Memorable Stories Research Articles

Intergenerational Storytelling in China: Teachings About Family, Life, and Society Amidst Cultural-Historical Change

SYNOPSIS Objective. Over the past century, nationwide political, social, and economic reforms in the People’s Republic of China have drastically changed the structure of Chinese society and family life. This study describes the content of intergenerational storytelling in mainland Chinese families. Design. 193 emerging adult grandchildren recalled in writing a memorable story shared with them by their closest grandparent. Qualitative content analysis addressed what types of memorable stories are told by Chinese grandparents to their grandchildren and the central lessons embedded within those stories. Results. Stories in four broad thematic areas were told: (1) sociohistorical context and events, (2) existential life matters, (3) family history and dynamics, and (4) career and education. Across these areas, several subthemes and lessons learned by grandchildren emerged. Conclusions. Storytelling has the potential to build a bridge between generations whose realities are seemingly ages apart.

A POLICY ENTREPRENEUR’S EIGHT‐STEP GUIDE TO TURN IDEAS TO IMPACT

AbstractSheldrick, the co‐founder of Global Citizen, writes about “how to bring about meaningful change in today’s divided world.” He discusses the concept of the policy entrepreneur, which he says is “a term coined by political scientist John Kingdon.” Sheldrick’s eight steps of policy entrepreneurship are, in his words, (1) Know your policy goal (2) Know which stakeholders matter and how to influence them (3) Mastering the art of timing (4) Mastering the art of storytelling (5) Embrace pragmatic idealism (6) Leveraging your partners’ strengths (7) Know your endgame (8) Communicate stories of success. Within step one: “A well‐defined policy goal is a linchpin that turns good intentions, such as halting illegal deforestation or curbing the spread of infectious diseases, into impactful change.” In step two: “To drive effective change, you must go where those in power meet.” In step three: “Effective policy entrepreneurs identify the opportune moment to advocate for their policy goal and proactively explore ways to expand its acceptability.” In step four: “To craft a memorable story, emphasize the “why” to build trust and provide practical solutions—the “how” —for a chaotic world.”

Implementing Vladimir Propp's Theory of Narratology in Writing Skill using Bumi Manusia Movie

The main material object of this research is the movie Bumi Manusia. This research aims to reveal the narratives' function and learning aspect in the Bumi Manusia movie, which tells the story of patience and sacrifice in the face of European stereotypes of the natives. Then, this study also looks for the meaning of the struggle contained in each scene. This research analyzes the depiction of 31 narrative functions, the division of seven characterizations according to Propp, and the identification of various aspects of learning in the story. From the analysis, it is expected to find benefits to improving creative writing skills. The approach used in this research is qualitative and narrative structure, using Vladimir Propp's narrative theory. The results showed the structure of the Bumi Manusia movie as follows: there are 20 functions in the story. In analyzing the story above, it does not reach 31 narrative functions that are the same as Vladimir Propp's theory, and the order of the narrative functions is different from Propp's, and then there are repeated narrative functions. There are seven types of dramatic personae: villain, donor, helper, princess and her father, dispatcher, hero, and false hero. Despitefully, the various aspects of learning from the movie Bumi Manusia have deep messages in this story, including the religious, educational, and cultural aspects. Narrative structure is a fundamental aspect of writing that shapes the flow and impact of a story. Mastering narrative structure and integrating these elements into writing skills can create compelling and memorable stories that resonate with readers and leave a lasting impression

Resource roundup: Storytelling resources for marketers

How and where we tell stories about our institution might have changed, but the fundamentals of an effective, memorable story remain.

David Green as a mentor: Recollections from his last Ph.D. student

David Green’s significant contributions to psychoacoustics were already widely recognized when I began as his Ph.D. student. At that time, I was new to this country and had little idea of how really huge his presence was in the field. Working with him was at first difficult, he could be quite intimidating. But slowly, as my training progressed, I began to realize how very lucky I was to be his student. Our relationship continued well after my Ph.D. up until he passed away. I want to share my many memorable stories about him as a lifetime mentor and friend.

Resource roundup: Storytelling resources for marketers

How and where we tell stories about our institution might have changed, but the fundamentals of an effective, memorable story remain.

Story-based authentication for mobile devices using semantically-linked images

We introduce SemanticLock, a simple, fast, and memorable single-factor graphical authentication approach for mobile devices. SemanticLock uses a set of graphical images as password tokens that allow the construction of a semantically memorable story representing the user’s password. Passwords are entered via the familiar and quick action of dragging and positioning user-defined images on the touchscreen. It is well known that for (un)locking mechanisms such as PIN or PATTERN, users tend to pick memorable passwords such as dates or simple (often regular) patterns. This practice by users significantly reduces the effective password space for these mechanisms. The authentication strength of SemanticLock is based on the large number of possible semantic constructs derived from the positioning of the image tokens and the type of images selected. While graphical passwords have been shown in some cases to have lower entropy than other password types, we avoid this problem by (1) performing a series of experiments and analyses to understand which images and image pairs users prefer and then (2) selecting images that avoid any type of explicit or implicit bias, resulting in an effective password space that is essentially the same as the total password space. Results of our study comparing SemanticLock against other authentication systems show that SemanticLock performs similarly to PIN and PATTERN in usability while having significantly increased memorability and security.

Qualitative Review of Academic Advising Perceptions: Some Students Satisfied and Need It, Some Don’t

The research presented experiences in seeking academic advising patterns that produce satisfaction, urgency, and students’ academic and personal development at a university in Bandung, Indonesia. Data were collected using the story circle method. Four questions, including the meaning of advising, memorable experiences, perception of the process and advisors, and student expectations, were asked to answer the two main research questions. The two main questions involved the meaning and benefits of advising and satisfaction. A total of 57 respondents divided into seven groups of story circles were selected as participants using a purposive sampling method. Data were analyzed using a hierarchical Cresswell approach, starting from transcription, coding, categorizing, and developing themes. The results show that some students are satisfied with academic advising, but others feel dissatisfied even though it is important. The results also show that most advisors have created meaningful and memorable stories supporting student academic achievement. However, the relationship between lecturers and undergraduates determines the satisfaction level. The managers suggest from the research that it is necessary to hold coaching and counseling, training for advisors, and set a minimum procedural standard, including equating online communication channels because it minimizes the inequality of students’ satisfaction.

WAR AND VIOLENCE IN ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S A FAREWELL TO ARMS: A PSYCHO- SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE

Ernest Miller Hemingway (1899-1961) a famous American novelist and the Nobel laureate (1954), left his indelible mark not only on American Literature but also influenced the whole literary landscape of world literature. He has been hailed as one of the most influential American writers of the ‘Lost Generation’ whose iceberg writing style exercised a great influence on twentieth century literature. Many of his oeuvres such as The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, The old man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Garden of Eden are considered as the classics of literature. In fact, all his masterpieces speak of high standards of his art in which he created memorable stories of people, events, experiences and enduring actions. He passionately experienced and explored intense themes such as love, war, life, fear, trauma, violence, faith, courage and endurance in his works. Hemingway has a distinction of being a soldier-writer who both took part in world war-1 and wrote about it. The famous novel A Farewell to Arms (1929) is a first hand document of his war experiences that he felt and wrote about. The work is a testimony of war and its violence that seems to initiate a debate on the romanticism and reality of the war and its multifarious effects on individuals that destroy social, emotional, and psychological human order. The present paper sets out to explore the theme of war and violence in the novel from a Psycho-Social point of view in consonance with the contemporary issues that are still pertinent and relevant.

Economic, social and cultural concepts for building a healthy community among residents of a Japanese shopping street

PurposeThis study aims to highlight the value of economics, social relations and culture in building a healthy community by interpreting qualitative data.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative descriptive approach was used between June 2016 and May 2017 and interviews were analysed inductively. Twenty residents of a shopping street in Tohoku, a rural town in north-eastern Japan, participated in this survey. This study focused on the residents’ value of economics, social relations and culture in building a healthy community.FindingsPeople acquired economic benefits in the hope of gaining irreplaceable relationships with customers and residents, including memorable stories and heart-to-heart satisfaction. The narratives reflected not only the ideal aspects of social relations but also realistic and complex aspects, such as feelings of being uncomfortable with strangers, whether they were long-term residents or newcomers. The daily life of the town is a story, which is built based on customs fostered and strengthened through capital bonds.Originality/valueTo build a healthy community, people residing on shopping streets have unique care systems in which multiple glass shop windows make it easier to tell narrative stories, communicate or request assistance, which is very different from knocking on doors in suburban neighbourhoods.

Love Story

Love Story Kaj Tanaka (bio) A while back, my wife and I went to a restaurant because she was craving deviled eggs and I was craving raw oysters. We felt lucky, both of us, to have identified such specific desires and to have found a place so close to our apartment with expertise in those particular offerings. But when the old man brought out our plates, we couldn’t tell the difference between the two dishes. They looked, to us, exactly the same. What’s more, the old man, perhaps thinking he was doing us a favor, had not set the platters next to our forks and cloth napkins, but side by side in the center of the table. “For sharing,” he said. We don’t get out very often, my wife and I, which means we hardly ever eat such dishes. In fact, as we stared at the two plates, I couldn’t say for certain I’d ever eaten either food. We agreed about one thing, though: I did not want deviled eggs and my wife did not want oysters. And so, we found ourselves at an impasse. In a way, it felt like a puzzle; in another way, it felt like a trap. Years passed. The old man continued to refill our water glasses; customers came and went. We made trips to the restroom to pee, and we watched the seasons change outside the big window near our table as our two plates remained between us, untouched. Dust drifted through the air in bright flashes of sunlight. As time wore on, our plates acquired a certain familiarity, though we never identified their contents. We became students of the two plates, and the longer we knew them, the less we cared about our original orders. For example, I would come back from using the restroom, and I’d catch a glimpse of one plate and think, “What if this plate has been a ham sandwich the entire time?” My wife and I both love ham sandwiches. I looked at my wife and became so lost—so helplessly in love with her—that I completely forgot about the uneaten food on the table between us. [End Page 78] We passed the best years of our lives in this way. Looking back on that time from the place we currently reside, we remember what a dream it was the years we spent in that restaurant. What a thrill, to yearn for what we could not recognize, to be on the verge of understanding it. We took something small and fragile, and, together, we turned it into a beautiful life. [End Page 79] Kaj Tanaka KAJ TANAKA’s fiction has appeared in New South, The New Ohio Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. His stories have been selected for Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, and Wigleaf ’s Top 50. He lives in New Mexico. I love orality in fiction, and fairy tales—because of their brevity, their tight formal structures, and their strange events—are easy to tell, recall from memory, and retell again. To me, this is storycraft at its finest, and it is what I hope to create every time I sit down to write. I love simple, memorable stories that, though perhaps familiar, still elicit wonder in an audience. For this reason, I find myself constantly returning to fairy tales for inspiration. Copyright © 2022 Wayne State University Press, Leonard N. Simons Building

How do you solve the problem of aortic dissection?

Every vascular surgeon can remember stories of patients with aortic dissection having thrombolysis for a presumed myocardial infarction, or a V/Q scan and full anticoagulation for a likely pulmonary embolus. My most memorable story is of an international sports coach who developed tearing intrascapular chest pain during the first week of a grand slam tournament and presented to my hospital’s Emergency Department twice and was sent home twice with a prescription for Gaviscon. He felt so unwell he telephoned his physician in the United States who told him he was having an aortic dissection and to immediately go to another hospital and tell the receptionist that he was having an aortic dissection. He survived to tell his story but, given that type A dissection has a 1–2% mortality per hour within the first 24 hours, it was luck rather than excellent healthcare that saved his life.2 Whilst mortality rates are lower for acute type B dissection, they still reach 10% at 30 days.3 In short, aortic dissection is dangerous, carries a significant fatality rate and deserves a higher profile.

Game of My Life Pittsburgh Steelers: Memorable Stories of Steelers FootballThe Slide: Leyland, Bonds, and the Star-Crossed Pittsburgh PiratesHell with the Lid Off: Inside the Fierce Rivalry between the 1970s Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers

Game of My Life Pittsburgh Steelers: Memorable Stories of Steelers FootballThe Slide: Leyland, Bonds, and the Star-Crossed Pittsburgh PiratesHell with the Lid Off: Inside the Fierce Rivalry between the 1970s Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers

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This evocative autoethnography reflects the author’s grief after she learns that a past teacher candidate was killed on Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) flight 752. Grief washes over her as “writing down our worst experiences can also offer a way to cope with some of life’s horrors.”1 The autoethnography becomes “interventionist, seeking to give notice to those who may otherwise not be allowed to tell their story or are denied a voice to speak.”2 Memorable stories from the trauma become a composed collection of touchstones. In the end, the author discovers how “weaving personal experiences with academic research can reveal an understanding of complex, painful issues, such as death, grief, and traumatic loss,”3 in hopes to inspire others to share their autoethnographic experiences.

Pregnancy denied, pregnancy accepted

Pregnancy denied, pregnancy accepted Farisa Khalid H. C. Gildfind. Born Sleeping. Miami University Press, 2021. $20.81 pp. ISBN: 9781881163695 One of the most striking features of H. C. Gildfind's Born Sleeping is that it is written through second-person narration, a relatively unconventional narrative approach. One [End Page 299] comes across it, occasionally, in works like R. P. Warren's All the King's Men, William Styron's Lie Down in Darkness, Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's short story "That Thing around Your Neck." Readers—I include myself—are so accustomed to the third-person omniscient or first-person narrator that when suddenly confronted with the presence of that "you" on the page, they might find themselves disarmed by its intimacy. I was. H. C. Gildfind is an Australian writer and academic. Born Sleeping is her second published work, following her collection of short stories, The Worry Front, published in 2018, which was also reviewed in this journal in June 2019. Born Sleeping has some of the gothic elements of the stories in The Worry Front. Gildfind's protagonists are unmoored, paranoid, and at times, unlikeable young people sailing into the early part of middle age. The Worry Front is a more stylistically complex work than Born Sleeping. A novella, this work has a more hermetic focus. Born Sleeping is the story of a woman coping with the family trauma of her sister-in-law's stillbirth. In the midst of this tragedy, the narrator struggles with her own anxieties regarding marriage and fertility. She is also a woman frustrated by the expectations of bourgeois gender roles and femininity in the twenty-first century. As the story of a woman's breakdown and her eventual emergence from that breakdown, Born Sleeping is a work conducive to the kind of intimacy that second-person narration brings. Gildfind uses the "you" address throughout to emphasize that the protagonist experiences as a sense of existence dictated from the outside, an effective narrative mode as she attempts to deal with the realities of inhabiting various roles: wife, dutiful in-law, sister, friend, and woman. Born Sleeping is a moving, impressionistic, and probing journey of grief and self-reflection. It is about a woman's struggle to come to terms with the complex relationships within her family, her identity and womanhood, her own body, and the nature of embodiment in what often seems like a digitally heightened, image-obsessed twenty-first century. The narrator of the story, a writer, recounts to the reader how she learned the news that her pregnant sister-in-law, Mel, experienced a stillbirth. Mel is married to Stefan, the brother of Ivan, the narrator's husband. One of the interesting aspects of marriage highlighted by Gildfind in the story is the lingering sense of insecurity that sometimes persists in a relationship when a spouse's family is particularly clannish. The narrator feels like the odd woman out in this attractive, seemingly perfect household of do-gooders. The story has a confessional, voyeuristic feel, as if we were reading journal entries. The narrator recounts, over various recollections, her relationship with Mel. On the surface, it is pleasant enough, but secretly, she can barely conceal her loathing, jealousy, and resentment. Mel is more attractive, more charismatic, more popular, and loved by everyone, even, worst of all, on social media, where a photo of Mel's pregnant belly garners over five hundred likes and ninety-six comments (9). The narrator conveys the insecurity and anger she feels at being outmatched by someone who revels in the attention she receives: "Mel was feeling powerful. … She was the bearer of the first grandchild. She knew the beauty and potency of her young, pregnant body" (9). One is reminded of the atavistic and primal feelings that women have felt, since time immemorial, of the expectations and burdens of fertility and motherhood. As a novel about pregnancy, Born Sleeping follows at the heels of other memorable stories that explore how women come to terms with pregnancy and their bodies, works such as Yōko Ogawa's "Pregnancy Diary" from [End Page 300] The Diving Pool: Three Novellas (2008...

Storytelling in the Classroom: Facilitating Cognitive Interest by Promoting Attention, Structure, and Meaningfulness

Instructors often tell stories in class as a way of explaining course material. And, the use of stories can lead to improvements in student learning. What has yet to be explained, however, is how stories might lead to changes in students’ knowledge. Using cognitive theory of multimedia learning as a guide, the current study examined data from 231 students to determine how instructional storytelling associated with students’ perceived cognitive learning operationalized as students’ cognitive interest. Results supported the contention that when instructors used course-oriented, concrete, and memorable stories, they increased students’ perceptions of cognitive interest both directly and indirectly through an increase in their attention and their perceptions of organization and integration.

A Comparative Study of Love in Emerson’s Essays and Attar’s The Conference of the Birds

Love has always shone as one of the major themes in literature. A great number of writers and poets have enriched their works with it and created memorable stories. However, not many have delved into the very nature of love itself to see what it really is and where it comes from. Hence, the present essay aims to stay away from the typical analysis of love and will instead focus solely on the nature of this immeasurable force through a comparative view on Emerson and Attar’s thoughts on the concept. To gain an understanding of their spiritual thoughts, the research focuses on comparing and contrasting Emerson’s essays with Attar’s The Conference of the Birds. The study is descriptive-analytical in nature and follows the American school of comparative literature. Through the analysis it is revealed that the two literary figures share many similar thoughts. To both of them beauty and love are considered the source of the universe. Furthermore, in their views true love leads to self-knowledge. The difference between the two is shown to be that Emerson has a more humanistic approach towards love, whereas Attar has a more mystically divine one. In the end, Attar’s influence on Emerson is identified as well.

Everything is about the story

Everything in life is about the story, from our every day, our holidays and trips, to going to the theater or the movies. Everything is about the story and attending a simulation-based course is not the exception. From designing and living, a scenario all the way to debriefing and to the whole course experience at the end the participant will take away the story, will remember the story and will share the story. This story has to be designed to the details, has to be told through languages and has an objective centered on the learner. In this reflection, I discuss with the reader my opinion regarding the relevance of creating a memorable story because at the end it is all about the story.

PENDEKATAN PENDIDIKAN SPIRITUAL UNTUK MENANGGULANGI KENAKALAN REMAJA

Adolescence is a period of transition. At that time, there was a process leading to intellectual, spiritual and physical maturation in order to form a clear identity when facing doubts who their realities, resulting in emotional turmoil and mental stress. So to know the prevention of promiscuity in adolescence needs to be studied approaches to the development of their spiritual intelligence. The results of the study show that ways to deal with promiscuity are pursued by providing assistance to adolescents to formulate their life goals, short-term, medium-term life goals to long-term life goals, tell exemplary stories, interesting and memorable stories, such as the stories of the prophets, or another hero, discussing issues with a spiritual perspective, involving youth in religious rituals, bringing youth to people who suffer, and visiting the procession of death will make teens sensitive to each other so as to encourage youth to do good for others, teach the Qur'an and explain their meaning in their life.

The Polygon of the Bible Translation Efforts in Eritrea 1880-2012

Since the late 1860s, the missionaries of the Swedish Evangelical Mission (SEM) and their local colleagues initiated the production of dozens of literary works in Eritrea. The most notable of these is the translation of the Bible into four Eritro-Ethiopian languages: Oromo, Tǝgre, Tǝgrǝñña and Kunama. This article attempts to present the Bible translation story from a polygonal view, a hexagonal view to be specific: (1) the pioneers of the translation works; (2) backgrounds of some of the key translators; (3) the cities (countries) where the works continued; (4) the time spent to complete and print the translated Bibles; (5) the years that some of these workers stayed for in the translation projects; (6) and some memorable stories of the translation and production process. The combination of these six lines of narration, like the connected sides of a polygon, will not only give a more interconnected presentation of the entire Bible translation works if considered as one big package, but also show how a work such as the translation of the Bible that requires the combined efforts of local and foreign workers can produce a worthy result when the respective contributions of both groups of workers are given their due space and recognition.