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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.

- 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...

Tuesdays & Wednesdays Reading Notes on one page because of their similarities and order if events What is a Myth? - The word myth is not exactly a word that has a solid definition - We have seen people use this as a word that shows something false - That is actually a myth ( insert joke here ) - Here we have a situation where we don't have solid definition of the word tale because it's described in many different ways - Here we usually see it as a story that is not meant to be taken seriously  -significant and staying power are two essential things that myths show that is why they keep the stories going after thousands and years - We see a lot of myths as origin stories where they describe how the world started - we see many cultures have stories of how the world and the people in it came to be and why they exist - this is a vast subject to tackle considering there are science and religion that fight against these myth stories - we believe that these stories w...

I used the crash course video and wrote my thoughts over the video. To start, the video mentions that the topics of Mythology are endless; he describes it as mixing a bunch of different ice cream flavors and slapping a name on it. Many myths are very, very, very old, which is why you can hear a lot of myths told in different ways. Stories get changed over time, and events are added, changed, or taken away from the story over time to modernize it. A lot of these myths are not translated in their original form. People are still unsure about the interpretation of these stories or why they exist. Myth has a blurry line with religion, and it hard to separate them because of their variety of stories. In some myth stories, it explains the origins of life or what we call an "origin story." It contains content for why our earth has these instances, such as why the flowers grow, where the sunsets. This is where religion and mythology get confused. I am not religious, so I enjoy thes...