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Week 12: Extra Reading Post

 I decided to read part of the twenty two goblins unit. In the unit, there are difference stories that are told to the king and after each one the king as to answer a question it is very interesting.

The first story I read is The Three Lovers who brought the Dead Girl to Life.

On the bank of the Kalindi River is a farm where a Brahman lived He had a daughter named Coral. This story is strange! Three Brahmans worshiped Coral, but she died and the men became very depressed. One of them laid on her ashes. The other used her boned. The last one cried so much his mother threw him into a fire. In the end of the story the Monk brings her back to life with a magic spell. She was more beautiful than before. Ones again the three men fought over who should be the husband.

The story cuts back to the king and the goblin asks who should be the husband. He correctly answers that it must be man who slept on her ashes. 

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Ghost Lake - Dita

Week 12: Storytelling: Two stories about People

Two Stories about People

Once upon a time there was an old couple, who lived in a huge house outside of the city. They were both retired and extremely rich. Recently they purchased two luxuries cars and placed them into their garage. Little did they know, there was a thief who was watching their every move since they moved in. He was planning on stealing their cars from the couple. He just had to figure out the right time.

One day the old man had to go to a doctor’s appointment, and he left his wife at home. The thief seized the opportunity to break into the house and manage to steal one of the new cars. He took the car and drove away with it. Upon the husbands return, he saw his wife pacing back and forth panicking. He asked what was wrong, and she said that a thief came and stole one of their brand new cars. The two began to search everywhere for the car. As they were searching the wife recognized the thief who had stolen the car.  They began to chase him down until they reached his house. The couple questioned him about the car, and the thief said that he already sold it, so there is nothing they can do about it. Laughing while he said this the thief told the couple that there was no way of proving the crime he had committed. The couple realizing that they had nothing to lose now, the husband reached for his side and pulled out a gun, and shot the thief in the head.

Bully - Charles LeBlanc

One day there was a little boy. He loved to play with his friend on the playground, but recently a bully always came on the playground when the little boy was playing and beat him up. The little boy was tired of this and needed to find a way to put an end to this. He asked one of his friends at school what he should do. The friend told the little boy to go make friends with a bigger bully, and have that bully beat up the one who was bullying you. The litter boy thought it was a genius plan. Over the next week, the little boy made friends with a bigger kid who was also a bully. The boy eventually convinced the big kid to go beat up the bully for picking on him. He agreed, and on the next day out at the playground the bigger bully beat up the smaller one. The litter boy was so happy that he could barely even sleep that night!

The next day, the bigger bully who helped the little boy came up to him on the playground and beat him up too! The boy was shocked and asked what the problem was. The big bully said that he learned from one of the boy’s friends that he never wanted to be the big kid’s friend, and just used him for revenge on the smaller bully! 

Author's note

This week I decided to base my stories over Three Stories about Snakes. In the original story there are three separate, and quick stories about snakes. Each one is different, but all have a snake that plays a major role. In my version, I just wanted to try and come up with my own to tell, but instead of snakes I used people. If you haven't read the original, and you would like too, I based my two stories off the first in the original. They are completely two different tales, but I tried to base the situation in each story similar to its counterpart. 

Week 15: College Writing Review

My major is Supply Chain Management in the Price College of business. Now that I am about to be a senior next semester, I don’t think that I have many classes left that involve writing so much, but it never hurts to practice. I wish that I would have been able to take this class earlier when I first came to OU because I think that the writing would have really helped me out a ton.

Some of the other classes that I have taken that are more writing intensive are History 1865+, English I & II, and Communication. I took all of those classes my freshman year and had a lot of writing to do I remember having a 10 page paper due in one of my classes and having a lot of corrections to fix. 

I think that the most helpful writing in this class is the repetitiveness. I guess you could say it is like a double-edged sword. The writing assignments are frequent enough help me practice. I bet if I added all my posts together it would add up to 20 pages+ of total writing. That is crazy for a class! I think that this course does a great job with course load so you don’t have to write everything at once. Some people might view the writing as tedious, but I think it is helpful. This class will go down as the most memorable in my books in general, I loved it!

 

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Week 12 Reading Diary B: Bidpai unit

The Bidpai unit stories are mostly about fools and tricksters. In “The hare, the Fox and the Wolf” the wolf frightened the hare one day, and told her that he would eat her. The Hare persuaded the wolf to go after the fox. Once they got there however, the fox ended up tricking them both and made them fall in a trap. Thinking that this was all the Hare’s idea he ate the hare on the way down into the trap. In the end the fox got away safety.

It is known that foxes can be sly and witty. A famous fox that sort of fits this description is Swiper the Fox from “Dora the Explorer.”

The story about three snakes was an interesting read. Each story featured a snake as either the main focus of the story or the outcome (means to an end). In my opinion, in each of the snake stories no matter what happened the snake always has to do with the end of the story. The snake either gets what it wants, gets karma inflicted on it (eating things), or gives out a punishment. 

Yin Yang - WikiMedia Commons

Week 12 Reading Diary A: The King and the falcon

I enjoyed the King, The falcon, and the Drinking cup. This story is about a King and his bird. One day they go out on a hunt chasing a deer. Due to some accident, the king gets separated from his men and is left alone in the forest. He comes across a stream and gets a drinking cup and slowly starts to fill it up with water to drink. Right as he puts it up against his lips the falcon snatched it out of his hands and drops it. This angers the King and he yells at the bird while filling the cup up again. Once filled, the falcon tips over the cup again, enraging the king so badly that he grabs the bird and smashes it on the ground killing him instantly. A few moments later one of the Kings men approaches the king and offers him water from his flask, but the king rejects and says that he must have some from this spring. The king tells the man to go fetch the water from the source of the spring. Upon the man’s return he says that there is a slain dragon in the water whose poison tainted the whole stream. It is then when the king realized that his beloved bird was trying to save him.

You can take from this story that the king needs to learn patience. The bird was only trying to help 

him. 

Prairie Falcon - Wikipedia

Tech Tip Typing Game

I played the Ninja Cat typing game. This was actually my second time playing this game, so I was much better at it this time around.There is a lot of action, and it was cool to use the katana to slay the dinosaurs when they got to close. I tried to play some of the other ones, but on the website Ninja Cat was my favorite!

I used to play a different typing game called Typer Shark when I was younger. It is by far my favorite of all typing games! You should give it a try!.

Portfolio Introduction

Hello Class!
Welcome to my portfolio! Here I will collect a handful of my stories that I have written throughout the semester. I hope you can enjoy them.

This is my first story for my writing portfolio. I chose to make a writing portfolio instead of a storybook for this class. Last semester I did a storybook for the Mythology-Folklore class, but this time around I wanted to have some more freedom with different stories. I wanted to be able to work with a broad variety of stories that were not necessarily connected as well as work on my storytelling skills/revising.

Week 3: The Brothers
This is a story about two brother who become rivals.

Week 5: The Birth of Hanuman
The epic bedtime story for children about the birth of the great Hanuman.

Week 6: The Tiger in the Cage
Karma at its best!

Week 11: The Lesson Learned
The Story about an elephant that challenges an ant to a race. 

Week 11 Extra Reading Post: Ramayana

Ramayana

Khara called upon fourteen Rakashasas to capture 3 royal hermits.

 Rama told Lakshmama to take Sita and go find a cave to hide in. He would battle the demons alone. Rama put on his glowing armour, and took his celestrial bow and arrows. The Rakshasas appeard and flew toward him with weapons. Rama began to discharge flaming arrows which swept among the demons. Many were slain all over the floor, but Khara and his brother continued to attack. Rama took his celestial weapon and slew Dushana. Next followed by an arrow into Khara. The battle was won and Sita came forth from the cave and hugged Rama.

I liked this battle scene because they provide so much detail within it. Just like in the other scenes of the epic the battle scenes are the most drawn out. I wish that the Ramayana could go to the big screen because the battle scenes would look great.

One of the main turning points in the Ramayana was when Maricha took the shape of the golden deer. His task was to lure Rama away from Sita in order for Ravana to abduct Sita and take her back to his city. So Rama chased the deer for a long time through the forest and he finally was able to shoot an arrow through the heart. Once this happened Maricha displayed his true form and screamed for Sita to come save him in disguise of Rama’s voice. 

Golden deer - Flickr

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Week 11 Storytelling: The Lesson Learned

James came running into the house screaming and crying. I had just gotten done with the dishes and went to go see what was wrong with. When I found him, it looked like he had some dirt on his knees and shirt. It must have been one of those bullies.

He wrapped his hands around my waist and said, “Mommy! Charley hit me and kept pushing me down! In front of everyone too. It is not fair; he is bigger than me!”

“Did you  tell Mrs. Carter?” I replied.

“Yes. She sent him to the office, but he still will push me around on the playground. He will not ever just leave me alone,” James said.

“Listen, James, let me tell you a quick story that you will be able to apply in your situation.”

“In the old days, there was more jungle than there is today. No cities, or towns. Wild elephants were numerous. Once upon a time a red ant and a black ant were burrowing in the ground. Suddenly, a wild elephant appeared and said, “Why are you burrowing here? I will smash all of your work to pieces.”

“Why do you talk to us like this?” the ants replied. “Do not despise us because we are small; as a matter of fact we are better than you in some ways.”

The elephant laughed and told the ants not to talk nonsense. "There is nothing that  ants can beat me in," the elephant said. "I am the largest and most powerful animal." The ants weren't bothered by his speech, and they challenged him to a race. Whoever wins will declare to being the supreme creature.

Once the elephant heard this challenge, he became enraged. He shouted, “Well, come we will start at once,” and he set off to run with all its strength. When it got tired, it looked down at the ground, and saw two ants.

Off the elephant went again, and when it stopped and looked down, there on the ground were two ants again, so it ran some more. Whenever the elephant stopped, it saw the ants, and at last it ran so far that it dropped down from exhaustion, never to bother the ants again. The End.”

“Now, you see James, ants are more numerous in this world than any other kind of living creature, and what happened was that the two ants never even ran the race. They stayed where they were, but whenever the elephant looked at the ground, it saw some ants running about and thought that they were the first two, and so it ran away and fell from exhaustion.

The End."

This story teaches you, James, not to worry about the bigger and stronger bully. God knows why He made all of the different animals and people of all different shapes and sizes. Some boys are fools, and you just have to outsmart them. Be the ant and not the elephant!

Ant Colony - Wikimedia

Author's Note

This week I decided to base my story off of the "The Elephant and the Ants" in the Santal Folklore unit in the Un-textbook. The reason why I chose to write about this story is that I believe that this story has so much meaning behind it, and so many lessons came be learned from it whether or you are telling the story to a child or a coworker.

The elephant is seen as the bully in the story. He sees the ants, and threatens to destroy their home for no apparent reason. I wanted the elephant to be a parallel character for Charley. In the story that is being told to James, the ants are supposed to represent him.

I kept the story about the elephant almost exactly the same. The only major change that I had was that instead of the elephant running itself to death, I decided to make him fall over from exhaustion. The reason I chose to do this was because since this story was being told to a child, I didn’t want to use the explicit of the Elephant (bully) dying. This could create problems in the real world that James is in if he goes to school saying that James is going to die one day! I think that it was more realistic to exclude that part from the story. Most parents do not want their kid telling others that they are going to die. 

Bibliography:
This story is from the Santal Folklore unit.
Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas (1909).