Mythology and Folklore

      A group of 5 friends was leaving a class one day and all decided that they were hungry for lunch. They wanted to eat lunch on campus together in the South Oval, but nobody could pick the same place to eat. Everyone settled on picking their own restaurant and meeting each other after.          Daniel asked his friend Lexi where she was going to eat, and she told him that she was going to go to Chick-Fil-A in the Couch Cafeteria. Lexi left to get her Chick-Fil-A so the rest of them kept deliberating.  Daniel then asked Katie what she wanted. Katie thought that Einstein's Bagels sounded good, so she went to get that while the other three stayed to choose. After Katie left, Daniel asked Jake what he was going to eat. Jake had been craving University Club in the Union all morning, but that's a sit-down restaurant, so he decided to just settle on a Couch Express grilled cheese. After all, it is one of the finest meals on campus. Jack hea...

  Rabbit and Panther a rabbit wanted to build a lodge so that people would think he's a great medicine man  rabbit went to the top of a hill and build a wigwam and began to dance panther found rabbit's trail and hid to watch him and his wife rabbit sang a song that said he would never be caught by panther and went to hunt panther waited for him to return and sprung on him and ate him  Why Deer Never Eat Men rabbit asked bear what he wanted for food and he said acorns and fruit rabbit asked fish hawk what he wanted and he said the sucker, so he dove above the river and ate him  rabbit asked wolf what he wanted and he said deer, so he chased him with his robe on and could not catch him, but when he took it off he caught him and ate him  deer wanted to eat indians but they were too powerful, so he took his ribs and made them look like tusks. the indian still caught and ate him  since he was caught, the rabbit said they could only live on grass and twigs  ...

  The Earth Maker when the earth maker became conscious, he cried because he saw nothing  he took some of the substance he was sitting on and made earth, but it was loud and bare  he made a man and called it tortoise, then made two legged walkers  he sent tortoise to protect the world from evil spirits, but tortoise came to earth and made war so he took him back  next the earth maker sent hare, and the hare made the two legged walkers immortal the hare thought his grandmother was evil, and she heard him thinking that  they got up and started to go around the earth, and hare's grandmother told him not to look back  he did so anyway, and everything caved in  they went to the edge of the fire that surrounds earth  Creation the creator initially created the earth to be underwater and created fish first he realized he had no land for humans, so he pulled up some of the earth out of the water by the crawfish he created humans, called the Chitimacha...

  The Calamus Root brer rabbit avoids brer fox, but brer fox stopped him one day because brer bear told him that him and brer rabbit needed to be friends brer rabbit suggests they have dinner, so brer fox agrees and brer rabbit prepares for it  brer fox never showed up to dinner, so brer rabbit looks out the door and sees brer fox hiding outside  Mr mink told brer rabbit that brer fox was sick last night but that brer rabbit should go to his house for dinner brer rabbit goes to his house and brer fox looked very weak. there was no dinner on the table, just a pan and carving knife brer rabbit ran and brer fox never caught him The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story after brer rabbit ran, brer fox set up a trap called a tar baby  brer rabbit talked to the tar baby and it didn't speak back, so he said he was going to fix his attitude  he punched the tar baby and couldn't pull away brer fox came and laughed at brer rabbit stuck in the tar Why Mr. Possum Loves Peace brer possum...

  Progress     I would say that i've made substantial progress in my writing this semester so far. I've been able to be very creative with my story retelling and am now at the point where I'm comfortable using dialogue in my stories. I still haven't nailed a weekly routine but I manage to get all my assignments done! I will definitely take advantage of the extra credit once it gets closer to the end of the semester. I think that my website development is going well and the second-person point of view. In the future, I'd like to time manage a little better so that way I have more time to focus on story research and development for my storybook. I think the structure of my website and blog have worked well so far, so changes will not need to be made to those.  Law School at UT Austin Source: Law School 100

  Feedback     Overall, I find the comments received from other students to be mostly helpful. The comments with more structure that give both positive and negative feedback are the most helpful, because they show you what you're doing well AND what you could improve on, instead of one or the other. I would say that my comments that I leave for other students are also helpful because I try to emphasize on methods like the WWW that also give suggestions. Analyzing others' writing style definitely helps with my personal creativity and how I can improve. I love being able to read through people's introductions and comment on them because although we are online, it still feels personal. In the future, I need to focus on actually implementing some. of the suggestions given to me instead of just reading them, but I don't think my physical comment wall or introduction needs work itself. This was the first image I came across but it resonated within me really well. Just because...

  Looking Back     Overall I have enjoyed the reading and writing assignments a lot. One thing I appreciate about the structure of this course is that it encourages creativity and cognition which is not something that is common in college; a lot of courses are solely about retaining the information and getting a grade. I don't love the organization of my blog, but I'm overall very happy with how my project website has turned out so far. I like how each story is interconnected through the narrator and is relatable to the audience- I was skeptical about the second-person point of view but it seems to have gone well so far and helped submerge the reader. In terms of accomplishment, I think my writing skills have improved quite a bit. Towards the beginning, I was scared to use dialogue but I've become a lot more comfortable with it now and have incorporated it into my storybook for the majority of the posts. My favorite reading this year has been Ramayana- I loved the mythica...