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__**Assignment # 1 My Hero**__
“Inspiration,” “Legend,” “Superstar”: This man was called all of these things. Before long, this hot-tempered inner-city kid overcame all odds to become the first doctor in medical **history** to successfully perform “perhaps the most complex surgical feat in the history of mankind.” This one of a kind medical **hero** is… **Benjamin “Ben” Solomon Carson** Benjamin Carson was the surgeon who performed the surgery that will forever be a highlight of medical history: the groundbreaking separation of the Binder Siamese twins conjoined at the head. This outstanding medical feat had been attempted several times, but never done successfully so when Carson got the call asking if he could to the honors of separating these twins, he filled up with **fear** and **hope** at the same time. He feared the thought of failure but was inspired by the hope of prospering these twins’ lives so Carson agreed. The time had come and Carson was terrified but keeping that thought of hope in his mind, he proceeded with the operation. Carson was in the operation room for twenty-eight hours. At the end of the operation, he stayed with the twins. Before long, one of them opened their eyes, then another. Within two days, they were sleeping. Within three days, they were eating. Within 4 weeks, they were crawling. Now, they are grown adults living with a family of their own. After that breathtaking accomplishment, Carson was known around the world as a “medical superstar.” Dr. Ben Carson’s impact on society has changed the way children all over the world think about life, inspiring them to “think big,” unleash their potential for Excellence, and strive toward whatever they believe is possible even if it is challenging. As Carson used to say, “To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will--we all do." Today, Carson lives with his supporting family in Baltimore, Maryland still creating miracles and changing the lives of everyday people one __step__ at a time. According to Joseph Campbell, a hero is "someone who dedicates his/her life to something or someone bigger than him/herself; he/she achieves or accomplishes something beyond the normal human range." Now, if I do believe so myself, that is exactly what Benjamin Carson did. He conquered what was known to be unconquerable; He saved the lives of two people who were thought to be unsaveable. Dr. Benjamin Solomon Carson dedicated those twenty-eight hours of **his** life to try to extend **someone else's** and **continues** to do __help__ others to this very day.



Sources: http://www.faqs.org/health/bios/63/Benjamin-S-Carson.html [] [] [] Carson, Benjamin. //Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story// Carson, Ben. //Think Big//.

**__Assignment #2 The Golden Age__**
I would like my __perfect world__ to be unlike any other. One that "drops jaws" and leaves the viewer wondering how could something be so beautiful. There would be elephants the size of __dogs__, animals decorated with every color on the rainbow, and trees that never stopped growing. There would be an __endless__ amount of exotic foods. I would have my world so that you can choose whether or not you wanted gravity. My world would have the sky and earth go on forever and there would be a different species of animals/plants born every week so that I could almost never get bored. The animals and plants would be able to talk, sing. and dance. Music would surround me and never be silenced. I can almost see it now: the color, the excitement, the beauty. On my world, I, as well as other animals, could do absolutely anything. My world would be limitless. My world would be eternal. And the __best__ part is.........

my world would be mine.





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**__Assignment # 3 The God Teacher__**
Throughout the past year, I have been given very nice things, most of which having to do with technology. This year, Christmas had my birthday mixed with it. I asked my dad if I could get a new phone for my birthday and a new iPod for Christmas. Turns out, I got both on Christmas! I was so happy!! I had been wanting these gifts even since they came out, but I was too afraid to ask for them since well, it IS a recession and everyone, including my parents were low on money. With these gifts, I could text, call, listen to music, serve the internet, play games, and so much more! It was absolute paradise! But everything always comes with a consequence, and this was it. I was basically sitting in my room all day, every day playing with my new gifts. I would only come out to eat. I was SO tuned into my electronics that I had forgotten what life was really about: living. Life is so very short and is I spend all of my time on electronics, it will feel even shorter and I will not feel like I have grown as a person. Then, it all came back to me when my mom took my things away from me because she thought I was spending to much time with them. I had to undergo a dramatic separation! In the end, I would say that was good for me because life is short and don't intend on wasting any second.



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**__Assignment # 4 The End of Childhood Part 1__**
Has there ever been a person in your life that you care about more than anything? A person that you shared everything with and hang out with almost all the time. The one that you say "Hello" to more times than you say "Goodbye." Now, imagine yourself saying hello to that person for the last time in your life. That is the feeling I felt every single day for 4 straight years. The year it all started was the end of my childhood: the year my brother, Jace, was diagnosed with cancer. He was only three years old and I was only two. I still remember the look on my mother's face when that doctors told her that her that her one and only son might not survive. Ever since then, whenever she looked at Jace, she would burst into tears. From that day forward, I knew I had to step up and be the big sister my brother never had. I spent ever single second of every minute of every hour of every day by my brother's side, assisting him in his every need. Every time he smiled, I felt hope enter his heart and mine. Before you know it, Jace's cancer had passed! In conclusion, it seemed like I had to become the responsible one at a younger time than most people. The good thing is that if I had not gone through that "end of childhood" experience, my brother would not be able to say he is a cancer-survivor. :)

**__Assignment # 5 The End of Childhood Part 2__**

 * ** Itsy Bitsy [|Spider] song : lyric ** ||
 * ** Itsy Bitsy spider climbing up the spout **

** Down came the rain and washed the spider out **

** Out came [|the sun] and dried up all the rain **

** Now Itsy Bitsy spider went up the spout again! ** || []

In this song, I look at the "itsy bitsy spider" as being a young child going through life, or "climbing up the spout". All of a sudden, a little trouble comes in his way and he falls, out of his childhood. When he gets back up, he has completely started over as a new person and makes his way through his life once more. That is what I see when I read this song. It's a song that gives children the thought that once you fall, you can get back up. This song shows how innocent a person's childhood is. When children sing songs, they don't really pay attention to the lyrics. As long as it has a fun and catchy melody to it, they do not care what they are singing! That changes as they grow older. When the children become more mature, they start wondering more and being more curious of their surroundings.

__**Assignment # 6 The Cataracts of Heaven**__
I can't sleep at night Seeing this ugly sight Not sure what to do Or how I'm going to make it all right
 * //__Life Ends Here__//**

I can see the darkness I feel the pain I hear the screams for help Running through my brain

I look I see I watch as I stood face to face with time's end Knowing that I could not Or nor could I ever transcend

I feel Helpless, so Helpless As I watch the stars disappear And the breathe from the lips of life Slowly stop in fear With nothing else in mind I filled up with tears inside And __drowned__ in the world's despair

Life ends here...

--written by Heyley March 15, 2012

Like the blue-eyed son, I see the world coming to an end, but like the monks in //Nine Billion Names of God//, I am accepting of the fact that the end of the world is upon us.

**__Assignment # 7 Changes in the Stories__**
The story I choose is //Baucis and Philemon//. The change in this story was Baucis and Philemon to trees. This change was more of a reward than a punishment. It all started when Jupiter and Mercury decided to take a little tour of the streets of Earth. Once they got to Earth, they became going on a quest for hospitality. The two gods knocked on door after door until they came along the little hovel of Baucis and Philemon who had the hospitality to let them inside. Even though Baucis and Philemon were poor people, they gave Jupiter and Mercury the best service they could. Because they were good hosts to the gods, Jupiter granted them one wish. Philemon said, "Grant that we may die together." One day later, both Baucis and Philemon became large oak trees standing side by side so that they may live, breathe, and die as one.

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**__Assignment # 8 Changes in Our World__**
The world around us changes continuously: physically, chemically and mentally. New technology is invented nearly every day that will soon replace the need for something that we had thought to be essential. To begin with, texting has replaced phone calls. Ever since the "texting" idea became known abroad, the amount of phone calls made by children and adults began to slowly decrease. Instead, teens send and average of 3,000 texts per month. (Now, this doesn't look that bad, but when you think about it, you'll see that that is about 100 texts a day!) Next, Facebook has become the new "neighborhood". Today, over 550 million people in the world have a facebook. 81% of those people use it daily. Facebook makes connecting with friends more manageable, but at the same makes the human race more lazy. Apparently, it takes more work and energy to talk than it does to move you fingers around a keyboard. Last but not least, Google has replaced the need for mentors. Before the world had internet, students met with mentors if they had any questions. Today, any questions we have on anything in the entire world can be answer using one thing: Google. The reason we prefer to use technology is quite simple: technology requires less effort. All in all, most changes that occur in the world are technological and could be looked at in many different ways. You could look at change like as a good thing that many lead us to even more good things or you could think of it as one step away from tradition. It is almost like the world is controlled by the hands of change.



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**__Assignment # 9 My Favorite Season of the Year__**
My favorite season of the year is without a doubt SUMMER!!! One reason for this decision is that in the summer, the weather is not bipolar or unpredictable. It stays only one temperature all summer long: hot, and that is why I like it. Summer is also the season of my birthday which should give me a perfectly good reason to like it even more and Independence Day just so happens to be 23 days before my birthday. ;D

The season of summer is secondly related to the archetype of the Golden Age right after the season of spring. The Golden Age was "a time that cherished, of its own will, justice and right; no law, no punishment, was called for; fearfulness was quite unknown...People were unaggressive, and unaxious; the years went by in __peace__." In my opinion, the characteristics of summer resembles the characteristics of the Golden Age very nicely. Summer is the season when children run around fearless with no law or punishments because school is over and you don't have teacher after teacher telling you your do's and don'ts and punishing you if you do the don'ts!!! It's a two-month break from all the stress and chaos school brings throughout the year. The summer is the time to kick back, relax, and not worry about anything. It's your time to finally have fun after 9 months of constant, continuous studying. In the summer, no one is aggressive because aggression is most likely the result of stress. When school ends, the stress is lifted from your shoulders which means you have no reason to be aggressive. Summer is your time at __peace__.

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**__Assignment # 10 What have I Learned__**
Throughout our study of //__The Man the Mythmaker__// I have realized how mythology is basically the morals of life hidden behind a story. In order to receive the moral, you must read through the story. All the archetypes, symbols, and characters in the book are a representation of something in their story and of that same thing in real life. One thing I think is significant is that people can take one all powerful lesson and explain it in so many ways. Every single country will have its own way of explaining life lessons. Even if it is the same life lesson, you will find that no story is the same.

Mythology has helped my see things in myself that I have never seen before. While reading some of the stories, I realized that the life lesson was one that I have learned, was in the process of learning, or was something I had trouble learning. This made me feel that there are people all over the world who have been through the exact same thing that I have, am, or was going through. It made me feel like I am not alone and in the future, I will make sure children around the world feel the same way.

"Throughout the inhabited world, in all times and under every circumstance, the myths of the man have flourished; and they have been the living inspiration of whatever else may have appeared out of the activities of the human body and mind...Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams the blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth." (Joseph Campbell: __//A Hero With A Thousand Faces//__)



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