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Week 7 Planning: Drona

In this blog post I will outline my story and brain storm elements that I will use for my story during week eight. The character Drona stood out to me because he was the person who trained all of the princes, both the Pandavas brothers and the Kauravas brothers. In the episode "Drona Trains the Princes" of the Mahabharata , Drona promises to train the princes as long as they promise Drona to help him defeat his enemy, Drupada. In my story for week eight I think I am going to keep with the main idea of the story but drop the Mahabharata details. I might even use different names of the characters as well. I will tell a story about a tutor and his students. The tutor will teach the students throughout their entire academic career and train them to be strong academically. The tutor will choose a subject that his students will really want to excel in, such a biology or science. One day the tutor will explain to his students that when they become the smartest people in that s

Tech Tip: Canvas Profile

For both of my online classes last semester I had to edit my Canvas profile. The professors had us do this so they could get to know us a little bit since we didn't have class in-person with them. In my profile I describe who I am and a little bit about what I do for the university and what I do that is important towards my major, PR. I also have links to my Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and personal website/portfolio. (Screen shot of personal profile from Canvas)

Reading Notes: PDE Mahabharata, Part C

In this blog post you will read my notes from part C of the public domain edition of Mahabharata . Below, you will find the links to my others notes: Part A Part B Exile The Pandavas brothers are in exile in the wilderness where they meet and learn from many sages Krishna (avatar is Vishnu) visits the Pandavas  Arjuna goes on an adventure alone because he violated his brother, Draupadi's time with Yudhishthira Arjuna meets Urvashi when he goes to see his father Indra in Swarga The other brothers go on a journey to the Himalayas where they finally meet up with Arjuna again Bhima meets Hanuman when gathering lotuses for Draupadi and the monkey Hanuman told Bhima about his adventures with Rama Duryodhana is still jealous of the Pandavas and continues to say that he will kill Arjuna in battle, which will end their exile Draupadi is in danger like Sita was in Ramayana Final Year of Exile The brothers enter their final year in exile where they must spend it hi