Cultural Experiences

Hawks and Their Friends - A family of hawks resided on an island close to the great forest. Near the north shore, King of the beasts took over who was the Lion. On the east shore, it was a Kingfisher. On the south shore, it was a turtle who occupied the area. Mother hawk told father hawk to go make some friends on the island. Some men hunted in the forest and on the island and made beds to stay the night under the hawk nest. The hunters heard the birds and decided to eat them for breakfast. The father bird asked the kingfisher for help as the fire was burning from the men. Time after time, the kingfisher helped by putting out fires and got very tired. Father hawk went to go ask the turtle for help and after a while, the turtle became tired as well. Father hawk went to get the Lion's help and the lion scared the men away. The hawk was glad to have made friends with all of these animals as they had saved their lives. Foolhardy Wolf - A lion went all around his lair looking for...

The Three Fishes - Thoughtful, very-thoughtful, thoughtless were the three fishes who lived in the river near town. Very-thoughtful sensed danger amongst them all but the other two fish kept staying back and did not want to leave yet. One day thoughtful and thoughtless got caught by a fishing net and very-thoughtful saved them both. Since very-thoughtful saved them, thoughtful and thoughtless decided to leave and to go back to the wild country and all lived safely ever after. Tricky Wolf and the Rats - Wolf saw a group of rats and wanted to catch them to eat them. The wolf stood on his hind legs since it hurts him to stand on his front legs. Every time that the rats left the wolf, the wolf would grab the last rat and eat it. Every night there would be fewer rats in the nighttime. The Chief of the Rats decided to go last and when he did, the Wolf sprung to eat him. They caught him in a lie and killed him. The rats ended up living in peace from there onwards. Turtle Saved His Ow...

          In the tv show, Tom and Jerry, the cat, Tom chases after Jerry, the mouse over and over again no matter how many times both Tom and Jerry lose to each other and either get caught or are able to run away.          Tom is a blue cat who gets pampered a whole lot while Jerry is a brown mouse who lives in the same house as Tom but in his little mouse hole which is in proximity to Tom. Tom is a quick tempered cat who cannot stand Jerry living in the house with him as he wants to be seen as the alpha. Jerry is independent and goes through his day by messing with Tom and trying to get by. In one episode where Tom attempts to catch Jerry numerous times ends up in destruction of property an the house ends up being damaged. Tom does not eat Jerry when he does get a hold of him because at times, they do get along and are good friends like the Pandava brothers.         Tom and Jerry are the best of both worlds - the ...

Elephant Girly-Face - There was an elephant called Girly face that was owned by the king because he was so kind and gentle and doesn't hurt anyone. The robbers were talking amongst each other to kill whoever stands in their way and to show no mercy and Girly face took the tip as well. Next morning, Girly face killed the keeper and another individual. The king realized it was from bad men that Girly face was learning bad acts. The next day he assembled good men to talk behind the stable and one Girly face heard good things, he went back to normal and was tame. Banyan Deer - Once upon a time there was a gold deer with a red flowerlike mouth and bright hoofs. He resided in the forest and was the king amongst 500 other deers. They lived close to the Monkey deer population. Townspeople wanted to make the deer locked into a park so they could carry on with their errands. They drove the deer there and shut the gate and told the king. The king would hunt the deer from that stable. T...

Turtle Saved His Own Life - A famous courtyard with a lake was present for young princes to play, swim, boat and raft in. Later, the king put fishes in the lake. There was a turtle in the pond with the fishes and the boys thought that the turtle was a demon as they have never seen one before. King ordered the boys to catch the turtle and to bring them to the palace. Once this was done, he ordered the men to kill it by throwing it into the lake. Turtle heard their plans and planned to do reverse psychology and say that throwing him into the lake would be the worst option and once the king heard that the turtle was scared, he ordered the men to throw him in the lake and that's what happened to him which as a result, rescued him. Turtle Who Couldn't Stop Talking - Two geese and the turtle became friends and later, the geese asked the turtle if he wanted to join them on the journey home and the turtle decided to join as he wanted to go. Geese said that they will take the tur...

                  I recently started watching the famous ABC Tv show, how to get away with murder and it is actually a pretty decent show. There are so many crimes as well as mysteries that take you on an adventure with many rollercoasters of stories and spin offs of the details.           Relating this tv show with one of the Jatakas we have read, I have made up my own story regarding this relationship and it is described in the following sentences. The whole show starts off by introducing the characters and having them all in a setting that is a law school. A girl name Rebecca Sutter is the narrator of the show and takes us through the plot and introduces us to all of the main characters known as the Keating five. Rebecca Sutter also gives us the insight of who killed  her best friend, Lelah Stanguard and the person in charge of the law school, the most famous professor, Annalise’s husb...

The Pandava princes went into the forests that they were kicked to while Draupadi followed and joined them. Later, Yudhisthithira decided to join and then Surya joined the forest and fed them as they didn't have much to eat. The Pandavas resided in the woods for the longest time and it was their twelfth year living there. The Pandu brothers were the grandsons of Vyasa and Vyasa was the author of Mahabarata. Additionally, he came up with the Vedas and Brahma told Vyasa that Ganesha is the scribe and Ganesha put a requirement on this offer and said that he'll be a scribe when he is given the ability to be immortal and not ever die. Brahma passed up on this offer and told him to take another request. That's when Ganesha asked for only if his pen was made continuous. Brahma agreed to that request and they both agreed and Vyasa introduced him to Vaishampayana who was his disciple. Vaishampayana sacrificed a snake in order to take up this request and then took the snake...

King Shantanu (Hastinapur) met Ganga and they fell in love and all their children were drowned in the river up until their eighth child who King Shantanu stopped since he was getting annoyed that she kept killing all the children. The reason she did it was because she believed in the Vasus and that they are supposed to kill them up until the eleventh. She also left King Shantanu since they married each other on one condition - no matter what she does, he cannot get mad at her and he agreed up until the point that she killed the eighth child and when he got onto her about it. The eighth child, Devavrat grew up around his father and ended up being taken good care of up until he grew up older. He later grew into a young Bhishma and ended up taking the responsibility of the entire village and grew up to be a noble, and powerful man who grew up without his mother. This made Bhishma not like growing up without his mother and the fact that everyone kept wondering about whether or not h...

The reading for this course has been consistent and relating to the events and the order of assignments that are taking place. The writing I feel in my opinion, has been having so many instructions to the required writing assignment would make me get super confused with what the actual assignment was. The reading that was paired up with it was a little confusing since I did not know what to do without re reading the instructions multiple times. These weekly assignments have been kicking my butt since I have not stopped and asked for help when I needed it. I have just been going on doing what I think is right from what I have read and understood rather than what is correct and what I am supposed to be doing from either asking the instructor or from the instructions given.

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- Pandava princes went into the forest while Draupadi followed - Yudhishthira also followed - Surya joined the forest and gave him food - Pandavas have lived in the woods for 12 years - with wives Draupadi and Dhaumya - visited holy shrines - bathed in sacred waters - did all the devotions - dwelt in pleasant places - went around fruits and flowers - Ganga agreed to being his wife if he was good to her - gave birth to a son and sent him to the Ganges - king couldn't say anything or else she would leave him - Ganga killed seven of their children - on the 8th, king Shantanu spoke up breaking the vow - she revealed her true self to the king before leaving - Devavrata: 8th child's name - gave him to the king and departed for good - maiden was Satyavati who was adopted by her reputed sire - fish carried two unborn babies and she was one - father was a great raja - everyone was aware of Satyavati's beauty - brahmin Parashara wanted to be the fa...