This semester has been quite an adventure. I have learned valuable lessons and some really great information from this first-year seminar. I really enjoyed this class, not only because it had some really interesting information, but because I truly felt that it made me a better college student for my future years at McDaniel College. We had several assignments that I would see during my college career including, an oral presentation, two papers (that varied in length), two exams, readings of several books and articles, many quizzes, a final exam that requires us to get out into the real world and teach people what we had learned, and blogs. My first blog was pretty weak, and I didn’t know really what I was talking about. However, as I progressed through the course, I became much more confident in my knowledge and I felt as if I knew what I was talking about. I was better able to analyze the fairytales that we were discussing because I was getting used to the psych...
The Robber Bridegroom This tale by the Brother's Grimm starts with a marriage if the beautiful miller's daughter and a suitor. She had never visited her suitor before so he arranged for her to meet him by laying ashes down as for a path for him to get to her. When she saw the trail of ashes, she didn't quite trust it so she marked the path with her own peas and lentils. She arrived at the house with a very eerie feeling. Voices inside the house were telling her to turn back and that the house was full of murderers. She searched the house long and hard for the bridegroom but he was no where to be found. She arrived in the basement and found a very old woman. She asked the old woman where she could find her bridegroom and the old woman told her that her bridegroom was a murderer and he was going to chop her up into little pieces. The old woman told her she would hide her and get her out later after the murderers had gone to sleep. She hid her behind a barrel as the m...
