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Saree in a clothing shop. Source: Pxhere I really loved this week's reading because the Jataka Tales are so similar to Aesop's Fables. I am a huge fan of the fables and I have read every single one of them! I ended up reading both portions of the readings. My favorite Jatakas Tales were the Tortoise and the Geese from Inayat's Twenty Jataka Tales and the Crab and the Crane from Babbit's The Jatakas Tales from India. Based off my enjoyment of these readings, I will definitely look into more Jataka tales and read them in my free time. I will also read them to my younger siblings. My best writing of this week was my research paper for my psychology class. I spent a lot of time finding relevant sources to make my paper as complete and accurate as possible. I thought my paper was excellent and reflected on the knowledge I have gained through the four years I have studied at OU. I can't really be too creative in a research paper but I found a strategy to help me get

I decided to add the weather widget to my blog because I find it really useful. I am always checking the weather because Oklahoma is crazy. One day it is so hot and the next day it becomes frozen. This way I can have the weather in mind for the next day from doing my assignments and I can dress accordingly. It is a really useful gadget and I highly recommend it! Here is the link so graciously provided by Professor Gibbs to set up the weather gadget!

A sculpture of Chandra from the 13th century. Source: Wikipedia For this week's Wikipedia Trail I started with white elephant because my one of the Jataka readings was about a white elephant. I think they are so beautiful and I love to look at pictures of them. This led me to Airavata , which was the name of the flying white elephant who belonged to the God Indra. This elephant was the king of all elephants and has 5 trunks and 10 tusks. The previous search led me to the ocean of milk , where some legends say that Airavata came out of. This ocean of milk is a major marker in Hinduism and its legends. It is the 5th from the center of 7 oceans and surrounded Krauncha, a continent. This ocean is where Vishnu rests with Lakshmi, his consort. Ocean of milk led me to the final page of my Wikipedia Trail, which was Chandra , the Moon God. This ties in with the ocean of milk because of Chandra's involvement in the Ocean's churning in order to get the nectar of immortal lif

Painting of a decorated white elephant. Source: Wikipedia The King's White Elephant carpenters lived by the riverbank near a forest a limping elephant came to them, hoping they would help remove the splinter in his foot the men removed the splinter and in return, the elephant helped them elephant removed the trees from the ground, rolled logs to the river and brought the carpenters their tools. carpenters fed the elephant morning, afternoon, and night the elephant decided to take his son, who was a white elephant, to the carpenters since they have treated him so well since he was getting older and could not work like he used to the son helped out the carpenters just like his father and would play with the carpenters' children in the river a king came to the river and paid a huge price for the elephant and the baby elephant went to live with the king, who treated him well and took great care of him The Ox Who Envied the Pig Two brother oxen, Big Red and Litt

The Great Elephant A beautiful elephant standing before the sunset. Source: Pixabay A beautiful and lonely elephant in the desert lived in the desert He heard voices and went toward the sound, and found men dehydrated and hungry the elephant wanted to help these people and told them if they wanted to make it to the next city, there will be an elephant to eat and a stream of water to drink from at a certain location the elephant sprinted off really fast when the people arrived at the location, they saw the body of an elephant; and realized that it was their friend who was helping them the elephant sacrificed his body for these men to eat; performed an act of selflessness the men did not want to eat their friend but they did through tears anyways because they did not want his sacrifice to go to waste. they drank from the river and ate the elephant's body to gain enough strength to make it to the next city Use this information to create a story, adding a twist to the en

The Guilty Dogs Group of dogs in the grass. Source: Wikipedia King drive through city in his chariot in the evening, chariot was left outside in the courtyard when they arrived back home in the evening. Horses returned to the stables. started to rain palace dogs saw the leather on the chariot softening in the rain and came to chew on them. they did this all night and left when it became morning the stablemen announced that the straps were eaten and destroyed they tell the king that royal chariot was destroyed and that it was the work of the dogs in the night the king ordered to kill the dogs; to slay each one in the city 700 dogs in the city heard the announcement and became scared. However, one dog, the chief, cared for and protected all of the dogs. the other dogs went out to go find him when they found him he asked what was wrong and what brings them all together? All the dogs looked really sad one of the dogs tells the chief that the leather chariot was damaged and