First Semester Reflection

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Second Quarter Reflection

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Hymn

10,000 Reasons by Matt Redman
I chose this hymn because it has a deep meaning and it sounds very good. Just the lyrics remind you how great God is.

"You're rich in love, and You're slow to anger
Your name is great, and Your heart is kind
For all Your goodness I will keep on singing
Ten thousand reasons for my heart to find"

This song just screams out the greatness and magnificent qualities of God. It reminds you how amazing He truly is because it's so easy to forget that.

"And on that day when my strength is failing

The end draws near and my time has come
Still my soul will sing Your praise unending
Ten thousand years and then forevermore"

It reminds you when the days get hard, when the times are rough, trust in God. Keep worshiping God when everything and everyone is against you. This song is a good reminder and just a great song to keep worshiping and signing to glorify God no matter the circumstance.

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A Modest Proposal Response

There are some crazy stories and articles out there, but this one takes the cake. You know how people write long, deep poems and they mean a great philosophical meaning to a lot of people. I thought this story/letter was written with a deep meaning. At first, I was trying to figure out what the author meant by having the children be the food. Then I realize, this author is crazy. He is actually proposing to solve a problem with cannibalism. The problem is that there are too many kids being born into these poor families that cannot take care of these children. Therefore, the author comes up with the solution to sell the poor children, at the age of one, to the rich to be eaten. The worst thing about this whole thing is that the author is dead serious. This is a real problem. To try and relate this to people today is not so difficult. People have come up with excuses that support abortion which essentially is the same thing. People that support abortion are killing the child in the end and that's what this author was proposing. So don't think that this story is in "cray-cray" land. This is happening in our world, today. (6:09 Min.)

Dryden's Satire

1. According to the first paragraph of "Of Satire," what is the purpose of satire? What does Dryden say in the second paragraph is the type of satire he admires most, and to what does he attribute one's ability to use this type of satire successfully? What words does he use to show his disapproval of harsher forms of satire?

A One Day Diary

I can't tell you about this morning unless I tell you about last night. Understand something about me, I love my sleep. Last night was suppose to be the night that I got to go to sleep early. I got in bed and forgot to do the homework that I was suppose to do. I finally finished it, snuggling back into bed, and I forgot to wash my face and brush my teeth. I get up and do those things so I can finally go to sleep. During that I was texting three people, all of which fell sleep on me. Therefore, that tells you how late I really stayed up. Finally I went to sleep. Now, getting to today, I woke up to two of the three people saying sorry for falling asleep. It was a rough night with barely any sleep, and worst of all it was a monday. I rushed to get ready so I could make it to school on time, but while doing this I didn't get to eat breakfast. While I was getting out of my car to go to homeroom, I realized I forgot my laptop and my binder that has all my homework in it. Not only that, but I was starving. I waited till first period where I had a study hall and I could go to the snack store. I got a chimichanga, some poptarts, and an otter pop. After I finished that, I was still hungry. Thankfully, I forgot my binder and laptop so I asked my mom to bring me it at lunch. I might have added to bring me some food with that too. The most important part of the day arrived, lunch. I went to the parking lot, and realized my sister had brought me what I forgot and four tacos from tacobell. I thanked her and ate happily. Periods seven, eight, and nine roll by. By then I'm extremely tired, but I have to get myself awake because I know I have basketball practice. 4:30 pm comes along and the team and I are all ready to practice. Coach firmly scolds us about how we need to do better and then we went through another strenuous practice. Finally the clock rolls 6 pm and basketball practice ends. As 6 pm ends basketball practice, but it signals that play practice is starting. During that I looked through some cyber monday deals, and sang what I have to sing in the play. The clock strikes 8 pm and it's time to go home. As I walked in the door, I greeted my family but rushed up to do my homework. I couldn't wait to finish this and go get something to eat because I am currently starving again. Hopefully tonight I can go to sleep early and not have any distractions.

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Letter to a Troubled Saint

Letter to a Troubled Saint

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Love Figuration

"Christmas" by George Herbert

This poem, "Christmas" by George Herbert, is the second of two poems he wrote about Christmas. This poem is perfect, especially as the Christmas season is soon approaching. This poem really speaks about not only the scenery, but the feel and holiness of being with Jesus as He was born. 

The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be? 
      My God, no hymn for Thee? {Herbert is trying to paint a picture in the readers' mind of Jesus' birth, so quiet and calm.}
My soul's a shepherd too; a flock it feeds {This talks about something greater and deeper. God takes care of our souls and is the shepherd over that. We should trust in Him to take care of our souls.}
      Of thoughts, and words, and deeds.
The pasture is Thy word: the streams, Thy grace
      Enriching all the place.
Shepherd and flock shall sing, and all my powers
      Outsing the daylight hours. {We will sing His name forever}
Then will we chide the sun for letting night
      Take up his place and right:
We sing one common Lord; wherefore he should
      Himself the candle hold.
I will go searching, till I find a sun
      Shall stay, till we have done;
A willing shiner, that shall shine as gladly, {Herbert is getting deep and personal and talking about how he wants to be the salt and light unto the world. He wants to show others Christ and that's how we should be too.}
      As frost-nipped suns look sadly.
Then will we sing, and shine all our own day,
      And one another pay:
His beams shall cheer my breast, and both so twine,
Till ev'n His beams sing, and my music shine. {Herbert means that we will keep singing forever. We will worship God forever, as He should be.}

I honestly just picked this poem out of the title of Christmas. I didn't know that it would paint such a vivid and detailed picture of the nativity scene. This poem really gets you in the mood for Christmas, but not only that, it gets you in the right mindset of Christmas. Presents are fun, but the true meaning is the celebration of Jesus Christ. Although that may be just a cliche thing we hear all the time during Christmas, we have to remember that. 

"Still to be Neat" by Ben Jonson

This poem is an amazing poem just because of the depth, sincerity, and meaning it has behind it. This poem not only was applicable to the men and women of that day and age but of today too. This poem talks about the struggles of women and the problems of men not addressing them.

Still to be neat, still to be dressed

As you were going to a feast;

Still to be powdered, still perfumed;

{Jonson is talking about these lovely girls just getting ready for banquets and balls and just going out. This is his introduction, leading up to his true point.}

Lady, it is to be presumed,

Though art’s hid causes are not found,

All is not sweet, all is not sound.

{In these three lines, I think of how girls put on so much makeup during the day. Jonson is asking, "what is there to hide?" because girls are pretty without their makeup. Maybe this might be more of the mens fault because they don't remind girls too often.}

                 

Give me a look, give me a face, 

That makes simplicity a grace; {Jonson is really looking for girls that have little to no makeup on. Therefore, he can see a girl for what she really is, not what she has to hide behind.}

Robes loosely flowing, hair as free;

Such sweet neglect more taketh me {Jonson is saying how much more beautiful girls are when they have that look of just getting up in the morning or that natural look.}

Than all th’ adulteries of art.

They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. {Yes, girls can be pretty with makeup and it will look attractive. But that's just it, it will look attractive the the eyes, not to the heart. When a man can see your true beauty, without the makeup, that will make his heart pay attention.}

I honestly had no clue what this poem meant. I read it, and I was just thinking to myself that this poem is just written in Old English, and there was no way I was going to understand it. I started to read deeper into this though. The author really likes girls. Of course, being Colby, I can relate to this a lot. So I thought to myself, "this guy knows what's going on, I have to look into this a bit more." Jonson is talking about how girls put on this shield or this mask to hide behind when they shouldn't! They're beautiful just as they are. Why would they have to cover themselves? It's like wiping a dog's poop all over a diamond ring. Why would someone do that? This is a problem with today's society because the media of today is just putting out false advertisements of young women that should dress like this. That girls should be like this or conform to this way. That's wrong! Though it's not wrong to put on makeup, and girls can look pretty doing it, but it will probably attract mens eyes not the heart. This is not only a woman problem, but also a problem for the men. Women should not have to feel this way because the men should be reminding women how beautiful they truly are. People of today, both men and women, need to apply themselves to this poem and fix this problem.

Horton, Ronald A. British Literature for Christian Schools. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 1992. 303. Print. 

Of Studies

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Shakespeare's Works

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An Apology for Poetry

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Ballad

There I sit
At this dinner table
Hungry I was
Everywhere I looked was food

Fried Chicken and Koolaid
French Fries and Burgers
Fish, Lomi Salmon, Pipi kaula, Extra Large Lilikoi

I ate and ate
Till my hearts desire
Then I laid back
Here in this chair I sank

After this meal
Food Baby is what I had
Then sadly
I woke up

And it was all just a dream.

First Quarter ePortfolio

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First Quarter Reflection

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Beowulf Reading

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Screwtape Analysis Revision

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Chapter 16
Church brings “...people of different classes and psychology together in the kind of unity the Enemy desires.”  Why is this such a problem for Screwtape?  
This leads to a major problem for Screwtape because if people aren't arguing but instead getting along then they start worshiping the "Enemy" more. Screwtape doesn't want people of different classes being a one unity church.
Describe your ideal church.  
My ideal church is a church where the Theology is wholly correct, but they can teach it in an interesting and exciting way. Also, the worship team can also get you pumped up, not that it's necessary or anything.
Chapter 17
“...she never recognises as gluttony her determination to get what she wants, however troublesome it may be to others.”  Give some examples of this quote.
Now that this is pointed out, I guess I am guilty of this too. I am really a perfectionist, and I want things done "right." But that's just an excuse to say that I want things done my way. So I get so caught up in running things that I don't really care what others think or feel as long as I get it done. This is a major problem that hasn't been pointed out to be until now.
“...all I want....”  What are your reactions to this sin?
I think that it's different from the perspective you look at this. If you were that waitress to this woman, then you would think that this girl is a stuck up snob. But, if you were this lady saying this then you think that you're doing this waitress a favor by letting her not make so much. I honestly think we're all guilty of this is some part of our life. This is a very tricky sin that we have to watch out for.
“...insatiable demand for the exact, and almost impossible, palatal pleasures which she imagines she remembers from the past.” Gone are the days “...when her sense were more easily pleased and she had pleasures of other kinds which made her less dependent on those of the table.”  What does this mean?
As a teenager, we do this a lot with relationships; or at least I do. I think that a relationship was so much better in the past, but its just me getting "dull" to a person over time. This is actually hard to explain, but I hope you know where I'm going with this.
Chapter 18
Why would God want “complete abstinence or unmitigated monogamy” for us?  
God wants this because there are so many problems if you are not in complete abstinence or unmitigated monogamy. There's the consequences of maybe having a baby that you're not ready for. So you either struggle through life or worse case is that the baby get's aborted. Also, another problem is that people get deseases because they are not staying pure. If we listen to God's plan for us then it's a much easier rode.
Define “being in love.”
To me, being in love mean to have five girlfriends and each one holding one book for classes during school. Just joking! To me, love is being able to see a girl for who she truly is and really "loving" her for that. I would say a long list of what love is but then I would just be copying 1 Corinthians 13.

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Chapter 12
What is the “safest road to Hell”?  Do you agree or disagree?
I disagree. I would say that there is no "safe" way to hell. I think that Screwtape is confusing "the safest road to Hell" with the most popular one. Most people gradually sin. It never comes at you like one big sin. It slowly creeps up on you. For myself, if I was relating this to cheating, I never just cheated on one big final exam. It was the little home works that I only needed a couple answers on. Then it started to be the whole homework. Then started to become tests. Whenever you hit a sin, it's always a slow "fade."

What is the role of “nothing” and “small sins”?  What does that mean for you?
This "nothing" is very big in society. Most people just get so caught up in the little things that don't even matter that they miss the important things in life. I can relate to this "nothing" effect. I would call this more procrastination. I procrastinate on my devotions and on my actual relationship with God with "nothing" because usually I'm just too lazy.
Chapter 13
Which human said “...active habits are strengthened by repetition but passive ones are weakened”?
Is C.S. Lewis quoting himself?

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Chapter IX
Why do our “trough periods” make us so vulnerable (43)?  Is this applicable to you?  
 When Screwtape talks about the troughs, I believe that he is talking about the times in our lives where we just stray away from God. Not always because we want to, but because we just forget to pursue Him. A person is always moving in their relationship with God. They're either going toward Him, or just slowly going backwards. These "backward" or "trough" times make us vulnerable because we forget and stray away from God and go towards our fleshly pleasures. This is majorly applicable to me because of the fact I can forget about God on a daily basis. I'm not trying to boast in my sinfulness, but I do boast on God's love for constantly loving me even though I forget about Him. I need to learn to just keep my head in check, and realize that I need Him.
What beautiful truth about pleasure does Screwtape share?  Make a list of pleasures.
God made "pleasure." It is not the demons or the devil who made the pleasure, but God. I believe, by what this is saying, that you can still grow in your relationship with "pleasure." That sounds contradictory at it's front, but there's something deeper. I believe it's the overcoming of that pleasure that bring you closer to God. When God gives you the strength to annihilate that pleasure then you rejoice in his strength and your weakness. 
I have many pleasures. Some of which are the pleasure...
1. To cheat in school.
2. To sleep in chapel.
3. To talk back to irritating teachers.
4. To be mean to irritating friends.
5. To swear.
There's many others, but I do have to learn from these and self-evaluate how I live.
Chapter X
What are your thoughts regarding “parallel lives” (51)?  What does this mean to you?
To me, "parallel lives" happen to most people sooner or later. Sometime in our life we get caught up in the wrong crowd and we tend to copy what they do so that "that crowd" will like us. This is not always a bad thing because sometimes people can get caught up with "good crowds" with "good habits."  More often than not, it doesn't happen this way. Most of the time people get caught up in the "cool/bad crowd" and they start to develop these bad habits with them. But, when the "cool/bad crowd" isn't around then it's easy to going back to a little "goodie goodie" around parents or maybe just other friends.
I can get caught up in this so much. Especially for me, I would say it's easier for me. Why? Because I'm an actor and so to copy other people habits or emotions can be a second nature for me. This is bad because I really have to go through my life and filter out what is bad. To even have a best friend accountable for how I live is helpful too.
Chapter XI
What are your thoughts on music and joy after reading this chapter?
Music and joy is as what I thought it was. Happy. Screwtape cannot stand music and joy because it "promotes charity, courage, contentment, and many other evils."

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Chapter V
What is Screwtape’s idea on the best way for humans to die?  Why? 
I will admit that this part was sort of confusing. I interpret this as Screwtape wants every human to die by way of not knowing when they will die. Therefore, they will not come to know the "enemy" because they don't think that they're on their death bed. Lewis uses the example of men going to war and thinking they're going to die. So those men are prepared for death, as in, some of those men chose to be with the "enemy" because they want to go to heaven when they die.

Chapter VI
How does “...malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary” (28)?  How does this apply to your life? 
The way that Lewis is speaking of is that malice becomes real when you start to become mean and "hate" others that do wrong to you. Benevolence becomes imaginary when the only people you are "good" to is the people in the window of your favorite drive through food place. This affects me because when I examine myself, I can be exactly like this. I become so use to my friends that maybe I "joke" around too much and am just mean. On the other hand, I'm never mean to those people in Mc. Donalds who give me the large french fries even though I'll never see them again. What I'm trying to get at is that you should do good to all men, doesn't matter who they are.
Chapter VII
How do you picture the devil?  What does this chapter challenge you about regarding the spiritual warfare over your soul?
I feel like Screwtape is actually teasing me because I think like what he was teasing. I think that devils are these gross looking, red suited demons with pitchforks and horns on their head. Mostly, because that is what society has painted devils to look like. I really need to keep in check, and really just remind myself that I am in a spiritual warfare because sometimes I do forget. I am like a pacifist in the way that I just let things go because it's just "what happens." I need to remember that I have to keep fighting.
Chapter VIII
What is the “law of Undulation” (37)?  Give an example of this in your life.  
"... the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks." 
When I read this, I think that it means as humans we never want to just go through life but to grow through life. Therefore, when we sin or do something bad, as Christians we try to stray away from that sin and grow in God. Although, we are likely to repeat the same mistake. This is where the "Law of Undulation" come in. For myself, I cheat in school. Weather it be just trying to finish up some math homework at lunch time or just got lazy. I know it's wrong, and I really try to stop it and just do it myself. Though, when another busy week comes by it's just so much easier to cheat.
“Our cause is never more in danger, than when a human, no longer desiring, but intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys” (40).  What are your thoughts on this? The way I interpret this is that as Christians we become hardwired to try to do God's commands. Through life, maybe we forget why we're doing it and we just do it. Screwtape doesn't like this either because in essence it's still obeying the "enemy." Although, from a Christian perspective I wouldn't say it's bad, but it's not good either. It's not good because you have no thought in your brain that you're trying to glorify God with what you're doing. Therefore, it's honestly pointless.

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Copyright

To copyright is against the law. No doubt about that. Copyrighting is so easy to do, but it is stealing. Would you go into a store, and steal a pack of gum? That is essentially what copyrighting is. I've done it before, but I'm not proud of it. Copyrighting is a world wide epidemic, and people do need to stop because it hurts the artist and ultimately is wrong.

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Chapter I
Give an example or two about situations in which you are "...attending to universal issues and withdrawing...attention from the stream of immediate sense experiences" (2).

1. Sitting down on lunch table and doing homework

2. Having someone come over but taking a nap.

What are you passive about because of the "ordinariness of things" (4)?   Is it your family?  Your life?  Your church or school?

I'm passive about family, church, and school. When you start soon things daily and constantly then you just "get use to it." 

What does Lewis mean by “real life” throughout the chapter?  

I took it more as the nephew should just stall and confuse him with daily things. The hard things that we have to deal with in life. Make sure that the patient does not focus on who can fix those tough things.

Chapter II
What kind of clarity do you think Hell provides (7)? I think hell provides the clarity of mind. Not only the clarity, but the regret of mind. Regret of why you didn't trust in God on earth while you had the chance.

What do you think about the following quote?  "The Enemy allows this disappointment to occur on the threshold of every human endeavour" (7). I think that it is true. We get so bombarded by the things that bring us down that thats all we tend to focus on.

What are your thoughts on church?  Is it something you “do” every week?  I believe church is a main place where you grow spiritually. Yes, I go to church on sundays and wednesday nights.

Chapter III
What are your "daily pinpricks" (11)?  For myself, spiral paper eats at something deep inside me.

My "daily pin pricks" probably have to be when someone eats ice cream with a spoon, and they put it in their slimy little mouth and they bring it out with ice cream still on it.

Give an example or two of situations in which you have neglected the obvious (12).

I usually neglect the obvious when I don't exercise for a while and then I know I'm out of shape. I know I can't just go and fight when I'm so out of shape, but I usually don't care and do it anyway.

How does Screwtape suggest making prayers “innocuous” (12-13)?  What kind of sin is this referencing? I interpret this as a sin by which we become apathetic towards prayer and God. 

Chapter IV
What does Lewis suggest when he says “...whatever their bodies do affects their souls” (16)?  

I interpret this as whatever sins you're body does, then that's how your mind and soul really is. You're sould gets corrupted by you're bodies wants and desires.
What are your thoughts on prayer?  Compare your prayer life to this chapter.  My prayer life is tough. I'm much of a do it myself kind of person. So when I hear that things are beyond my power, I get angry. It's hard for me to constantly sit down and pray, but I just need to remember that with God nothing is impossible.

Q & A

A. What are your thoughts on writing? (What was the last piece you wrote? Why do you write? Do you journal? Text? Post on Facebook? Win any awards in Elementary school?) Honestly, writing is not my favorite thing to do in the world. I like to express myself, but not in the art of writing. I love to text my friends. That is probably the area in my life where I write the most.

B. What are your thoughts on reading? (What was the last book you read? Did you take frequent trips to the library as a child? What is your favorite novel? Favorite children's book?) I hate reading with everything that I am! But, there comes a time in every young man's life where he finds an amazing book (Hunger Games) and just can't out it down. So to answer that question, I would say that I like to read if the book can grasp my attention.

C. What are your thoughts on technology? (What kind of hardware and software do you use? Are you a gamer? Active in social networking sites? Paranoid about identity and security?) I am a technology nerd. I love to go and sign up for the latest and greatest social networking site. Unless, you have a best friend that you have a bet with to see who can stay away from social networking sites the longest.

D. What are your thoughts on learning? (How do you best learn? Audio, visual, or kinesthetic? Do you believe in projects or book reports? Do you like tests and quizzes?) I like to learn. I like to learn a lot. Especially about things that intrest me. I am A.D.D. so a lot of things intrest me. I like to learn hands on and ears on. I'm not into the test and quizzes as much as I am into making video projects for my grade. I also love extra credit!

E. Why do you want to take this course? I want to take this course because I do want to challenge myself while still having fun.