Charley's Blog

I watched  two TED talks about stories and storytelling . One of them was about the dangers of a single story. It talked about how it is bad, and how many of us get our information and formulate ideas around a single story. It talks about how it cheapens the people or the subject matter of that single story, and makes the very one dimensional. it is important to know the complete story, or at least be aware that a single story is not the whole story. I am in a psychology class about skepticism, and we talked about this to a degree, it is important to seek out what the entirety of the literature says, rather than just one study that may be providing you with a very biased and unbalanced view of the subject matter. The other video that I watched was about fictional characters and how they effect our emotions. I really enjoyed this video because it was very interesting, and also because it was tackled from a psychological perspective. She talked about how we can become very emotiona...

  A fish fairy Link A young man went on a journey to find fear. He ran into bandits, pestered by zombies, nearly strangled by ghosts, and had to fight off a goddess of the sea so she was not to sink a ship. none of this caused him fear, not even an attempt on his life. The king hid a life bird inside the dish that the young man was about to eat, and when he opened the dish the bird flew out andstarteled him, to that, the king told him that was fear. A fisherman caught a beautiful fish, so he dug a pound behind his house, so he could keep it and gaze upon it. The fish turned into a beautiful maiden and the fisherman wanted her hand in marriage. she agreed, but the king heard of this maiden and claimed her as his own. the king said that the fisherman could keep the maiden if he could complete an impossible task. the fisherman told the maiden this and she had it done. The king kept giving him impossible task after impossible task, until the maiden and fisherman completed them...

A picture of shazam Link a man was told that his son would be torn to pieces by a dog. so, the man locked his son away so this could not come to be. the son got married and the wife came to live with the son in his chambers. she turned into a wolf and ripped him to shreds. fate will find a way. An unlucky brother went on a journey to find his luck. along the way, he was asked by a wolf where he could find food, by a female queen as to why her subjects would not obey her, and by a gardener as to why his crops would not grow. The man found his luck and the luck gave him all the answers to the peoples questions. He told the woman and in response she asked to marry him, but he declined. he told the gardener that there were four gold jars and all he had to do was dig them up. the gardener told him to stay and share in the wealth, and he declined this as well. he went to the wolf and told him to eat any fool that passes by, so the wolf promptly ate the man and declared that he had ...