Drew Fazzino

The first Article that I chose was Why rejection hurts so much and what to do about it . Everyone gets down on themselves at times, and this article did a great job at pointing out what people do to bring themselves down, and what people should do to be happy and bring themselves back up. A couple points he mentioned was that you need to have a zero tolerance for self- criticism, know your self -worth and revive it. Be social and do things with others even if the first option doesn’t work out, go to the next. The next article I read was Seven ways to crushself-doubt . This article did a great job of setting up a guideline of what you need to do to crush your inner self doubt. A couple points that the author mentioned that I thought were good points, consisted of Abandon perfectionism, Don’t Compare yourself to others, trust yourself, and embrace a growth mindset. These 4 points were the main ones that stuck with me that I will try to put into play in my everyday lifestyle. In...

The First topic that stuck out to me was the Weapons of the gods . I am interested in this topic because different styles of past and present weapons intrigue me. I have no knowledge of he weapons of the gods. I would like to learn what weapons the gods had and how and when they would use them. I might retell stories as battles or something along the line keeping the weapons in their natural atmosphere. The second story topic I thought was interesting was the Animal characters of the Ramayana . This interests me because I’m very interested in all animals, and I want to see what twist is put into the animals throughout the Ramayana. I have no previous knowledge of the animal characters of the Ramayana. I would like to learn what the different characters were and what they represent f applicable. If I were to choose this I would focus the different stories maybe in a first-person view of the animal character. The third topic that caught my attention is Epic Hero’s . This is a possib...

There once was a quaint little family of chipmunks that lived in the heart of the Rockies on Mount. Quandary. These chipmunks thought they had everything they could ever need, a small stream running by their tree, a field with a plethora of berries and nuts and the greatest view in the Rockies. On the other side of the valley there was a mother eagle with that was raising her young eagle to be big, strong and independent one day. When the young eagle was big enough the mother gave him his first big task. She said, “Across the valley I have seen this family of chipmunks that live in the tallest pine tree on the north side, are you capable of tricking the family to coming over to our house for us to have a massive feast?” “Of course, mother!” said the young eagle eager as ever. The young eagle spread its great growing wings wide and took flight for the trip across the valley. As he made his way closer to the tall pine tree he landed just a little before the chipmunks c...

I found these two stories very interesting and very creative. Both of these gave me some ideas for future ideas of what I might do with my stories later on. Turtle and The King Notes From my understanding this story is a story of how the “demon turtle” outsmarted the king and men with the king. The young princes had never seen a turtle before, so they believed it to be a demon. Because the king had such love for his sons he went on and said to kill the turtle. They did not know much about turtles and so when the turtle heard the option of being thrown into the lake he acted deathly afraid of that option. So, in the end that is what the king chose and the turtle swam away to live another day. The Turtle and The Geese Notes This is a story of following instructions and nothing bad will happen as well and watch out for people out to get you. In this story the two geese had become good friends with the turtle until the turtle would do anything with them. Once the geese had re...

I was very intrigued in seeing what different reading options would be available to me this semester through this course. In my past experiences I believe the PDE’s or Public Domain Edition of the  Ramayana  is the version I will use. I am fascinated by the different viewpoints that can be seen by the different authors that were put together in this Domain. One thing that also keeps me hooked is the embedded video clips and the pictures. I will most likely use the public domain edition of the Mahabharata . Mostly because as said before the video clips and the pictures keep me hooked. And as I have learned by my past classes at OU I am a heavy learner from visualizing . As well in these PDE’s I enjoy that you can take the learning further through the links embedded in the script. One of the readings that I had come across was the story of Radha . To me it seams to the be story of the goddess Radha and her relationship with the god Kirshna. And how these two god and g...