Learning Challenge: Be as Happy as Kevin

This is a video of Kevin Garnett after he wins his first NBA Championship. To me this is the picture of absolute happiness. This is a man who has been in the NBA for like 15 years and finally has won a ring. After all his effort his childhood dreams come true. This video inspires me to work harder everyday to achieve my goals.

Growth Mindset: Talking with a Friend

I talked to one of my friends about the idea of a growth mindset and they had not really heard of it before. They understood what it was about and the idea behind it after I told them about the TED talk I watched. They thought it was a really cool idea and thought they could apply it to their lives as well.

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Wikipedia Trail: From The Cow Jumped Over the Moon To National Film Registry

The Cow Jumped Over the Moon: I saw this on the weekly class announcements and it reminded me of my childhood.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cow_Jumped_Over_the_Moon

Billie Burke: MGM studios considered using the cow jumped over the moon for her but decided against it. She was most famous for her role in The Wizard of Oz.
Link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Burke

The Wizard of Oz: Billie Burke was Dorothy in this movie. This is one of my favorite movies and it also happens to be one of the first color films.
Link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz_(1939_film)

Image taken from The Wizard of Oz Wikipedia Page

National Film Registry: This is a collection of movies that are historically significant that are stored in the library of congress. The Wizard of Oz is in this collection. I had no idea that this collection existed.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Registry

Tech Tip: Canvas Notifications

I have had canvas set up to email me anytime a grade gets updated for a while now. I find this to be very helpful for times that I am concerned about what grade I got. This is an easy way to get notifications and it keeps me from endlessly checking canvas for grades to be posted. I highly suggest this for this time of year when it seems that everyone has at least one class they are worried about getting a high enough grade in.

Story Planning: A Trusted Friend

Kanni the Unlucky
This story is about Kanni who is very unlucky until he finds his childhood friend who is a king. The king brings him into his home and give him a job. He begins to regard Kanni as family and he trusts him immensely. The kings business partners told the king he should not trust Kanni. The king did not listen to his advisors and continued to trust Kanni. One day the king had to take a trip and he gave Kanni the keys to his house so he could look after it. Kanni overheard some burglars talking about robbing the house and he began to come up with a plan to defend the house. He gave the workers instruments and they were all very loud. The burglars heard this and feared that the king had returned home already so they fled. The next morning the kings advisors found the weapons and footprints of the burglars and were amazed that Kanni could be trusted.

Source: Book is available in the reserves of the Bizzell Memorial Library at the University of Oklahoma. By: Margie Sastry, V.B. Halbe, and Anant Pai

This story was very interesting to me because the king had full faith in his friend even though his advisors were telling him not to trust the guy. I think this is an amazing testament to how a good friend can be trusted over anything. I think that a good friend is one of the most valuable things a person could have. Therefore, I would like to write a story about a friend that is reliable and can always be counted on. I think my main goal of this story is to be detailed. In my past stories I have struggled to be very detail oriented. This has been a comment on many of my posts so I would like to use this last story to correct my bad habits. I just want to write one fairly entertaining story that is grammatically correct and jammed full of details.

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Reading Notes: True Friends

Kanni the Unlucky

This story is about Kanni who is very unlucky until he finds his childhood friend who is a king. The king brings him into his home and give him a job. He begins to regard Kanni as family and he trusts him immensely. The kings business partners told the king he should not trust Kanni. The king did not listen to his advisors and continued to trust Kanni. One day the king had to take a trip and he gave Kanni the keys to his house so he could look after it. Kanni overheard some burglars talking about robbing the house and he began to come up with a plan to defend the house. He gave the workers instruments and they were all very loud. The burglars heard this and feared that the king had returned home already so they fled. The next morning the kings advisors found the weapons and footprints of the burglars and were amazed that Kanni could be trusted.

Photo found here. Book is available in the reserves of the Bizzell Memorial Library at the University of Oklahoma. By: Margie Sastry, V.B. Halbe, and Anant Pai

Reading Notes: The Hidden Treasure

The Hidden Treasure

This is the story about a boy who was to be the son of a king until the king was killed. This made his pregnant mother flee the country and the boy grew up unaware of his past. One day he found out that he was the son of a king and decided that he wanted to become a king. One day he left for the land his father once ruled while at the same time the king of that land was dying. That king decided that the person whom his daughter chose and also passed three challenges would become king. The boy came into town and impressed the princess and eventually passed all the challenges to become king. He brought his mother home and became a great king. This sounds like the story I wrote regarding Rama becoming king. Therefor, I do not think this would be a good story for me to write about.

Photo found here. Book available in the reserves of the Bizzell Library at the University of Oklahoma. By: Meera Ugra, M.N. Nangare, and Anant Pai. 

Reading Notes: The Mouse Merchant

The Invaluable Treasure

This is a really funny story about a water carrier who works for enough money to buy just two meals a day. Until one day he gets a little extra so he stores it behind a brick in the city wall. One day he gets married and wants to buy nice things for his wife so he sets off running on a very hot day to retrieve this coin. The king sees this man and tells his guards to go get him. The king was curious as to why the man was so happy. When the king had the man in front of him and found out the man was running to get his treasure he wondered how much the treasure was. When he found out it was one coin he offered to give the man one coin so he did not have to run anymore. The man said thanks but he would still go retrieve the coin as well as take the one the king offered. The king raised the offer trying to get the man to forget about the one coin but the man did not change his mind until the king offered half of his kingdom. The man gladly accepted this offer and agreed to forget about the one coin. Until, the king asked him what half of the kingdom he wanted and the man chose the side that the coin was hidden on so he actually got the coin in the end.

Photo found here. Book available in the reserves of the Bizzell Library at the University of Oklahoma. By: Subba Rao, Chandakant Rane, and Anant Pai