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Folklore having been in circulation for many years. Some Folklore are passed down from generation to generation. Many people think that these are false stories and are just told for fun. However that’s not the case. People tell these folklore’s because it represents who they are, their culture and ancestors. It’s all about their identity. Everyone learns about each other by these folklores. It’s an easier way to learn about people’s cultures and their ancestor’s legend.  However folklore isn't always based on the past, since there is constant developing and change in what humans do. There are many ways folklore can be communicated. I think the best way is in music. Everyone can relate was music. They do say that music is the universal language. We might get some insight on folklore in school, but we really learn these folklore from each other according to Sims. I like the example of sending the chain email to all the people on your address book. As a kid I would send the chain message to everyone because I was scared of the outcome if I didn’t send it. However as I grew up I’ve noticed that these chain mails aren’t true and there isn’t going to be any bad outcome if I don’t send it out. There might still be people who believe in the chain message and still send them out. All these folklore are going to be kept alive because of the people that keep on tell them.

Post #2

Have you ever research on the internet for recipes, song lyrics or directions? Have you ever consider this being research? Well, it is research; we all do research daily for different type of reason. All of us have being doing research since elementary school, even sooner as day care. There's all type of research. The most important one for me is academic research. Once having master how to write a prefect research paper, I’m sure it's going to be easier to approach any research in other fields.  When doing research the end goal is to learn something new or just have more knowledge on something one had prior knowledge on. It doesn't hurt to learn something new. Through writing a research paper. One learns other things as well like the importance of sources. One has to be careful on the type of sources it uses to back up their information on a paper. Some sources are reliable and useful but, other sources can be written by my 10-year-old brother. Research is a very important thing to learn and master.

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I enjoyed reading "Aesop, Aristotle, and  Animals: The role of fables in Human life" by Edward Clayton.  At first I didn't understand the reading, so I read it more than once and it started making sence. There's a comparison between animals and human. The first example about the wolf and lamb has a meaning of power. The wolf is a bestial animals and compared to a lamb it's no where as powerful.  The lamb is like the slaves, women, and the poor. However the wolf are like men. The wolf knows it powerful so it can abuse its power. The fables have a reference to animals. They make them come to life and have a voice. This was done to make it easier for people to read these fables. All these fables have a deeper meaning and it shouldn't be taking for face value. The in the fable "The Fox and the Mask" I really didn't understand the meaning behind it. However I think it might be referring to the fox and him hiding something. Also he found the beautiful mask but no brain. So I think it might be like beauty and brains. There's people who have beauty but no brains at all.