Lindsi's Myth & Folklore

Story source: Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane (1885). Buchettino I honestly wasn't a huge fan of these stories. They were so negative and someone is usually eaten for no good reason at all. I think if I were to rewrite one of these stories I would make them more reasonable. They do not necessarily have to be perfect fairytales. But so many of the characters are back-stabbing. Again the number three was prevalent in the stories. It would be fun to talk about this occurrence at the beginning and maybe give a reason why three is used so often. Many of the stories were repetitive and were not very enjoyable to read. I found myself skimming over them. I would probably rewrite those with a similar idea but cut out the repetitiveness. There is usually at least one very forgiving character that deals with a bunch of selfish people

Story source: Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane (1885). Damsel in distress All of these stories had a similar theme. I noticed that the number three was found in each introduction. Maybe three makes the most well-rounded story. These stories are also very black and white. If you do something, usually a man, thinks is wrong it is, "off with your head" or "send them to the dungeon to be hanged." There is no explanation, just death. And then a bargain is made so that person, usually a woman, can live. The punishment is always so much more harsh than the crime. The women in these stories are treated very poorly and are considered very little. There is not any discussion of how the characters feel, especially the women who are frequently the victims of a child stolen from a witch, a father wanted to murder them, a prince giving them no option on whether they will marry or not. And the woman just goes along with it. No argument at all. I think if

Story source: The Chaucer Story Book by Eva March Tappan (1908). The second part of the Canterbury Tales were a little more tricky. In the first story there was the fox that tricked the rooster to sing to catch him off guard so he could take him and in the second story the canon tricked the priest real bad by making him think he could be a philosopher and giving him false hope. These stories were very descriptive. My favorite was the description of the rooster. I would like to meet this beautiful creature.  These stories were longer and split up into smaller parts. I think this helped to be more detailed in the stories. They had more background, buildup. There were other stories thrown into the larger story. For example when the rooster had the bad dream and then there were a couple other stories about people who had bad dreams and they came true. Then the story went back to the rooster and its dream came true too.  Rooster

Story source: The Chaucer Story Book by Eva March Tappan (1908) I have really enjoyed reading the Canterbury tales. They seem very well thought out. They are mysterious, charming, and romantic. Many of these stories I have read for this class are dark and sometimes end badly, but these were more... hopeful. Especially the story with Dorigen, which was my personal favorite. It is such a sweet and sad love story and in the end it is almost a fight of who was more selfless, kind in the end, which is kind of a twist in itself.  Storybook I love the first story, The Unknown Bride where the knight has a task to find what women want most to save his life. He finally finds an old woman and she tells him to trust her, that she would tell him the correct answer. He get the information from the woman and he lives. The old woman now wants the knight's love. She wants to marry him. Of course he is appalled. He does not want to be with an old woman that cannot give him, wealth, babie

I watched Copyright is Brain Damage by Nina Paley and A New Theory of Human Intelligence by Scott Barry Kaufman on TEDtalk Brain   The first video I watched was with Kaufman. As someone who went to a very small school in a very small town I know how poor education can be and how misconstrued it is. Our SAT and ACT scores are all most schools pay attention to. They do not stop to think that maybe some people learn differently or maybe some are not as good at taking tests or being under pressure. Kaufman touches on this in his video and it is very enlightening. Through his life people told him no. They told him he is not smart enough, but he creatively made his way through to Yale and graduated. Throughout school he made A's but because he test score was below average he was not even looked at twice. It is so frustrating to hear over and over again. It is obvious there is something wrong yet we continue to do the same thing. I think it is actually the definition of insanity t

Story source: The Story of Beowulf by Strafford Riggs Beowulf's final words Once I read the Beowulf stories through again I realized how much detail they hold. Each battle and landscape described beautifully to really grab the reader. These are much more clear and understandable than the other stories I have read and I have enjoyed them immensely. In the second half of the Beowulf stories there is mostly tales of his heroic adventures battling Grendel, Grendel's mother, and The Dragon that hoards Geatsland treasure. Beowulf really finds himself in this time because he is really challenged. He loves the danger of it all and often goes into battle alone. These stories end reminding us that Beowulf is a mortal man even though he seems godlike. His battle with the dragon is his last and his dear friend is there to be a gentle hand and someone to listen to his dying wishes.