Citizenship and Community Course that asks students to be fully engaged citizens of many different but connected communities.

"Who Gets To Tell Story?"

My objective for the talk:  Telling or hearing story while conscious of the human ecology—listening to story justly with social consciousness of equality. 

I would like to define what qualifies as “story.”  I believe essentially that every person, artifact, ritual, etc. is story.  Everything we know comes to us via story; we are surrounded by story.  Story is the microcosm of the macrocosm.

In my presentation I want to prove four things:

1.)  Sentimental story erases truths

2.)  Hierarchy permeates everything

3.)  All stories are based in fear

4.)  Examining the essence of story