Harrison+Gerber

Harrison Gerber

Abraham Lincoln the first modern American hero was born on Feb. 12. 1909. He was the first real hero for America because he actually did some things that were truly noteworthy. To start unlike the average person he went on a special adventure to save the country from falling apart. Some deeds he did on this adventure that truly made it special from everyone else were the fact the he kept the southern states from succeeding, he abolished slavery, and later when the south did succeed he won the civil war for America bringing back together as a whole. He started his adventure by choice/ intentionally by becoming president of the United States. The presidents before him had already made some poor choices putting him in a bad spot, but because he was able to act well under all of the stress and hardship of being president of his time i think that that is a special quality. Which makes him even more of a her from the special qualities and deeds that he did on his adventure through presidency. Because of these things that made him a hero, he truly was the first of his kind to do anything like it and that's what makes him the real first American hero.
 * __Assignment #1 My Hero__**

In my perfect world there would be a small population (about 6,000,000 people) and everyone would be very nice to each other. There would never be fighting and resources would never run out. People would never have to worry about food or drink. Money would not exist and people would share their stuff willingly. There would still be tons of animals all of which are nice to each other except when they are hunting each other. There would be four different continents in the world each being different seasons, so if you wanted to be in winter you would go to like Europe for example. It would also be in the future so there would be places on the moon and it would be super modern, like you could push a button and food would appear. There would also be no religions so there wouldn't be hate for different people.
 * __Assignment #2 Perfect World__**

Once I got a two sided gift that had a good side and a bad side. It was an iPhone it was at first great as any phone would be because I could now text my friends and prank call people and all sorts of things. Not to mention the fact that all of those iTunes cards I got for my birthday were finally going to be put to good use. Now your probably wondering how a phone could be a bad thing, well it can. It started with my parents constantly checking my phone and messages and things. I mean I thought that me getting a phone would mean that they recognize I'm getting older and need privacy. Also little things like everywhere I would go they would make me bring my phone, but before I got my phone they would have just let me go without anything. They also put a tracker on my phone so it was like even less freedom on top of all that. Overall it was a good gift even if it was good and bad.
 * __Assignment #3 The God Teacher__**

I think my end of childhood was my Bar Mitzvah which technically according to the Jewish religion is when you are officially a man and no longer a child. It took lots and lots of preparing before I could actually read from the torah and do all of the blessings. I think all of the preparation took me out of the "golden age" a little more because it prepared me for what is coming in life and how much work I'm going to have to put in in the future. It also prepared me for the three hour service I was going to have to do after. The loss of innocence was there too because now my parents can just say I'm an adult and I have to do chores and other "adult" things. I think overall it was an end of childhood because it prepared me for the life I had ahead, it made me more mature and able to sit there for three hours doing almost nothing, and finally it made me a man.
 * __Assignment #4 End of childhood__**



__**Assignment #5 The Flood**__ The end was already upon us; I am the only survivor of them all. I don't even know if its god who I can trust: All of this because of a few brawls. No one would have wanted it this way, But now I don't even know if I can stay. For now I have to at least hope: that there is still a chance I can cope.

The story Baucis and Philemon fits the change archetype because it is two people who do a good deed and then they experience a change in their life and finally they die and another change happens. In the story there is an old woman named Baucis and an old man named Philemon. They have lived together in poverty staying in a small hut for a very long time, when one day two gods disguised as poor people visit them. They try to entertain and please the gods as best they can when they finally realize they are gods and say something the gods then reward them for their hospitality and bring them to a grand white palace where they become preachers. This change in their life from being regular people to preachers of gods is good and bad. It is good because they are no longer in poverty and they can be together for as long as they live, but it is bad because they are not in the same house that they have lived in their whole life anymore.
 * __Assignment #6 Changes Archetype__**

__**Assignment #7 Changes**__ I think our world now could change in seconds if a war were to start because we now have so much nuclear technology that if someone just said the wrong thing or if there was an argument between two countries one of them could get blown off the map. In this era there has been peace talks to try to stop the production of nuclear weapons but almost all 1st and 2nd world countries now have access to these things and could turn your whole country into a parking lot.

__**Assignment #8 A Human Year**__ My favorite season is winter because of all the fun stuff that i get to do during winter and the holidays. I like winter because I usually get to go to Colorado where there is a lot of snow and I really like to play in the snow because its a lot of fun. I also like winter because I'm Jewish and I get to celebrate Hannukah and get presents. Even during school I like winter because its cold and I like it colder than being super hot like in the summers. I think I can relate winter to the archetype of change because the world is changing into a cold more dead place rather than in the summer when everything is blooming and warm. Winter is usually associated with death because of how all of the plants die, but I disagree because it really depends where you are during winter because most places are even nicer in the winter.



__**Assignment #9 Evaluation**__ I think that doing all of the mythology and wikis has helped me learn about what life is really all about. It has taught me that the choices I make now can effect the rest of my life and the world around me. The stories have shown me how when I have a chance to do something in life it can change everything or nothing. The Golden Age unit showed me how in everyone's lives including my own there are stages. The stages being the golden age when we are young and innocent and then the silver when we start to learn and the iron when we finally realize the world around us is a bad place. The Flood Archetype told me how if we don't learn to change and become better in this iron age change will be forced upon us like the Change Archetype. Over everything in this semester that we have learned I think that the ultimate message is that the world is full of bad choices and we may not pick the right one but we are still going to have to keep going.