In 1996, the story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted into a holiday musical " Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus " by David Kirchenbaum ( music and lyrics ) and Myles McDonnel ( book ).

Jessica's story inspires the local newspaper editor, as Virginia's letter did to Church, to write an editorial which he titles Yes, Santa, there are still Virginias.

* The Right Reverend Dr Dhirendra Sahu, Lord Bishop of Eastern Himalaya ; General Secretary, National Council of Churches of India ; author, The Church of North India: a historical and systematic theological inquiry into an ecumenical ecclesiology ( 1994 ) and United & uniting: a story of the Church of North India ( 2001 )

" Narrative inquiry rests on the epistemological assumption that we as human beings make sense of random experience by the imposition of story structures.

Therefore, the details of story structures and contents reveal much about the social, cultural, and historical context in which the story-teller exists., Narrative inquiry is conducted with the understanding that stories that people tell are often at the surface of a more complex underlying story.

According to Bell ( 2002 ), the benefits of narrative inquiry include the following: narrative provides the researcher with an understanding of an experience ; narrative gives the researcher access to stories or themes that the story teller may not even be conscious of ; narrative highlights changing perspectives and understanding of people and events as a function of time in the evaluation of an experience.

" Hardened stories ," or " narratives that become context-free, portable and ready to be used anywhere and anytime for illustrative purposes ," jeopardize narrative inquiry by " killing the spirit of inquiry " and freezing the story in time.

Because stories are complex, the story ’ s truth is constructed and the researcher is subjective, it is necessary to determine what the assessment criteria should be for narrative inquiry research.

Narrative inquiry: Experience and story in qualitative research.

I think it is a very spiteful act, possibly to intimidate me away from investigating Mr Green, and I feel it has put my family at risk .” The Conservative Party stated that it had " played no part whatsoever in the publication of this story ", and that “ as the officer leading the inquiry into the allegations involving Damian Green, Assistant Commissioner Quick should display objective professionalism and not make baseless, political attacks.

A public inquiry discounted this initial story.

The entire story is told in flashback during an inquiry into Miss Havisham ’ s death.

The story reasons for Teal ' c's hair are never explained in the series, even despite Jack O ' Neill making such an inquiry in " New Order ", as he says, " What's with the hair?

Author Harold Bloom comments on the variety of explanations ; " Young Goodman Brown has been presented as an allegorical revelation of human depravity, as a symbolic study of sexual initiation, as an inquiry into generational conflict, as a demonstration of Puritan hypocrisy, as evidence of Hawthorn's sympathy towards Puritan society, and even just as an artfully designed short story making no essential reference beyond itself ".

Autoethnography can also be “ associated with narrative inquiry and autobiography ” ( Maréchal, 2010, p. 43 ) in that it foregrounds experience and story as a meaning making enterprise.

What I was planning was a story that inverted the usual assumption that government planning is tyrannical and that freedom of scientific inquiry is good.

Golden Suns story follows a band of magic-attuned " Adepts " whose purpose, as it is revealed early on, is to protect the world of Weyard from alchemy, a potentially destructive power that was sealed away long ago.

* Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns, the story of African American migration from the South to the North

It relates the story of Job, his trials at the hands of Satan, his discussions with friends on the origins and nature of his suffering, his challenge to God, and finally a response from God.

According to Kirsten Abbott, feminist interpretation regards the story of Hosea and his relations with his wife Gomer as a metaphor for the conflict between a Covenant Theology ( Israel violating the covenant relationship with YHWH ) and a Creation Theology ( YHWH will undo the fertility of the earth in response to Israel following other fertility gods ).

It was harshly panned by both contemporary and later literary critics, with even kinder critics regarding the work as " a long-winded sob story " which many have found to be " simply unreadable ," and this negative response has been speculated to be the reason Salinger decided to quit publishing.

In 2006, in response to 9 / 11 conspiracy theories surrounding its original news story, the BBC said that confusion had arisen with the common Arabic names, and that its later reports on the hijackers superseded its original story.

The story is told from the viewpoint of the expedition's psychologist, and tries to be ( based on the knowledge then known about Mars when written ) accurate and realistic as to the problems encountered due to the Martian environment, the technology they have, and the human emotional response to their situation.

However, if one considers the story historically accurate, happening in Jesus ' life apart from the similar incidents recorded in the other gospels, the question of the authenticity of the parable receives a different answer ... John Nolland, following Wilckens ' ideas, writes: ' There can hardly be a prior form of the episode not containing the present parable, since this would leave the Pharisee's concerns of v 39 with no adequate response '.

The New Yorker continued to publish the works of the form ’ s leading mid-century practitioners, including Shirley Jackson, whose story, The Lottery, published in 1948, elicited the strongest response in the magazine ’ s history to that time.

In 1939, in response to a question from the Oxford English Dictionary, the Admiralty made up the story that it stood for ' Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee ', and this is still widely believed, though no committee bearing this name has been found in the Admiralty archives.

Naïve and good-natured, Donny is an avid bowler and frequently interrupts Walter's diatribes to inquire about the parts of the story he missed or did not understand, provoking Walter's frequently repeated response, " Shut the fuck up, Donny!

Lindgren later related that Karin had suddenly said to her, " Tell me a story about Pippi Longstocking ," and the tale was created in response to that remark.

Later Protestant pamphleteers asserted that they survived due to falling onto a dung heap, a story unknown to contemporaries and probably coined in response to the Imperial officials attributing their survival to the intercession of the Virgin Mary.

The aunt's story might begin as a response to a toast to the grandmother.

The Catholic News Agency ( CNA ), in an online news story article posted by Alejandro Bermudez on Saturday, March 31, 2012, stated that, in response to a specific request made personally to Cuban President Raul Castro by Pope Benedict XVI, during his Apostolic Visitation of Leon, Mexico and the island in March of 2012, following the pattern of small advances in Church-Cuban relations, it was decreed by the Communist Party and Castro and his advisers that in 2012, Good Friday would be made a holiday, with a possibility that the move could perhaps be made permanent ( following the move of the late Pope John Paul II, who got Fidel Castro to declare Christmas Day a holiday-which is still the case-due to a personal request during his landmark trip in 1998 ).

The rumour that at the time they met Ludwig had asked her in public if her bosom was real, to which her response was to tear off enough of her garments to prove it is entirely unfounded, and the story only first appeared many decades after Montez's death.

Countless old boys and masters die on the battlefield, and much of the story involves Chips's response to the horrors unleashed by the war.

It was not written in response to the Dies investigation, as Cohan himself had been shopping his own story around for a while before Jack Warner bought the rights, and Cohan retained final approval on all aspects of the film.

DC used this story to gauge public response to the concept of a completely new female counterpart to Superman.

The Yellow Wallpaper was essentially a response to the doctor who had tried to cure her of her depression through a " rest cure ", Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, and she sent him a copy of the story.

It is possible that the story is merely a revenge fantasy, in which the indifferent wealthy suffer the fate they " deserve ", concocted by Poe in response to his observations of class distinctions of his day, a sublimation of his own frustrations at his own situation in life or perceived slights.

More recently, in response to a story from The Guardian that used an uncorrected McCarty ferrotype, Clyde Jeavons, a former curator of the National Film and Television Archive, cited their work and added:

As an example of " sacred space " demanding a certain response from man, Eliade gives the story of Moses halting before Yahweh's manifestation as a burning bush ( Exodus 3: 5 ) and taking off his shoes.

One story has it that it was coined by the popular novelist Santō Kyōden ( 1761 – 1816 ) in response to a better name for his product, Kyōden suggested tempura or tenfura, which was an abbreviation for the phrase " a homeless samurai rōnin who suddenly appears to " and sells something ( Rath 2010 ).

There was the end of his front-page feature story, with byline.

The story was shaping up nicely in his mind: the young pioneer, as of old, altruistically braving the unknown ; ;

Now, although the roots of the mystery story in serious literature go back as far as Balzac, Dickens, and Poe, it was not until the closing decades of the 19th century that the private detective became an established figure in popular fiction.

Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.

But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.

Into the texture of this tapestry of history and human drama Henrietta, as every artist delights to do, wove strands of her own intuitive insights into human nature and -- especially in the remarkable story of the attraction and conflict between two so disparate and fervent characters as this pair -- into the relations of men and women: `` In their relations, she was the giver and he the receiver, nay the demander.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

`` Mr. Miller was in the shop '', the Herald Tribune story related, `` but was reluctant to have anybody's picture taken inside, because his business was too ' confidential ' for pictures.

The Hetman had a strong liking for a story, any story which was to be had by means of much sleuthing or by roundabout methods.

He laughed at a story that he planned to bolt the party if he was not nominated.

Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.

Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Local industry's investment in Rhode Island was the big story in 1960's industrial development effort.

Usually, this was done when attention was diverted by someone else's long, boring story.

But what was the story??

The woman in the house where the niece was staying backed up his story and said she left when he did to shop for her dinner.

It was the story of the rhinoceros fight all over again.