last year at his home in Laguna Woods.

Julian Ertz: His Buddy Begged to be Shot
One-time Footballer Julian Ertz, still alive and now 90 and also Laguna Woods, California resident, was anxious to fight in the war in Europe and trained as a pilot and a navigator. In December 1943, Julian and his crew took the "southern" route to England, via Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Natal Brazil then over the Atlantic to Dakar, Marrakech and finally Great Britain. The plane was stocked with candy for war-deprived British children the crew incredible to meet.

Tragedy struck for Julian and his crew when his B-24 J Liberator - named "Bachelors' Baby" on catalogue of the singular status of its crew - crashed on take off in Wales. As he tells in his veteran's video, the plane was loaded with 50 caliber shells. Julian suffered a broken back, and walks with some strangeness to this day, but still counts himself lucky. He was able to protection from the exploding bullets behind the plane's engine, which had become detached. Five of his 10 crew, and a sixth man - an unlucky hitch hiker - were killed. Booster, the mascot dog, was also killed in the crash.

He remembers to this day the cries of Sammy Offutt as he burned alive in the wreckage, begging Julian to end his misery with his pistol. Julian was unable to comply - he did not have the gun to hand. He does not know what he would have done had he had it. Julian returned to the Us in a full body cast - later studying law and becoming an attorney.

Sandy Ross: "It wasn't heroic. It was exciting"
Sandy Ross, who turns 88 in December and lives in Lake Forest, California wanted to become a pilot ever since his days as a Lockheed riveter, riding in the cockpits on the assembly line. Before America's involveMent in the war, he begged his father to let him go north to Canada to join up. His father refused. He did not have long to wait. Sandy and his brother joined the Army Air Corps and soon both were piloting P-47 Thunderbolts against German troops in Europe.

Proudly wearing his still-fitting brown bomber jacket and officers cap during his veteran's video interview, Wwii veteran Sandy Ross recalled some of his 51 missions over Europe. Asked about the dogfight that earned him the Air Medal, the great Flying Cross as well as a promotion to Second Lieutenant, he said: "It wasn't heroic. It was exciting. It was fun."

Our World War Ii veterans lived through some of the most dramatic times of the 20th century. It is important that their stories are captured for their families and time to come generations. Most of our Wwii veterans are in their 80's and 90's and there is a real accident to description their stories.

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discrete Types of Short Stories

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As there are varieties of subjects, themes and art, there are varied types of a short story. Some of the types are ancient tales, humor, saTire, fantasy, biography, education, local color, and history. Lets us have a behold on each one of them in this article.

1. Ancient Tales

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It is the power of the utilization of the Ancient form of the tale in the modern short story. Italian writer Giovanni Verga's The She-Wolf (1880), and Chinese writer Yeh Shao-Chun's Mrs. Li's HAir are great examples.

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2. Fantasy

Fantasy stories are nothing but the fAir combination of the old tales tradition and the supernatural details. The fine examples of such stories are British writer John Collier's nightmare fantasy Bottle Party (1939), Irish author Elizabeth Bowen's The Demon Lover (1941), and British author Saki's Tobermory (1911).

3. Humor

These types of stories are meant for producing surprise and delight. You will see that the most illustrious humorous tales and fables were written by the Americans. Mark Twain's The illustrious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865), and Joel Chandler Harris's The fantastic Tar-Baby Story (1894) are remarkable. There is serious humor in the works of Americans like Eudora Welty's Petrified Man (1939) and Dorothy Parker's The Custard Heart (1939).

4. SaTire

The main purpose of satire is to attack the evils of society. There are writers who wrote stories of sober satire. Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler's Fate of the Baron (1923), and American Mary McCarthy's The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt (1941) are known for their somber satire.

5. Schooling Story

Such stories revolve colse to the Schooling of the main character. The good example is American instructor Lionel Trilling's Of This Time, of That Place (1944).

6. History

History types deal with a life story or historical event. Welty's A Still MoMent (a 1943 story about naturalist John James Audubon) is fine example of story dealing with history event.

7. Local Color

These types of stories deal with the customs and traditions of rural and small-town life. You can enjoy the local color in the stories of George Washington Cable, Maria Edgeworth, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Mary Wilkins Freeman.

These are some of the types you may find in sort story genre. In up-to-date times, stories have more local color, diversities in the representations, developMent use of dialects, and vernacular impressions. The story writes have been taking somewhat flexibility in writing stories as they wish.

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Celebrating Black Heroes and Sheroes

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In some African traditions, the griot held the story of the local citizen - the village, family or clan. The griot pulled together the strands of the story which represented the varied citizen who took part in it. Kept these strands and held them safe. Savored them, treasured them. Wove them together to form a Cloth, a whole that blended the varied colors and shadings into a pattern which told the story of the people.

The citizen then heard their story. Their tongues sang it. Their feet danced it. Their hips swayed it. Their hands drummed it. Their fingers carved it. The stories of their ancestors, treasured, remembered, shared, and preserved for future generations.

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I was very fortunate in that my African American mother taught me from an early age to be proud of my heriTAGe. When she told me about the contact of enslaveMent, she told it from the perspective of those who had resisted and survived that enslaveMent. So I was encouraged to think of slavery and resistance as one and the same - a man who was enslaved resisted that enslaveMent as a matter of course. She told me stories of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth that still inspire and familiarize me, nearly 40 years later.

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In Afrika, under colonization, citizen were also often cut off from their heriTAGe and even forced to speak European languages. Under an study ideas which left them unable to uncover their home villages, and unable to speak with members of their own families, they could not communicate their contact to their own communities. And they were taught to believe they were first-rate to the 'backwards' citizen of the rural villages, and encouraged to adopt European religious practices, modes of behavior and so forth. However, they often have a stronger sense of their heritage than we, in the diaspora, may have.

During the time of enslavement, African citizen were not allowed to tell our own stories. We were not allowed to speak our own languages, or even to name our own children. Our stories were stolen from us, and rewritten in distorted forms. These distortions were then used to define and operate us.

But still, African citizen told their stories. They whispered them. They lovingly sewed their babies' names into their blankets. They told the stories of their homes, although much has been forgotten. Their fingers remembered. They baked them into breads and cakes, stirred them into soups and stews and rice. Plaited them into their children's hAir. And planted them in their gardens.

They made up their own words and their own languages. Creole. Patois. Gullah. They made new art forms, new musical forms - jazz, blues, reggae, rhythm and blues, gospel. Although much had been forgotten, stolen, lost, rewritten or distorted, still much remained.

In the African diaspora, we have been brainwashed for hundreds of years to believe that we are inferior to other races. During and after enslavement, our forebears were told that they were fit only for laboring and for serving their white masters, who were stronger, more intelligent and more able than they were.

Today, we see these stereotypes being perpetuated, in slightly altered but still clearly recognizable forms. In screen roles, along with Tv and film as well as adverts, we often see Black men portrayed as criminals or gangsters - tough, hard and violent. We rarely see Black men and women being portrayed as loving husbands and wives, and parents, in carport homes and relationships, or doing Jobs such as bankers, teachers or other figures of authority.

We have swallowed the distortions, the changes to our stories. And all too often, we have believed them.

Jak Dodd created the Nubian Jak board game because of this syndrome. He said to me:

"I worked as a communal laborer with a lot of young Black men and women. I noticed that a lot of them had a very negative self-image. If you asked most of them how they would communicate themselves or see themselves, or who they would recognize with, they didn't have a lot of Black role models in Britain.... So they would recognize with African American achievers and Jamaican gun culture. We all want to have strong role models that we can recognize with."

This brainwashing is often subtle, but it is very powerful. All too often, we are not aware of its ensue on us. Our negativity about ourselves and each other limits the kinds of opportunities we attract. It creates a sense of helplessness which often leads to aggression on our part as we assault out in disappointment at the limitations imposed on our lives.

These negative images have a profound ensue on our psyches - our known and unconscious minds. It becomes nearly unavoidable that, in the face of this remarkable disadvantage, we invent an inferiority complex. This negative attitude Black citizen often have about ourselves and each other gets passed down from parent to child, and from generation to generation.

As the journalist Henry Bonsu said to me,

"If you have no sense of your foundation, you're skeletal, you can't do anything. This is what's happened. And you have no sense of shame about anything. Nothing is below you. There should be codes of behaviour. It should be un-Black to mug and rob somebody. It should be un-Black to assault your teacher. Because you've always had discipline. You've always had balance. But unfortunately, it's become very Black to do these things for a unavoidable group of children. They think that's what being Black is, about being rough and tough."

We can see the effects of this brainwashing on contemporary African British youth. Those whose parents or grandparents were born in the Caribbean and were brought up to think of Britain as the mother Country often find themselves searching for their identity. In the '70s, many turned to Rastafarianism. These days, some of them, having rejected the dominant culture, turn to gun violence and gang violence as a means of seeking a unavoidable identity as strong Black men and women. Others overidentify with the dominant culture and seek to fit in with, and be proper by, white society, so unaware are they of their heritage.

In addition, our ignorance affects the way we deal with the racism we experience. When we are not aware of our heritage, we are not as resourceful as we might otherwise be in our responses to racism.

We don't strive to be all we can be. Instead, we rule for being second-, third- or fourth-best. We don't take life-changing or world-changing decision, we leave it to man else to make things better, and we hope things don't get too much worse. How often have you complained to your friends and family about your noisy neighbors, or your Council Tax bill, or moaned to man at the bus stop about how late the bus is? Have you taken this complaint any further?

And this is a qoute that affects white citizen as much as Black. When one section of society is failing to live up to its full potential, all of society suffers - we see increased rates of crime, we have to pay to police and imprison criminals, we live in fear of being robbed or attacked. And the man who could have discovered the next cure for cancer may be sweeping the floor of the local supermarket or sitting in a prison cell right now.

Conscious Black adults have to take responsibility for turning this destructive tide, this tide of toxic, negative thoughts, beliefs and attitudes.

Celebrating Black heroes and sheroes allows us to rule for ourselves what images will inhabit our minds. The more we celebrate our Black heroes and sheroes, and share their stories with one another and with the wider society, the more we can enjoy our true heritage as African people.

Many African people, such as Harriet Jacobs, author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, having escaped from enslavement in North America, published their stories, often as a way of supporting themselves financially. Some, like Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth, also gave speaking tours relating their contact of oppression to a wider audience. These Speakers were foremost particiPants and leaders in the abolition movement of the United States. Many of their speeches and narratives still exist, intelligent us as to how our ancestors used their strength, ingenuity and courage to survive.

Caribbean slave narratives are not as numerous, although it is enTirely likely that many more as-yet-undiscovered narratives lie languishing in libraries, universities, and people's attics. In Britain, our stories were often not recorded. Many British dealers held onto material in order to sell it to American collectors. The late Len Garrison, founder of the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, showed total commitment to building a monument in celebration of the proximity of Black citizen in Britain. He told me:

In the late '60s and the '70s, when I was talking about this collection, I went round to some of the museums to ask them if they had any material relating to Black history, and they would say, "Yes, citizen are coming to us with materials". I remember the Museum of Labour History said, "But we don't collect it ' we just told them that we don't know anybody who's collecting it", and so nothing was being collected. You would dream that labour history associated to Black citizen as it did for whites. But they hadn't collected it.

He took the initiative to seek out Black memorabilia whenever and wherever he could find it. He told me,

"I used to cut out articles in newspapers. I would just collect them. But eventually, I began to build up the variety by going to antiques shops, to Portobello Road and to second-hand shops."

When Afrikan citizen celebrate our heroes and sheroes, we take operate - we take fee of how we see ourselves and each other. The more we know about our ancestry and our heritage, the more we are empowered by this knowledge. This changes our whole attitude and our behaviour. We are no longer at the mercy of the negativity with which we are permanently being bombarded. And we have the opening to pass down our unavoidable images and attitudes to our children. And when white citizen celebrate Black heroes and sheroes, they reap the rewards of living in a multiracial society.

African citizen are good at all things - architecture, astronomy, astrophysics, and that's just the 'A's. We are scientists, teachers, explorers, educators, philanthropists, healers.

Black citizen are heroes and sheroes. We are successes. We each have our own Black success stories to tell. The more we share them with each other, the more we create an vigor of love and positivity which surrounds us and which affects our lives. It helps us to attract and join together with the fullness of the universe. It affects the kinds of opportunities we attract, and it helps rule how we reply to these opportunities.

We need to take responsibility for our lives and the lives of our children and others in our community. We need to take operate of our negative conception processes and do anything we need to do in order to turn them around. Then we can contact the intelligent and glorious fullness of the universe to which we are entitled, and which is our birthright. And the whole of British society will benefit from our prolonged successes.

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The Stories Behind Car Logos

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"What fools nothing else but we mortals are
To lavish care upon a Car,
With ne'er a bit of time to see
About our own machinery!"
- John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922), American author, editor and satirist.

Indeed, we care about and for cars more than we care for ourselves. And often, the first thing we care about is the brand, symbolized by the logo. Some of these car logos are celebrated throughout the world, promptly recognizable at a moMent's notice. The Mercedes Benz three-pointed star, the Ferrari prancing horse, the Chevrolet bow-tie - they recount the brand wherever there products are found. Here, we gift the not-so-well-known stories behind some of these customary logos, in no singular order. We have intentionally not included logos that are self-explanatory, such as those that include the name (or initial) of the brand - Ford, Honda, etc.

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1. Mercedes Benz: Two German car manufacturers, Benz & Cie. And Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, merged in 1928 giving rise to Daimler Benz Co. The celebrated three-starred logo was originally designed by Gottlieb Daimler in 1909, and subsequently featured on Daimler Benz cars. After Daimler's death, his partner, Wilhelm Maybach, took over the company and sold many Daimler cars to wealthy businessman Emile Jellinek, who later bankrolled developMent of a new line of cars named after his daughter Mercedes. Hence, the name. The logo is supposed to recount the brand's "domination of the land, the sea, and the Air."

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2. Ferrari: The celebrated Cavallino Rampante or "prancing horse" logo has its origins in a chance meeting between company founder Enzo Ferrari and Countess Paolina, mother of Count Francesco Baracca who had been an ace of the Italian Air force and used to paint a horse on the side of his planes. The Countess asked Ferrari to paint a horse on his cars for luck. The black color was used to symbolize grief at Baracca's death in operation while the yellow color represented his birthplace of Modena.

3. Chevrolet: The Chevrolet bow-tie logo is one of the simplest, yet most customary corporate symbols in the world. It was first used in 1913 and there are conflicting stories on its origin. While one system goes that it was inspired by a wallpaper pattern seen by co-founder William Durant, another says that it represents a Swiss cross in a homage to the origins of the other co-founder Louis Chevrolet. Incidentally, Durant had founded normal Motors before he was forced out and established Chevrolet.

4. Dodge: The brand has a new logo since this year, but most population still identify it with the "ram's head" logo. The logo first appeared as a hood garnish in the 1930s. The ram was chosen for its ruggedness, something Dodges have always tried to portray. In fact, so beloved did the logo come to be that Dodge trucks began to be called Rams. Today, it is still used for the spun-off Ram brand.

5. Buick: Not many know that Buick is the oldest American automobile manufacturer. Founded in 1899 by David Dunbar Buick, it was later acquired by William Durant and became the centerpiece of the normal Motors conglomerate. The logo was originally a singular shield representing Buick's ancestral coat of arms. In 1960, the singular shield was supplanted by a trio in red, white and blue representing the three cars then in the Buick stable - the LeSabre, Invicta, and Electra.

6. Maserati: This Italian luxury car builder was established in 1914 by the five Maserati brothers Alfieri, Bindo, Carlo, Ettore, and Ernesto, in the town of Bologna. The trident logo was designed by an artist and is based on a model in the Fontana del Nettuno (Fountain of Neptune) at Bologna. Neptune is the Roman God of the Seas and is represented with a trident in his hand.

7. Mitsubishi: The Mitsubishi brand of cars is member of a larger conglomerate that began life as a shipping firm in 1914 and is named after the Japanese words for three diamonds ("mitsu" meaning "three" and "bishi" meaning "water caltrops," also rhomboidal like diamonds). Consequently, the origin of the logo becomes clear.

8. Subaru: The name of the company is nothing else but the Japanese translation of the Pleiades star cluster, which also means "to collect together." Subaru is a group of Japanese communication conglomerate Fuji Heavy Industries (Fhi). The name refers to the five companies that joined soldiery (Fuji Kogyo, Fuji Jidosha Kogyo, Omiya Fuji Kogyo, Utsunomiya Sharyo and Tokyo Fuji Sangyo) to form Fhi. The logo represents the cluster.

9. Mazda: The company derives its name from the Persian God Ahura Mazda as well as the name of the founder Jujiro Matsuda. The stylized "M" logo, also known as the "owl" logo, represents Mazda stretching its wings for the future. It may also recount Ahura Mazda, who is often depicted by a flying sun-disk.

10. Audi: The company's name is based on the surname of the founder August Horch, meaning listen - which, when translated into Latin, becomes Audi. Horch had originally founded Horch Automobil-Werke, from where he was forced out before founding Audi in 1899. In 1932, Audi merged with Horch, Dkw, and Wanderer, to form Auto Union. The Audi logo of four intersecting rings represents this merger. Its resemblance to the Olympic logo caused the International Olympic Committee to sue Audi in 1995.

11. Pontiac: Gm may have declared its intent to phase out the Pontiac brand by the end of 2010, but its arrowhead logo continues to be highly descriptive on American roads. The brand was named after Native American leader Chief Pontiac who led a struggle against British career in the 18th century. While the earliest Pontiac logo depicted by a Native American chief's headDress, it was updated in 1957 to the currently used American Indian red arrowhead design, also known as the "Dart."

12. Bmw: Rounding off this list is drivers' beloved Bmw. The abbreviation stands for Bayerische Motoren Werke Ag (Bavarian Motor Works). The two-layered circular Bmw logo, also described as a roundel, has been interpreted to recount a spinning propeller, considering the company started as a builder of Aircraft engines. The white and blue colors recount the lawful flag of Bavaria, a state in Germany where Bmw originated.

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An Adventure Story

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The other day while trying to make sense of the world, specifically my own, a client was telling me about a charity Christmas Party- having lots of toys left over he did not know what to do. His friend suggested he take them to an orphanage where he knows the children are in desperate need of love and toys. On a general Christmas day he and his wife would run a soup kitchen but decided to visit the orphanage instead. As they arrived 50 wide eyed forgotten orphans dashed to greet them, with only one special teddy bear they asked the "mother" who they should give it to as they didn't want a riot on their hands. She pointed to a room and said "there's a minute baby in there who has just been brought in by the police after being found abandoned in a field, I think he needs something to cuddle tonight!"

Shocked and dismayed by the malnourished baby his wife swept the tiny frail body into her arms to hug him and could not let go, a 15 minute deed of goodwill turned into 3 hours, Christmas day turned to a restless night as the abandoned gift of god did not leave their thoughts. When they called the next day to see how he was doing the "mother" suggested they give him a name, St Nic of Santa Claus fame came to mind - So Nicholas it would be.

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Nicholas in fact needed love and help, after visiting the orphanage a join times they asked if they would be allowed to look after Nicholas at weekends, to take him out on trips and give him the love he so desperately needed. After a few weekends it was getting harder and harder to give Nicholas back on Monday mornings he always became so quiet when they had to say goodbye. The wife asked her husband if they might think adoption, initially he was against it, because of responsibility, financial quality and fear.

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God and Nicholas had chosen them, deep down he knew it was gods miracle and will, they became his parents they had fallen in love with him - so Nicholas went home.

Nicholas is now three years old, causes major feuds as all friends and house stand in line to baby sit as much as they possibly can - He touches the soul and heart of everybody and fills their world with delight

The miracle doesn't end there.....

Nicholas was diagnosed with Autism his parents had taken him to a scholar who diagnosed him in about 30 seconds flat. Bs they opinion - furiously they researched all they could find about Autism believing Nicholas could overcome this 30 second diagnosis. After all the specialists believed he was not 'off the scale Autistic'. ultimately they came over a community based in the U.S., with a representative in Johannesburg, which does not believe Autism exists, instead they believe it is to do with the internal organs.

After numerous tests they also found Nicholas had leaky gut syndrome and Lymes disease (parasitic infectious disease causing disability which is difficult to treat) To Mend leaky gut syndrome Nicholas was prescribed various medication and vitamins which takes half an hour every morning to swallow. Wondering what all these pills taste like his father swallowed a join and promptly threw up, yet Nicholas swallows them with minimal fuss. To treat industrialized lymes disease you use a specialized motor which in fact shakes the hanger-on from your blood cells, this takes 2 hours every night, not easy with a 3 year old.

Nicholas now sits and does puzzles like every other 3 year old. For his parents it's like winning the world cup, as lack of attentiveness is one of his many "problems."

Nicholas' parents joined a group called the smartie kids and found many citizen in this land of attractiveness and splendour looking themselves white parents to a black child in a country that was torn apart by racism, hate and apartheid, that is now been torn apart by politicians drunk on power.

As you'd imagine, the father tells the story much best than I have here, requiring days, not a 1 page brief. It is an adventure story, a miracle, a gift, a story worth telling. Which is my point. At the moMent, we all confront expected uncertainty, even chaos in the world economy, in our own markets, and by extension, in our lives and minds. Everyone's world is topsy turvy, our political leaders continue to allow followers their mindless hate rhetoric and the call to "kill" of their political adversaries - while they run the country like a bunch of drunken pirates. You may be tempted to wish for stability and protection and predictability, you may loathe the urgent need to creatively reinvent, to zig, to zag you may resent up-to-date investMent losses, a loved one or the turmoil and chaos you think your life has become. All that is natural, understandable and shared; some minutes of most days I too indulge in such thoughts, sometimes for way too long. But if navigation was always flat and a success status quo could be arrived at, each trip boring, each destination de-valued, there'd be a lot fewer great stories. Ultimately, the living of your own great adventure story is its own achievement, success and reward. Enjoy every triumph as you should.

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Motivate Your English Language Learners To Speaking improvement Using Comedy, Anecdotes and Stories

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Add These Suggestions to Your "Bag of Tricks"

Inherently, most people unquestionably do like to talk. That includes your English language learners too, although sometimes you have to unquestionably pry the speech from their freezing lips by any means necessary. Have you tried using comedy, anecdotes, stories and fAiry tales to lure them into speaking activities? If not, reconsider adding these five suggestions to your English or foreign language teaching "bag of tricks".

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1. Tell an Anecdote

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Everyone has a personal store of humorous stories, happenings or anecdotes that they're willing to tell. With learners and teachers alike, many of these might even generate in the Efl classroom. Family, friends, romantic interludes and vacation travels can also inventory for a amount of these.

2. Tell a Story

In many countries there is a tradition of passing down stories, fables and history straight through a series of verbal sessions by "Griots", or village story-tellers. Your learners may well a few of these they're willing to share before the class. Why not open up this selection to them? There's no question either, with using a few small, well-chosen props to aid in the story telling exercise.

3. Report a Fable

It's not only children who love stories, fAiry tales and fables. Either the origin is European, African, Latin American or Asian, your learners can try their hand at relating a well-known, or not so well-known, story or fable they know. If it originates from a local culture, it could be quite provocative for you too and is an excellent way to help to delve more deeply into the local or national culture.

4. Re-Tell a Fairy Tale

The most favorite fairy tales, in approximately any country, are often ones you heard or learned as a child. Allow your English language learners to try their hand at telling or re-telling these fairy tales in English using their own words, idioms, expressions and language skills to do so. They needn't stick to the "original" version either. A convert of endings, modified characters and plot twists are most welcome, thank you very much.

5. Tell a Joke

Who doesn't enjoy humor? everyone knows a few good jokes or a joker or two who can give you a few good jokes to tell. Go onto the internet for a slew of these. Check out your local library for collections of riddles, jokes and humorous stories that might be used to stimulate speaking practice in English class. Did you hear the one about ...

So if you haven't tried using comedy, anecdotes, stories and fairy tales to lure your English language learners and reluctant students into speaking activities reconsider adding these five suggestions to your English or foreign language teaching "bag of tricks". Remember, if you have any suppleMentary questions, comMents or assistance, just e-mail me. I'll be happy to help.

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The History of Storytelling

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Telling a story is a very definitive art of developMent citizen concerned and convinced about your point of view. We see a very good example of this quality of storytelling in Biblical accounts as well as other religious scriptures. Generally, stories are very provocative to the younger audience. This is the presume that many children books such as 'Jesus for children' and 'Jesus in me' are a part of church resources. These books are report compilations of Biblical accounts written in the form of children's stories.

Storytelling can be regarded as a very creative way of communication. The basic concept behind a story is to convey an idea, a thought, knowledge or a message in a more provocative way. The stories regularly carry clear grand aesthetics that may appeal to an audience to dream themselves as a part or character of the story.

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Although, citizen regard storytelling as human's innate quality or instinct, some citizen think it a succeed of human's natural desire of being appreciated or compliMented on their achieveMents. The latter definition of storytelling as a desire secondary to human nature is proven quite true because the earliest accounts of storytelling were based on fact rather than fiction. However, this statement still does not wholly define storytelling, as we have seen it evolve immensely throughout the history, and so did the motives and desires behind it.

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Strangely enough, the very first example of man's use of creativity and imagination as a form of communication comes from the primitive era of around 35,000 years ago. The splendid discovery of Aboriginal cave paintings revealed an provocative report of a hunt in the form of optic slideshow. This was possibly man's first endeavor to show off his power and glory. Numerous accounts of such factual events in the form of paintings and carvings are found dating back to the primitive world.

Later on, as civilizations began to produce we see a very strong relationship in the middle of religions and stories. The stories became so influential that citizen positively started to regard the myths as Gods. In Egyptian civilization, while the hieroglyphs recap the stories of bravery, greatness and immortality of the Pharaohs, they also give a very detailed catalogue of Gods and the life after death. In antique Rome, Greek, China and India the stories took a very fictional and magical forms and these myths eventually became the gods.

Despite being fictional, these stories were so influential because they were based on strong values and moralities and were more like a guide for human behaviors and ethics. It was while the same duration when performing art became a major story telling medium. This tradition lived on and took a major global exposure in the times of Shakespeare, whose stories were also a commentary on the evils of society.

The Shakespeare style of storytelling is regarded as the base of contemporary story telling. The only unlikeness is the media which traveled the length through paintings, narrations, literature, theatre and than television. Movies are probably the most provocative medium of storytelling now, none of the older forms has died out yet. By this fact we can assume that come anyone may, stories are here to stay.

The History of Storytelling

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