Week 8 Progress

Looking back
I am happy with my progress for this class. I think I have gotten almost all assignments done on time, before their due dates. I like my schedule with this class as well, I am able to finish reading and reading notes by Tuesday or Wednesday. It only gets difficult when I have exams or some major projects due that same week. I still try to get this class work done first so I can focus on those major assignments more without worrying about missing the deadline. I enjoy reading and taking notes on it the most because it is exciting to learn new things about Hinduism and then coming up with ideas to tell the stories about it.

Looking forward:
I want to try getting some of the extra credits done. I just do not have time to finish all the assignments during the weekend typically because I am busy with work. Something new that I would try to do next time would be finishing up half of the week's stuff before time during test weeks so I can study for them. Especially when there are two to three tests in one week. I am going to avoid waiting till last min to finish the weekend homework.

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Week 8 Comments and Feedbacks

1. Feedback in:
If I had to rate the feedbacks and comment I have been getting, I would most likely say it's a 8 on scale of 1-10. The most useful feedbacks I have been using is for my class project. Those feedbacks really points out what's wrong in a specific sentence or paragraph. It is useful to see the mistakes that otherwise are missed by me. Most of the comments are similar, they all are positive and haven't really seen any negative towards stories so I guess that's good.

2. Feedback out:
I think the quality of feedbacks and comments I have been leaving behind are prolly on scale of 7. I think my best feedbacks are on the class projects because I go into details for the things that I like and things that I see that needs to be fixed. When I read stories, I usually don't look for criticism. I read the stories and comment on what I like about it or How they changed it. When I read stories I see so many creative ideas that students incorporate into their stories and defiantly wish that I could recreate something completely different as them.

3. Blog comments:
Reading introduction posts are for sure helpful in connecting with other classmates. I am pretty happy on how my introduction post turned out and how it helped me to connect with other classmates. I loved reading everyone's introduction posts, it helps to find similarities between each other and also learn something new about someone. I liked how many of the classmates introduction involved adventures over the summer. Everyone either went on fun vacation or did internship, which was really easy to connect to.

4. Looking forward:
In future feedbacks and comments, I would pay attention to not only the context of the person's story but also to the grammar. I give detail feedbacks during class projects mostly because it asks us to do so. I think giving honest feedbacks is a good criticism, as it helps the author work on their writing styles that could only benefit them in the future.

I choose this pic to show the importance of feedback. No matter the type of feedback it is, it will help you reach higher towards your goal. Feedbacks will help you fix your mistakes and help you from making a possible same mistakes again.

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Week 8 Reading and Writing

Looking back at all the assignments and readings for this class, I think I enjoyed both Ramayana and Mahabharata. They both were similar in many aspects. I think writing out reading notes have been very helpful for me. I wrote about that interested me the most and how I would recreate a story about that specific scene. In my every story, I have used one of the topics that I talked about in that week's reading notes. I think the biggest accomplishment for me as been coming up with stories every week. I use similar settings but just change up the context. As for my class project, I don't think it is really coming along. I need to work on it or completely change it up. I am doing Harry Potter related class project, but there are many difficulties with tying it all together.

Ganges

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This is one of my favorite pictures used for the story. It represent beauty of the river Ganges. It shows how vibrant and colorful the river is. It shows that it holds a religious value for Hinduism, as it is surrounded by many temples. Ganges is used for many ceremonies in India mostly for the people who are dead to give them peace.

Looking forward, I would like to work on my class project efficiently. I hope to keep coming up with creative ideas for the stories and projects. Slowly, I hope to improve on my writing style. I hope to read more folk stories in future, I enjoyed reading them at the beginning of the class. I hope to use dialogues in my future class project stories instead of just writing the story out.