Logan Biggs Blog Fall 2020

    Bibliography: Richard Wilson,  The Indian Story Book : The Five Tall Sons of Pandu -Duryodhana doesn't like the fact Yudhishthira was named king of his realm so he wants war.  -Krishna's brother wants to make peace but a warrior of Krishna's clan calls for war. (Satyaki is the warrior) -Drupada thinks they should seek allies. - When the great armies first meet on the battlefield, Arjuna hesitates to attack as enemies his own uncle and cousins and also his teacher Drona. Krishna persuades him to obey Duty (Dharma ), and Arjuna agrees. (pg 102) -Bhisma leads Duryodhana's army to an advantage on the first day. The second day is opposite, Arjuna and the Pandavas come back fighting. -Bhima slays many of Duryodhana's brothers but almost dies, but the battle must go on.  - Fighting for the Pandavas was  Shik handin , who had been born a woman but transformed into a man, a warrior destined to bring about Bhishma's death. Bhishma would not fight someone who was born

   Bibliography: Richard Wilson,  The Indian Story Book : The Five Tall Sons of Pandu -Pandu is the father of these five tall sons. -Names are Yudhishthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula, and Sahadeva. Nakula and Sahadeva are twins.  -Pandu dies and his blind brother becomes king, Dhritarashtra. He has 100 sons. -Drona trains princes in arts of war. Once they grow up, they have a tournament about arts of war. -Duryodhana crowns Anga the kind of Huga. -A Charioteer enters the tournament and it is Karnas dad. -Duryodhana tries to trap the Pandava in a burning house with their mom but they escape as hermits. -Drupada sets up an archery target thinking only Arjuna will win. Arrjuna strings the bow and shoots the target. - Arjuna then takes Draupadi home and tells his mother he has won a prize. Kunti declares that it must belong to Yudhishthira as the eldest, so Draupadi will be the wife of Yudhishthira, not Arjuna. - Pandavas have made an alliance with King Drupada, Duryodhana divides the kingdom.

  Looking back, I am happy with my progress so far. The only thing I'm not happy with is the assignments in the class I have missed which is all my fault because I have been lazy and focused on other things. The assignments that I enjoy the most are the feedback posts because it helps me understand the things I could be doing better. The extra credit opportunities that I have taken advantage of have been the extra reading and the check in and connect. Things have gone good developing my blog. Looking forward, the changes I want to make are being on top of my assignments and doing more extra credit to make up for my past assignments I've missed. Nothing new that I want to try in my writing other than maybe expending some of my stories and writing sequels. I do not have anything I want to change about my blog. I chose this quote because I feel as if it will get me through the rest of the year ( I'm going to make it )

  Overall, the feedback given by my fellow classmates really help me out. They let me know what I'm doing good and if they like the story. They also let me know what I need to try to be better at. I find the feedback comment that suggests things for me to do the most useful. I feel as if I am giving out good comments to my classmates. I think I could be better are reading over their story/blog multiple times so I can give more suggestions to them. I think I am getting good ideas for my own writing as I leave comments and read peoples posts.' I am happy with my intro post, I wish I would've been more detailed about it and actually show them who I am instead of just answering the questions you provided for us.  Looking forward, I think the class blog comments should go on all semester, but I don't think the introductions should be required to comment on all semester long. It is nice getting to know our classmates, but I think just the first half would be best. I think the

 Overall, I feel as if I am doing really well with this class in general throughout the first half of the semester. I think my biggest problem is procrastination. This has always been a problem of mine, but since I am in 18 hours now it has become so much worse since I am focusing so much more on my upper division classes.  My reading and writing assignments are going well. One thing that I think I need to work on are my stories and the way I retell them. I sometimes get loss and trying to tell the story in 2 different perspectives instead of taking one. (i.e. 1st or 3rd person, past or present tense). I am extremely happy with my blog and my project website.  My favorite reading assignments have been the anthology stories. I choose these because I use most of those to write my stories since my portfolio is all about adventures and things to do with animals. I usually won't write stories about the readings that are assigned because of this reason. I like to go back and find new sto

Bibliography. "The Crocodile and The Monkey's Heart" from Jakata Anthology .  Once upon a time in a forest filled with different animals lived a monkey. He loved to eat different kind of fruits and loved to explore his home, the forest. One day as he was running around, he noticed a pond with 2 crocodiles living there. He was so nervous so he decided to not go too close to the pond. The 2 crocodiles, mother and father, had seen the monkey before but had never tried to talk to this creature. The mother crocodile loved this little monkey and wanted his heart more than anything, she wanted to rip it out and eat it. "Hey, you there on land, why don't you come closer," says the father.  "You guys are scary and so silly to think I would even take a step closer towards you two," the monkey shouts out. A few days go by and the monkey hasn't even shown his face to the two crocodiles. "Where do you think that monkey is, I want his heart to myself,&q

  Bibliography: R.K Narayan, Narayan's Mahabharata, http://iereadingguides.blogspot.com/2015/05/week-1-of-2-narayans-mahabharata.html -Yudhishthira wants to make one last plea for peace. Worried about if it's safe for Krishna to go to Hastinapura as his emissary. -Duryodhana plans to take Krishna captive. While he is there, he sees Kunti and brings news about her sons. Rejects plea for peace from Krishna.  -Krishna and Karna talk. Tries to get Karna to abondon Duryodhana, but he refuses. -Yudhishthira makes Dhrishtadyumna, Draupadi's brother, the commander of his troops. Bhishma is the commander of Duryodhana's troops. Battle takes place on the field of Kurukshetra. - Dhrishtadyumna tries desperately to kill Drona to avenge his father's humiliation, but Drona escapes him. Bhishma attacks Krishna and draws blood, which enrages Arjuna, but when Krishna goes to slay Bhishma with his discus, Arjuna begs him not to (pg 151). - Drona is now made the commanding general of

Bibliography: R.K Narayan, Narayan's Mahabharata, http://iereadingguides.blogspot.com/2015/05/week-1-of-2-narayans-mahabharata.html -Duryodhana tries to humiliate the Pandavas but it backfires completely. He tries to set up a royal camp near them, but the gods sent Gandharva to take care of it. -Pandavas free Duryodhana from captivity. -The Pandavas are walked up by Brahmin in the forest. -A giant deer stole his staff and a kindle he used to make a fire. -The deer runs away and the Pandavas can not catch it, they look for water. Nakula finds a lake, but he needs to answer questions before drinking. -Nakula ignores the voice and drinks the water then dies. -Nakula, Sahadeva, Arjuna and Bhima all do the die from drinking the water. Yudhisthira finds all of them. It was a test from his father, Yuma. -Yudhishthira is the King's companion in King Virata. Bhima is disguised as a cook, Nakula is disguised as a stable boy, and Sahadeva as a cowherd. -Draupadi is the hairdress of Queen

 Bibliography. "The King's White Elephant " from Jakata Anthology. https://sacred-texts.com/bud/jt/jt16.htm Once upon a time, there were these 4 carpenters who lived on a big piece of land with their own houses. They were all friends but had their own families and would always meet up to ride on their golf cart to cut down trees to turn into lumber. They had been doing this task for 4 straight years and nothing like this had ever happened to them. One day, as they were cutting down trees, a little baby elephant came running up to them. "HELP, HELP, HELP, my dad is in need of someone to help him." These carpenters were very confused and hesitant at first but when the little baby started to get really sad, they decided to help him out. They get in their golf cart and follow to his dad. "Please help me, I can only walk on 3 legs and I am struggling." says the grown elephant. The carpenters examine the dad and see he has a splinter in his foot and that is

  Bibliography: R.K Narayan, Narayan's Mahabharata, http://iereadingguides.blogspot.com/2015/05/week-1-of-2-narayans-mahabharata.html - Duryodhana hates that the Pandavas are still alive, but his son, Dhritsarshtra doesn't hate them near as much. Bhishma and Vidura urge Dhritarashta to make peace.  - Karna denouces both of them as kings/people or want war and urgers that.  -Dhritarashtra sends Vidura to the Pandavas to come back to Hastinapura. Dhritashtra gives the Pandavas part of his kingdom. The Pandavas build a city called Indraprastha.  Because Arjuna  intruded on Yudhishthira  and Draupadi during the year that Draupadi was Yudhishthira's wife, he goes into exile for twelve years. During this time, he marries Ulupi , a naga  princess, and he also marries Subhadra , the sister of Krishna . -Yudhishthria is crowned as a king of Indraprastha. Duryodhana is jealous of Indrapastha. -Agni was served as a reward to help Gandiva to burn from the Khandava forest. - Shakuni sug