Indian Epics 2018

This week, I was finally able to read the last sections for Mahabharata. It took so many weeks for me to be able to wrap up the story, but I am so glad that I did. I really ended up enjoying the ending. It felt that there were no open ends left to talk about. Although I did not enjoy this epic as much as the stories of Rama, it was still entertaining to read.  Outside of working on my website, this week I ran into a website of another student in our class. Although I cannot remmeber her name, it has such a nice layout. It gave me inspiration in the formatting that I should use for my future stories for my porfolio.  These past weeks, my German language lecture finally started. For the past three weeks, I have taken a lot of time to study German. When I first arrived in Germany, I could not speak anything. Now, I am able to have a small conversation. It is crazy to see how much progress I made in a matter of weeks. I am really excited and motivated to learn German. The midd...

Going back to the meaning of growth mindset, one version of the definition is to stay open to new ideas or different ways of thinking to improve your own mindset. Since I like to travel, there are times when I am ignorant of different cultures because I have never had the chance to interact with people from that country. Each time I travel somewhere new, I try and take in a new culture by trying to understand why the people there act the way that they do. This in the future helps me grow my personal mindset and take down my personal stereotype that I had. Source

This is arguably one of the most important tech tips out there. An online bookmark is so important when taking an online lecture, or even a lecture on campus. When looking up resources, you can simply save your source or webpage to a folder to look at it again later. I personally have a "college" folder on my Google Chrome Brower. This folder holds more files for each of my classes during the semester. It makes it so easy to navigate to refer back to old webpages for the course. I would recommend to create a subfolder for each class. This will save a lot of time to find what webpage you are looking for. If you are unclear how to make a bookmark on your browser, please click the link for more information.

EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENT My Top 2 Readings from Part D from the Public Domain Edition of  Mahabharata : 1. Horse Sacrifice -The wandering of the horses have ended - Yudhishthira was pure -   Arjuna  and Arjuna's Son brought a horse -12 days after the arrival, there was a big ceremony -They bathed in the Ganes -There was a sacred alter -Animals were scaraficed -Kings and other royals were to be blessed -They were to sarfice a horse  - "Pure indeed is the horse; verily the gods will accept the sacrifice. Strike now, O strong one." -The horse was very pure and full of "light" -For Vishnu This story was nice because it described a ritual. It was intresting to see the importance of horses or what it defined as "pure" in the epic.  Source   Source .  Indian Myth and Legend  by Donald A. Mackenzie (1913). 2. The Afterlife -The final section - Yudhishthira reachs complete bliss - Duryodhana  has the throne -Ev...

Source My Top 3 Readings from Part C from the Public Domain Edition of  Mahabharata : 1.  Krishna's Visit -Krishna went to the forest -Krishna talked with Draupadi -Her husband did not save her -"A Queen over kings" - Yudhishthira, "Anger is sinful; it is the cause of destruction. He that is angry cannot distinguish between right and wrong. O fair Draupadi, one should forgive every wrong. Forgiveness is holiness; it is Truth; it is  Brahman ." -   "The gods are shrouded in mystery; who can pierce the cloud which covers the doings of the gods? Although thou canst not perceive the fruits of goodness, do not doubt thy religion or the gods." Overall, this story was a hard read because it was talking more about how life operates in general, versus something that is said in daily conversation.  Source .  Indian Myth and Legend  by Donald A. Mackenzie (1913). 2.  The Court of King Virata -Pandavas ...