Indian Epics

This Week I decided to go ahead and download the mobile app on my phone. I am hoping this will help me with my schedule and due dates. I did have to delete some things off my phone to free up space on my old iPhone but other than that it was a breeze to download and a breeze to use.

This week I like to think of the first real week of the semester. People begin to trickle into the Biz a little bit more and classes begin to pick up the pase for what it will be like for the rest of the semester. For me I think that everything went pretty well. In this class I was able to stay to my schedule (relatively) well and got all the critical assignments done. I thought that the readings were all good and I was able to stay engaged in them. I thought that for my first story book post of the semester I did pretty well in changing up the original but also keeping the main message the same. I think I found a new writing spot as well on the fifth story of my apartment there is an office space that looks over the football stadium that is a great place to work. For next week, I think things will be a little more difficult time wise. I will be having to go out of state for a funeral in the middle of the week so hopefully I can still find time to get things done and prepare myself...

This was a growth mindset cat from the Growth Mindset blog I chose this image this week because the past few semester I have really found out that for one to be successful in anything that they are attempting to do they must not only be very passionate and work hard but also have that time where they can settle down and rest your body and mind. It is crucial to reset yourself to be prepared to give it your all the next day or week! Going along with this theme of recharging, I found an interesting TED talk about how taking a break or boredom can in fact spark an idea of excellence. It is a great talk that brings a different way of thinking when we talk about boredom and how sometimes we get to caught up about trying almost too hard. If you want to give this video a look the link can be found here !

  Feedback from peers is a tricky thing to accomplish sometimes. Some people don't want to hurt others feelings so they may miss out on the opportunity to help others while others are not shy at all about how they feel and in some cases take critiquing too far. I have been on both ends of this chain. In most of my experience though, feedback has not been as good as it should be. We do a lot of peer reviewing in scientific writing and for in class assignments we would trade our articles and review them. Most all the time I have someone that marks mine up bad. Then when I look over it, it still seems fine to me so I submit it the way I have it and end up with a near perfect score. So in my life I have ignored peer feedback. That being said this class is different than others I have taken where this is taken place. I think I am, like the articles " Fear of Feedback " and " Why Rejection Hurts " discuss, afraid of failure so when I come in contact with feedback tha...

   My first topic that I came across that I might be able to work with the rest of the semester is the topic of Animal Characters of the Ramayana. I enjoy stories that are centered around animal characters. Upon doing some more looking into the subject I saw a heading called Campfire Animal Tales that caught my attention. I think using this could be a good way to tell stories. Create a setting where animals are setting around a campfire telling campfire animal stories. As far as animals in Ramayana stories I don't have very much previous knowledge about them, but this will most likely be my response to all of the topics I will chose. Buzzards are prominent birds in India so I thought I'd look at the birds of Jatayu to get more information.    The second topic title that gave me interest was Epic Battles. Who doesn't like an epic battle scene. I think that there is so much one could of with this topic as well. Subheadings of the topic included epic hero's and weap...

    There was once a place around the equator of earth that was beautiful in every aspect of the word. Under the shade of a mighty mountain laid a valley that possessed beautiful crystal blue pools and lush green vegetation all around. The temperature was always a perfect 70 degrees with light breezes. This was a perfect place for a couple rabbits to take settlement and raise a family. The rabbits began to increase in numbers as the years went by and established a wonderful quaint community. Now, many years past and something about their environment seemed to become different. The world, it seemed, had began to increase in temperature. This became ever more evident as the beautiful pools became sweltering hot tubs or were dried up all together. The vegetation also began to wither and die due to the heat as well. "What shall we do", cried the Rabbits.     Watching all this take place was a mighty Hawk perched high in the mountain. He could see what Hawk carrying a...

In this Jatakas story the author, Rouse, depicts a scene of 2 ponds where the story will take place. One is full of fish but is small and always in peril of drying up on the hot summer days. The other is a fish's paradise. Among the banks of the latter pond lives a cunning crane that thinks he can use is pond as a trap to catch his fill of fish. I thought that the crane was very cunning to think to use his paradise as a net. He was even very patient in luring the fish into his trap. He allowed one fish of the clan to travel with him to the better pond and back to the other fish to tell of how great this place was. After that it was easy pickings for the crane. In the story he takes all the fish back to one tree to eat them and always placed the bones in one spot. To me, this is the crane wanting to set a scene for the poor fish as they about to be eaten. This is the first part in the story that the trickster shows his arrogance. This will ultimately be his demise in the end. At the...

After participating in the Myth and Folklore class I had high expectation of what types of stories would be available for us in this class. After reviewing the reading options that we have this semester, lets just say I am not disappointed! There are so many different routes to go. Yes, the first 7 or so weeks are planned out for the class but then after that it is totally up to him or her on what route they want the class to go. I also am very excited about new options for the class to delve into such as music and images. These two aspects go great with story telling and just give another level of understanding for the reader. I am probably most excited about the music and music video portion of the class and reading options. I love all types of music from hard rock to celtic folk. I haven't however came into much Indian music so this will be a great opportunity for me to diversify myself even more in music than I am today. The artist I guess I am looking forward to hearing more a...