Indian Epics

Feedback is something that I am used to. In almost all of the classes that I have been in whether it be online or in-class lecture I have learned to give feedback. After reading Laura's assignment description it really made me think and agree with the fact that most people are afraid of harsh feedback even though it could help the person succeed in the future. I don't think I have ever received negative feedback from a peer from anything I have worked, so that might prove that students are afraid to give their peers feedback. But I have received negative feedback from professors, which I have taken to change what I have done and make it better. Just today I went to my professor Robert Pritchard who is the advisor for PRSSA and Lindsey + Asp and I had him look over my resume before I sent it to my contact at the Marriott Convention Center at the NCED for Lindsey + Asp. He gave me a lot of feedback on what I had done wrong and gave me an example on how I could improve it. By ...

A topic that I am interested in for the project are the Jataka Tales . I really enjoyed reading some of the stories this week, especially the story that I rewrote , "How the Turtle Saved His Own Life." I think I enjoyed them so much because they reminded me of fairy tales that my parents would read to me as a child. If I continue on with this topic for the final project I think that I would either like to rewrite "The Crab and the Crane" or something I haven't read already such as "The Princes and the Water-Sprite" . (Image from "The Princes and the Water-Sprite" from the Jataka Tales ) Another topic that I am interested in for the project is karma. Karma is something that I have always heard about as a kind of cliche saying. So far, what I know about karma is that it stands for every action will have a reaction. If people do something bad then then something bad will happen back to them and if people do something good then something...

UPDATED version of this story can be found here . On a day just like any other, two young sisters Hazel and Molly skipped to a pond near their house. The pond had become an every day adventure since a nearby ditch flooded into the pond and transported new aquatic life. Hazel and Molly would watch the tadpoles buzz by, the dragonflies land on their lily pads and the sunfish with bright orange bellies scavenging for their next meals. Every day the young sisters would giggle and snicker as they watched the pond. One day, as Turtle was fast asleep with his head under a rock he was woken up by the giggling of the two young sisters. This was the seventh day in a row that the sisters had woken them up by their loud and high pitched noises. Turtle had had enough. Turtle slowly swam over to the side of the pond where Hazel and Molly were skipping and singing and made a small splashing noise with his front legs in the water. Hazel asked Molly, "What was that?" Molly answer...

When I opened the link for Jataka Anthology  I was immediately drawn to the title and the stories of the Two Turtle Jatakas . I love turtles so it's a fun twist to read stories about turtles and two drastically different personalities. One turtle outwits the other faces death.  "The Turtle and The King" story from Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt was about a turtle that was found by young princes in a lake that their father, the king, had made for them. The princes went to the lake to look at the fishes that their father got for them but they also saw a turtle. The princes had never seen a turtle before and thought it was a demon. The princes were afraid and told the king and the king ordered his men to find the turtle and kill it. The men who were ordered to kill the turtle suggested to throw the turtle into the lake where the water flows into the river. The turtle spoke and objected trying to make himself seem as though he was terrified of that fate but in reality...

After reading about the different types of reading materials that I will encounter as this semester goes on I think I have a pretty good idea about what kinds of reading materials and characters that I will enjoy the most. I think I will be interested in the character Ramayana because the epic will be about a war that Ramayana has with the king of demons. To me that sounds exciting. I'm curious because I don't know anything about Indian epics and I think this is a good place to start my journey. Based on the options for reading the story of Ramayana I think I would prefer to read the public domain edition . This option seems better suited for me because of the different writing styles the authors will use. I will most likely become more interested in the story if told from different points of view and illustrations always help too. (Manuscript illustration of the Battle of Kurukshetra from Wikipedia ) As for the stories for the second half of the semester I think I...