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1.   Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job!" 2. How to Give Feedback Without Sounding Like a Jerk I found these resources very interesting individually, but more particularly I enjoyed how they went hand-in-hand with one another. The first source covers much of its content in the title of avoiding the phrase "good job!" because it simplifies an achievement that can receive more than just a reduced phrase. Interestingly, the author also mentions about how in certain groups, like children, it draws a type of attention to them that makes them want to not repeat the behavior when told "good job" because it becomes lackluster, which is an interesting psychology. The second source then helps to divert to another method of praise from just "good job." It is more detailed than just giving feedback, but rather structures why and how you should give feedback, and its methods of doing so. These include relating yourself to the person receiving feedback, as ...

1. Ghost Story of the Flute's Tomb Source 2. Ghost of the Violet Well Source 3. The Snow Ghost Source Extra links/references: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABrei https://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm The Snow Ghost

Here Odysseus and his men, on their way back to Ithaca, have reached an island that belongs to wild, uncivilized creatures called Cyclopses (or Cyclopes, using the Latin plural form). Prior to reaching the land of the Cyclopses, Odysseus and his men had raided the land of the Ciconians, and the wine they have brought with them from the land of the Ciconians will play an important part in this story Odysseus has with him, wine that he obtained in Ismarus, the city of the Ciconians which he and his men visited prior to arriving at the land of the Cyclopses. Earlier on their journey, Odysseus and his men had the misfortune to visit the land of the Laestrygonians, giant cannibals who ate some of Odysseus's men and destroyed eleven of his twelve ships; it was because the Laestrygonians that Odysseus and his men now have only a single ship. Tony Kline. The Odyssey . Source . The Odyssey

The leaves on the trees had began to fall, the wind began to feel like daggers piercing the skin, and most important of all, the final exams approached. It was nearing the end of the Fall semester at The University of Oklahoma. Not a student was in sight, as many were nestled away in their dorms from the outside cold preparing for the final exams. Winter break was right around the corner! They had sailed their journey for as long as they could remember, and soon they would reap the fruits of their labor: no homework, no studying, and even Christmas! But one thing stood in their way from all this happiness: final exams. Thus, the students began relentlessly studying. Although they were so close to being free, they needed to go out with a bang, which was a spot on the President's honor roll; and so they studied. Everyone was in it together. Close friends helped one another. People made new friends and study-buddies and doubled up on their methods of studying. It was one for all, and ...