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Story Lab: TED talks about stories and storytelling

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Video 1:  The Danger of a Single Story, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


Definition:  The single story is when a people is shown as one thing and one thing only.  So from an outsiders point of view that is the only thing that group of people can be.

Examples: Mexicans as only immigrants.  Africa is a beautiful land with beautiful animals, but all its people are poor and dying of AIDS.

• The single story creates stereotypes, especially negative ones.
• It is not the complete story, just overshadows other more positive stories.
• Remember to reject the single story.

Video Two: Imaginary Friends and Real World Consequences: Parasocial Relationships, by Jennifer Barnes

• Why do we spend so much time, money, and emotion engaging with fictional characters?
• We know that they are not real, we know them but they do not know us
• What effect does this engagement have on us?
• Benefit from imaginary relationships same way we do with actual relationships
• Why do we care about fictional characters?
• On a deep level we believe that they are real, even though they are not
• What effects do these relationships we form with these characters have on us?
• Make up for loss of confidence, or rejection 
• Parasocial relationship is formed by learning about someone without actually meeting them.
• Be mindful of how you can take your feelings toward fictional characters, and apply it to the real world.

Reading Notes: PDE Mahabharata Part B

Dhritarashtra and Duryodhana (Indian Epics: Images and PDE Epics)

Sources

The Gambling Match, Indian Myth and Legend, Donald A. Mackenzie.

The Second Match, Indian Myth and Legend, Donald A. Mackenzie.

Gambling Part 1

1. Duryodhana jealous of Team Pandava wanted revenge
2. He enlisted the help of Prince Shakuni, a famous gambler
3. Shakuni challenged Yudhishthira to a dice game
4. Shakuni won every round because he used loaded dice
5. Yudhishthira lost everything, and became a slave
6. The last round Yudhishthira gambled with Draupadi's freedom and lost
7. Draupadi lost her freedom as well

Gambling Part 2

1. Dhritarashtra heard of the aftermath of the gambling match
2. He went to Draupadi to make amends
3. He granted her two boons:
1. Yudhishthira was granted his freedom
2. Arjuna, Bhima, and the others were granted their freedom and weapons
4. Duryodhana feared retaliation from Team Pandava
5. So he got Shakuni and Yudhishthira to play dice again with the loaded dice
6. Yudhishthira lost again
7. Team Pandava and Draupadi were exiled for 12 years
8. Bhima swore revenge against Duryodhana and Dushasana (brother)

Reading Notes: PDE Mahabharata Part A

Drona Tests the Princes (Indian Epics: Images and PDE Epics)

Sources:

1. The Sons of Pandu, Indian Myth and Legend, Donald A. Mackenzie.
2. Gandhari and Dhritarashtra, Indian Myth and Legend, Donald A. Mackenzie.
3. The Contest, Mahabharata, Epic of the Bharatas, Romesh C. Dutt.

Team Pandavas:

1. Parents : Pandu (father, dead), Kunti (first wife, alive), Madri (second wife, dead)
2. Kunti's children:
1. Yudhishthira (father, Dharma, God of Justice)
2. Bhima (father Vayu, God of wind)
3. Arjuna (father Indra, king of heaven)
3. Madri's children:
1. Nakula (father Ashwin twins, son of Sun God Surya)
2. Sahadeva (father Ashwin twins, son of Sun God Surya)
   

Team Kauravas:

1. Parents: Dhritarashtra (father, blind), Gandhari (mother)
2. Duryodhana eldest son 
3. 99 younger sons (so far most are nameless)

The Contest:

1. Bhima and Duryodhana fight
1. they use maces
2. both took it seriously
3. turned deadly
4. Drona (their trainer) stopped the match
5. it was a draw
2. Arjuna displays his archery
1. hard targets
2. small targets
3. wild boar plates had five arrows in their mouths
4. a moving cow horn on a string was struck 21 times