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As seen in my last biographical writing, a lot of my stories and memories from child hood include throwing up. Now, as my earliest childhood memories, I am going to describe the not one, but two, other instances of throw up engraved in my brain forever. The first is The Roadtrip. I was maybe two or three, and my family and I were all driving back to Oklahoma from Tennessee. We were in Tennessee for my aunt's wedding, and we were driving really late at night.I was in my carseat, and I was eating gummy worms. Eventually, I went into a gummy worm coma and fell asleep. I then woke up to myself throwing up gummy worms all over myself and my carseat. There wasn't a rest stop for several miles, so I had to wait to be cleaned off. I remember the exact barbie nightgown I was wearing. It was my favorite, and I was devastated. Eventually, we got to a rest stop where my parent cleaned me and my carpet up as my two older siblings complained. Once everything was clean, we got bac...

The last time I wrote about myself, it was about a memory from preschool. For this one, I'm going to keep the preschool theme going and tell another story from those days. This one, though, is the story of why I don't like peanut butter. Weird, right? Okay, so the story starts in preschool, obviously. It was St. Patrick's Day, and I had arrived at my preschool. There were the typical morning activities--circle time, free play, etc. But, since it was St. Patrick's Day, we were also having a leprechaun hunt because that's the type of stuff four/five year olds enjoy. So, we went out to the playground to search for the leprechauns. There were little clues all over, so my classmates and I were running all around the yard looking for this leprechaun. As planned, my teacher called us in for lunch before we could find the leprechaun. We stood in line at the sink and waited our turn to wash our hands. Next, we carried our lunchboxes to the little lunchroom. My mom...

For the second portion of this week's reading, I have continued watching the video series from Tuesday called  Seven Secrets of the Goddess . In part 3 of the videos, I learned that women in many cultures are linked with nature whereas men are linked with culture. To display this, I want to include a plot in my storybook. A man will attempt to domesticate Abhaya, but little do they know she is a queen. By doing this, I will continue to be true to the culture in which I am trying to write about.  In the fourth part of the videos, it talked a lot about how women play the role of damsel in distress, but they also play the role of the evil with in a lot of mythologies. My story is going to do its best to show that a woman can be more than a victim or a villain, and a woman doesn't need a man to save her in order to have a good life.  (Image information: Rati, pen and ink, 1826 obtained from Epics: Images and PDE Epics ) Bibliography:  Devdutt Pattanai...

For part A, I have watched first and second secrets. The first video talked a lot about how common it is in mythologies for male deities to abuse female deities who were once well-adorned. To keep my story accurate with common mythologies, I may throw an abusive man into my heroine story. I plan to use a character like Kronos in my storybook who will plan to take down Abahya. Ultimately, Abahya will take down Kronos, showcasing the woman-centered societies that the first video also talks about.  In the second video, there was a specific type of mythical creature mentioned that I would like to incorporate into my storybook. The creature is called a pitr, and it hangs upside down like a bat. Pitrs hang in the land of the dead, where I want Abahya to go. There, a pitr will prey upon her and attempt to make her his wife so he can father children. Yet again, Abahya will escape the man. ( Image Information: Agastya, a pitr, giving Rama a sword circa 1830 obtained fro...