Mythology Blog Fall 2019

I have been using the Canvas app for over three years now. It has been so useful! Having the technology we have today makes it so easy to get work done from your phone. One time I was on my way to a Post Malone concert but I had an assignment due that night. While we were waiting in line, which seemed like forever, I was able to finish the assignment on the Microsoft Word app on my phone and then submit it through the Canvas app. I also regularly use it to submit assignments through my Ipad. There was one incident I had with the app, I was taking a quiz for my biochem class on my phone and all of a sudden canvas crashed. It basically ended my quiz and submitted it before I could finish all the problems. I email canvas support to try to get it figured out but they were absolutely no help. My professor told me to email canvas to see if they could find a way to let me finish the quiz, but when I explained the situation to canvas support they told me to try to take it again. The quiz only ...

Image of a bloody knife. Image from  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/164944405087963930/?autologin=true It was a stormy and lonely Thursday evening at the diner, a man with great white hair and a face worn down by years walks in and sits at the counter. He wore a long grey coat over his wrangler jeans and button-up shirt. The waitress could tell he was troubled. Man: "I'll take a coffee, please." His voice was so deep and robust it imitated the thunder from the storm outside. Waitress: "Sure thing, hun, any dinner or  slice of pie for you tonight?" Man: "No thank you." The waitress quickly brewed up a fresh batch of steaming hot coffee. The earthy aroma filled the diner. Waitress: "Here you go hun. Sugar or creamer?" Man: "Please." The waitress grabbed a couple packets of each and placed them by the man's cup. He slowly added them to his drink while he waited for the coffee to cool. Waitress: "So what ...

Echo they Nymph. Image from  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_(mythology) Story:  The Metamorphoses  by Ovid. Translated by A. S. Kline This reading was a lot less interesting than the one from yesterday. I only liked the story of echo. These stories are really messed up, it seems like greeks hated young girls. I struggled to understand them, I had to google some of them. I don't see anything in these stories that I will incorporate. The ones from today didn't even flow as well as the ones from yesterday. I actually fell asleep reading them. 

The Sun God - Helios - and his golden chariot. image from  https://www.theoi.com/Titan/Helios.html Story: The Metamorphoses by Ovid. Translated by A. S. Kline This weeks reading was interesting. I usually take notes over the language in these stories highlighting phrases that I find really beautifully written, but in this story, I wasn't moved by the language that much. I had a hard time understanding a few of the parts of the story and had to reread them multiple times. What I really liked about this story was how fluid the transitions were between the smaller stories. Ovid was easily able to connect them all and create a much larger story from all the individual ones. I also enjoyed the smaller creation like stories, like the swan and peacock's tail, that were just randomly dispersed throughout the story. My final note is that I'm a little surprised at how brutal these stories are. In grade school, I knew Zeus had a lot of children but I was never told he went ...