First month of high school

So far, the best thing about high school is the freedom. I'm able to go out for lunch to get pizza or even get my nails done if I wanted to. Unlike the middle school I had to stay in for lunch but I can do whatever I want during a free period in high school. I honestly hated the middle school. I also really like all of the older kids I'm meeting. They're teaching me how to handle high school and I'm making a lot of new friends. We also go iPads which is really good for taking notes and studying or doing projects. The worst thing about high school is the amount of work. Taking multiple honors classes is difficult because there's so much work and you have a lot of subjects to focus on. For example I want to focus on my math but then I have so much to do for social studies too. Another bad thing is how big the school is. Even though I know how to get to my classes I still get lost all the time. In addition being a freshmen means that you're the youngest in the school. In the middle school, last year we were the oldest but now it's the opposite. 

Indirect characterization of God

Reflection:

Overall, I was surprised to learn new things about God. In the story God decides to flood the earth and kill everything because the humans were being violent and evil. I used to think that he was very forgiving and perfect but after doing the indirect characterization I found out that he seemed like the opposite and not very lenient and I saw one of the mistakes he made.

Instead of forgiving humans for being corrupt and filled with violence, he killed them all with a flood."Everything on earth shall die". 

God also is not prefect. He was sorry and regretted putting man on Earth. He regretted it so much that he killed them off so he could start over.

Who's to blame for Adam and Eve being banished from the garden of Eden?

In the story of Adam and Eve, the two characters get banned from the garden of Eden, but who's to blame?

I think that Eve is to blame for her and Adam being banished from the garden of Eden because she ate the apple. The serpent fools Eve and says that even though God said that eating the apple will make you die, the truth is that eating the apple will open your eyes and make you know good and evil, like god. In Genesis 3 it says "when the women saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it." The serpent tempted Eve so she couldn't resist eating the apple, but she disobeyed God. From eating the apple Adam and Eve could see good from evil. Before they were comfortable with being naked, but after eating the apple they were embarrassed and hid from God because they were exposed. Then God said "the man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." because Adam and Eve became like God in the sense that they knew good and evil, they were banished which is all because Eve ate the apple. 

Flood Stories in Different Cultures

In many cultures, there seems to be a similarity in the subject of a myth: a great flood

As seen in the epic of Gilgamesh, the story of Utnapishtim describes to Gilgamesh is about how the gods decided to destroy humankind because the gods couldn't sleep. They said they would have a great flood that would wipe out everything in its path. One of the gods by the name of Eatold Utnapishtim to build a boat. On the boat, Utnapishtim was told to bring his family and the seed of every living creature on Earth so that the Earth would repopulate after the flood. 

A fairly similar story to Utnapishtim's is from the Romans. The God Jupiter was very upset by the evil ways of humanity. He decided he wanted to destroy mankind. At first he thought of setting the world of fire but realized heaven could be set on fire as well so ended up going with a flood. While everything was being destroyed by the flood, Jupiter noticed a man by the name of Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha taking refuge on a boat high in the mountains. Jupiter saw their piety and let them survive the great flood but withdrew food. Deucalion and Pyrrha repopulated the Earth by "throwing your mother's stones" behind them, each stone then became a person.

Some similarities between the story of Utnapishtim and the Roman myth are that in both stories, the god(s) are mad at the way the humans were acting and wanted to kill them off. Both gods also decided to kill them off by having a great flood. Utnapishtim and Deucalion and Phyrra all used a boat to help them survive the flood that occurred, all these characters were also pure which is why the God allowed them to survive. In addition, the gods chose those people to repopulate Earth after the flood destroyed everything.

Some differences between the story of Utnapishtim and the Roman myth was that unlike the god's in Utnapishim's story, Jupiter initially wanted to burn the Earth. Utnapishtim also repopulated the earth by gathering the seed of every living created whereas Deucalion threw your mother's stones behind him. In the end Utnapishtim got the reward of not only surviving the flood, but also receiving eternal life when Deucalion was only granted survival of the flood.

Welcome to my blog!

Hello, my name is Charlotte Levin. The only reason why I'm making this blog is for my 4th period freshmen humanities class. I genuinely think this idea of a student blog is a cool idea and way for the students to interact with the teacher and eventually students over the Internet. It's kinda interesting to think about the fact that anyone, anywhere can see this. After this school year I probably won't post on the blog but when I'm older (and if I remember) I will check out the blog to bring me back to freshman year and look back on memories.