These three key questions in effect use the student's own personal existence to establish a narrative of the living world: stories of what life in effect is, how life arose and evolved through time, how the Earth and its climate have changed, how people have evolved and spread around the globe, and how culture itself has developed and spread over the Earth.
Indubitably, there are worse ways of getting through the tedium of existence, but as a narrative this one's unlikely to prevail against millenarian fantasy and a plentiful supply of virgins.
Existence is a narrative.
Seriously?" Not only is Battleship's existence as a narrative feature absolutely baffling to American audiences, but they threw in aliens as the antagonists out of nowhere.
A narrative can also imply the existence of a narrator.
It's been six years since National Geographic revealed, amid much fanfare and discussion, the existence of a heretofore-unknown document that seemed to retell the New Testament narrative from the point of view of Judas Iscariot.
The abiding conceit for the play, such as there is one, traces the very existence of narrative back to the Paleolithic cave paintings in Lascaux in southwestern France.
As part of a narrative climax?
Despite the existence of alternative narratives throughout history, those that bolster men's claims to primacy have dominated the global cultural landscape for millennia.
Postman writes, "The idea of public education depends absolutely on the existence of shared narratives and the exclusion of narratives that lead to alienation and divisiveness.
