Abbey+Miller

== =**Assignment #1 My Hero**= According to Joseph Campbell, a hero is someone who thinks about something bigger than themselves. The hero I chose is Emma Watson. She was Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, and during this time, she showed many girls, including me, that you can speak your mind and be smart and brave just like the boys. After the Harry Potter movies were complete, she went to college at Brown University, and then she started to campaign for women's rights and gender equality. In the past years, Emma Watson has been an ambassador for the United Nations Women. She has traveled to Bangladesh, Zambia, and Uruguay to speak about human and women's rights. On September 20, 2014, Emma Watson made the speech for the HeforShe campaign at United Nations Headquarters. In this speech, she talked about how everyone should be treated equally. During her speech, she was addressing how all women should be treated equally. She also talks about how men do not have an easy time with equality because they think they have to look brave, and cannot show emotion. In addition, she also supports many charities and humanitarian efforts. Emma Watson is a hero to me because she advocates for more than just herself and shows all people how to be themselves and help others.

=**Assignment #2 My Perfect World **= My perfect place would be by the beach with mountains right behind me. The water would be a perfect blue, clear color, and the mountains would have trees and flowers everywhere. All my family would be there and so would my friends. I would bring my lacrosse gear, bounce back, and running shoes with me. Lacrosse would be played on the beach and there would be no shoes needs because the sand would always be the perfect temperature. The mountains would have cross country course all over, and places at the top to watch the sun rise and set. Also, I would bring all my books and my necklaces with me. There would be no phones, tv, or electronics of any kind, so that everyone will be outside and talking to each other. During the day people would play at the beach, do sports, and run through the mountains. The there would be what ever you wanted, and there would be chocolate available at all times of the day. If you go a little ways past the beach and mountains there would be town where very one lived with coffee shops and all kinds of different restaurants. This is my vision of a perfect world because everything would be absolutely perfect.

=Assignment #3 The God Teacher = A two sided gift I have recieved is my phone. I love being able to text my friends, play games, and watch tv shows. However, lately it has been getting in the way of how a study. Whenever, my phone is around me I am texting too much, or playing one of the games on my phone and I do not do what needs to be done for school. It also keeps me for talking to my family because I will just go on my phone if I feel that the conversation is getting boring.

**Assignment #4 End of Childhood** I have never had a major end of childhood moment. Very soon though I will have to present my faith statement at church. Which basically means I have to say what I believe in and how I have reached this point. However, it does not strike me as a end of childhood moment, it is more of a growing in my faith. The closes I have come to realizing that being a kid does not last forever was during a church retreat this year. It was the last night and everyone was gathered around the campfire. It was a moment that seemed right out of a movie, we were all singing, it started raining, and as I looked around the circle I looked at everyones face and there reactions to the moment. As I looked at the sixth graders they were laughing and singing, but as I looked at the older groups everyone seemed more serious. The high school kids were having fun, but you could tell there was more on there minds. It was a perfect picture of childhood into being an adult. It made me realized that next year I will be in high school and life will get more difficult. This was my awareness moment, so not exactally the end of my childhood, but very close.

=Assignment #5 Flood= I look around at the world There are beautiful plants The sun is bright and shining Then it goes dark No more sun and fun

Get on the boat for the end is coming The world will be gone right before our eyes

The water is coming the end is now All is gone nothing is left for anyone The light will shine again For nothing is gone forever in this world

=Assignment #6 Changes= In the story Baucis and Philemon are turned into trees when they die. The couple brought hospitality to the gods when they were on earth as humans. Even though Baucis and Philemon had very little they prepared the best thing they could for two wondering strangers. When they realized the strangers were gods the gods said they could have anything they wanted. The couple asked to be together forever and die together. When they died they turned into trees. This is an example of a reward because they asked for the transformation.

=Assignment #8=

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My favorite season is spring. This is my golden age for many reasons. One is that it is lacrosse season, with this there is quiet a bit of hard work. However, that is what makes it amazing, being able to be with my team and go through laughs and injuries together. Another reason I love spring is because the sun is out longer which means a longer time to be outside having fun. I also love the flowers and how the world seems or lively. It is as though there was a blanket over the earth and now the blanket is being removed. Spring is also my golden age because my birthday is in April. My last reason is that spring means school is almost over and summer is super close.======

=Evalutation= Man and the Mythmaker has taught me all about archtypes. Before we started the unit I was very confused on what an archtype was. However, now I see that it is in our lives. The Golden Age is the best times of our lives, it is when we occomplish a goal or are just going through a time in our lives when there are no worries. The flood archtype showed me that bad things can get washed away and forgotten if they are really meant to be.

During the unit the most significant thing was the end of childhood. I learned that there will come a time in everyones life when they realize that I have to grow up now. Through Man and the Mythmaker I learned that I have not yet had a true end of childhood moment. I have received bad grades before, but nothing in my life has made me stop and realize that my childhood is over and now I have to grow up. However, I now know that the future is not something to constantly stress over. I used to always worry about what my future will bring, but the unit showed me that life is not something to speed up, it is something to take slowly and not worry about.