2nd Day of Individual Presentations

1. Sweet Smiling Melissa - Names - Adam named animals, man now has power over animals - Lolita and list of names

2. John of the Striped Hat - Sang and poetry for everything he has learned this semester

3. Deep Sea Fishing Jeff - Books, Letters, Periodicals, Radio, Television, Internet, Mobile Phones (collective wisdom available to all in world, rather than just those listening to mythteller) as an Aid to oral tradition, rather than undermine its progress

4. Zach of the Saving Bells - On Tonality... present in text and print too? Used Ong to support his theory.... it causes people to perceive language differently (relationship problems ;)

5. Willy Quiet Willy - List and literature - Oral tradition into Literate Tradition

6. Lisa the Luddite - Sound and Poetry - Wallace Stephens Quote - Orality allows poetry to come alive and awaken the senses in ways the print culture can not... pace, tones, monotony, creations of the voice...

7. Bright Eyes Kevin - Memory....Orality and Literacy... Mythtelling (connections with Memory, Imagination, and Soul)... Myths and Creating connections with Earth and Self and Sound

8. Robert of the Worded Limbs - Men of Japan who are (were?) the social class of taletellers in their society... they did this for money, and stories about happenings in their area... Performed Samurai poem/song/story... Tradition of strong warrior still living in strong businessmen today

9. Helena of the 10,000 Lakes - Nature as the inspiration for sound and orality - The Seasons and there sounds of the patterns of life - We've lost connection with the earth's myth because of our movement to literate world