Taiwei Chang

 First Article: In this article, it teaches me how to build our own feedback in processes. I realized that I need to think about some questions before writing feedback. Several processes in this article are very impressive. For instance, we should gauge and throw away my initial reaction. It is true that we all have a first impression when we talk about any issue. This suggestion helps me delete the bias in my comments. Besides, asking probing questions would also be an important factor when we create our own comments. I always like to praise others when I make feedback without providing any questions. Now, I would say that asking questions not only shows our curiosity about the topic but also helps us further understand our own biases.   Second Article: I learned the importance of feedforward after reading the article. In my opinion, feedforward is relatively easy to realize in school. Instructors could use some activities to set some suggestions and goals for their stud...

Possible Stories: I choose these three creatures from the Classics of Mountains and Seas. They all have unique charms and amazing characteristics. Basically, the myth has shown these creatures in a very mysterious way - their roosts are all far from the human's realm. For now, my thinking is that I would like to try to retell the story in a new way. I want to show some encounters between these creatures and humans in a romantic way.  1. Nine-tailed white fox: This creature has been recorded in Classic of the Mountains: South, Classic of Regions Beyond the Seas: East, and Classic of the Great Wilderness: East. These foxes live in the Land of Green-Hills. It makes a sound like a baby and is a man-eater. In appearance, they are all white and have nine tails. No one would say that they are not a kind of beautiful creature.  Nine-tailed fox. Web Source: Quora . 2. Hundun (Di Jiang): Hundun is a God who lives in Tian Mountain in ancient China (In Chinese, "Tian" means sky ). Hu...

    Once upon a time, the Scylla lived on one side of a narrow channel of water. She would destroy every ship or vessel when they sailed there.  Just like a hungry lion would hunt rabbits.  She ate every sailor in her view unless those brave and shrewd people could run away from her chase.     Day after day, year after year, she forgot who was she before she became the Scylla. She even forgot why she always feels angry. The only thing that she knew is to destroy everything in front of her.      One day, she felt tedious about all those things.  She was eager to remember why she is Scylla rather than a human. She wanted to know why she was stuck in this narrow channel. She wanted to know why there are so many monsters in this world and she is one of them.      A wise man traveled to the nest of Scylla, and he said, "Pathetic  soul, do you feel confused about your current situations?"     The Scylla answered, ...

Homer's Odyssey , translated into English by Tony Kline. (2004).         At this part, several things have attracted my attention. It is very interesting when  Odysseus meat The Ghost of Teiresias. The seer talked about the future and the homecoming journey with Odysseus. His predictions are detailed and complicated. This information is definitely very useful for Odysseus since they could make sure that this brave man gets prepared for the following challenges. After I read this part of the storybook, I found there are a lot of prophets in many different kinds of mythology. The prophet looks like an important factor to the ancient authors when they tried to create their works. In my opinion, the power to predict the future comes from reality. In myths, ancients writers magnified the ability of people in reality in order to create a fantastic world.      I always like to think about why mythologies or folk myths are so impressive? Why they cou...

Homer's Odyssey , translated into English by Tony Kline. (2004).       In the part of  Odysseus's adventure in the land of Cyclopes, the story is excellent and full of interesting plots. Although the whole content of the story is not complex, Odysseus and his men came to the island, they explored the island and trapped on the island, the author provides many delicate descriptions in these plots. For example, the author talks about the gifts which are offered by the priest of Apollo guardian god, "He offered me splendid gifts, seven talents of well-wrought gold, and a silver mixing-bowl: and wine, twelve jars in all, sweet unmixed wine, a divine draught." I think the reason for the sentence that could grab my attention is that I could imagine a print in my mind.      Then, I found that the whole story is talked in Odysseus' own perspective. During this way to tell the story, the audience could get a better understanding of the main charac...