High School Pros and Cons

So far I like high school much better than middle school. I have so much more freedom in high school than in middle school. I like being able to go out for lunch whenever I want and when a teacher is absent I like having a free and being able to use the time being productive and doing homework rather than sitting in the classroom and doing nothing with a substitute teacher like in middle school. Another thing that I like about the high school is that everyone is spirited. In the middle school during spirit week nobody dressed up but in the high school everybody dressed up and got really into it. The worst thing about high school is the amount of work I have each night. I have so much homework every night and I have at least three tests a week I have to study for. Also the high school is so big and I don't see some of my friends at all throughout the day whereas in middle school I always saw my friends in the hallways and we all ate lunch together in the cafeteria everyday. But overall I like high school much better because we are treated more like adults.

My View of God

After reading Genesis 6-9 I learned a lot of things about God. I learned that God is not always so forgiving. He was upset at the people of the earth for being wicked and instead of trying to teach them to do that right thing he decides to kill all of them with a huge flood. This changed my view of God a lot because I always thought of him as a very forgiving character and always being merciful towards his people but after reading Genesis 6-9 I realized he is not always like that. But after God sent the flood to kill everyone he felt very guilty and he made a covenant with Noah and said he would never kill all of man-kind again. Also since God created every man in his image and he is saying that all men were wicked does that mean that he was wicked as well? I always pictured God as being nice and kind but since all men are copies of him maybe he also has a wicked side to him. Finally at the end of the story God was very generous towards Noah and gave him everything on the earth. God told Noah that all lives on the earth could be his food and all the plants on the earth were his as well. This agrees with my past assumptions about God. I always thought he would be generous towards his people and this story proves that he was.

Who's fault was the eviction from Eden?

I think that Adam and Eve's eviction from Eden was God's fault. By putting the "forbidden tree" in the middle of the garden of Eden he was basically enticing them to want to try the fruit from the tree. God was testing Adam and Eve to see whether they would be able to hold back their temptation to do the opposite of what God commanded them or eat from the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden and disobey God. When you tell someone they are not allowed to do something that just makes them want to do it even more. For example when you tell a child to not hit their sibling that just makes them want to do it more. That is basically what God was doing to Adam and Eve when he put that tree in the garden. The serpent would've have been able to convince Eve to eat the fruit of the tree and Eve wouldn't have able to convince Adam to eat the fruit of the tree if there was no tree in the garden in the first place. I blame God for the eviction of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden.

Roman Flood Myth vs. The Epic of Gligamesh

In both The Roman flood myth and The Epic of Gilgamesh flood story God was angered by all humanity, in The Epic of Gilgamesh God was angry because the people were being too loud, in the Roman flood myth The God Jupiter was angry because of the evil ways of humanity. In both stories God decided to wipe out everyone on the earth so God sent a flood to kill everyone. In the Epic of Gilgamesh God warned a man name Utnapishtin to build a boat and save himself from the flood to come. In the Roman flood story the flood went every where on the earth except the summit of Parnassus where a man named Deucalion and his wife came by boat and found refuge. God Jupiter decided to let them live. In each flood myth one man and his wife were saved because God was being generous. I think these stories are so similar because since the Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest story in existence it probably traveled by word of mouth from civilization to civilization including Rome where this flood story was written and in each civilization the story was changed and became the flood story of that
Source: talkorigins.org

Welcome to my blog

Welcome to my blog. I am keeping this blog so I can document all of my english projects this year in school. I am a 9th grader at Roslyn High School. I am in Mr. Reiff's freshman humanities class. My favorite subjects in school are math and social studies. I play soccer and tennis. I like to watch Netflix and hang out with my friends on the weekends. I go to camp over the summer and I love it. Summer is my favorite season.