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Mother Teresa
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1655720,00.html http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1979/teresa-bio.html http://www.biography.com/people/mother-teresa-9504160?page=1#synopsis

Mother Teresa is a great example of a hero. She devoted her life to saving/helping people in need. She even started her own missionaries of charity. Mother Teresa performed both physical and spiritual deeds. She completed the physical deed as her charity program saved many people from death. The spiritual deed was accomplished when she chose to go be a nun and set up her charity. Throughout her life she thought of everyone before herself. Mother Teresa entered her quest intentionally. No one told her to be a nun and save people, she chose that herself. After she became a nun she felt that she was needed to help everyone in need. She helped as many people as she could and was rewarded with many awards and a noble peace prize. Mother Teresa is also a saint.

Assignment #2

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My perfect world would be in Italy. The weather would be perfect everyday. I would be with my friends and the Italians. We would live in the Italian Alps but travel to Lake Como on the weekends. It would be sunny and hot on the weekends but cold and snowing during the week. Everything would be free and no one had to go to a job or school. I would have a pet tiger. The technology would be very advanced. In this world, there would be no problems or wars or diseases. Everyone would get along and no one would be sad or mad.=====

Assignment #3 The God Teacher
The two-sided gift I received is a Nook. It can be a positive or a negative gift at times. I think it was a positive gift because it enabled me to read more. It has a "look up" button so if you do not know what a word means you can quickly look it up which has expanded my vocabulary. On the other hand, it can be a negative gift because my parents think it takes me away from them and the quality time they supposedly have with me.

Assignment #4 Loss of Innocence/ End of Childhood
An event when i encountered the end of childhood was when I discovered the tooth fairy was not real. I was around eight years old and I had lost one of my teeth. My sister told me that there was no tooth fairy, but I did not believe her. So she told me to not tell my parents that i lost a tooth. That night I put the tooth under my pillow as normal and in the morning there was no money or anything. When i confronted my mom about it she confessed it all.

Flood
I looked up into the sky, the sun was staring to die, It was only noon, so I thought it was coming down too soon.

The air was beginning to heat, it felt like a hot seat, as people ran outside, their eyes opened wide.

The sun came at me, burning everything I could see.

Assignment #7 Changes in the Stories
The story Midas has a few examples of change or metamorphosis in it. In Midas, Dionysus rewards Midas with one wish. Midas, being a greedy king, wants everything he touches to turn into gold. Dionysus warns him against it, but Midas wishes for it anyway. This change could have been a reward if Midas had picked his words more wisely but instead it was a punishment because everything that touched him turned into gold, so he could not eat. Then Midas got the gold touch revoked but he angered Apollo which led to him having donkey ears, another change/ form of metamorphosis. Both of the changes in this story are a punishment.



Assignment #8 Changes in Our World
One of the many changes in our world today is weapons. Weapons started as a rock/stone or a wooden stick with a spear at the top. Now we have nuclear weapons, machine powered weapons, underwater weapons,and weapons that can move from country to country. We have developed weapons that require no human strength at all. Weapons have changed and advanced a lot over the years.

Assignment #9 A Human Year
My favorite season is fall. Fall is in between summer and winter so its not too hot or cold. During fall, the tree leaves change color which is a type of metamorphosis. Fall has just the right temperature for everything. Animals are not hibernating during fall so you can see them. Also, school begins in fall.

Assignment #10 Evaluation
In Man the Mythmaker, I learned that things happen for a reason and that everything has a deeper meaning. I also learned that people pass down their stories of what they know down from generation to generation.

In the end of childhood/loss of innocence, I learned that things change and I need to accept that and move on. I learned in the God Teacher archetype that there will be a god teacher for everyone and that they will help you understand things and aid you in living life. In the Golden Age archetype I learned that there is a golden age, but you only have it for some time until it gets destroyed.