Rosemary

Thursday September28,2006 Prewrite 1. I am good at math and music. 2. I feel good because it is my specialty and I like it alot. 3. I will feel sad because I am not very good at other stuff as science,history,art,P.E.,and english and I won't ever do my favorite stuff again.

Tuesday,October3,2006 Chapter1 1. One of the problem is the tribe are starved of hunger because the hunters fail to get food.Second Toa lost the rabbit because he was drawing over it and forgot it in the meadow and the hyenas took it.Third is that the wolf won't eat anything. 2. I think that the tribe won't starve,Tao will get another rabbit,and the wolf will finally eat.

Chapter 2 In this chapter,Tao was hungry and he got an two eggs by working with Ram{the wolf}.Then he pulled a silver tooth from Ram.

Chapter 3 1. They both work together to get eggs. 2. He told Volt that he could get food by himself without the other hunters. 3. I think Tao is very forgetful and he should be punished.I don't like when Tao forgets to bring some of the food.If he always does that we might go hunger.I don't believe he could get more food than the normal hunters.He might not be able to survie.

Chapter 8 Someone could brsak a rule like coming to school everyday. Some one who is sick can't come to school. So he or she are breaking the school rule. So some people could break even a school rule. If the sick kid or student came and didn't break the rule he or she will get the whole class or school sick.

Chapter9 1. I think Graybeard change his mind because he might like Tao's pictures and might be a very good cave painter. 2. This tells me about his character because he is showing ne how nice mean or surprised he is.

Chapter11 1. I think GrayBeard is a good teacher because he makes sure you understand it and makes you get better. 2. Yes I want to be taught by him and no ,yes because he would make me better and no because he wouldn't let me have the fun of drawing. Torres, Rosemary June 7, 2007 Period 2/3

King Ashoka’s Rule

Have you ever heard about a king who gave up violence? Ashoka was one of those kings. His name is pronounced Ashoka or Asoka, and he has history behind him. His grandfather, Chadragupta Mauryan began building an empire. That was the beginning of The Mauryan Empire. When Ashoka was older, he became king. While he ruled he wanted to expand India or The Mauryan Empire. After fighting with other parts of India he gave up violence because he didn’t want to see any more blood of dead or killed people.

After he gave up violence, he became a Buddhist. When he embraced to Buddhism, he supported the 3 values of Buddhism (love, peace, and non-violence). He even gave up a traditional sport or known as hunting. Since he didn’t hunt, he eat meat in other word, he became a vegetarian.

After he took in Buddhism, he wanted everyone to follow the Buddhist path. He wanted them not to do violence, no more hunting, and no more meat to eat. After that he went to Buddhism sites to pray and respect Buddha.

When everyone in his empire because Buddhist, Ashoka wanted to spread Buddhism everywhere. He sent his and daughter to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) to spread Buddhism. He spread Buddhism everywhere.

He used to say about religion, “ All sects deserve reverence for one reason or another. By thus acting a man exalts his own sect and at the same time does service to sect of other people.” This means, all groups deserve an honor for one reason or another. By this way a man makes his own group big and special and at the same time does service to groups of other people. Then he died. A few years later his empire and country began to break up. Even though the empire broke, one thing didn’t. That was Buddhism. Buddhism never broke, instead it grew. It went from India and it went even to China. Buddhism will always live.

In through out history he was the last king of The Mauryan Empire. He also made columns with writing about Buddhism. He maybe the only king who gave up a king tradition. And maybe the only king who gave up violence.