Cultural Experiences

Once upon a time, there was a woman named Jane who was happily engaged to Michael, the love of her life, until she was accidentally artificially inseminated with the sperm of the owner of the Marbella hotel, Rafael Solano. Once the news was brought to both Jane and Rafael, the telenovela starts from there onwards. Skipping forward into the episodes, Rafael's sister, Luisa gets caught into a love disaster with a foiled escaped prisoner referred to as Rose which is short for the widely known, Sin Rostro. Rose is a sociopath and a convicted murderer who ends up having plastic surgery and looks composed as she goes about her evil deeds. She ends up going off the rails and taking people hostage and taking lives because Luisa ends up betraying her love as she keeps hurting the Solano family. Rose is unable to process the fact that Luisa does not love her anymore and she ends up killing people Luisa cares about to win her back thinking that this is the solution to a broken relat...

The Woodpecker, Turtle, and the Deer - Deer lived in a forest next to the lake close to the Woodpecker and next to the turtle. A hunter wanted to trap the deer going into the water and he did. The hunter came into the house with a knife and the woodpecker struck him in the face. The turtle had blood all over his mouth because of the leather. The hunter picked up the turtle and threw him into the bag. The deer tried helping the turtle by coming into site of the hunter and the hunter started running after the deer. When he lost the deer, he went back after the turtle and the turtle was gone as well. The turtle and the deer teamed up and found and rescued the woodpecker and they all lived happily ever after. This jataka stood out to me when reviewing the jatakas from the list of additional jatakas to read as it facilitated teamwork and standing up for one another. When the deer was in trouble, the woodpecker and turtle came to help out. When the woodpecker was in trouble, the deer and ...

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. This story was meaningful as the three fishes stood up for each other and did not leave each other in the dirt. As they are brothers, once they got caught up in the net, all of them vowed for each other and none of them left either one of them behind which was super powerful to read. Even though the king wanted one of them to take over the palace and the other two brothers had all the chance to leave him behind to get ahead in line of taking over the throne, the eldest brother did the right thing and saved bo...