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Reading Post: Mahabharata, Part B

Mahabharata By: C. A. Kincaid introduces characters explains their relations to each other describes each character  describes all characters thoughts and actions explains the introduction to the problem describes oil and wood roof describes the fear and emotions describes the death of other characters explains the misconception describes the emotions of the people in the town the king and prince were tricked describes their feelings about the deaths The Escape

Reading Post: Mahabharata, Part A

Mahabharata By: John Madeville Macfie introduces each character provides background for each character explains how each character is related detailed setting supernatural references references to Gods introduces the problem tells story within story describes emotions of the different characters connects to previous stories and characters many instances of bearing children in the future the children have their own stories refers to indian custom (days of mourning) characters fight over each other to marry them introduces amba involves trickery with each new story there is a new setting challenges  reads as a novel The Arrival of Karna

Week 5 Story: A King and His Evil Wife

A King and His Evil Wife Once upon a time, there was a King who lived in beautiful kingdom. The King was known as a nice, caring and fair man. He had 3 children, one boy and two girls, all of his children took after him and were also known to be very kind people. His wife, however, was a woman he had recently married after the mother of his children had passed away, and she was not nice or kind or honest. The wife was only concerned about herself and being the Queen, she had no care for the children or the King but had a great talent of tricking her husband that she was a great woman. One day she came to the King and told him that in her sleep the God of Good Fortune came to her and told her that his children were plotting against him in order to gain the throne. The King was devastated that his children could do such a thing, even though his wife had made it all up. The King immediately went to his trusted advisors and had them banish his children from the kingdom for the rest of

Reading Notes: Sita Sings the Blues, Part B

Sita Sings the Blues By: Nina Paley written as a novel switches back between both stories expresses anger and hurt  rama continues to listen to what other people have to say uses dialogue between characters rama gives commands both women are sad stories coincide with each other women grieve  sita has twins, mixed emotions rama forgives once again supernatural gods help prove her innocence again refers to gods and indian custom ends without sita, she goes back to the womb Sita and Rama 

Reading Notes: Sita Sings the Blues, Part A

Sita Sings the Blues By: Nina Paley begins by showing all of the characters portrays what they are known for uses imagery discussion of the history and past of the ramayana use dialogue to describe the story introduce who is involved begin the story by using dialogue to describe that rama leaves rama is banished uses emotion to describe the father's feelings about rama leaving sita is sad and leaves with rama rama expresses his concern through dialgue song to express their life in the forest imagery to show the enemies in the story refers back to nina and her boyfriend the narrators discuss the back story  uses dialogue between characters goes back and forth between multiple characters uses trickery sita is captured dialogue and emotion to describe rama's sad emotions revenge occurs, a fire is set refers to indian custom, no kissing rama questions sita because of other peoples words and thoughts sita is sad rama did not trust her switches to other st

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Week 4 Story: The King and His Missing Queen

The King and His Missing Queen The King wept in sorrow when he had come to the realization his bride had disappeared. He was unsure if she had run or if she had been taken but he knew there was only one person that could be behind this, his enemy King Archer. The King and King Archer had hated each other for years and he knew that only he would do something so cruel as to take away his wife. "I want a search party of 300 people to enter the woods and find my wife" shouted the King to his trusty advisors. They all nodded in compliance. The next day the King's wishes were followed through like promised, a search party left with 300 people to find his wife. They searched high and low through the woods looking for any sign of her. Many days passed with no sign until a young bird came to a group of searchers and told them he saw the young bride leaving the kingdom on a horse with a young child. The people were confused as to who she could have left with. They find out

Reading Notes: Ramayana Part D

Sita and Rama By: Sister Nivedita Begins with dialogue detailed emotions detailed setting rama commands the others to do as he says refers to the background sounds and movements sita and rama reconnect rama and sitas emotions are happy together description of how they look and feel when they reconnect rama gives a speech analogies to describe their looks and feelings rama begins to question sita story ends with a question sita has to decide her fate not with rama Sita Tested By: Sister Nivedita begins by referring to last story describes sita's emotions and actions of sadness sita gives a speech to rama as he did to her she uses language of kindness she argues that she still loves him and wants to be with no one else starts to talk about death as that is all she wants without rama uses dramatics and dialogue threatens death or love describes each of their emotions and actions the gods come and speak to rama try to reason with him through dialogu

Reading Notes: Ramayana, Part C

Sita and Ravana By: Sister Nivedita begins with details of the setting describe with great detail how sita looks when they find her describe the characters feelings the other character sees sita, describes their feelings and emotions the characters begin to go against one another the protagonist continues to threaten her she stays strong and does not give in the other character stays hidden from the protagonist ends with sita under the tree  Hanuman and Sita By: Sister Nivedita character approaches the other describes the setting of the interaction describes their emotions when seeing each other describes the interaction  describes both characters thoughts dialogue of them pleading for help cries for rama, her love refers to past events that lead to this story speaks threats to her captor  Sita and Hanuman

Feedback Strategies

Reading the feedback gallery was extremely helpful and gave me some exact ideas and examples of the kind of feedback I need to be giving to be the most productive. When reading " Five reasons to Stop Saying Good Job " it was very interesting to see the ways that good job can provide manipulation to young children. I had never thought about the ways that when we give compliments it sometimes for our own self rather than the person that is doing the good deed. Also telling someone "good job" can make someone feel as if they succeeded even if in their mind they did not. When I read " Why Do So Many Managers Avoid Giving Praise " I understood that many managers struggle with giving feedback at all because sometimes giving negative feedback can be difficult but many do not realize that positive feedback creates many positive outcomes. Many times the idea of corrective feedback is overestimated, only negative feedback leads to a diminishing effectiveness. The mo

Topic Research: Foods of India

Kheer : how it is made the importance it has to India discuss the different regional variations history of Kheer Hanuman and the Sun-Mango : discuss the story of the sun mango and how it came to be describe how he thought the sun was a fruit talk about his life and how he was starving son of lord Brahma Reaching for the sun mango . Krishna and Butter : his strong love for butter and milk his family's effort to keep him out of the butter Krishna stole lots of butter got in trouble from his mom  kept the butter in jars high up so krishna could not reach them

Week 3 Story: A King and His Son's Journey

A King and His Son's Journey The King of the kingdom was discussing with his beautiful Queen and his advisors about which one of his sons was going to be the next King to take his place. The king had always had a favorite son and his name was Jake. Jake was loved by all and he had the heart and the will to rule the kingdom in a proper way. After Jake had been decided amongst the advisors, the King sent one of them to go get Jake to come receive the good news, although Jake would not know what becoming a King would entail. "Come with me Jake, we have great news for you" said the King's trusted advisor. Jake followed the advisor to the King's palace where his father and mother awaited his arrival. When Jake arrived his father seemed sad, Jake asked "Father what is wrong, have I done something wrong?" "No my son, not at all" replied the King. The King began to clear his throat and explain to Jake that he would like him to be the next ruler o

Reading Notes: Dasharatha' Funeral and Rama and Jatayu, Reading B

Dasharatha's Funeral By: Manmatha Nath Dutt begins by describing character's feelings character does the duties he is told to carry out funeral reads as a novel refers to rama who is banished dialogue from other son son grieves his father the saint pushes the son to continue on other people do their duties  describes the actions other people are doing provides in detail the feeling many people are having over the death refers to Indian customs during a burial the group chants and sings, custom Indian tradition describes the duties of the different people  describes the wives roles describes the setting of the funeral provides in detail what each person's role is in the funeral Rama and Jatayu By: Donald A. Mackenzie begins by referring to past events rama is sad sita is missing describes how rama deals with her missing reads as a novel dialogue between rama and his brother describes ramas feelings and actions of sadness his brother comf

Reading Notes: Rama the Heir Apparent, Rama is Banished, Reading A

Rama the Heir Apparent By: Sister Nivedita reads like a novel provides insight into their thoughts gives the setting  gives dialogue provides sounds and the backround introduces all characters  describes characters actions and thoughts dialogue from all characters finishes with the end of that particular story starts with a thought and ends with the pursuing of that thought gives detail about setting that go along with Indian tradition speaks about most characters from the story Rama is Banished By: Sister Nivedita Begins by telling the setting of the story  describes the background story Starts with Dasharatha's point of view and thoughts gives his dialogue relates to past stories talks about peakcocks discuss Indian customs other characters have dialogue that agree with the king details express the setting of the town describes the actions of the characters  gives analogies for their feelings the king makes a request rama follows the request

Topic Brainstorm

Karma : I have always been fascinated by karma, i know a little about it but not much. If I did a story about karma it would have lots of action and talk about how karma effects different people in their lives. I like the idea of making it like a courthouse where Karma has to judge what the people have done and give them a consequence accordingly. With this story I would try and focus on different people's lives and what karma has done in them. Krishna : Krishna is the supreme God, I do not know much at all about Krishna but I think it would be very interesting to learn about him and research his stories. He can be known as a prankster so i would do a story focusing on that, he also is known as a hero and a lover so i would try and bring those aspects of him into his stories. I would make all of these stories through different phases of his life, like when he was a boy to when he is an adult. Reincarnation : Reincarnation has always been super interesting to me, i dont know

Feedback Thoughts

I think feedback is a great thing that can help one grow and learn from mistakes. Feedback offers outside opinions different than your own and often feedback helps you see another perspective. It is okay to not do everything perfect all of the time, if that were the case you would never learn and grow. If we never experience failure then it would be impossible for one to learn new things and and have a good mindset. Having a fixed mindset is not good and it can result in someone being stuck with the same intelligence, with little opportunity to learn more. Having a growth mindset sets you up to continue to learn, adapt and excel in the workplace. An environment with a growth mindset mentality is one that will have the most growth. It is important to change your mindset from fixed to growth. Self-doubt is another debilitating state that can leave one going backwards instead of growing and moving forward. It is important to not compare yourself to others, you are as smart as you let your