Tuesday, March 3

Today is Tuesday of Week 8. Here is a link to Week 8, and I hope you enjoy the review assignments. I'd recommend doing all three of the review posts together, and then you can move on and finish up the rest of the Week 8 assignments now... and maybe get ahead on Week 9 so that you can be all ready to take a break for Spring Break. (It's coming soon!)

Class Procedures and Reminders

Project Stack. If you turned in your project on Friday, you should have comments back from me; I'll start on the Saturday items today and hopefully start on the Sunday items too. As always, you can check the stack to make sure I received your project.

Extra credit anytime. Remember that you can do extra credit anytime! So if you finish up the Week 8 review posts, you could also use this as a chance to explore some of the extra credit options now; here's a link: Week 8 Extra.

The following items are for fun and exploration:

Blog Stream. I thought this was so cool: Eden found this "Rapunzel of India" by artist Julia Jacob; you can find out more at Eden's post:

Twitter Stream. I thought this was so beautiful: it's a 17th-century Ethiopian Orthodox icon; details here.

A Bigger Bookshelf. To go along with that lovely work of art, today's book is a collection of stories from Eritrea: Tales of the Tigre as collected by by Enno Littmann. You can read more about the Tigre people at Wikipedia.

Indian Epics Today. Just as Ravana is the antagonist of the Ramayana, Duryodhana is the antagonist of the Mahabharata. More about Duryodhana, and here's a video that I just learned about from a Mahabharata graphic novel and animation project called 18 Days:

Storybooks. This is a Storybook about cats: Nine Lives of a Cat: Falling Through the Generations.

Myth-Folklore Video. Here's a Mike Rugnetta video from his days at PBS Studios: Is Doctor Who a Religion?

Proverbs. This is a proverb from Kashmir: Be encouraged, O pilgrim, though your destination is far off.

H.E.A.R.T.. Plus some more upbeat advice from Molly Hahn of Buddha Doodles.

Mindset Cats. Today's mindset cat recommends curiosity:

Writing Video. If you are curious about words, here is a fun song about people who became nouns: Wanna Live Forever? Become A Noun.

Event on Campus. There is an informational meeting about the Peace Corps today at 4PM in Kaufman 229 (details).

March 3: Hinamatsuri. Today, March 3, is the Hinamatsuri holiday in Japan, the "Doll Festival," which is a festival of good luck for young girls. You can read more about the holiday in this Wikipedia article. This image shows a Hinamatsuri doll displayed at the festival in 2005 in the city of Kounos, near Tokyo. You can follow the holiday at Twitter today: #Hinamatsuri.



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