Ups and Downs of High School

             High school so far has been a completely new and interesting experience for me.The best thing about high school so far has to be the freedom. The high school makes middle school seem like a jail. I would never be allowed to carry my backpacks and phone to all my classes and the best part is that I can leave the school for lunch or whenever I have a free period. With all these new freedoms it makes me feel more grown up and responsible unlike in the middle school where we were supervised every step of the way. But what I realize as we start getting deep into the year, the work load piles up. That's actually the worst thing about high school. In middle school my homework would only take about an hour, but now I'm up until one o,clock. Also, I usually wouldn't study super hard for my tests but after taking my first high school test I realized that I would have to study hard for the rest of my tests in order to do well. And the scariest part of all that puts the most pressure on me is that everything you do here in high school counts for collage.

          After looking at the book of Genesis 6-9, my feelings and interpretations on God have been altered. Before reading Genesis, I saw God as perfect, and everything God did was right. But I have realized that God can be unfair and sometimes even use it's powers in the wrong way. In my Hebrew school I learned the same stories about God but nobody ever thought of it's actions as bad so it never crossed my mind that God could be anything less than flawless. In Genesis 6, God said to Noah, "I have determined to make an end of all flesh; for the earth is filled with violence through them; behold, I will destroy them with the earth." When God wanted to flood the world because he thought the people were becoming evil, he never even thought twice about giving the people a second chance and he never told the people that if their fighting continued he would destroy the world, he just flooded everything without a warning to anyone with the exception of Noah. Also, I have learned multiple new things from this project. One lesson I learned is as well as you think you may know something, such as your religion the more you study it and the more in depth you get into it, new ideas and interpretations can be formed. I also learned a lot about God and what god is really like by looking at indirect characterization. In conclusion this project has opened up my mind about God and gods place in jewdism. 

          After reading Genesis 2 and 3 I have come to the conclusion that it was God's fault for Adam and Eve being kicked out of the garden of Eden. This is because if everything is created in Gods image including Adam and Eve then technically when Eve made the bad decision to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, it was partially gods fault. God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air..." Also God was basically taunting them with the fruit of knowledge , putting it right in the middle of the garden within their reach. Genesis mentioned, "When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom." God basically set them up knowing they were going to eat this luscious fruit he put out before them. All in all if God had never placed the tree that Adam and Eve weren't supposed to eat from in their garden, the peace between them would have remained.

          The Finnish flood myth and the Epic of Gilgamesh were very different yet similar In many ways. In the first place, both stories for the most part followed a similar plot most flood myths follow. The story started off with a heroic character like Gilgamesh named Väinämöinen. While making a boat, his axe slipped and cut open his knee. Eventually the blood from the wound flooded the entire world. The story also mentioned how the blood covered even the highest mountain peaks. This is similar to The Epic Of Gilgamesh when it mentioned how as the water receded, Utnapishtam's boat landed on top of a mountain.  There were also some differences in these two stories. One obvious difference was how in the Finnish flood myth, the world was flooded by blood where in The Epic of Gilgamesh was by water.  Also no animals were involved in the Finnish story unlike in Gilgamesh. Another big difference was how in the Finnish Flood myth Väinämöinen wasn't warned ahead of time about the flood like in The Epic of Gilgamesh, God told Utnapishtam about the flood in advance and to make an arc. But overall, the theme in both stories is that the earth was flooded by God to destroy all life and only one good and wise man was spared in a boat.

Welcome to My Blog!!

Hi everyone welcome to my blog! My name is Skylar Schumann and I made this to share all of my English work from Roslyn Heigh School with everyone who wants to see. I am 14 years old and as a freshman I will be doing tons of interesting reports and projects over the course of the year. I am currently on the varsity tennis team and one of my favorite things to do is cook. Hope you enjoy!