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In each of the 20 programmes, Attenborough discusses a particular subject of personal resonance, drawing on his experience of six decades filming the natural world. The series was produced by Julian Hector, head of radio at the BBC Natural History Unit. A second 20-part series of Life Stories called New Life Stories began on 18 February 2011. [1]
Lifestories (originally Signs of Life) [1] is an American medical drama television series that premiered August 20, 1990, on NBC. [2] Done in a documentary style with off-screen narration by Robert Prosky, Lifestories was an attempt to make an extremely realistic medical drama answering questions like, "What is it like to be told that you have advanced colon cancer?", and "Exactly what goes on ...
Elaine Aron, Ph.D., author of The Highly Sensitive Person (1996), responded to Quiet and its related Time cover story [17] by stating that Cain was in fact describing highly sensitive persons (HSPs, defined [42] in terms of sensory processing sensitivity) and not introverts (which Aron says is recently becoming defined [43] more narrowly in ...
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction is a 2006 collection of nonfiction by Joan Didion. It was released in the Everyman's Library , a series of reprinted classic literature, as one of the titles chosen to mark the series' 100th anniversary. [ 1 ]
The authors employed a Polish immigrant to write his own life story which they then interpreted and analyzed. According to Martin Bulmer, it was "the first systematically collected sociological life history". [2] The approach later lost momentum as quantitative methods became more prevalent in American sociology.
One single story could provide dozens of lessons. [74] Stories were also used as a means to assess whether traditional cultural ideas and practices are effective in tackling contemporary circumstances or if they should be revised. [75] Native American storytelling is a collaborative experience between storyteller and listeners.
The language is used mainly online on social media, in forums, and other online groups. [64] Users of the language are spread out across multiple platforms. A Yahoo! group existed from about 2002 to 2009, when it moved to a forum on a phpBB site. [65] [66] For a short time there was a Wikipedia written in Toki Pona (called lipu Wikipesija).
In 1940, the first Commonwealth Literary Awards were given by President Manuel L. Quezon to Salvador P. Lopez for "Literature and Society" (essay), Manuel Arguilla for "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife and Other Stories" (short story), R. Zulueta da Costa for "Like the Molave" (poetry), and Juan C. Laya for "His Native Soil" (novel).