Indian Epics

This weekend, I was able to spend some time with my niece. She is 15 years old and is incredibly smart. There are time that I have noticed where she is overwhelmed with school and she mentions to me about she has too much going on and juggling can be difficult. I started to realize that she is somewhat a mini version of me.  I started giving her advice and I told her that she needed to push through because hard work always pays off. Of course she decided to challenge me and I began to explain to her that when someone faces difficulty they must work hard because once you overcome that you can see the growth that came from the situation. I told her that at all times she has to face situations with a growth mentality. If she cannot see her way around something then she can push herself to go straight through. Many times we stop our own growth because we deem something is too hard, or we get scared because we do not know what is on the other side. If we approach everything with a ...

I think it is very important to highlight positive things that happen in our lives daily. For a while, I began to realize that I was viewing many aspects of my life very negatively and it was mostly because I was always so stressed out. I was craving some down time that I just did not have time for. I started reading some stories about waking up and being thankful for everything we have in our lives, good or bad. This was supposed to in turn make you feel more positive. I tried this and it worked for me. Of course slowly with time I started losing this technique. For this week, I am going to try this challenge because in a way it is very similar to what I had tried before. I love writing things down on my dry erase board because it is something I look at everyday. I can commit to this more than I can commit to writing a blog post because I pass my board on the way out everyday and that will ensure that I don't forget. I am going to pick something good that happened everyday of th...

I currently have the Canvas app installed into my phone already. I am the type of person to always be on the go and I find simple apps very useful. If it wasn't for the app itself I would have to go to Safari and then find the site, log in, and view everything separately. The app makes it so simple to navigate between courses and view grades or notifications. This is a lot easier than when D2L was the platform. The only thing that I have been having an issue with is the way grades are viewed for some courses. For example, for some of my classes instead of showing a letter grade it will only show the points that I have received. When it comes to trying to find a quick letter grade that can be challenging. Other than that it is great in all aspects. One time I was in the waiting room at the doctors and I was able to view powerpoint and other materials to study while passing the time waiting. Overall, I really enjoy the app and I was eager to download it as soon as it was available.

More Jataka Tales  By: Ellen C. Babbitt  The Golden Goose: The goose provides golden feathers so that the mother and her daughters are able have money. Each feather is golden when plucked. One day the mother becomes very greedy and decides to pluck all the feathers at once. When she does this all the feathers turn white and the goose leaves and never returns. The goose giving his feathers away. [ source ] Indian Fairy Tales   By Joseph Jacobs The Lion and the Crane: The crane  helps  the lion when there is a bone stuck in his mouth. Although the  crane  is scared to get eaten, he stills helps the lion. Time goes by and he asks the lion what he will pay him in return for helping him and the lion  responds  that by not eating him that is a favor enough. The crane realizes he is not righteous at all. 

Title :  Eastern Stories and Legends Author : Marie Shedlock The horse that held out to the end: Even though the horse  was  injured he continued to fight. The seven kings were set free and as they took off his mail he passed away and  was  buried in honor.  The mallard that asked for too  much: The mallard came back and told his wife and children who he was and that they could pluck one feather each time. The wife thought that one day he would leave and not come back so she decided to rip all the feathers at once. Since this was against his wish, all the feathers turned into regular feathers instead of gold.  The faithful friend: The dog is sold to someone else and the elephant is sad. He refuses to eat and the king wants to know why. When he is told that it is because the dog is gone, he sets everyone out to find the dog. The dog is returned to the elephant.  The elephant and the dog. [ source ]

Title : Eastern Stories and Legends Author : Marie Shedlock The Hare That Ran Away: The little hare was so scared that something would happen to her that when she heard a noise she though the Earth was falling in. She spread the word to everyone and they all panicked until  the  lion went and confirmed what the noise was. The little hare then told everyone that it was actually a fruit that fell on a leaf that  made  the noise.  The Spirit that lived in a tree: The tree spirit found out that the tree would be cut down and he went while the king was asleep to ask that the tree be cut  piece  by piece instead of at once by the trunk. He said he did not want the others to suffer when the tree would fall. The king  was  moved by the spirit looking out for the others that he decided not to cut it down.  The parrot that fed his parents: The parrot would eat rice and take some back with him. One day he was captured and he explained ...