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Week 11 Story: The Enemies of Flight

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Once upon a time there was a fight to be king. This fight was not among the humans, the beast, or the fish, but of the birds. Everyone had decided on a king for their groups... besides the birds. This appeared to not be as much of an easy task as what they thought it was going to be. This is how the fight for king begins. The birds decided to have a sit down and discuss who would become the king of them. The two running candidates were owl and crow. There could only be one. Since not all of the birds had come to an agreement, they decided to put in a tally of votes. They had lots of votes for both but it came down to crow winning by ONE vote. This upset the owl so much that he flew up and said, "No slimy crow will rule over me!" After hearing this statement, the crow became very angry and flew up to defend himself. The owl was paying close attention and dodged the crow and they flew off chasing one another. Once the birds had seen such behavior from the owl and crow, they d...

Reading Notes: Babbitt. Jataka Tales, Part B

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- Two different merchants trying to sell goods and were both ready at the same time. - one merchant, who goes first is tricked by demons out in the desert. - The second merchant is wise, and realizes the men are demons and out smarts the demons. - There is an elephant, who is always good and would never hurt anyone. "Girly-Face" - Some robbers talk where the elephant can hear the bad talk and starts acting out killing people. - The king send someone who figures out what happens, fixes the situation, and it all stops. - A king likes to hunt deer. So they make a park for the deer and shut them in there. - Everyday the king or the cook comes to kill them. The two deer kings make a pack. - One deer at a time from each of the two king deer's herds will go. - Lands on a mothering deer and the deer king shows mercy. - This mercy keeps the king from ever killing another single deer. - A king has 3 suns. He tells his wife that when the third son is born he will give her...

Reading Notes: Babbitt. Jataka Tales, Part A

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- A crocodile is asked by his mother for a monkeys heart. - The crocodile tries to drown the monkey but is fooled by the monkey. - The monkey uses a rock to get from point A to B and out smarts the crocodile again. -  The kings sons believe the turtle is a demon in their lake. - They plan to kill the turtle but the turtle convinces them to "kill him" by returning him back to the lake. -  A granddaughter wants to trade a bowl for something one of the merchants are selling. - A greedy merchant realizes the old bowl is gold and wants to try to get it for free. - Another merchant realizes it is gold and gives them everything he owns for the gold bowl. - The greedy merchant comes back for it but it is too late. - two geese, friends of a turtle want to take a talkative turtle to their beautiful home. - They take the turtle by stick and say he must not speak. - He heard children speaking on them, opened his mouth and fell to his death. - A man owned an ox and said he wou...