Epics of India

 Learning about microfictions. When I first clicked on the assignment I was only expecting to find 100 word microfictions. Once I got to the website I was excited to see that there were many different types of microfictions including 25 word and 6 word ones. I have read a lot of the 100 word short stories but I have never read any of the lower word count stories until today. I really enjoyed reading the 25 word stories because it lets the reader, me in this case, fill in the context before and after these 25 words. These words also give just enough context that the author gets the main point across of which was the story is going. I did not like the 6 word stories as much because they were open ended and relies on the reader to fill in basically everything. I think that I would really enjoy trying to write my own microfictions with different word counts. Although, I know that I would like the 25 word stories a whole lot better than the others.  Filling the Gaps

   The Danger of a Single Story This Ted Talk was about falling into the tendency to take a single stories that you see on the news and placing everyone from that region into the same stereotype. In this Ted Talk, the speaker was talking about her real world experiences about coming from Africa. Her roommate was surprised that she was able to properly use the stove. She couldn't believe that her roommate thought that everyone from Africa was poor. She then fell into this single story phenomenon.  Imaginary Friends and Real World Consequences I enjoyed watching this Ted Talk because the speaker talked about a lot of relatable characters that most everyone knows. She first started off by talking about characters from the Harry Potter series. She talked about how everyone that has watched the movies or read the books have developed connections with the characters. She later goes on to talk about the Game of Thrones series, specifically about the red wedding. They killed off ...

 The Danger of a Single Story This Ted Talk was about falling into the tendency to take a single stories that you see on the news and placing everyone from that region into the same stereotype. In this Ted Talk, the speaker was talking about her real world experiences about coming from Africa. Her roommate was surprised that she was able to properly use the stove. She couldn't believe that her roommate thought that everyone from Africa was poor. She then fell into this single story phenomenon.  Imaginary Friends and Real World Consequences I enjoyed watching this Ted Talk because the speaker talked about a lot of relatable characters that most everyone knows. She first started off by talking about characters from the Harry Potter series. She talked about how everyone that has watched the movies or read the books have developed connections with the characters. She later goes on to talk about the Game of Thrones series, specifically about the red wedding. They killed off many of...