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- Kunti was a young women who was unmarried and had no children - she worked for a guru and maintained the garden - although scared of her guru, she was kind to him and did everything he asked of her - one day after picking vegetables in the garden, she came into to her guru waiting for her - he told her he was very impressed with her work and wanted to give her a gift - this gift was a spell of some sort that would give her a child with any god she could think of - although she was confused with this gift she thanked him anyway - later when she was at the river, she thought about her gift - she was curious and wanted to see what it was all about - she thought of a god, and he appeared in the sky - he warned her that she must not be foolish with her gift - she told him that she didn’t wish for a child - the god told her he can not take the child back once he was summoned - kunti then had a child, he was beautiful - he had gold armor and earring from his ears - she realiz
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tech tip- command A, C, V

Heres a tech tip for my peers, On a Macbook, if you are analyzing lengthy scientific articles and would like to jump to key points, simply hold command + 'f' to produce a search bar. In the search bar, you may type in key-words to jump to them, as well as highlight them, throughout the infinitely long article. Also the commands I use most often and some you might not know is the highlight, copy and paste options. Highlight= command + A ( 'a' stands for all) Copy= command + c Paste= command + v
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Story Week 15- Arachne

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For my final story for this class, I wanted to share a story about the myth of Arachne. I've recently been reading a lot of these myths or folklore stories and I actually really enjoy them. So I might consider taking Laura's other class that focuses on myths. Ahhhhh... The story of Arachne. We have heard of lots of instances in the mythological world where Gods can transform into other things such as animals or another life form. This is common within their world and most of the time provides them an advantage. Within that there are still mortals that can undergo contortions but they are often unwanted and cursed upon them. Arachne was a young beautiful lady who had a great talent of weaving the most divine threads. People from her town always come to watch her spin her thread and create glorious pieces of art. She was so good, it almost seemed like the thread was just coming from her fingers. After a while of people always praising her work, she became so prideful and
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Reading Notes: The Myth Of Arachne

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" The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the Earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spiders web."    -Pablo Picasso Do you ever wonder where the first spider came from or where their place in life came to be? Why are these aracnid animals so scary but create such beautiful webs? Today Im sharing notes of the myth of Arachne. -In mythology, we see people being able to change and shapeshift into their other forms at their own say so -This is common in important Gods and their abilities - For many morals, the mutations were often unwanted  - Arachne was the daughter of a tradesmen who spent his days dying cloth the darkest shades of purple - She could spin a weave so good that people came around from all over to watch her hands work - After a while her head got a little big and she made a claim that angered the gods - Arachne refused to see weaving as a gift from the gods  - The Goddess of wisd
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Reading Notes- Lord Ganesha

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- How Lord Ganesha got his elephant head -High up in the mountians lived a boy named Ganesha with his mother Parvati and his dad Shiva -This story is told from Ganeshas point of view -Parvati was making a sculpture of a boy that was made of clay - She thought the sculpture was so cute she decided to bring it to life -this is where Ganesha is thought to come from - His mother was dirty from making the sculpture so she decided to take a bath -she told her son to wait by the door and dont let any strangers in - since he just came into this world, he had not seen his father yet -shiva approached the house as he was playing with a stick in the yard - Shiva is a large blue man and Ganesha felt he needed to do something to stop him from entering the home - he yelled for Shiva to stop and shiva replied with a angry response - He told the boy how powerfull he was, then he chopped his head off with a sword - Parvati came running out to find what shiva had done, she told him who he w
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Tech Tip, Screenshot

I think one thing I was always frustrated with was the inability to capture things that appeared on your screen, or wanted to show someone what appeared on your screen but didn't know how to do that. One great thing I've learned is how to take a screenshot of your computer screen. All you need to do is press command + shift + 4 and you can drag and select which portion of the screen you'd like to screenshot. This has become very helpful to me in the past few weeks. Easily one of the most useful tech tips.
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Extra Credit Reading Notes

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- The tragic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice - Orpheus is known as one of the greatest poets and musicians and is very handsome - his bride, Eurydice is a wood nymph - they were deeply in love - When they were about to marry, Eurydice died unexpectedly died from a snake biting her -Orpheus felt so helpless and was overcome with grief - he decided to journey to the land of the dead to save his loved one - As he arrived at the area of the dead, he began to strum his lyre, and it soothed the three-headed dog that guarded the gates - The dog fell asleep as Orpheus peacefully passed them - Chareon who charged people dead souls to let them cross the river, let him cross free of charge - The sound of his music took him  - He entered the palace of Hades and Persephone and began to sing of his love that had been taken away from him too soon - All of hell stood still after he finished singing - they granted his plea on one condition that he must not turn around to see if
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