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**Assignment #1 My Hero**
Heroes are those people that do or has done something bigger then themselves and bigger that human power. They are people that go above and beyond for others. One person that comes to mind for me when thinking of heroes is Helen Keller. I know she did not fight or help humanity physically but in a way she spiritually helped others. Helen Keller showed the world that it was possible to overcome a or multiple disabilities and still be able to keep going. Helen was not born blind and deaf but at nineteen months it happened. Helen learned fast, by the age of seven she new over sixty signs created at her house. Helen had to go through all the phases and other hero must go through. She had to become aware of the fact she had something wrong with her, learn what it was and how to get help to overcome it, and she tested herself by fighting through her disability and living her life. Helen Keller taught the world that you can overcome a lot and she later in her life she protested for women's rights and suffrage. Helen may not have done any physical deeds but in my opinion she changed the minds of a lot of people and she succeeded later in life even with no sight or hearing. If you ask me Helen Keller was a hero because she overcame something bigger than herself and human power. []

//**Assignment #2**// The Golden Age
When I think of having a perfect world, I picture myself somewhere far away in a meadow, up north in Montana or around there. I am in a little, country town with friendly people everywhere. Everyone knows everyone and it is all peaceful. I have a farm and I am the local vet. There are no big problems only little ones. All the little problems are easily fixable because in my perfect world everyone does everything possible to help others out. You are never alone; however, you are never crowded. There is a mountain behind me, a large plain to my right, and to my left is a little lake just for me and my animals. The flowers grow year round and we have fruit trees everywhere. My flower and vegetable garden is planted right in the sun's beam and it is always abundant. I have all my dogs and cats with me and we are always at peace. The world is far from perfect, but if for a second we got a chance to go to that happy place; this would be where I go.




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Assignment #3 The God Teacher /Gifts
I have recently received a couple of watches. I love watches because I am one of those people who always has to know what time it is all the time. If I go to a store, no matter what store, and see watches I have to take the time to look at them. The watches are so cute and now I do not need to always ask what time it is. However, although these were very cute watches, they were cheap. This fact has caused it so that two of the three watches I received have broken. It is not that I do not take good care of them, they just always break. The only one that is still intact has needed repair many times. My constant need to always have the time is important because I plan my day. I need to know what I am going to do and for how long. However, the constant breaking of my watches is making it very hard for me to plan my day on time and knowing what time it is all the time. My mom always offers to buy me a nice expensive watch, but I never accept because I want the colorful and decorative ones that just so happen are always cheap. I love watches, but they can have a good and bad side to them. In my opinion I received some watches, but the real gift was time itself. I was given an object that would fix my planning problem, that would make it so I could always know what time it is. My watches are the gift that saves and discourages at the same time, but they use time to do that.






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I never had one big event that changed me out of the childhood stage. I believe that I have had little events that all add up. to my growing of an adult and end of childhood. Recently, I tried out for junior varsity lacrosse. I, myself, thought that I would get on the team. However, I did not and that changed me. This experience was not critical, but it made me look at things in a new perspective. I have never been cut from a team before and it was a new experience that I did not like. It was a turning point for me because I realized I could not make every team I tried out for. This experience made me realize I have been sheltered in a bubble of always being good enough, but when I was not good enough I did not know what to do. I did not know if I should give up; or keep going and push myself to make sure, next time, I would be better. In my opinion, I lost the innocence of never having to know what it was like to be rejected from a team. This experience gave me the determination to do better, so while losing my childhood and experience of innocence, I believe I have moved forward in the adulthood stage. I know I will not make every team in the future, but this was the first time I had gotten cut.
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This Little Piggy poem
This little piggy went to the market, This little piggy stayed at home, This little piggy had roast beef, This little piggy had none, And this little piggy went... "Wee wee wee" all the way home......

This poem is part of the storybook every child knows, Mother Goose. The " this little piggy" parts of this poem is designed to describe a child's toes. The last line in "This little piggy" is used to describe that the narrator of the poem is tickling the child that is listening. The first publication date for this nursery rhyme was in 1728. The poem has been changed over time, but it always has the same theme and plot. This rhyme is extremely popular and it will be passed from mother to child and so on because of how loved it is.


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Assignment #6---The End of Time
I walked across our dying world, I walked across not knowing why As I looked up to the dimming sky, I think I started to cry

When I looked down, I saw death and starvation I saw breath, But little salvation

I walked across our dying world, I walked across not knowing why But as I walked through the world, I came to a small mountain That’s when he appeared and sighed

He told me the could not take it, He told me he wouldn’t This man said it was all wrong, He did not want it

He struck down his mighty hand, He struck it on the Earth A hole was struck and water poured, It poured and poured on Earth

It swallowed up he forests, The mountains and the oceans It swallowed up the plains, Every last grain

And with it went the animals The herbivores, carnivores, and cannibals Every fish, bird, and human, It swallowed up the world

He offered me sanctuary, He offered me hope But I could not just give up, I had to stay, with my dying world

I believe in my poem I am like the blue-eyed son in the fact that I have seen all the death in the world and in the end, even though I know I am going to die, I do not freak out, I just wait with everyone else.

Assignment #7 Changes in the Stories
When we read the story "Pegasus" we learned a lot about change. In this story, a normal, old horse was going around trying to sell his soul to people. He was discouraged because no one would take it. The old horse was worn and tired from all the work he had been doing in his life. He would not give up and he did hard work for little reward. Finally, however, when he was just about to give up because he had taken too much, he started pleading to his soul, the old horse, to let him go so he would not have to see anymore of this old, worn world. Just when he said those words, he grew hope and strength and suddenly he realized he had wings. Now, instead of that old, worn, and tired out soul, he had a brand new, young one. In this story we see the change from a old horse's soul to a new, lively Pegasus's soul. The story gave detail to how a normal horse could become a beautiful winged horse. The metamorphosis was a reward to the horse for all his hard work in the world. He was not selfish nor did he blame others for his hard life, he just kept going and when he could not go anymore, he just said, take me.




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Assignment #8 Changes in our World
When I think of how our world has changed, I think of a couple of things. However, one way stands out the most. To me our way of thought about the world has changed. What I mean is that we used to not only think the Earth was flat, but that we were the only things in the universe. Now thanks to biology and space explorations not only do we now know the Earth is round, but we have traveled in space. We have gone to the moon, planets, and maybe in the future a star. This could all be put down as advancements in technology, but the way I see it is that we did not need a computer to know the Earth was round, we needed a man with a goal. Now we do not even think about how the world works, because someone else has already figured that out for us. Frankly, I believe that this is a good example of metamorphosis in the world. I do not, however, know if this change is good or bad. It is almost like a two-sided gift. We think we know almost everything about our way of life, but we have nothing to look forward to or a big accomplishment to dream about like people did when man was first sent to the moon.






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**Assignment #9 My Favorite Season of the Year**
My favorite season of the year is spring. I love spring because it is that time of the year when all the cold is going away and all the flowers and leaves are growing again. To me spring is considered the Golden Age because it is when everything is good. It is never too cold and never too hot. All life that has been dead or the animals in hibernation rise up and reclaim life again. You could call spring the season of rebirth and change. The winter is the flood because everything is destroyed leaving the world cold and dead. However, when that is all over, you get spring, the season that gives rebirth to the destruction winter caused. Sure, during spring school is still going on, but we get spring break and Easter. I love going outside and just sitting in the warm sun watching the world change from its gloomy three months and become beautiful and lively again. Spring is my Golden Age, my perfect season when everything seems good again, and I love it.




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Assignment #10 What Have I Learned?
While studying the “Man the Mythmaker” collection I have seen many similarities between my life and the lessons and archetypes in these stories. Everybody must go through the circle of life and I believe this book has enlightened me on the stages. While reading these stories I have learned much from the End of Childhood collection. If I think about it, I am at the End of Childhood stage of the cycle. I realize how even though my life changes and I lose innocence, like the characters in some of the stories, I move on and learn something new about myself. Similar to some of the characters in the stories I am just trying to find myself. I am also in my Golden Age stage right now. I do not need to worry about food, a job, money, or any of those things. At this point I have someone doing all that for me. I am just at the best stage of my life. Also, like many of the “Man the Mythmaker” characters, I have many God-Teachers. Mine may not be a god or goddess like the in the stories; however, some are teachers, friends, siblings, parents, and many more. I believe everyone has someone or something they feel is looking out for them and taking care of them.

The character's in “Man the Mythmakers” and my lives are very differetn from each other because people do not act and live the same way now then back when these stories were made. I do believe, however, that the stories and lessons in the book have shown me just how similar fiction could be from reality when involving someones way of life. I really do have the same cycle of life as people long, long ago. I go through the same stages, lose and gain the same things, and we all have things that pull us together. The stories and me are different, but somehow we are similar in every way. What I mean is we live, obviously, very different lives; however, we learn and go through the same stages in life. We all have change, end of childhood, a god-teacher, death, and many more parts of the cycle of life.

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