L Christina M

As I've mentioned before, I absolutely love Ted Talks and always take advantage of having the opportunity to watch them. This week I watched two redrawing the creative life. I really enjoyed them and recorded a few of my notes below. 1. A New Theory Of Human Intelligence - He argues that those telling us of our own intelligence are not necessarily any more intelligent than we are ourselves. - It is important to factor in background and opportunity as a means of determining one's own intelligence in relation to the opportunities they have had to learn. - You can't judge someone on their intellect levels without everyone being given the same opportunities to gain intellect. - It is a somewhat manmade idea that we must know certain things in order to be deemed "smart". 2. Copyright is Brain Damage - Creativity and Originality is vital to human advancements. - We can't keep replaying the pass. - Maybe we should measure our intelligence in terms of creat...

The second half of the readings focused more on the Coyote then any of the other animals. Even the majority of the titles have the Coyote in the title. I was able to find another really interesting "creation" story that I really hope to be able to tell in one of the weeks to come. This one was called "How The Bluebird Got It's Color". Here are a few notes about it. 1. The story includes instances of poems as well. 2. The main character is named Bluebird. 3. I like the idea of breaking up the paragraphs with poems or sonnets rather than just having one continuous story. It might give the reader a longer attention span and even hold that attention a little longer. 4. There is also dialogue included. (thefool.com) Bibliography: How The Bluebird Got Its Color A Pima Legend

I used to live in California with my family so was very interested in learning a little more about the original settlers. I hope to move back there after I graduate and love that I'll have even more knowledge about it this time around. As I've mentioned before, I absolutely love creation stories. Out of all the stories I read, the Creation of Man story definitely stuck out the most to me. The notes below primarily relate to it: 1. The story is similar to the Biblical creation story that I am most familiar with. It starts off with the creation of the world and then ends on the creation of man. 2. Animals are the primary characters in this story, rather than a divine deity. 3. More cunning creature just like Anansi: Coyote. 4. Maybe try and model my story so that I just take the character of Coyote and put him into an Anansi tale. (Dennis Davenport Photography) Bibliography: Native-languages.org 1998-2015