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Week 6 Story: Mickey Mouse with a Twist

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Mickey Mouse, "the destroyer" was happily married to Minnie Mouse. However, Mickey simply did not want to have children at the time. This simply broke Minnie's heart, because she loved Mickey and she wanted to carry on the "Mouse" last name. However, Mickey had a long trip planned around the universe. He loved traveling to different to different galaxies, meeting new rulers, and forming alliances in different worlds. Minnie one morning when Mickey was on his adventure decided to create a son all by herself from scratch. She spent hours on the project, and finally she created it, her and Mickey's first son, Pluto. Pluto was the cutest mouse in the entire kingdom. Minnie was so proud of him, that she puts him at the gate to guard the kingdom. She orders Pluto to guard the gate and to not let ANYONE in at any cost.  As Pluto was guarding the gate one morning with some great audacity, Mickey comes back from exploring the Universe. He was tired, hungry, and wante...

Reading Notes: Tiny Tales from the Mahabharata Part B

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King Drupada holds a Swayamvara for his fire born daughter, Draupadi. The five brothers, known as the Pandavas, appear at the Swayamvara disguised as brahmins. Brahmins are the highest member of the caste system in Hinduism. That being said, the Pandavas are disguising themselves as priests and teachers and competing for princess Draupadi. The give brothers though, are all to marry princess Draupadi and share her. This makes King Dhritarashtra a bit uneasy, so he invites the 5 brothers to his kingdom once agian. When the brothers arrive, he divides his kingdom and gives them an entire half. This other half wasn't great though since it was barren. The brothers decide to turn this barren land into a beautiful kingdom named Indraprastha.  The Pandavas lose a game to Shakuni. They are to be exiled into the wilderness for 12 years now. Once they return, they must stay in disguise for a year more. If they are found in this year while in disguise, then they will be exiled for yet another ...

Reading Notes: Tiny Tales from the Mahabharata Part A

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 Thy tiny tails begin rather quickly once Vyasa seeks a scribe, which was Ganesha. Ganesha wrote down everything he could comprehend from Vyasa, evening when his pen broke. In order to write he broke off one of his elephant tusks in order to write. Then the whole story turns around beginning with King Shantanu. He has a son with Ganga who kills their first seven children until it comes to Devavrata, which King Shantanu names his heir to the throne after Ganga leaves him.  King Shantanu marries again, a woman named Satyavati, who was conceived inside of a fish. Together Shantanu and Satyavati bare two sons, Chitrangada and Vichitravirya. In order for this his first son Devavrata to promise never to marry or bare any sons. Because of this his new name was Bhishma and was granted eternal life.  Chitrangada eventually dies in battle but Vichitravirya is much too young to find a wife or have sons with her. Bhishma takes this into his own hands and brings back Amba, Ambika, and...

Reading Notes: Tiny Tales Ramayana Part D EXTRA CREDIT MAKEUP

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 The first few stories of part D of the Tiny Tales Ramayana contain some battle scenes of some key deaths from the other side (Ravana's side). Upon waking Kumbhakarna and marching into battle initially created a large amount of damage in battle, "grabbing monkey and bears by the handful and devouring them". He eventually met his fate though once Rama slayed him in battle with his arrow. Next to die on Ravana's side was Indrajit at the hands of Lakshmana. Finally it was Taranisen, the son of Vibhishana at the hand of Rama.  Finally, Ravana has had enough withe constant losses to Rama. He decides to meet him in battle to end this once and for all. The true victor must be crowned soon. It ends with Ravana dying from one of Rama's arrows. He does not die in vein though, and Rama makes sure of this. He dies as a great warrior honored with respect. Sita then confronts Rama, but Rama does not have her since she has lived in another mans home for this time. In order to pr...