When we had started to learn about Taoism I was a little bit skeptical because again, we are learning about a new religion/belief. But what I didn't know and maybe a few others didn't know as well is that everyday of our life we go through a little of Taoism. For instance when I'm at home with my parents I do what I choose to do, but I can't do anything or everything I want to do there is a balance of discipline and respect on both sides. My parents give me respect and discipline by letting me do what I want to do and I show the same by not breaking or destroying the house. Taoism is basically the balance by two forces that, if one is more powerful than the other than everything is going to be off balanced. Another example of this is when its sunny outside, if it were always sunny then everything would dry up and rain. On the other hand it rains to much than it would flood everything and having the same results as being too hot, everything would die. I guess for the people that don't believe in Taoism they live in a Taoist world because of all the comparing and contrasting or balance of power.

What I had learned this week about the Koran is that the Koran is very confusing and out of order. Unlike the bible the dates go in order and when the bible is telling a story it finishes it and at the end there is always a lesson or a morale to learn from it. When the Koran comes to rights like the rights of women in a way it is kinda of the same rules in the bible. The bible says that the wife must submit to the husband but she has the freedom to wear what she wants to wear. In the Koran and in the Islamic culture/religion the men want the woman to wear a veil of some sort to cover their faces and no skin be exposed. That is just an example that I chose because it was one of the most significant thing that popped out to me after we had read the Koran. Lastly I learned that the Islamic religion is very faithful, loyal and doesn't like Christians very much. I find that Christianity is more appealing or reliable because I was born and raised into Christianity, I grew up only learning about Christianity. If you were a person that believed in the Islamic religion you would say the same as I would. Which would be, you were born into Islamic tradition and culture and if you were taught any other religion it would be weird for them if all of the sudden you threw Christian values and ways into their face and told them that Jesus Christ is our savior and not Allah.

The things that I most appreciated about this movie was how the characters emotion was not hard to see, you saw how they felt and what they were thinking at that moment in the movie. In most of the movies I've seen with kings in it or someone high in class it only shows the bravery, courage, motivation and how strong they are. In the movie it shows that along with how the character reacts to things that they don't like. For example when King Arther cries or his fear of his wife loving another man. These little things made the movie a whole lot better because of the extra emotions and feelings that you can see and understand that the character is showing. Also I like how the movie shows the strengths and weaknesses of the characters in the movie. It makes it easier to relate to in real life. One thing that I didn't like about the movie was the music. There was a different song every time a new character was introduced or someone new was speaking. I guess some of the songs were okay but it was too much for me.

Some universal archetypes in the movie were the maiden, wise old man and sidekick. The maiden archetype goes to Guinevere because she does not want to marry the king, but ironically she falls in love with king in the forest. Until she meets sir Lancelot. The wise old man archetype would go to Merlin because he had told advice to King Arthur about his future and how do stuff. Merlin also knew everything. Lastly the sidekick would go to Lancelot because when King Arther and Lancelot meet for the first time they are the best of friends, and Lance would do everything for Arther. But when Guinevere and Lancelot meet King Arther knew it was going downhill from there. So would Lancelot be in like a shadow archetype as well?

I think this movie represents how humans sin no matter who you are whether you are a king, queen, knight whatever class your in you will sin. Also in this movie it shows how we all have the same emotions and again it doesn't matter who you are. In the end of the movie I think King Arther will ask what is happening with Lancelot and Guinevere.

It was easier to find the differences between the movie "Troy" and the story the "Iliad". One of the differences that I noticed was that in the movie when the killing started to happen there was music to cover up the people yelling and screaming in the back round even though you can see what was happening to them. Another difference is when the end of the movie came Odysseus started to talk about how he wanted to be remembered that he walk with giants and fought with Achilles in the story it didn't have that, and even if it did it wouldn't be as dramatic you wouldn't be able to feel how Odysseus felt when he said it than just reading what he had said. A similarity is in the book when it describes how Achilles cuts Hectors achilles heel then puts the rope threw it and ties the rope to his chariot and drags him back to the Greek camp the way the book described it gave me the chills and in the movie even just thinking about it it gave me the same feelings when I read it in the book. Also I think that having music in a movie makes a big part in making you kind of feel whats happening, like you can tell if something sad be seeing it happen but if there's music its like you can feel it.

1. What I like best about the class is that we always go over something when we don't get it and we have "story day" every Thursday. Whats going well for me is that when we go over vocab its all about completion of the assinment not how many you get right.

2. My greatest disapointment in class is my draft for the Hero essay.

3. The way that I've studied for tests and quizzes is I have someone quiz me on the subject that we are learning or I'll make note cards for things that I know I can do on my own. When I study for tests and quizzes I give myself an hour to an hour and a half to study and I usually study on the bus and when I get home.

4. I think I am more of a visual learner because from previous thinking, whenever I see a picture of something I always remember what it means and represents.

In the Filipino folktale Juan Tamad ( in English it means lazy John or Johnny lazy), a young boy comes upon a guava tree and all the fruit is ripened already, he is so lazy that doesn't want to pick the fruit himself so what he does is he lays underneath he branches where the fruit is falling. When the fruit falls he opens his mouth very wide and the fruit lands in his mouth and he does that till all the fruit is gone. There are many stories that are based off this one like another story is Juan Tamad is instructed by his mother to go to the market and sell the rice cakes that she had just made. On his way to the market he passes a pond with frogs jumping in and out of it, so he feeds the frogs the rice cakes instead of going to the market. When he gets home his mother asks him where's the money then Juan said that the customers paid by credit and they'll pay you next week.

There aren't many archetypes in this particular story but one of the archetypes is The Jester archetype. The Jester has a few other titles but one of the descriptions was that they were prone to laziness. This portrays through Juan Tamad because he is too lazy to grab the guava on the branch of the tree. When his mother gives him the rice cakes to sell at the market and he gives the cakes to the frogs then his mother asks him wheres the money and he says it was paid by credit the archetype would trickster because he lies to mother and makes her think that he sold the rice cakes.

This tale is obviously Filipino but other cultures probably have there versions of this story that they taught to kids to not be lazy. In this story there aren't any mythical creatures or supernatural powers but a human that portrays being lazy is fun until something happens like when Juan tells his mom that the people will pay her back the following week when that week comes I wonder if his mom will discipline him? I already knew that this story is Filipino because the title of the story, the fruit that Juan was eating that grows in the Philippines and I also was told this story to remind me not to be lazy.

This is the Batman or The Dark Knight. He is from Gothom City, a city that is runned by darkness , evil and crime. The reason I chose this hero is because he was an average person who becomes a superhero and he protects and defends the city from evil. And another reason I chose the Batman was even though he has no superpowers he is capable of doing what a superhero can do with powers. The only things he has to fight crime are gadgets that he had designed and built.