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Ron Chen January 7, 2010.

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1 Ron Chen January 7, 2010

2 Communication Every year our way of communication is developing. It started and continued like this: -Paintings? Symbols? -Verbally? Orally? -Sign language? -Hand written? Letter? Novel? -Computer: Typed or via ? Text message, Facebook, Twitter, My Space, Skype, Voipcheap, ICQ, iPhone.

3 How do we know what media was used before?
Paintings on cave walls Stone tablets Hieroglyphics Epic poems.

4 About epic poems. Epic poetry is a narrative poems, concerning a big subject “containing details of heroic deeds and event significant to a culture or nation”. They are usually remembered by the bard which is the story teller. What can help the bard remember? -Rap songs -short poems -any song

5 What makes an epic poem? -always have a hero.
-a test worthiness to complete said quest. -Quest is to test the hero. -Needs a magical/unreal world, unable to be visited by a normal human that the hero visits State of denial

6 Vocabulary Protagonist- hero, main character, good person. Antagonist- bad person often super natural. Bard- story telling (Epic poems)


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