Tech Tip: Embedding YouTube

This is my embedded YouTube Video:

This is my favorite video from the Phantom of the Opera movie.

You can find it here.

Reading Notes: Alice in Wonderland, Part B

Bibliography: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Caption: The Cards on Alice

Link: (illustration by Arthur Rackham)

This half of the story really focuses in on the courtroom appearance of Alice. Again, this is very similar to the Disney movie. A story based off of this reading would be neat. Honing in on one of the non-Alice characters would be pretty easy. Another option would be to show the story from the King of Heart's eyes. Oh, or the eyes of the March Hare; that would be interesting.

Reading Notes: Alice in Wonderland, Part A

Bibliography: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

This story is so similar to the Disney movie. In the movie, though, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum are the ones who quote Old Father William. I remember reading this book as a child, and I know that I certainly did not understand what a "hookah" was at the time.

If I was to write a story based off of this section, I would write a backstory on the Caterpillar: why he asks "Who are you?" all the time, and why he is so insistent on recitation.

Caption: The Caterpillar

From Chess to Hyecho

1. Chess

- two-player, 64 squares
- believed to have its origins from India
- many notations and strategies to record moves

Caption: 64 squares

2. Gupta Empire

- founded by Sri Gupta (Indian Empire)

- great cultural developments under Chandragupta II

- very into animals

3. Faxian

- a Chinese Buddhist monk

- traveled on foot to India from China

- had three brothers 

4. Hyecho

- studied esoteric Buddhism

- travelled the "five kingdoms of India"

- took four years to complete the journey

Reading Notes: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Part F

Bibliography: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Now has come the time for the Lion to show his newfound "courage" given to him by the wizard. I had forgotten to mention, the wizard just mixed together a few things to have the Lion drink that weren't really magical. It was just a placebo and the Lion believed it. He of course had the courage the whole time. The place they came to was murky, but the Lion seemed to find it very agreeable as compared to the other characters. Here is the "If iiiiI, were Kinnnnng, of the ForRESSSST." They defeat a giant, animal eating, spiderlike creature to claim the now Brave Lion's kingdom. It seriously only took a half of a page to defeat. As in, it only took him a paragraph to defeat. Maybe there was something in that potion after all...

Caption: The Animals Crowing the Lion King of the Forest

Link: https://archive.org/stream/wonderfulwizardo00baumiala#page/238/mode/2up

Image by W. W. Denslow