The Importance Of Storytelling

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Storytelling is an art that has advanced and changed throughout the history of civilization. From Dante Alighieri’s; The Divine Comedy and The Epic of Gilgamesh; to modern day storytelling, such as cinematography, comics and more. Human kind has relied on storytelling in order to explain the unexplainable. These stories brought people and civilizations together. Religions took use of this, and allowed civilizations to control their citizens to some extent. Storytelling, has affected much of human history, however over the years storytelling itself has gone through much iteration and change.
History itself has gotten much influence from storytelling, being drastically affect and with the usage of new technologies; such as the video camera, computers, and video games, storytelling itself has drastically changed. People today can create most anything, as everyone today has some access to a camera, and storytellers find a way to show their voice through other mediums such as the internet through the creation of film. Virtual mediums of entertainment and communication have made the tran...

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