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Wikipedia Trail: From Greece to

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1. Greece :  Greece, officially the   Hellenic Republic   (Greek:   Ελληνική Δημοκρατία ), historically also known as   Hellas , is a country located in   Southern   and   Southeast Europe , with a population of approximately 11 million as of 2016.   Athens   is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by   Thessaloniki . Greece is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Situated on the southern tip of the  Balkan Peninsula , it shares land borders with  Albania  to the northwest, the  Republic of Macedonia  and  Bulgaria  to the north, and  Turkey  to the northeast. 2. Turkey : Turkey is a  transcontinental country located mainly in  Western Asia , with a smaller portion on the  Balkan peninsula  in  Southeast Europe .  East Thrace , located in Europe, is separated from  Anatolia  by the  Sea of Marmara , the  Bosphorous strait  and the  Dardanelles  (collectively called the  Turkish Straits ). 3. Western Asia :  Western Asia ,  West Asia ,  So
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Tech Tip: Twitter Lists

Although I never liked Twitter, I know its social signifcance and it's even often used by the President. So I feel compelled to learn about it no matter how much I disliked its messiness and streams of post. I made a twitter lists for followers and the folks I follow. It looks niche and pretty cool afterwards when I made all these lists. Nonethless, I'm still not a fan of Twitter for I think it has too many little functions that users don't even use all that often. But making a twitter list of people really nicely organized my twitter account, and I'm overall satisfied with this experience.
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How The Fetish Sunga Punished My Great-Uncle's Twin Brother, Basa.

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This was a Congo reading. I found this reading to be absolutely fascinating. I haven't tried a reading in Africa this semester so I thought this reading about the fetish sunga would end my list of reading lists really well. Basa was a clever fisherman: "Every day he used to go out fishing in the river, and every day he caught great quantities of fish which he used to smuggle into his house so that none should know that he had caught any." This is so clever yet greedy I thought. Wow.. Basa oviously was a hoarder: ""Basa, have you caught any fish?" And he would answer "No," although his house was full of fish going rotten." I thought Basa liked to keep everything to himself so others can't touch his belongings:"It happened that uponthat day Basa caught so much fish that he had to make some new matets, or baskets, to hold it all." This is a vivid and imagery scene I particularly liked in the reading: "When they ste
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Week 15 Story Lab: C. S. Lewis’s 5 Rules For Writers

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I've searched through and read several articles in  Writers Write   website. One article that really caught my attention was " C. S. Lewis’s 5 Rules For Writers " This article caught my attention because I thought C.S. Lewis was one of the greatest writers of all time. To hear a writing advice from such renown writer, I thought, would greatly enhance my writing abilities. C.S. Lewis also wrote the Chronicles of Narnia, which I only watched in movie and tv series. I took all of his five advices to heart. I think they're all very important and useful tips for writing stories. I like the first advice: "Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else." Wow.. I was like..'what a practical advice is it that comes from a really renown writer. His first advice, in short, was get the message across clear so the readers can understand your writing. I also like his second advice
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Brothers Grimm (Crane), Reading A

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I've always been a big fan of Grimm brothers' fairy tale stories. Obviously, I think Grimm Brothers' fairy tale stories are the best of European fairy tale stories. I especially enjoyed the readings in the Reading A section, so I decided to review and do the reading notes for it. Grimm brothers' works are truly creative and fascinating. I've read several of them, but I haven't read this particular story of The Robber Bridegroome. It's relatively less known story of Grimm Brothers. There is no Disney version or a movie about it. So unless someone is truly interested in fairy tales, people wouldn't know much about this fascinating story. It was one of my favorite reads indeed. The story begins in an interesting plot: there was a miller who had a pretty daughter, but despite her beauty the miller was unsure about her marriage success: "If a decent sort of man comes and asks her in marriage, I will give her to him." A suitor came and asked th
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Europa's Fairy Book, Reading B

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I really liked reading all the European fairy stories. One interesting thing that I've found is that all the stories are incredibly rich with vivid, imagery details, rich plots, and interesting characters. Although I thoroughly liked reading all the amazing and fascinating European fairy stories, the one that really caught my particular attention was The Swan Maidens. This story was full of suspense, surprise, and rich plots. The story began in an interesting way: There used to be a hunter who would stalk a deer to hunt. He suddenly heard the sound of ducks' wings and pointed his gun at them to catch. This was such a beautiful description of a scene with so much visual and imagery details: "there appeared seven maidens all clad in robes made of feathers, and they alighted on the banks of the lake and, taking off their robes, plunged into the waters and bathed and sported in the lake." Although all of the maidens were beautiful, the smallest and youngest one r
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Week 14 Review

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The Semester Horse  (graphic) I find this marvelous horse to be relevant to my current situation. It gets tougher to stay on focus and finish strong when the semester gets closer to the end. We had Thanksgiving and now Christmas is on the way. Yet I do feel like it's super important to keep focused on academics and keep in mind of the large amounts of tuition that we have paid as students. The graphic is so funny and it caught my attention right away when I saw this. Eyes on the stars  (video) I really like this narrative video. It's about what it's like to grow up as a Black child in the 1950's when everybody was racist. It really hit my heart that a nine-year-old boy who came to library could be considered to be a "disturbance". It's very sad. But the power of reading and books are powerful as it was demonstrated in the video. The boy was obsessed with stars and science fiction and eventually became an astronaut. As this video demonstrates, books
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