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Reading Notes: Krishna Part A

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After watching the youtube series over Krishna, I realized he lived in some cases a normal childhood. Obviously there is the occasional action performed by him that only a god could do, but he got into trouble like any other kid. A good idea for my story would be to compare Krishna fighting off demons to hercules. Krishna wrestled a tornado demon, similar to hercules. That and they are both gods. Tornado Demon Krishna Youtube Series  Author: Epified

Story: Beauty and Ravana

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There was once a beautiful girl, named Sitbelle. Although she was the most beautiful girl in town, she was also odd. She enjoyed reading and learning. She spent most of her days going to the library, as opposed to the other woman in town who all wanted to impress the most handsome manly man in town Gasrama. Gasrama was just returning from a hunting trip where he brought back a bounty of 100 deer for the village. All the women were swooning over how masculine he was. He had silky long hair, the size of a bear, and the strength of a gorilla. He was what every man in the village aspired to be. As he was walking down the road, stealing the gaze of everyone he passed, he saw Sitbelle. She was sitting on a park bench reading her favorite story. Gasrama was astonished that a woman was not staring at his glorious self. He approached her asking:  "What is it you are reading there girl." She looked up in dismay realizing it was Gasrama, but nonetheless he took interest in her books, wh

Reading Notes: Mahabrata Part D

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Krishna goes to Hastinapura to plea with Karna to leave Duryodhana. Karna says no and that he will only battle against Arjuna. The supreme commanders for both the armies are set. Arjuna feels weird about having to fight Drona and others. Krishna convinces him to be ready to fight. Bhishma attacks Krishna and wounds him. Arjuna sees this and is angered. Arjuna then shoots Bhishma in the back, which ends up killing him. The first of the Pandava sons dies, Arjuna's son. Arjuna avenges his sons death by playing tricks to draw out Jayadratha, the killer of his son. In order to kill Drona Krishna comes up with a plan. He calls an elephant by the name of Drona's son. They kill the elephant and say they killed Ashwatthaman. This devastates Drona to the point where he falls to his knees. At this point they cut his head off.  The battle continues with everyone dying. The entirety of the Pandava's sons are dead along with Karna. The Pandavas win and Yudhishthira become king. Everyone

Reading Notes: Mahabharata Part C

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The Pandavas are going to a swayamvara held by king Drupada for his daughter. Here they enter a contest and Arjuna wins his daughter as his bride by shooting a target. Krishna recognizes the in disguise Pandavas. But the Pandavas must share her between the five of them as they said they would share whatever they had won. This is a bit weird to me, but this is what she had wished for from her previous life. The Pandavas get part of the kingdom and go all whilst on the verge of war. They also get into conflict from sharing Draupadi. Arjuna intrudes when it was not his turn with her, he was sentenced to exile for 12 years and married a princess. Then they get bested at a game of dice. Draupadi is humiliated and none of the brothers due anything because Yudhishthira lost whilst gambling her away. They end up regaining their freedom as Duryodhana's father granted them each wishes due to his son's actions. Now they are on the brink of war and Duryodhana plans to disgrace the Pandava&

Week 8 Progress

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Looking through what I have done thus far, I am happy with my progress. Although I missed the passed two assignment this week, I will make them up with the extra credit options. I enjoy making my own stories out of the epics. This allows me to better learn the material as well as have fun recreating them. I am looking forward to creating more stories for my portfolio. If I keep up the work I am doing I will be on track to complete this course with success! Just Do It

Week 7 Story: The Secret of the Hidden Castle

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There was once a band, their name was the Mystery Pandas. The Mystery Pandas consisted of a total of 5 members, Fred, Shaggy, Scooby, Velma, and Daphne. They were traveling across Europe singing anywhere they could in hopes to get their name out into the public and catch their lucky break. One day, while playing on the street, they get approached by an older man. The man says: "Hello, my name is King Willy, the sound of your band is amazing and I wish nothing more but to have you guys play at my upcoming winter ball. The Mystery Pandas were extremely excited to have caught what appeared to be their first big chance at stardom. They create a playlist of appropriate songs for the ball and immediately begin practicing. They get down 20 songs, which they will play throughout the gathering. Once they arrive at the ball, everything is exactly as extravagant as they had imagined. They play their while set, and everyone in attendance loves them. They loved them so much so that the kin

Reading Notes: Mahabharata Part B

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The Pandavas learn that the house is to be set on fire in order to kill them. To avoid being killed they set the fire themselves and escape the house via a tunnel. Now everyone will think they are dead and they can go into hiding. Although this is a sound plan, would it not be better to go to the king and explain the misunderstanding and the deception Duryodhana played on him. Then while in hiding Bhima kills a Rakshasa then marries its sister. This I find weird and might change up if I wrote a story over it. Why would you marry and have children with your sister's murderer? The Pandavas then disguised themselves as Brahmin, which brought suspicion when Bhima defeated a Rakshasa. The Draupadi gets five husbands due to the rules of the contest. Then the Pandavas are granted part of the kingdom. They all then attend a ceremony, where Duryodhana causes yet another conflict even when warned not to. Duryodhana then challenges Yudhishthira to a game of dice, which he ends up winning all