Haters gon' Hate Flickr
Sunday, February 11, 2018
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Week 4 Story: Passing the Haters
There is an updated version in my portfolio.
As Kevin Smith is getting ready for the big basketball game against their rival University, he puts on his headphones to relax, not knowing that he is about to have the worst game of his career at the college level at home. He goes out there and plays almost the whole game and only scores 7 points on 1 of 17 from three and 3 of 28 from the field. The team lost by over 20 points to a team they beat on the road just weeks ago. Everyone in the crowd is yelling and booing at his poor performance and he is deeply saddened by this. The next day he still has to get up and walk through campus to go to class.
As he is walking to class, he can tell that people are staring at him and mumbling under their breath.
Someone from across campus yells, “You suck Kevin.”
He turns and looks, but could not see who it was. As he turns back around some guy bumps into him saying, “Thanks for losing us the game, you could not have played worse.”
Angry and frustrated by all the fans, he needed to do something to block it all out and focus on the next game.
He stopped remembering he had his Bluetooth headphones somewhere in his backpack. After digging and searching, he finally found them and put them on. He plays Above the Noise by McFly. He chose this song because of the Beats by Dre commercial he saw the other day where Tom Brady was proving all the doubters wrong.
Now he can walk through campus and block out all the doubters and haters and focus on the next game.
The next game comes around and he plays the same song right before warm-ups and has the best game of his career dropping 45 points.
In the press conference after the game, he tells reporters that “sometimes you just got to block everyone else out so you can focus on what’s important.” And walks out with his headphones on.
Author's note: I took the Odyssey: Passing the Sirens story and instead of it going back to the ancient times, I turned it in what athletes are facing every day on social media and when walking through campus.
Bibliography: Odyssey: The Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis translated to English by Tony Kline (2004)
As Kevin Smith is getting ready for the big basketball game against their rival University, he puts on his headphones to relax, not knowing that he is about to have the worst game of his career at the college level at home. He goes out there and plays almost the whole game and only scores 7 points on 1 of 17 from three and 3 of 28 from the field. The team lost by over 20 points to a team they beat on the road just weeks ago. Everyone in the crowd is yelling and booing at his poor performance and he is deeply saddened by this. The next day he still has to get up and walk through campus to go to class.
As he is walking to class, he can tell that people are staring at him and mumbling under their breath.
Someone from across campus yells, “You suck Kevin.”
He turns and looks, but could not see who it was. As he turns back around some guy bumps into him saying, “Thanks for losing us the game, you could not have played worse.”
Angry and frustrated by all the fans, he needed to do something to block it all out and focus on the next game.
He stopped remembering he had his Bluetooth headphones somewhere in his backpack. After digging and searching, he finally found them and put them on. He plays Above the Noise by McFly. He chose this song because of the Beats by Dre commercial he saw the other day where Tom Brady was proving all the doubters wrong.
Now he can walk through campus and block out all the doubters and haters and focus on the next game.
The next game comes around and he plays the same song right before warm-ups and has the best game of his career dropping 45 points.
In the press conference after the game, he tells reporters that “sometimes you just got to block everyone else out so you can focus on what’s important.” And walks out with his headphones on.
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Author's note: I took the Odyssey: Passing the Sirens story and instead of it going back to the ancient times, I turned it in what athletes are facing every day on social media and when walking through campus.
Bibliography: Odyssey: The Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis translated to English by Tony Kline (2004)
Reading Notes: Odyssey: The Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis
Odyssey: The Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis, translated into English by Tony Kline (2004), is two separate stories of the Odysseus passing by sirens as well as traveling between Scylla and Charybdis. In the Passing the Sirens, you are focused in on a strong, well-built vessel that is nearing the island of Sirens. The storyteller tells us that waves have lulled, making you imagine that something bad might happen soon. The calm before the storm. Then Odysseus begins preparing for the Sirens by making wax earplugs and he gets tied up without any. As they pass by he keeps telling his comrades to let him go to island, but they cant hear him and don't let him free. The island must be miraculous and their voices spectacular. For my retelling of this story I could change the setting and time frame that this is in.
Odysseus and the Sirens Wikimedia Commons
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Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Reading Notes: What Thetis Did for Her Son
What Thetis Did for Her Son, from the Illiad by Alfred J. Church (1907), opens up as Thetis comes out of the sea and finds Zeus on top of a mountain. The storyteller tells you its the highest point on the map helping you imagine Zeus sitting on a throne above everyone looking down at all he has created. I can imagine him holding his staff not even looking at Thetis as she is talking to him.
The setting then switches to Zeus' Palace and as he walks in all the other gods rise at his presence and he sits on his throne. I imagine that Zeus has to walk up a couple of steps to get to his throne while all the other gods are at a table below him looking up to him.
The setting then switches to Zeus' Palace and as he walks in all the other gods rise at his presence and he sits on his throne. I imagine that Zeus has to walk up a couple of steps to get to his throne while all the other gods are at a table below him looking up to him.
Zeus on his Throne Wikimedia Commons
Sunday, February 4, 2018
Feedback Strategies: Feedforward
Be a Mirror talks about taking yourself out of the feedback. This is really important because it really helps focus on the person the feedback is rather than yourself. Not everything is about me and I need to really emphasize that and try and keep it about the person I am giving feedback to.
Try Feedforward Instead of Feedback brings up a great point that feedback is great and beneficial to both parties involved, but that it is focusing on the past. Talking about the future rather than what you could have done in the past can bring positive vibes to both parties involved. This should be implemented in more companies and could possibly bring them great success.
Feedforward vs Feedback in Chemical Engineering Wikipedia
Topic Research: Twenty-Two Goblins
I chose to do more research into the Twenty-Two Goblins by Arthur W. Ryder (1917).
I looked into the The Brave Man, the Wise Man, and the Clever Man and I was thinking that I could retell this story and maybe modernize it by changing what each man can do. Which in return could possibly change who becomes the husband.
After reading The Four Scientific Suitors, I could change the common theme of the king picking the brave man as the right husband for the daughter and continually pick that same type of husband.
The Three Delicate Wives of King Virtue-banner is a story about three wives that got hurt by the smallest of things and I could change what each one gets hurt by and relate it more to today's time. I could have my stories be changed to something relative to today and make that the common theme.
I looked into the The Brave Man, the Wise Man, and the Clever Man and I was thinking that I could retell this story and maybe modernize it by changing what each man can do. Which in return could possibly change who becomes the husband.
After reading The Four Scientific Suitors, I could change the common theme of the king picking the brave man as the right husband for the daughter and continually pick that same type of husband.
The Three Delicate Wives of King Virtue-banner is a story about three wives that got hurt by the smallest of things and I could change what each one gets hurt by and relate it more to today's time. I could have my stories be changed to something relative to today and make that the common theme.
The Year 2018 Sketchport
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Week 3 Story: Moses
Princess
Bathia was bathing in the East Nile River when she happened upon a baby
floating in a basket. Being the widow she was, she was delighted.
She named him Moses. He was a great little boy that loved to run around and
play. Even the cruel Pharaoh liked him. However, his counselors and magicians
grew worried that this Hebrew boy would eventually be his demise. Bilam, the
chief magician was especially worried. On Moses’ third birthday, Princess
Bathia threw him a huge party with all the royalty in attendance. He was
playing and running around and even tried to climb on the table.
Bilam
warns the Pharaoh saying, “Beware, O king; this is not play”. The princess denies
this claim and tells the pharaoh too play with him.
The
Pharaoh does and Moses points at his royal crown saying “that is a funny hat”.
Bilam
chimes in saying “Beware”.
Moses
reaches up and tries to grab the hat saying “let me put the hat on”.
Looking
very grave, Bilam cries out “Your majesty, this child is Hebrew and is already
trying to steal your crown”.
The
Pharaoh looking concerned asked “what sayeth Reuel?” turning to his second
chief magician.
“I
say the child is just child and this action means nothing,” answered Reuel
I,
Bilam, am the chief of thy counselors,” he said, “and I think we should let him
be judged”.
The
Pharaoh agrees and the rules are set to see if baby Moses knows the difference
between fire and gold.
Baby
Moses is seated in front of the fire and gold and is reaching for the fiery
coals.
Bilam
thinking that Moses is out to get the Pharaoh uses his magical powers to persuade
Moses into grabbing the gold.
Moses
is there by sentenced to death and is killed on the spot.
Crying
over the loss of her child, Princess Bathia takes her own life by drinking
poison.
Princess Drinking Poison Pixabay
Author's Note
I started with The Water-Babe, a Jewish Fairy Tale and Legend by Gertrude Landa (1919), kept the story very similar to the original with a sad twist at the ending.
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