High School, The Beautiful Change (NOT)

So far, the best thing about high school is... Well to be honest, I haven't found a best thing yet. So far I love everything. I have found that high school is not much different than middle school. Other than the teachers being a little less strict and having the ability to leave for free periods and lunch, it's almost the same. I have also found that things are a lot more free here. In middle schools, phones anywhere between the first bell and the last bell were absolutely forbidden. If you get caught with your phone, that's it its gone. Also, middle school was kind of like a mix of elementary and high school, middle school was more on the elementary side. Strict recess times, monitors, always being watched in the hallways. High school isn't like this. You never have someone like a monitor. Freedom is yours. The worst thing about high school is the dismissal time. I love that we go in later, but we also get out later. In middle school, I enjoyed being home for longer. Don't get me wrong, the extra half hour of sleep really
helps. Other than these few reasons, I absolutely love high school way more than I did middle school.

God Mind Map

Upon looking further at God as a character, I've realized that he is a much different character than a lot of us thought. In class we have read Genesis 1-3 and Genesis 6-9. During our reading, we have been analyzing God as a character and through this analyzation, I have discovered God was a much different character than I thought. As most people do, I always thought of God as a forgiving, nice person. But as we went on with out reading, I have discovered he may just be the complete opposite. As we read through the Book of Genesis, we read about the flood, Noah's ark and how the earth in its entirety was created. One of the biggest things that stood out to me as we reading that showed God as a totally different person was when God said he created man in his own image. This really stood out to me showing that God isn't what we think he is because he's saying he created man in his own image. He created the first man without having anyone to base it off, so this lead me to think he based the man off himself. If he had to kill mankind because of their sinning and disobedience, does this portray how he is as a person? Also, just his pure actions shows how he is. Take the flood. God is a powerful character. Why couldn't he use his power to solve the problems? Why did he have to go straight to killing most of what he created?

Adam, Eve, and the Unfollowed Instruction

Today in class, we read 1-3 In the book of Genesis. We were asked to answer just one question: who was to blame? Within the first three parts of the book of Genesis, God is creating the world and mankind. He creates animals, day, night, water (oceans) the sky, etc. The most important thing God created within those 3 parts was man kind. He created Adam, the first man. After creating Adam and further developing the world, he felt that Adam needed a suitable helper. After not being able to find one, he created Eve out of one of Adams rib. After having put Adam up as ruler of everything on the ground, he then gives Adam and Eve one specific instruction, not to eat from the tree in the center of the Garden of Eden. "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die." These are the specific instructions God told Adam. Now let me ask you this, would u ever disobey gods instructions? Can you guess what happened? Yes, Adam and Eve were convinced to eat from the tree. This is what eventually got them kicked out of the garden of Eden. Now, who's to blame? Adam for not enforcing the one rule God gave them? The serpent, for convincing Eve to eat from the tree? Or Eve, for eating from the tree when she was specifically told not to. I believe that it was a mix of both Adam and Eve's fault. Adam should have been there to make sure everyone followed the directions, and Eve should have just listened to her one specific rule.

Utna-Pishti Flood vs. Other Cultural Floods

Our first project in class was talking about the story of Gilgamesh. We discussed the story and compared it with other flood stories from other cultures. For example, we compared it to the story of Noah's ark. We talked about how story had a flood sent by a god with a main purpose of killing people for certain things that happened. The flood in Gilgamesh was sent to wipe out the city due to the noise level. In the story of Noah's ark, the flood was sent because of the people's sins.  Another story we could compare this too is the Arcadian story about Dardanus and the Arcadian flood. This story is about a great flood that drove Dardanus from his lands. This great flood submerged the lowlands, making them unfit for cultivation. This compares to the story of Gilgamesh because of the fact that both floods had a lethal edge to them. Even though the Arcadian flood wasn't sent because of noise, it was sent to drive people out of the city. Another cultural flood story that we can compare to Gilgamesh is the story of The Greek flood. This flood was sent by Zeus to kill the men of the Bronze Age. This story can relate well to the story of Gilgamesh as both floods were sent with a goal of wiping something out. Gilgamesh, the city and Greek, the men of the Bronze Age.

Welcome To My Blog!

Hi everyone! My name is Jake Pareti and I'm so glad u decided to come to my blog. Here u will find everything I do in my English class this year. I'm really excited to have a spot to keep all my work from the year, and I really hope your all excited to read. Enjoy!