First month of high school

It has been an amazing experience starting high school so far. I love all the freedom the high school gives and how we have iPads which allow us to do work in it and it makes my bag so much lighter. We are allowed to use our phones and since we are allowed to carry things around in our bags it makes walking around easier. I have been enjoying my teachers because of how good they are at explaining things. I also like their personalities which makes the class fun. I dislike having so much work and the amount of time and effort I need to put into studying and doing assignments. The high school is so big that I have to speed walk or run to my classes so I'm not late which is annoying. Tests have also gotten harder like Spanish and I have been having less time to do things like I usually do, but it allows me to focus on academics. Even though high school can give a lot of work it makes the weekend so much better because you can just relax knowing that the next day you don't have to do work in school.

Mind map of God

God is portrayed as one who is almighty, perfect, and loving. I was also thinking that, but when I started to look at God as a character and characterized him in this mind map, I realized that the traits that he is portrayed as isn't really how he acts when I characterized him. This is a very interesting, exciting, and controversial topic because if God is represented as a character I realized that he isn't always loving because of the flood he used to kill his own creations and if he was so powerful why did he have to kill his own creations to take away the evil in them when he could've just taken it out of them? People may have answers, but no one knows for sure what the correct answer is to these questions, but this shows that God might not be who he seems to be because of what he does in the Bible which is different than how we portray him. I learned that characterizing things puts ideas into a whole other perspective that can be different than we already think. Even though I characterized him and found out all this information about God, my view point hasn't changed about him that he is loving and powerful because I believe God has a plan for humans and since he should know everything I think that because of God's decisions this is how humans are who we are today.

Who is to blame for Adam and Eve getting kicked out of the Garden of Eden?

I think God is to blame for Adam and Eve getting kicked out of the Garden of Eden because God set them up to eat from the tree of knowledge because he told them not to do something, but that just strengthens the desire to actually do it. Also the reason Adam and Eve got tempted was because of the serpent and since God is all powerful and can do anything he could've gotten rid of the serpent and Adam and Eve would have never been tempted in the first place. Another reason God set them up is because he put the tree of knowledge with Adam and Eve and if God didn't want them to eat from the tree of knowledge he could've just moved the tree away from Adam and Eve so they wouldn't get tempted and get kicked out. Another reason God is to blame is because it says that God gave man every seed bearing plant on the face of the world and every tree that has fruit with seed in it will be food for man, so putting the tree of knowledge on the world would cause man to eat the fruit from it since it is theirs.

Deucalion flood myth vs. Uta-napishti flood myth

The Deucalion legend by the Bibliotheca has many similarities and differences to the flood in The Epic of Gilgamesh. Similarities between the stories are that in both stories the gods wanted to destroy the people by a flood and in the Deucalion legend, Deucalion was told of the what to do to survive the upcoming flood and so was Uta-napishti. Also in the Deucalion legend, Deucalion survived in the flood with his wife and Uta-napishti also survived with his wife. When the flood stopped and the waters calmed, in both stories Deucalion and Uta-napishti were ontop of a mountain. Differences between the stories are that Deucalion was advised to build a chest while Uta-napishti was advised to build a boat and the flood lasted nine days and nine nights in the Deucalion legend, but the flood in The Epic of Gilgamesh lasted six days and six nights. Another difference is that Deucalion wasn't punished by the gods for surviving, but Uta-napishti was punished. I think the stories are similar because we descended from the same people so we have similar stories, but since we moved to different places we had different variations of the flood to fit the likings of the people.

Source:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Deucalion
Gaster, Theodor H. Myth, Legend, and Custom in the Old Testament, Harper & Row. New York , 1969

Welcome to my blog

I am Joshua Kim and I am a freshman in Roslyn High School. My teacher helped me to create this blog and I think the blog helps me to create an organized environment with all my work in freshman humanities. This blog will also show me how I grew during my high school years. All the work I am doing in freshman humanities I am posting on my blog. Even though it might be a little annoying it will still help to keep all my work and not lose it.