Charley's Blog

 Iktomi the spider Link a spider found some plums and decided to use them to trick a couple of women with babies. he told them where they could find more and offered to watch their kids while they were gone. he made the kids into soup and fed it to the hungry women when they returned. they realized what happened and so he ran away into a hole. he climbed out the other side much later and returned looking like a stranger and offered to help the women. he then went and "killed" the spider and told the women to go into the hole and get a piece of them for themselves. they obliged, and when down there, he filled the hole trapping and killing them. a spider did not share his food with the muskrat, which sharing is customary. after a while, the spider challenged him to a race, he gets half if he wins. the muskrat declares the race unfair, so the spider carries a giant boulder to even the odds. the muskrat swims very quickly and wins with ease and eats the entire pot, only

 The wisest turtle of them all Link a rabbit tricked a bunch of birds into a bag and took them home to be cooked by grandma. they tricked her into letting them go. she was able to catch one, but when the rabbit got home she explained what happened and said but she caught two. he told her that was only one, and it was small. a mother lost her daughter and was very sad. she refused to leave the body and was threatening to kill herself. nobody could get the knife away from her, so they asked the help of the village idiot. he went to the tent and sat outside. he slowly broke out into song and dance and did he gosh darned best to cheer up the woman and respect the dead, and he waived his arms over the body in some manner. the mother laughed at this and decided she most live for her husband and gave up the knife. the village elders were confused by the whole thing but decided that it was good. the motive is better than the deed and it is better to live for the living, than die for

   Semicolon comic Link I think it is really cool how language can be viewed in certain ways that lets us try and trace back from whence it came. it is treated in very much the same way as a family tree. and beyond that, we can use it to see where a certain group may have migrated, based upon which words they have picked up. the video about tenses was interesting. It quickly got really complicated, but I feel like french is much more specific about it. we are vague and use a lot of words to describe a specific tense, while french has different endings for all of the different tenses. I like how much work has gone into creating fictional languages. I particularly like how Tolkien elvish split off into various tribes and how the language changed and evolved from there. I love the way that they chose to explain semicolons; they did it in a cool video game esque fashion. here is a link to the language, grammar, and punctuation videos

 a bear with a coke Link the warriors went out and caught a bear for food. the bear had a cub who they gave to an old lonely women. she raised this cub and it grew to understand human. it played with the children until it became to big, then the men, and then eventually went hunting with them. it caught a lot of good food for them to eat, but another tribe almost killed it not knowing it was friend. the old woman gave it a collar so it could be recognized. a man in the north heard of this bear that nobody dared kill, so he set out to kill it. the woman warned the bear to never harm a human, unless they attack first. the bear came home with this dead north man and the woman had to get rid of the bear for surely others would come to fighht him. she drew a big black circle on his side and set him free. people still speak of occasionally seeing a bear as big as a glacier with a big black spot on its side. a lame little boy lost his parents and sister. ghosts came into his house an

 A wolf fox and rabbit Link There was a hunter who was made a cup out of a leaf and tried to drink from a stream. A raven flew into the cup and knocked out the water. the hunter thought it a fluke and filled his cup again. the raven again rammed into the cup. when this happened a third time, the hunter became very angry and shot the bird dead. After that, he wondered why the bird kept doing that, so he traveled upstream and found that the water was coming from the mouth of a giant serpent and that many skeletons lay dead next to the water. the bird saved his life and he killed him for it. a wolf fox and rabbit all worked together to trick a traveler and steal his stuff. once they got the stuff, the rabbit decided how it was to be divided up. the shoes went to the wolf because he walked the most, but they proved to be too heavy and got him killed by a hunter. the fox got a bell for his children to play with, but it scared them to death. and the rabbit got the food, he had the b

  A rock in prison Link there was a frog who tricked a tiger in believing that he was mighty. The frog grabbed a hold of the tiger tail as he jumped across the river to trick him in believing that he could jump that far. he spit up tiger hairs and attributed that to the tiger he ate yesterday. the tiger got scared and ran away. the tiger found a fox and they tied their tails together to go confront the frog, but the frog made a remark that scared the tiger into beliving it was a trap and he ran away with fox still attached. a man was selling oil and set it down on a rock. a different man was headed to own and his donkey knocked the jar down and broke it. the king judged that neither man was at fault, but the fault lay on the rock and donkey, so he had both put in jail. The people thinking he has gone mad came to see the trial, but once they were all in court the king said you cannot try them and everyone there was dumb and had to pay a fine in order to leave. the collected mon

   Mmm coffee  Link I am fairly happy with my progress thus far. I have missed a few assignments here and there, but I am still getting an A and doing some extra credit along to keep up. My weekly routine certainly is not the greatest. I feel like I am barely keeping up and always doing things the night they are due. The weekends tend to be the hardest. Moving forward I would like to be a little more on top of all of the assignments. I have really been enjoying creating my portfolio. I am able to put a lot of extra care into those stories and the site and I feel like it definitely shows. Everything is going good, I just want to get better at managing my time.

I think that I am receiving pretty good feedback from others. They are pointing some things out that I had not thought of and I find that it is beneficial to my stories. I always enjoy seeing when somebody like my stories, it makes me feel good. I think I am giving pretty good feedback. A lot of the feedback I give is positive trying to encourage people, but I am not afraid to put out things that are confusing or that I think can be improved upon. I looked back on my introduction and I think it gives people a good idea of who I am. I am content with my comment wall, it is simple and gets my point across.   a cat feedback meme Link I like this cat meme because I think patterns in feedback are really important. If the same patterns keep emerging, then it really shows what are the most important aspects that you need to work on.

I think most of my work for this class has been pretty good. I think that my notes are sufficient for my purposes, they give me a good overview of the story and I sometimes put in any ideas that I may have for future stories. I have not written many stories, but I have enjoyed the ones that I have written. The formatting is a little ruff from time to time, because it doesn't seem to want to separate into paragraphs, but if i write it in word than it keeps that formatting just fine. My favorite readings were definitely Persian fairy tales, part A. They were a lot of fun and I have written two stories in relation to those readings. Part A feels like it has a much different vibe from part B for some reason. Picture that I took of my roommate Jacob This is my favorite picture that I have used so for, and is just one of my favorite pictures in general. It makes me laugh. I show this picture to people whenever I am talking about Jacob or if they know him and haven't seen it ye

A Charley Tells a Tale  A Barrel of Monkeys Link This story can now be view in my portfolio here .   There was once a Charley who needed to go out and buy milk for the apartment. He went up to his roommate Jacob and collected some of the money that he was owed. With money now in hand, he was off to get the milk. Charley got home after going out and Jacob asked Charley where the milk was. Charley proceeded to tell Jacob a fantastical story of what went on after he had left to go buy milk. “So, I left the apartment, and as I was walking by the balcony, I noticed some money in the grass below. I thought how serendipitous, I can go get that money and buy more than just milk. I rushed downstairs as fast as I could in order to quickly seize the money. As I got closer, I realized that it was a twenty-dollar bill. That is enough to buy us a weeks’ worth of groceries!” This is when Jacob abruptly asked why I didn’t have any groceries then. Charley replied that he was getti

Tanooki mario Link This was a story of a hero who left home. He went out seeking adventure and one night stumbled upon a group of cats chanting. they were saying do not tell schippetero. the hero went into town to find a girl who was to be sacrificed to these cats. he asked about schippetero, who he found out was the prince's dog. He got the dog and hid him inside the box that would be given to the cats. when the time came, the dog jumped out and so did the hero, and they killed the mountain spirit cat king and some of his henchmen. a crab found some rice outside of her home. a monkey offered he a fruit seed for half of the rice. she said yes and grew a tree from the seed. the monkey came back and took all the fruit and did not give any to the crab, so she tricked him into dropping some for her, and he got mad and beat her half to death. her friends came and saved her and then devised a plan to get back at him. a man and a tanuki had a rivalry. The man captured the tanuk

  two frogs standing atop one another Link two separate frogs decided to go on a journey across their country. They both started on one end and were going were the other was coming from. they met in the middle atop a mountain and decide to climb ato the others back to see if where they were headed was worth it. they did this and stretched out as long as they could, but whilst their nose was facing the right town, their eyes were gazing upon the town they came from. They did not continue their journey, for they thought that the towns appeared to be the same, and they went home, not knowing how different the other town actually was. there was once a women who was extremely beautiful. She was brought up to be kind and to work really hard. Both of her parents died and the mothers last wish was that she hide her beauty, so she would not be ill treated or preyed upon, or something like that. She found a wooden helmet and wore it at all times. She started doing some farm work for a m