Reading Diary Part B Week 14

The Wolf and Seven Young Kids

Brothers Grim (ashliman)



The cat and a mouse live together as friends. They store a pot of fat to survive the winter. The cat sneaks off and eats all the fat. The mouse finds out that the cat did it and confronts the cat and the cat eats the mouse.

A wolf tricks kids into letting him into the house. He eats six of them but doesn’t catch the seventh. The wolf then goes and falls asleep under the tree. The mother goat comes home and finds out what happens. They find the wolf and cut open his stomach and the kids are alive and free. They fill the wolf with stones and when the wolf goes to the well to drink water he falls in and dies.

Little red cap is little red riding hood

The singing bones is about a boar that terrorizes the land. The king says that anyone that kills the boar wins his daughters hand in marriage. Two brothers set out to kill the boar. The bother with a kind heart is given a spear from a dwarf and he kills the boar. On his way home he sees his brother and shows him the boar. His brother becomes jealous and kills him and buries him under a bridge so he can claim the prize. Years later a shepherd is by the bridge and hears the bones singing. He takes one of the bones to the king and the king is able to understand what the bones are singing and has the earth under the bridge dug up. When he does the murdered skeleton of the boy comes to life and the other brother is put in a sack and drowned for his crime.

Picture Attribution

By Hermann Vogel (1854-1921) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Introduction Week 1

  Welcome to my page. Hello my name is Joe. The basic information about me is that I am an English writing track major at the University of Oklahoma, and some day I hope to try my hand at the law profession. I hate these introductions because I always feel like I am writing a profile for some dating website like eharmony.com only at my age my likes are waking up and oatmeal, and my dislikes are not waking up and cold coffee so for the remainder of this introduction I will try to give you guys a little my personal information that usual.
      First off I am a father of one amazing 11 year old boy named Ethan. I know this is going to sound cliche but for me my real life began the day he was born. So I guess under likes I would have to say spending time with my son. I know that most people say they have a good looking kid, but mine really is a good looking kid.

Ethan from Personal photos 2011

      Besides spending time with my kid I enjoy eating. I am a total foodie, I love trying new things I have never eaten before, and then taking friends to try the food items I have discovered. I am a Starbucks junkie, and when I say junkie I mean yes I would sell a family member for a venti Mocha. I am the type of person that if you take seriously, you will think is a person that is pompous, rude, and without social manners, but if you realize that I am joking then most likely you will just laugh at me because you know I am being stupid. I love to hear laughter from people and don't mind being the butt of a joke at all. If I had a motto for life it would be: Live Awesome.
      Living awesome encompasses so many things but mostly it means that you don't need permission from anyone to shine. When I say "I'm Awesome" and I have been saying it for years, people always look at me as if to say, "Oh really," my point in saying that I am awesome is not because I am trying to diminish anyone else but rather I am lifting myself up. I believe that everyone should think they are awesome, because it is important to tell yourself something then go out in life and live up to your words. If someone believes that it is more important to be humble then I think that is great they can have my humbleness and be humble for both of us. It is not an arrogance issue but rather I wanna live each day at one hundred percent effort so that I can squeeze every bit of good out of it, because let's face it, when it is over, it is over and this body will be thrown in the ground and turn to dust, so might as well try to succeed each and every day.


Picture Attribution
Personal Photo from 2011 on my computer