Post 5 citations

Corliss, Richard. ": Disney's Ripping Rapunzel." Time. Time Inc., 26 Nov. 2010. Web. 03 May 2017.

Grimm, Jacob, and Willhelm Grimm. "Rapunzel." Rapunzel. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 May 2017.

"Tangled (2010)." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 03 May 2017.

Post 4 character parallels

The only two characters that appear in both the story and the movie are Rapunzel and Mother Gothel/enchantress, they are not really similar at all either. In the story the enchantress is like a mother figure to Rapunzel but unlike Mother Gothel the enchantress actually cares for Rapunzel and loves her like a daughter where as Gothel only cares for her because of her hair. So, they are both like mother figures. Rapunzel herself is very different in the story to the movie in the story she is the daughter of a pester farmer where as in the movie she is a princess by birth and doesn't marry into the royal line. Tangled's Rapunzel is very adventurous and has a lot more character development then that of the her fairy tale counter part. The Grimm Brother's Rapunzel is just sort of there to be rescued and that pretty much it. I personalty like what has become of the long haired princess thanks to Disney, though it is not as close to the original story by the Grimm Brother it is a nice adaptation.  

Pot 3 Movie review

Tangled: Disney's Ripping Rapunzel by Richard Corliss - TIME  

What's happened to heroines in animated features? For 60 years of the Walt Disney Company's domination of the format, girls were the focal characters who could be expected to come of age, triumph over adversity and, in general, man up. But the current animation zeitgeist at Pixar, DreamWorks and Fox's Blue Sky (the Ice Age series) concentrates on buddy movies and has all but abolished female-centered stories. It can't be simply that the Cartoon Directors' Club is almost exclusively a male preserve, since the classic Disney films, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Mulan, were also men-made. It may be that their bosses think girls will go to boys' movies but boys won't go to girls'. Feature animation is an expensive business, and gynocentric films are seen as a niche too small to be worth the cost. 

At the Disney animation unit, now supervised by Pixar's John Lasseter, there's still a belief in girl power — as shown, with spectacular élan and artistry, in last year's The Princess and the Frog and today in the pleasing, warming Tangled. It's the Brothers Grimm story of Rapunzel, imprisoned in a high tower by a witch, with the girl's long hair the witch's only means of access and egress. Under house arrest for years, agitating for her freedom, mourned by the kingdom that misses her, she's the Aung San Suu Kyi of fairy-tale heroines. Just a few differences: Rapunzel (voiced by Mandy Moore) has 70-ft.-long (21 m) tresses that can serve as a rope ladder; her jailer is not the Burmese government but the crone Gothel (Donna Murphy); and whereas Suu Kyi remained in confinement while her husband died of cancer in London, our princess finds a dashing thief, known as Flynn Ryder (Zachary Levi), to facilitate her escape.

Ever since Walt's day, Disney animators have thought that a musical film could be made from the Grimm brothers' story. It has the skeletal plot — yearning heroine, wicked overseer and male savior — of Disney cartoon epics in the studio's early years (Snow White, Cinderella) and its '90s renaissance (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast). As of 2005, Rapunzel Unbraided, as it was known, was to be the first feature directed by honored Disney animator Glen Keane. Five years later, in a history as long and twisted as its heroine's hair, there's finally a movie, with Byron Howard and Nathan Greno directing and Keane back in his customary role as character animator supreme.

The title was changed to Tangled because The Princess and the Frog was no great shakes at the box office and because Disney wanted to make the project seem less ... girlish. The trailers suggest that the movie is an action comedy about a roguish guy (Flynn) whose mission is to storm the tower and free the girl inside. But no: this is your basic, and very enjoyable, Disney princess musical, an empowerment tale to teach bright, dreamy girls how to grow to maturity — and outgrow the adults in charge.

In the Grimm version, the husband in a childless couple sneaks into the garden of Gothel the witch to steal a flower that guarantees fertility; the witch catches him and demands the couple's firstborn, whom she raises as her captive daughter until a prince shows up, etc. (Ignored in all versions is this question: If Rapunzel can secure her tresses to a hook to allow the witch to climb up and down, why can't she hook the end of her coiffure and climb down it?) Here Gothel discovers that the girl's hair somehow brings eternal youth, or at least chic middle age, to an old witch. She can swan around as long as her victim stays locked up. Gothel knows the secret that many American parents act out but are slow to acknowledge: that confining their teens in enforced preadolescence helps them feel younger too.

As if uneasy at being left behind by the competition, this Disney near classic wades into the DreamWorks style of sitcom gags and anachronistic sass. ("Sorry, Blondie," Flynn tells Rapunzel at one point, "I don't do backstory.") But the visual palette is more sophisticated, especially in the scenes where sparkling nocturnal lanterns illuminate Rapunzel's birthday, and the film gradually achieves the complex mix of romance, comedy, adventure and heart that defines the best Disney features. The inevitable animal friends — a horse for Flynn and a chameleon for Rapunzel — radiate plenty of personality without speaking. Moore does well by her slightly underwritten role, while Murphy, a treasured musical-theater diva for a quarter-century (The Human Comedy, Song of Singapore, Passion, The King and I)) makes Gothel one of the most potent schemers in the Disney canon. Visually, the character suggests Bebe Neuwirth in her Morticia Addams get-up, but no one can summon the malice in humor, and the fun in pain, like this prima Donna.

Tangled is the first Disney animated feature since 1997 with music by Alan Menken, who scored most of the studio's renaissance films back when numbers from cartoon musicals not only monopolized the Academy Awards' Best Original Song category but also broke out as top-of-the-pops hits and instant standards. His The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, along with Elton John's The Lion King, became long-running Broadway shows. Tangled should be even easier to adapt to the stage, since for once the main characters are all human — no singing teapots, monsters or meerkats required.

The songs, with lyrics by Glenn Slater, don't sound on first hearing like top-drawer Menken, but they smoothly fill their functions. The opener, "When Will My Life Begin," is the heroine's "I wanna" song, a Disney tradition that stretches back to Snow White's "Some Day My Prince Will Come." The witch's "Mother Knows Best" is a pot of poisoned honey from the killer queen bee. Menken and Slater also contribute a generically tuneful love ballad, "I See the Light," which is sure to be nominated for a Best Song Oscar, and a criminals' chorus called "I've Got a Dream." Proclaiming that every scurvy brigand is at heart just a Broadway gypsy between shows, it's the score's main example of roistering wit. The song will play superbly as the second-act opener in the stage version we're imagining, for which we can also award Murphy a just slightly premature Tony as Best Actress in a Musical.

First, though, the movie version has to be a hit. So give the kids a break from mopey Harry and the dawdling Hallows — give yourself a break too — and get caught up in Tangled.

Post 2: Comparison and Contrast

The movie Tangled, based on the Brothers Grimm tale, is vastly different form the actually story by the Brothers Grimm. In the story Rapunzel's parents are not king and queen but two poor present farmers. They also strike a deal with an enchantress to have all the special lettuce/plant, which happens to be named Rapunzel, in exchange for there first born daughter, after the husband is caught stealing the lettuce/plant. Where as in the movie Gothel steals the girl because of here magical hair. Another difference in the movie and the story is the Rapunzel is treated by the enchantress/ Mother Gothel, in the movie Mother Gothel only cares for Rapunzel's hair where as in the story the enchantress treats her like she is her own child and loves her. One of the larges contrasts is that in the story Rapunzel is visited daily and falls in love with a price, in the movie Flynn, a thief, hides from his pursuers in the tower she is kept in. the movie adaptation has the plot changed as well, in the fairy tale Rapunzel is cast out of the tower by the enchantress and is sent to wondered the forest/desert because she tries to leave with the prince and the prince comes to rescue her form the tower and is tricked by the enchantress and is blinded. the duo find each other and Rapunzel cries and the tears heal the price and they live happily ever after. In the case of the movie the plot is that Rapunzel wants to leave the tower to see the lanterns and Mother Gothel wont let her, fearing that she will be found. After being found by Flynn and is taken to the lanterns and find out she is a princess...in short. in the original story Rapunzel isn't even a princess, she's just a farmers daughter. the only real similarities are that Rapunzel is Rapunzel and the story involves a tower and a girl who becomes a princess/ returns to being a princess.

Post 1 Movie origins

For this assignment i chose to do the movie Tangled which is based on the Brothers Grimm tale Rapunzel. It was released on November 10th in 2010 and was directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard and written by Dan Fogelman along with help from the original tale written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Nathan Greno is known for his work on the blockbuster hit Frozen along with Meet the Robinsons. Byron Howard is known for his work on the resent film Zootopia along with Bolt and Lilo and Stitch. (IMDb) 

Plot Summary: After receiving the healing powers from a magical flower, the baby Princess Rapunzel is kidnapped from the palace in the middle of the night by Mother Gothel. Mother Gothel knows that the flower's magical powers are now growing within the golden hair of Rapunzel, and to stay young, she must lock Rapunzel in her hidden tower. Rapunzel is now a teenager and her hair has grown to a length of 70-feet. The beautiful Rapunzel has been in the tower her entire life, and she is curious of the outside world. One day, the bandit Flynn Ryder scales the tower and is taken captive by Rapunzel. Rapunzel strikes a deal with the charming thief to act as her guide to travel to the place where the floating lights come from that she has seen every year on her birthday. Rapunzel is about to have the most exciting and magnificent journey of her life. (IMDb) 

Values that Tangled teaches: 

Love- Most importantly love concourse all, near the end of the movie Flynn is stabbed by Mother Gothel. Flynn the cuts Rapunzel's hair and it loses its power and Gothel turns to dust, with the last of her power and her love she sheds a tear that heals Flynn, they then return to the castle and Rapunzel reunites with her mother and father the queen and king. 

Open mindedness- There is a scene where the duo, Flynn and Rapunzel, go into a bar with a bunch of seedy looking characters. Flynn warns Rapunzel that they are not safe and that they should return to the tower but after Rapunzel mentions that she has a dream to see the lanterns the bandit looking characters actually help them to escape when guards come looking for Flynn. It teaches you to not judge a book by its cover.

  

Valuables in Tangled:  

Rapunzel – she values her paints, books, and her chameleon companion Pascal. Though she doesn't own them, she values the lanterns that appear on her birthday from the castle, not knowing they are meant for her. By the end of the movie she values Flynn, whose name is actually Eugene, and her parents. 

Mother Gothel – She values nothing but the flower and the magic it brings, she values the hair on Rapunzel's head more than Rapunzel herself.  

 Flynn Rider – At the start of the movie all he cares about is the tiara and the money he will make off of it. But as the movie progresses he begins to care about Rapunzel more than anything so much that he was about to give up his life for her. 

Biography source

Biography.com. "Geronimo Biography." Biography. A&E Television Networks, 4 Sept. 2015. Web. 9 Apr. 2017.

Folktale Post 4) helping contemporary readers

In all honestly i don't see Ishjinki and Buzzard being a story that help contemporary readers understand the native American Experience. Other then the point i mentioned on my previous post about showing the values on kinship and ancestry. I see it as more of a funny way to show the origins of our present day buzzard with a small hit to native american culture.

Folktale post 3) sense of values

When reading Ishjinki and Buzzard you can see that Native Americans, even in a comic book style, really care about ancestry and respecting your elders and how they are all one people. You can see this in how he refers to Buzzard as grandfather and how he calls the girls that release him form the tree sisters-in-law.

Folktale post 2) what it teaches

This story teaches one simple rule, don't mess with people because you never know how and when they will get back at you. It also give you a look into the origins of the buzzard about why the stink and why the are bald, which i think is really neat.

Native American Folktale post 1) Summary

The folktale i decided to write on was from the Trickster tales graphic novel we read in class, I chose one of the stories we didn't read that i came across and found funny. It is called Ishjinki and Buzzard by Jimm Goodtracks and illustrated by Dimi Macheras. The story opens with Ishjinki talking to Buzzard, who he refers to as grandfather, and asks buzzard if he can walk where he walks, meaning if he can fly. at first Buzzard says no, that Ishjinki is meant to be on the ground, but after saying that Buzzard should pity Ishjinki he takes him on his back and fly Ishjinki in the sky. As they fly Buzzard tilts to one side and almost drops Ishjinki as he approaches a dead tree he dose it agai and drops Ishjinki into it. after tricking some women to open the tree Ishjinki escapes and wants to get back at Buzzard. to do so he turns himself into a dead horse, this doesn't trick Buzzard. Then into an Elk, which does trick Buzzard. Buzzard stars to peck at an open wound on the elk, Which is actually Ishjinki's butt, and gets trapped inside. after days and days buzzard is free and has no feathers on his head and he stinks.

Biography post 3) Response to European / American contact

With the U.S. invading Apache territories after the Mexican-American war tensions were high butt he Chiricahua leader, Geronimo's father-in-law, Cochise, could see where the future was headed (Biograhpy.com,2015). The revered chief called a halt to his decade-long war with the Americans and agreed to the establishment of a reservation for his people on a piece of Apache property (Biograhpy.com,2015). But within just a few years, Cochise died, and the federal government reneged on its agreement, moving the Chiricahua north so that settlers could move into their former lands (Biograhpy.com,2015). This act only further angered Geronimo, setting off a new round of fighting, Geronimo proved to be as elusive as he was aggressive (Biograhpy.com,2015). However, authorities finally caught up with him in 1877 and sent him to the San Carlos Apache reservation, for four long years he struggled with his new reservation life, finally escaping in September 1881 (Biograhpy.com,2015). Over the next five years they engaged in what proved to be the last of the Indian wars against the U.S. Finally, in the summer of 1886, he surrendered, the last Chiricahua to do so (Biograhpy.com,2015). Over the next several years Geronimo and his people were bounced around, first to a prison in Florida, then a prison camp in Alabama, and then Fort Sill in Oklahoma (Biograhpy.com,2015). In total, the group spent 27 years as prisoners of war (Biograhpy.com,2015).

Biography post 2) Significant moment

A very significant moment in Geronimo's life time was his marriage to Alope and the tragedy that befell her and her three kids (Biograhpy.com,2015). While out on a trading trip Mexican soldiers attacked his camp, word of the ransacking soon reached the Apache men and quietly that night Geronimo returned home (Biograhpy.com,2015). Where he found his mother, wife and three children all dead (Biograhpy.com,2015). The murders of his wife and three kids devastated him (Biograhpy.com,2015). Fallowing Apache tradition Geronimo set fire to his family's belongings and then went into the wilderness to morn the deaths (Biograhpy.com,2015). While doing this he heard voice speak to him saying "No gun will ever kill you. I will take the bullets from the guns of the Mexicans … and I will guide your arrows." (Biograhpy.com,2015) Backed by this sudden knowledge of power, Geronimo rounded up a force of 200 men and hunted down the Mexican soldiers who killed his family (Biograhpy.com,2015).

Biography post 1) Background

For my biography I decided to look at the Native American war hero Geronimo.

Tribal Affiliation-
       Geronimo was an Apache, belonging to the smallest band within the Chihuahua tribe, the Bedonkohe, which only had around 8,000 tribesman and women (Biograhpy.com,2015).

Childhood Experiences-
        Geronimo was born in June of 1829 in No-Doyohn Canyon in Mexico (Biograhpy.com,2015). As a young boy he was a gifted hunter and, supposedly a the story goes, he ate the heart of his first kill to "ensure a life of success on the chase.", this is common practice as it shows that killing is not to be taken lightly as it shows that the kill is giving its life so you may live (Biograhpy.com,2015). At the age of 17 Geronimo led four successful raids on neighboring tribes and villages, at this time the Mexican government was offering money for the scalps of Apaches, this though did not deter Geronimo (Biograhpy.com,2015).

Contact with Europeans/Americans-
       After the Mexican-American War in 1848 the united states began to take large areas of territory from Mexico, including Apache land (Biograhpy.com,2015). After gold was found in the Southwest many American settlers and miners moved int the area, which made tension between the U.S and Apaches grow (Biograhpy.com,2015). This caused increasing larger attacks on stage coaches and wagon trains (Biograhpy.com,2015).

How the graphic novel bring the stories to life.

I fell like visualization is the hardest things for people who don't read often to do when reading, to make the words on the page into an image in your head. Graphic novels and comics help that, it gives the reader an idea of what they need to be visualizing and give the reader an idea of how the settings and characters look. Graphic novels are also a great way for people who are good visualizers to validate what they think characters and settings look like, kind of how movies do... but better. That's how I think graphic novels bring stories to life.

Lessons taught by the rabbit, coyote, and raven

In many folk tales the goal of the story is to teach a lesson of some sort. They normal due this through the main character and his or her actions but sometimes it can be an event or secondary characters actions. In the tale When coyote decided to get married a well know coyote decides to settle down and start a family and a chief, who is a friend of his, helps him do so. he sends runners in all directions to find the most beautiful women in the land but they must be pure for them to marry coyote. The most beautiful maiden is brought to coyote but she is not pure and coyote turns her and her family into stone. So, you could say that this story teaches the lesson always be honest because the truth comes out. Sometimes the tales show you the origin of how something is the way it is as well as teaching you a lesson. In the tale Rabbit's Choctaw Tail rabbit tries to trick fix into giving him his catfish, fox refuses but in turn teaches him how to fish. At this point in time rabbit has a large tail  and fox says all he has to do is cut a hole in the ice and stick his tail in and hell catch a fish. Rabbit does this and to get out of the cold water he jumps up when he feels something tugging on his tail, After jumps out he complains that his rump is cold and and he sees that his tail is gone. So this story teaches the reader that you shouldn't bother people with nonsense and you should trick them out of there things. In the tale Raven the Trickster, a raven tricks his way out of being held captive by a sea anemone, tricks a beluga whale into opening his mouth open wide so raven can fly in, for what ever reason, and tricks some whalers into leaving there whale blubber because raven makes them believe its cursed. So, the lesson i would take away from this... don't trust ravens.

Trickster rabbits similarities and differences.

In the stories we have read the rabbits as a trickster is a common theme. In most stories they are very similar, These rabbits always have similar goals in mind, they want something (food, power, safety) and they exploit others to get it. In Rabbit and the Tug of War rabbit tricks to buffalo into facing each other in a tug of war thinking that they are both facing rabbit. After the buffaloes figure out that they have been tricked they banish rabbit from the watering hole. After rabbit is banished he uses a deer's hooves to trick the poorly sighted buffalo into thinking he is a deer so he can get water from the watering hole. Similarly in one Diasporic African tale brer rabbit tricks a cow into ramming a persimmons tree. She gets her horns stuck and brer rabbit and his family milk her, which she is against. The types of stories really don't differ all that much, the characters all have the same motivation, be it food, or safety, or power and each story teaches the reader a lesson most of the time.

Compare Black Elk Speaks to Ikto Conquers Iya, the Eater

The story Ikto Conquers Iya, the Eater is about two brother spirits, or supernatural entities, in the story Ikto comes across his younger brother Iya on his way to devour another tribal village. Ikto then has an idea to save this village, when Iya sleeps Ikto sees in Iya's belly all the villages he has eaten living in Iya and Ikto comes up with a plan to save them as well. When the duo is nearing the village Ikto asks Iya what he fears most which for Iya as the sounds of rattle, drums, and owls hooting. So, As they get closer to the village Ikto says he will go on a had when he arrives at the village before Iya he warns the villagers and rallies them to go attack Iya with drum and rattles. They sneak up on Iya and charge him and kill him and for the next day they release all the villages trapped with in him. And that is how the people moved to the continent, form what I understand. In Black Elk Speaks the leaders of the tribes have a vision and are told to preform a ghost dance with red paint and two eagle feathers. Once they have completed this ghost dance the two eagle feather were said to show the tribe they way to being all their people together, in this way Black Elk Speaks in similar to Ikto Conquers Iya, the Eater as at the end of Ikto vs. Iya all the tribes are brought together as well.

Black Elk on the topic of ancestors

There are many points within the book Black Elk Speaks where he talks of his grandfathers meaning his ancestors. In chapter three Black Elk becomes very sick and he has a vision. In this vision two men descended from the sky carrying flaming spears and told Black Elk "Hurry! Come! Your Grandfathers are calling you!" As Black Elk and the men ascended they came upon a bay horse which took Black Elk to his Grandfathers. After the vision showed him some super natural horses, with manes made of lighting, blizzard winds, and vines, Black Elk came across a tepee made of clouds with rainbow door and within it were six old men sitting in a row. As they spoke to him they gave him the power of life and the power to destroy in the form of a wooden cup filled with water and a great bow respectively. They told him to take these things and his courage because "on earth a nation you shall make live, for yours shall be the power of the white giant's wings, the cleansing wind." Basically his ancestors are telling him that he will be the one to help his people. Then in chapter 21 Black Elk remembers the times that he talked to his ancestors and what they wanted him to do, to bring his people back into the great hoop. For many native american tribes their ancestors are the people they look to for guidance and to see what they should do next, they are of great impotence to most ever native tribe.

Post #5 Resources

Ethan Frankfort
Dr. Pack
Tales in Folklore
March 4th, 2017

Work Cited 

Frankfort, William. personal interview. 4 March 2017.

Frankfort, William D. William "Wild Willy" Frankfort . Digital image. Powder Horns and Friends . Wordpress, 14 June 2012. Web. 4 Mar. 2017.

Lucas, Scott. Painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Digital image. SanFrancisco magazine . SanFrancisco magazine , 9 Sept. 2013. Web. 4 Mar. 2017.

Frankfort, William. Personal Photograph. Three Horns. June 2012. 

Post #4 folklore and occupation.

I asked my dad for an example of folklore that impacted his life. He answered with the big scary things that would get you if you went into the woods by yourself. That kind of thing scared him until he got older and understood that it was just his mom not wanting him to go out alone, he also used that on use when my brother and I were young too. No tall tales or anything like that impacted his life because he had to grow up rather quickly and gain an understanding of the world. When I asked my father is occupation I thought he would give me a list of all the things that he has done over the years but he just told me that he was an artist. One of the big things he does though is he makes historic reproductions of tools, art and other objects for around the 16th and 17th century. I also brought up his job as a historical reenactor but he didn’t go into to much detail about that. When I asked him how his many jobs as an artist made an impact on his life he answered that it just made him a better artist and when he attributed it to making reproductions he said he had a distinct set of rules he had to follow to make sure that the piece was historically correct but still pleasing to look at. When I brought up the same question about reenacting he said it had taught him that he would rather do the hard work by hand rather than let machines do it for him. He used the example of he’d rather did a big hole himself then have a backhoe do it for him.
                                                        This is some of my dads work

Post #3 Important points in life

One of the most important point in my father childhood, that he thought was most important, was when he had is first allergen test and he found out he wasn’t allergic to anything outside, he is allergic to shellfish though, and he was so excited to go outside and play because that is all he had to do. When my dad was growing up he didn’t have much so being outside was the way he would play. So, that negative allergy test was an important moment because it showed that he had the freedom to do what he wanted. My father said that historical events really didn’t impact him that much because he has had a really good grasp of what’s going on in the world. Two events, though, did make an impression on him. The first was the anniversary of American in 1976, he was 16 at the time. The second would be 9/11, all he said was that it made him mad.These events really haven’t changed my father’s view on anything, he said he understood the how the world worked. Personally as his son I could say that’s not entirely true.                            
                                                                                            1776, when the constitution was signed

Post #2 When and where

Sadly the interview with my father couldn't happen face to face. So, I called my father at around 5 pm on March 4th, 2017. He had recently returned to his hotel room, he is at a show for the Horners Guild, and i asked him a few questions he was happy to answer.

My father, William Frankfort or Wild Willy if you were friends with him, was born in Waukegan Illinois, which I didn’t know, but shortly after he was born he and my grandmother and grandfather moved to Pittsburgh PA. Being born in Waukegan really didn’t really change my father view of the world because he was just a baby when he left and his mother and father, may grandparents moved to Pennsylvania. His only view of the world was from Pennsylvania and where he grew up, he played in the woods growing up and that what it was like to him. They didn’t have the money for vacations or anything like that so he never really left. He said meeting people from other places, like Ohio, was his only view into the work and from what he knew it wasn’t all that different. My dad grew up, first, in middle class American culture. Then as he grew up him and his family, I believe just consisting of his mother and two sister, dropped down into lower class American culture. My grandfather at the time was deployed as a marine. He told me that he had a few shirts, three pairs, and a pair of shoes and that’s all he had until he went into high school. How the culture that my father was brought up in changed his view by teaching him to appreciate things more because of how he dropped in social class and how little he had. That’s something important that he has passed on to my brother and I, though sometimes we don’t always follow it.
                                                                                                       This is him...with a few less wrinkles

Post #1 Questions to ask

1. Where where you born?

2. How has where you were born changed your views of the world?

3. What kind of culture were you brought up in?

4. How has that culture impacted your life?

5. What is and important point in your childhood?

6. How did that moment change your life?

7. What's a historical event that changed your view of the world?

8. How has that event changed your view?

9. Can you give me an example of a folk tale, folk song, tall tale, or story that has impacted your life?

10. How has that effected your life?

11. What is your occupation?

12. How has that job(s) changed your life?