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Part A One of the areas I found most useful from reading past student's feedback was the "Asking Useful questions" tab. I feel like this helps me the most in feedback, but it's also what I tend to do best when giving feedback.  In order to grow we have to think and provide information on our own. If we're constantly giving suggestions without allowing the learner to learn, then no one will ever get better in the long run. Part B I read "Try Feedforward Instead of Feedback" and also "Be a Mirror: Give Readers Feedback that Fosters a Growth Mindset". In both articles, the central idea was always growth. Why give feedback if we're not giving feedback to allow our peers to grow? As this is a rhetorical question, the answer is obviously there would be no point! It would be wasting everybody's time. In order to grow, we need to have a second set of eyes on our work. Get opinions and feedforward criticism, rather than feedback criticism. Feedb...

Ganesha: The Remover of All Obstacles This is a story of Parvati creating her own son on her own from scratch. She was so proud of her son that she placed him in front of the gates of her and Shiva's home. One say as Shiva was returning, the son had no clue who it was. He only knew that he was supposed to stop anyone from entering. Shiva in return defeats the son and cuts his head off. Parvati outraged by the matter places an elephant head upon the son, thus making him Ganesha. Shiva the Fisherman This is another story between the couple Parvati and Shiva. Shiva again curses Parvati in order to win her loyalty and love in a separate form. He puts Parvati into the form of a fisherwoman, and he in the form of a fisherman in order to capture a shark that was terrorizing the village. I think I can have a lot of fun with this story and bend the lines a lot more than the real story was actually written. Shiva Parvati: A Story of Divine Love Beginning with the death of Shiva's first w...

https://sites.google.com/view/prestontaylorportfolio/home?authuser=0 - Latest story is here at this link. Marion after he wins the battle to take Princess Peach back.  Pixy.org Note: I wanted to do a little run-off of the Ramayana but with different characters. In one of my previous blog posts I talked about how much the Ramayana reminded me of the basic Super Mario Bros. story. It's really simply because of how Peach and Sita both get captured and the other husband/fiancé had to come in to save his loved one. I hope you enjoyed! Bibliography: Tiny Tales from the Ramayana  from parts A & B by Laura Gibbs

Rama is exiled by Dasharatha, and Sita, his wife along with Lakshmana, his sister, followed. Rama's people still obeyed by his rules and word; they were still loyal. Bharata becomes king, and a fight breaks out that blames Manthara, for good purpose since she was the one that forced it. Bharata and Shatrungha go to see Rama in the forest where he was exiled to, and talk of needing to make a sacrifice to allow their dead father, Dasharatha to travel to the spirit world. Manthara apologizes continuously to Rama, but Rama is forgiving to her, telling her in a new lifetime the two of them will meet again as Krishna and Kubja.  Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana then travel all over, receiving gifts and doing deeds for other gods.  We then come back to Ravana and see his battles and troubles. He ends up capturing Sita, Rama's wife. He was almost stopped by Jatayu, but Ravana ended up beating him in the fight, cutting his wings off causing him to fall to his death. Sita was now Ravana's a...

Dashagriva is born as a son of 10 heads from Vishrava and Kaikasi. Dashagriva also has 3 siblings, Kumbhakarna, Vibhishana, and Shurpanakha, a girl. Dashagriva was gifted immortality by Brahma. Dashagriva's brother, Khumbhakarna was gifted "immortal sleep" per say. It was next that Dashagriva earned the name Ravana from Shiva. Shiva imprisoned Dashagriva under his mountain when Dashagriva let out a tremendous roar. Shiva was so impressed by this that he grants Dashagriva the new name Ravana, translating to "he who roars". Ravana then creates a new instrument for Shiva. He's then rewarded his wife, a double of Parvati named Mandodari. Later on Ravana takes back the gold city of Lanka from his step-brother Kubera. Upon summarizing the beginning life of Ravana, I initially realized that keeping track of all of these names is going to probably be a bit challenging this semester. Anyone reading can tell the Ramayana is heavy on characterization. Simply meaning t...