Carlo+Fernandez

=CARLO FERNANDEZ= **__Assignment #1 My Hero__** My hero is my father, José Fernandez. He is my hero because he puts his family first, he showed us how to be kind, how to work hard, and to work hard for lifetime goals. When you have something important to say, he will listen, and he knows how to make us laugh. Most of what we do in our house is crack jokes or criticize each other in a friendly way. Without humor, our house would be dull and always serious, and part of being a hero is comforting others. He shows us how to work hard by showing how hard work is important to achieving your goals in life. One way he showed us is by getting a job at Woodward Academy. Before he got the job at Woodward, we use to live in Florida, with a salary about half of what he gets now. Life was hard back then, but I did not notice because I was a little kid. But with hard work and perservearence, he got a job here, and life has been so much better.

**__Assignment #2 My Perfect World__** My perfect world would be in Dominical, Costa Rica. Th water on the beach was so clear, that at chest-high, I could see my toes! The beach had these caves and cliffs off to the side, and at high-tide, waves would come through the caves and splash onto the beach. Dominical is just a great place. It looks like it hasn't even been touch by man kind, and the trees are giant. There are mountains that are next to the beach, and people live on them. The house that we stayed at was on one of the mountains, and you could see the ocean, and the waves rolling on the shore, it was just so relaxing. When the sun would go down, the whole sky turned orange and pink, and you could see the fishing boats returning to the beach. The food was great too. The most popular dish was chicken and rice of course, but they had more. There were also many exotic animals, like toucans and iguanas. There were waterfalls hidden deep in the mountains, and many rivers. If I could go anywhere in the world, it would be Costa Rica, 100%.

 **__Assignment #3 The God Teacher__** A double sided gift that I have reveived this past year was Forza Horizon 3. This game is good because it is just so much fun to play! It is just so addicting and there are so many things to do. The best part is competing with my brother. While he tries to paint the best cars, my goal is to get as much money as I can; so then we compete against each other. While it is so much fun, it can be hard to manage my time because I love to play this game so much.

The first time I realized that the end of my childhood was near was when I was having a harder time in Civics/Econ then I usually do in my classes. This is when I realized that I would have to work much harder in my classes, and it usually works. It is the end of childhood for me because I did not have to really study much in my classes or actually knew how it felt to work as hard as you could and still get B's.
 * __Assignment #4 End of Childhood__**

I've seen the world end I've seen the world grow back again. Like nothing even happened.
 * __Assignment #5 Cataracts of Heaven__**

I've seen people be here one day And not here the next I've seen people hurt one another And I've seen people hug one another

Everybody is different Yet everybody came from the same place But something went wrong And now everybody is gone

But two people Saved to repopulate the Earth Stone by stone Brick by brick These two people repopulated the Earth

But nothing will ever be the same No, never the same

One story that fits the metamorphosis archetype is //Midas.// It fits the archetype because in the story, King Midas' ears turn into donkey ears. He got donkey ears because he did not agree that Apollo was the better musician between Apollo and the god Pan. Because of this, he got his donkey ears, which was a bad thing because people are not suppose to have donkey ears, and others will think him a fool because of them; he would lose his reputation.
 * __Assignment #6 Changes in the Stories__**

My favorite season of the year is Autumn because of the colors of the leaves. The temperature is always perfect and there is a nice breeze almost every day. It is usually sunny with no clouds or slightly cloudy, and ther eis not as much pollen as spring. Also, there are nowhere near as many bees as spring and summer, and getting to see friends again because of the new school year. Also, my birthday is in October, which also makes Fall a much more enjoyable season, and time seems to go much faster then in Spring. Also, who doesn't love to get free candy. Luckily in Autumn, kids get free candy on October 31st, and who does not like that? Autumn is like heaven because everything is perfect and everybody is happy.
 * __Assignment #8 A Human Year__**

The archetypes from //Man the Mythmaker// really helped me understand some of the archetypes that everybody experiences in their lives. Take the End of Childhood for example. Everyone realizes when the end of childhood is for them, but it can be different for everybody. For some its new responsibility, and for others it just maturity. But the most significant thing that I learned from this lesson is that everything in life happens for a reason, and it can be good or bad. Like the Flood archetype, it killed thousands of people, but it happened for a good reason. Another example is the God Teacher archetype. The God- teachers did good things for humanity, and taught us how to do things. But they could be good or bad depending on how they went about teaching us humans. Like in //The Program,// the God- Teachers taught humans things, but if they did the wrong thing, the God- teacher would kill them. There is a good and a bad side to almost every archetype, but that is what makes life, life. What I learned about myself was that I had already passed the End of Childhood, and I did not even realize it. I was just so busy with my family and doing homework, that I did not realize that I had more responsibilities, and that I had to do much more than what I use to. What helped me see myself as part of a bigger world was realizing that I was going to be the next generation, and that I have to work as hard as I could to be able to do well in life, and that I better start working hard now or else I may not in the future.
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