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This week I have backed up my blog. I have officially created my portfolio website and backed it up to my computer too. I am also still on track to end with the grade I am hoping for.  My favorite graphic this week is from Thursday, February 7, 2019 . My favorite photo was of course the photo of my sidebar countdowns. I think it is fun to be featured in the class announcements. I also hope that other people created their own countdowns for what is important to them. My favorite video from the announcements this past week, was from Friday, February 8, 2019. It was The History of Emoticons . Why not learn about the history of our new ways of communication? It was just a fun, little video about how emojis came to be. It was interesting to me that emoticons became a thing in 2002, I did not think they had been around for that long. The video in all was interesting and informative. The below photo is a picture of two emoticons and their meanings.  ( Photo by Penny Bradford...

(A photo of a TED Talk stage. Photo by Wikimedia Commons ) For the story lab this week, I decided to watch two TED Talks, Copyright is Brain Damage and A New Theory of Human Intelligence . The first video examined the effects copyrights had on creativity. The second video scrutinized the trend of putting people in intelligence categories, from a young age to the young adult stage of life. I now realize after watching these videos, that in general children are brainwashed from a young age to not think creatively. For me it was the exact opposite. These TED Talks opened my eyes to a issue I was never exposed to. As a child, I was three when my sister started in a program called Destination Imagination. Destination Imagination is a program that presents seven different problem in August every year, and a team of seven members have to solve the problem by presenting a skit with props, costumes, and all that jazz. There are usually two team managers per team, however, help of any ...

I have finished all four parts of  The Ramayana epic. My notes for part D are what follows. Part D Sita and Rama , by Sister Nivedita, found in Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists In this episode Rama orders Sita to come see him. In the end Rama listens to the people of his kingdom over his wife's own words. There is mild action in this episode, in my opinion. It is mostly written in third person, but there are some bits written in first person. I found this story interesting because it is a real world problem. I cannot tell you how many times I have been in the center of or witnessed a he said, she said scenario. The below picture is Sita purifying herself to try to prove her innocence to Rama.   (Photo by The San Diego Museum of Art Collection) Rama and Bharata , by  Donald A. Mackenzie, found in  Indian Myth and Legend , also by Romesh Dutt, also found in Ramayana, The Epic of Rama, Prince of India In this episode t...

I have completed The Ramayana, Part C reading. My notes are the text that follows. Last week, I decided to choose four stories from each section, and I found that I had too many options to choose from when it came time to write my story, so this week have decided to limit myself to three stories from each part. PDE Ramayana , Week 4: Part C Vali's Death , by Romesh Dutt, found in Ramayana, The Epic of Rama, Prince of India This episode was about Rama and Sugriva teaming up to kill Sugriva's brother, Vali.  This was written in poem form, and was narrated completely in third person. There of course was plenty of action, as should be expected. Rama's integrity ends up being compromised because he killed Vali in a discreditable way. The picture below is of Vali and Sugriva etched into some sort of rock or possibly even sand. ( Photo by Kandukuru Nagarjun ) The Armies , by Donald A. Mackenzie, found in Indian Myth and Legend , als...