Mythology and Folklore

This is my third-to-last assignment for this class. I still need to do the back-up and review extra credit and final revisions, and then I will have completed everything! I truly can not believe how quickly this semester has gone by, while also seemingly going by so slowly. The pandemic definitely has made this semester different than any other, and it has definitely been more difficult in a lot of ways. This upcoming week is going to primarily revolve around finishing up this class, as well as finishing up some final projects and essays in other classes. I also am awful about procrastination, so I also have some assignments to make up in another class. Hopefully this week will be fairly calm and without any complications. My overall goal for this week is to finish up all of my classes (minus a final that I can not access until Monday) so that next week I do not have to worry about anything and I can just enjoy the fact that I will be done with school forever at that point! Unfortunate

I decided to start my wikipedia trail this week by searching for The Brothers Grimm . I chose this as my starting point because the last two weeks I have been reading stories from the Brother Grimm and I have been enjoying them a lot. I really enjoy that their original stories are much darker than the Disney versions that the majority of people are familiar with. This page led me to Hansel and Gretel . Hansel and Gretel is one of the many stories written by the Brothers Grimm. It is a story often seen as a warning to children when read in its original version. Hansel and Gretel left me a trail of breadcrumbs to Ariadne . These two pages are connected because many people have stated a similarity between the breadcrumbs in Hansel and Gretel and the thread that Ariadne gave to Theseus to conquer the Minotaur. Like the majority of myths that are passed down orally, there are many variations of Ariadne's story. This page led me to the Minotaur . The minotaur is a mythical creature that

I chose to make my motto image on Canva.  I chose to use the words 'stronger than you seem' as my motto. It is part of a Winnie the Pooh quote; "You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." I chose this quote because it means a lot to me, especially the part about being stronger than you seem. My parents have always said this quote to me and it has stuck with me. 

Made at Fodey

"Olivia!"  I tremble when I hear his voice. I thought he would never find me. I changed my name, cut my hair and dyed it red, and moved far away. How did he find me? I'll never forget what he did to me, but I can run until I die.  (50 Words) AFTER REVISION "Olivia!"  I tremble hearing his voice. I thought he'd never find me. I changed my name, cut and dyed my hair, and moved away. How did he find me? I'll never forget what he did, but I can run away until I die. I will never let him catch me. (50 words) "Olivia!"  Oh no. He found me.  (6 words) AFTER REVISION "Olivia!" He found me. I'm terrified. (6 words) (Source: pxhere ) Author's note: For this microfiction, I wanted to do more of a horror story. I decided to write the same story in two different lengths. I think that they both convey the same sense of terror, but one is just a larger glimpse into the reason behind the terror. I wrote these from my own imagination, and they

For the extra credit reading this week, I decided to watch the Crash Course series part on Goddesses and Gods . I chose this section of the series because I have always been interested in the gods and goddesses and their origin stories. I really enjoyed him using the terms 'Earth Mom' and 'Sky Dad."It was really interesting to learn about the archetypal gods as I did not know too much about that beforehand. ( Drawing of Aphrodite, Athena, and Artemis )