The anonymous Libro de los engaños e asayamientos de las mugeres (LEM) is a collection of exempla consisting of a frame tale and twenty-three interpolated tales. It forms part of the Seven Sages/Sindibād cycle, shares source material with the Arabic Alf layla wa layla (A Thousan…
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The present study examined how the rhetorical form, "Not like now", was used by a traditional Kuwaiti storyteller. The expression, "Not like now", was used by the storyteller to imbue her stories with cultural, historical, and societal signification which served as a means to id…
Post-violence periods present sub-Saharan African countries emerging from violence with the challenges of social reconstruction, the rebuilding of peace and the redressing of legacies of human rights violations. To respond to these challenges, these countries are increasingly ut…
One of the distinctive features of biblical myth in general and of the Gospels in particular, as David Friedrich Strauss observed in his The Life of Jesus Critically Examined in 1835, is the making of myths out of historical (and historical-seeming) events. Strauss was the first…
I Am Pakistan is a project that aims to address the question of whether interaction design can be used to create human connections and foster the intrinsic motivation needed for becoming an agent of social change. Pakistan is a country riddled with crippling problems such as pov…
The purpose of this project was to determine if a contextualized teaching method using stories could be used with ministerial students from the Middle East to improve learning. The project looked at the world view of a small group of Muslim converts in a Bible school in the West…
The language of Sephardic Jews for centuries, Judeo-Spanish is no longer transmitted to younger generations. After decades of discouraging the use of languages other than Hebrew, the Israeli government has changed its stance toward minority Jewish languages and now actively enco…
This thesis investigates what can be gained by approaching social work reports and conversations as narratives. A conventional approach to social work accounting practices is to treat such documents as (more or less) accurate descriptions of social workers' clients, their proble…
This study is about "place making" in a gecekondu neighborhood in Istanbul--both in the literal and metaphorical sense. Place making unveils the migrants' multiple meanings of "home." It is a polyvalent activity realized through home, work, stories, and ceremonies. Gecekondu mea…
The act of telling stories to an audience is a trait shared by every society since ancient times. While storytelling was originally an oral practice characterized by performativity, soon the most popular tales started to be written down to ensure their preservation and transmiss…
The current study both supports and extends previous research on the content and discovery of Canadian males' dreams to the dreams of Canadian soldiers. Participants included 25 Canadian male soldiers with operational experience in Afghanistan as well as an age and gender matche…
Utilizing a heuristic methodology, this thesis examines the relationship of the Self with the Other in terms of the daily struggles of refugee children who are living in a protracted state of political conflict in the Occupied Territories of Gaza and the West Bank. This inquiry …
In the thesis: Histories of plastic word, we intend to study the use of the written and storytelling languages in the field of visual arts. In this sense, the inclusion of the verbal register in the art discourse marked a turning point for the first avant-gardes and, since then,…
Our youth face many issues; peer pressure, gang violence, family issues, and an uncertain future. Our local church, the Abundant Life Family Worship Church in New Brunswick, New Jersey, sought to provide our young people with resources that we believed would benefit their lives.…
In 1922 G. I. Gurdjieff (1872?--1949) arrived in Paris and began teaching a system of self-perfection gathered from the East and adapted for the West. Since his death in 1949 a growing body of secondary literature connected to his work has been proposed in fields as disparate as…