Reid+Christensen

**Assignment #1 My Hero**
Heroes, defined by Joseph Campbell, are people who accomplish something bigger than themselves; they achieve or accomplish something bigger than themselves. My hero is Doris Milller for what he did in order to save many lives on December 7, 1941. He served as a Mess Attendant and became the ship’s cook when he was transferred to the USS West Virginia battleship. A mess attendant prepares and serves food to the officers and the crew, clears the tables and cleans the dishes and makes the bed and cleans the bedroom and bathrooms for the officers. Even though he attended gunner school on the USS Nevada, he was forbidden to even touch a gun on the West Virginia. The only way he earned respect was from boxing. He was the heavy weight champion on the West Virginia, but at 7:30 A.M. December 7 everything changed. He woke up at 6 hoping to make some extra cash by waking everybody up. After he did that he attended to his normal duties and that is about when the Japanese Started their attack on Pearl Harbor. He was to man his battle station, but as his battle station was blown up, he was ordered to pick up any injured soldiers. Then, he was ordered to help load the machine guns ,but sure enough, right as he finished loading them, he started firing. It is unknown wether he hit a plane or not ,but it said that he took one right out of the sky. After, being identified in a sailors story, he was found by the captain and awarded the Medal of Honor for his unknown bravery.

[] [|Picture of Doris Miller]

Assignment #2 The Golden Ages
The Golden Age was a period marked by prosperity, friendship, and peace, but as time went on, that all changed. So if could make my own world and restore order to it, this is how I would want it. My world would consist of all 7 continents, just closer together to make traveling a little bit easier. The people there are always friendly to each other no matter what race or religion. They all will work together on making it a better world for future generations. Every country will have an abundant amount of food and water for them to live a long happy life. Transportation will be very fast and very easy. Their would be super fast trains and jet planes to get you from here to there. The jobs of these people were never bad as there is an abundant amount of jobs to help the more powerful people. The less smart people could apply to be a doctor. They would start off as an assistant, learn loads from the actual doctor, then finally, after two years of learning, become one. The dominant sport of this world will be baseball. In each state and country, they will have a baseball field representing their own team. Every year there will be a tournament where the best from each country will come to play each-other.

[|Picture of My City]

**Assignment #3 The God Teacher**
A two sided gift is a gift that can be used both in a good way and in a way of bad. One of these so called two-sided gifts that I have received rather recently, is my computer. My computer is so much fun to play with. You can learn a lot about any one subject or you can play a fun game. One of the most important things I can do with my computer is find out about recent happenings in the world. I do not usually watch the news, but i'm always on my computer looking for new interesting things. It helps me achieve my goal of A's for days. With it's new updated technology, it has all the answers to my questions so no question can stump me. There is also a bad side to this great gift. When I use it my productivity level goes from one-hundred to zero. When I go on Youtube to do something for homework I find myself watching something completely off track. I can go from a documentary on Shakespeare for English to a guy trying to hurtle a car. As you can see this two sided gift can do you much good and can also throw you off track.

[|Picture of Apple Laptop]

**Assignment #4 End of Childhood**
My most recent end of childhood was 3 years ago when one of my friends, Patrick Chance, died of neuroblastoma. This type of cancer most commonly arises in and around the adrenal glands, which have similar origins to nerve cells and sit atop the kidneys. With this cancer came a lot, of treatments. These treatments decreased his red blood cell count majorly. So much as too when we were playing and he got a cut, he would have to drive to the hospital and replenish on blood in order to keep his blood count to a stable level. It was really hard for him to interact with others, in fact, he didn't go to school for a long time because of this cancer. He never let his cancer limit what he could do. He always wanted to do crazy stuff with me and my brother and we just kinda let him be him. When his death came on January 9, 2012, I took it pretty hard. I didn't really see the disability as a killer, but when it happened I realized how evil it and life can be. Life is unpredictable in every aspect possible, and this happening, really opened my eyes to the evils of life and the misfortune it can bring.



Assignment #5 The Cataracts of Heaven
The wind was howling on this day The waves were crashing in the bay Everyone was hustling for work A couple people would only lurk

The clouds then turned mean and gray The trees around really started to sway In the distance you could see hard rain But all the water was unable to drain

Buildings started to flood and collapse Lightning struck the Earth with strong, quick zaps People began to assume their fate was the same as the blue eyed son Almost everyone knew that they were done

[|End of the world]

Assignment #6 Changes
Change is when one object or person turns into something different from their usual. We see change in King Midas as he obtains a power too powerful for him. Midas changed from a king who craved gold and wealth to a king that can make gold. After caring for the fallen Dionysus, Midas was given one wish for anything he wanted. Midas's wish was to have a golden touch. Dionysus granted him the wish and everything Midas touched turned to gold. This gift didn't turn out as good as he had thought it would. Food, his bed, everything that touched a part of his body turned to gold. Then one day, his daughter comes to him. Midas made the fatal mistake of touching her and she turned to gold without any way of stopping it. Midas then regretted the gift and asked if it could be taken back, and it could, but he had to pay a small price. His golden touch was taken away,but he was given donkey ears as a punishment. Midas's gift only brought him sadness, misery, and ugliness and nothing more. [|Midas with his golden touch]

Assignment #7 Changes
Technology personally, is what I think has changed the world tremendously. Technology has matured over the years. It has lead to many advances in our modern day society. Making things easier, teaching you things, and helping you are the main goals of technology. Back then, it wasn't as advanced and didn't help out as much as it does today. Today, it gives people opportunities to try new things. It opens up windows of opportunity for people to acquire jobs dealing with certain types of technology. It also allows us to communicate. Back then, you had to write notes back and forth and receive them a couple weeks later. today you can communicate with a family member across the globe in a few minutes. Technology has changed peoples life's over the years tremendously with the assistance it provides. [|Old technology to new technology]

Assignment #8 A Human Year
My favorite season is definitely spring. Every thing you have been dreading during winter comes to an end. It gets warmer, the leaves back on the trees the grass turns green and everything comes back to life. In this season we get to celebrate Jesus's rising from the dead. Easter is always one of the most fun holidays. My family from all over the Unite States come to my house to go to church and then have brunch. Probably my favorite thing about spring is the start of baseball season. I not only like to watch the MLB games, but play in tournaments with my team as well. This season is closely related to the archetype, the cataracts of heaven. After all the winter puts the earth through, their is rebirth during Spring when everything starts to sprout and grow.

Assignment #9 Evaluation
I've learned the different archetypes that effect our lives this unit. It gives me a better perspective on things that are happening to me and to places around the world. For example, the End of Childhood really opened my eyes to when I first experienced it. I've learned to take on much more responsibility, how you have to earn things instead of plainly receiving them, and how to cope with bad things that happen.

The one that I think taught me the most was the Archetype of The Cataracts of Heaven. It showed me the cycle of life and how we affect the earth. I learned that everything is a big cycle. You are born, you grow up, then you die. The cycle keeps going on and on. I also learned how we unknowingly destroy the Earth. Those are some of the main things I learned this unit. [|The Life Cycle]