Myth-Folklore

The first article I found was under the learning from mistakes  tab titled, The Importance of Mistakes , by John Cleese. I caught my attention because the title says it all, I am a believer of the importance of making mistakes. As Dr. Gibbs has pointed out, if we do not make mistakes, then we are missing out on an opportunity to learn. In Cleese's article, he tells the brief story of Gordon the Guided Missile . I have never heard this story before, but I am glad that I know it now. The article gave a great explanation of how it is important to make mistakes so that they can be fixed. Of course, there are some situations when a mistake cannot be fixed; However, we can still learn from the mistake, which is what is important. The other article I read, Seven ways to crush self-doubt , I picked from the list that Dr. Gibbs gave in this assignments instructions. I chose this article because I like lists and I struggle with self-doubt, which I believe the majority of people do too...

The first topic that I would like to possibly to my semester project on would be over the  Rumpelstiltskin  story, which is a Trickster story. I chose Rumpelstiltskin because it is a story that I have known since I was a little kid. It is the one of the most memorable because it is dark and has some humorous aspects to it. I think there is a lot of twists/changes that could be made to this story. I also like the use of Rumplestiltskin's song, I think it would be fun to re-create this song, like possibly changing it into a poem. I do not know much, actually anything, about this story so, since it is one of my favorites, I would like to learn more about this story, i.e., it's origin, the author, etc.  Secondly, I found the topic of Changelings. I chose this topic because I recognized it as the name of the movie, Changeling (2008) , with Angelina Jolie. The movie, Changeling , puts a modern twist on the legend. I am a criminology major, so this seems right up my a...

First and foremost, I have to say that Tricksters are one of my favorite types of stories; I chose to take notes on The Tiger, The Brahman, and the Jackal for that very reason. This story was interesting because there were two tricksters: the Tiger and the Jackal. Although they play the same roles, they are very different in their behaviors. The Tiger is successful in tricking the Brahman, and because of his success, he becomes confident... a little too confident. What I like about the Jackal is that he acts dumb, even fooling the Brahman, which allows him to out trick the Tiger and makes him feel like the fool. I am sure that I will be using the idea of a trickster in a few of my stories. Another interesting aspect of this story is the setting. There was not much detail, but I could still paint a picture in my head of what the area may have looked like. The use of personification is always nice to come by. I feel like personifying an object, animal, etc., is exciting and fun. To me,...

The UnTextbook is a very interesting and unique idea. I feel like I have gone through all of my academic years always being so worried about plagiarizing, yet this class finally gives an opportunity to re-create stories without being worried about reproducing them. This is so exciting! My aunt, mother, and brother will love to hear about all these stories, and then read my re-creations! Exploring the UnTextbook I ran across a lot of stories that I would like to read and re-write. The three stories I chose today were  Beowulf,  The Life of Buddha , and  the Brothers Grimm (Ashliman) . I chose Beowulf because it is one of my favorite stories. I know that most have probably heard of it, if not read it, and if not, I hope that someone stumbles across my post and feels inspired to read it. The next choice I picked because I am interested in Buddha and I have not taken the initiative to actually read anything about him. Interestingly, I actually found a book on Budd...