Sup everybody, I'm Harrison. You can just call me Harry if youre too lazy to say the full thing (its cool i would be too if i were you). Well im a junior at Wren and I play football and run track. I also am a member of NHS and obviously, our [[#|english class]]. I was born at Greenville Memorial and I've lived in this area [[#|my whole life]]. My Dad is from here and my mom is from upstate New York. Yup, that means I'm half yankee. It's ok though cause I'm a redneck at heart. Well i hope and expect to have a fun year this year in english with all of you guys. Reader response on Genesis 1-3, Februrary 26th.
-In reading this I can't help but be awe struck. It's crazy to think that God made all of this universe in seven, well six really, days. Everything he does he does for a purpose and everything that happens happens according to his plan. No matter what the instance, it all goes back to God. Because [[#|Adam and Eve]] did the one thing God told them not to, there were consequences. God even said in the beginning, "do not eat of the tree of [[#|knowledge]] of good and evil or you will surely die." This consequence of course wasnt enough for them and they ate of it anyway and there were more consequences. The snake had to be on its belly its [[#|whole life]] and eat dust. Adam had to work and toil in the field to grow his food. And God also said that he will [[#|return]] to the ground as dust because that is what he came from. Eve had to go through immense [[#|pain]] durring labour and be ruled by her husband. No matter what it is, every sin has a consequence and every consequence falls into place in God's ultimate plan for us all. Proverbs 3:5 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understand. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your ways straight." (No matter how crazy this life gets and how much you don't understand "why" these things are happening, trust in God.) He knows why and he has a plan for all of it!
Brook Irvins Response
-I completely agree with you Harrison. Seven days seems like no time to make everything and God rested on the seventh day. He truely is amazing. His plan is made for us to live for him in everything we do. I think he tried to show that to Adam and Eve, but I dont think they wouldve understood if they didnt feel guilty about eating from the tree.God wanted our life to be filled with sin so when we were able to walk with him in Heaven we were sin free and guilt free. Everything does happen for a reason. I comepletely agree when you said everything goes back to God no matter the instance. In my passage I talked about how Adam and Eve ate from the tree. I think that the serpant needed to learn a lesson just as Adam and Eve learned theirs. God made them pay for what sin they had committed and made sure they knew they had done wrong. God has given us all consequences and for us to pay the price for what we do. You are very knowledgeable with how we should act and pay for our consequences. I love how you included Proverbs 3:5. you took one lesson and made it feed off into what could become another discussion in class. If we dont trsut in the Lord than our lives will be full of trials and conquences that we are going to HAVE to pay for. He makes everyones path for them and only puts trials in their lifethat they can handle. "He makes our ways straight because we believe in him and trust him. Again i love how you put that second verse in your response to sum up the passage. Great job Harrison!!!!:)
Reader response for March 6th,
[[#|Socrates]] is obviously a pretty smart dude. Reflecting on what he said, i realize it would truely take a very intellectual mind to come up with a theory/ story like this. The [[#|men]] are basically on subjected to shadows and can only hear echos of sounds and are made to believe that those are actually the real things when, in reality, the real things are far more than shadows. The real thing has color, depth perception, a different size, etc.. Then the man was taken out of his subjected area (only seeing the shadows), and put into the real world. He reacted like anyone would walking out of a dark cave into the sunshine. He was blinded and his vision was obscurred at first. Slowly, his vision got better and he got used to the real world. He also came to know it as the real thing and recognized it as a better depiction of life and reflected on how inadequate his former outlook had been. Then socrates said that if the man were to be put back into the cave where he only saw shadows he would be very sad indeed because he would know what was missing and how so much was missing from the shadows. After reading this, i think of people brought up from humble [[#|back grounds]] who aspire to be better. Their humble back ground, such as the man only seeing the shadows, humbles them. So when they move up in the world to bigger, better things, they truely appreciate the better things for what they are not ignorant as to the [[#|true beauty]] of the world.
-Harrison Hix
Brook Irvins Response
He is a very smart man. Socrate took what he thought could be a perfect image, like we discussed in calss, and compared it to the human that is not perfect. i think one of the most difficult things to grasp is how the man only saw the shadows and believed that that was all there was in life because he didnt know any different. then when he was taken into the real world reality set in place of how the shadows and where he actually was, did not compare to what else what outside of that cave. when we discussed this in class i understood it a lot better but i like how he says he would be sad if he had to go back into the cave with the shadows. i think that is sometimes how we feel during our lives. people will think they have it all and that there is nothing better but then they find bigger and better things. i like how you think of the humble people. i agree that they appreciate the better things in life than a man who is not humble about his belongings and is ignorant. there are so many people in this world that could step back and look at what they have and be humble and thankful but they never do because they are blinded abot what is going to come next. if you dont know what is coming or what is out there that can be bought then you reallly arent struggling without it. my favorite part about our class discussion was when we talked about how if you put the posion in a box with a cat is that cat dead or alive. i like how you worded your respnse when talking about being humble and ignorant and not seeing the true beauty of the world.
Response to book 1- "the arguement"
Sup. This was a particularly difficult read. One that i hardly understood. But nonetheless, i will try to respond to it as best as i could. The "arguement" that milton is arguing is one of mans first disobedience. The reason that sin entered this world as well as "death and woe." The man that saved us from this is jesus. The article goes on to talk about how man reacted to this disobedience and what has become of the human race and how this affected us today. Milton also goes on to explain satan, "the serpeant", and his motives as well as his back ground story. This article is composed mostly of explanations of the characters and their decisions. As well as gods. Which i find hard to understand how Milton tries to figure out what God is thinking. This literature is difficult for me and i seriously need help to comprehend it further.
Response to book 4
Well this was interesting and to me, more easily understood than the first two we read. In the beginning waht i got from it was it was telling how satan went to paradise and saw how beautiful adam and eve were. They it told about how he planned to use the tree of knowledge of good and evil to tempt adam and eve. However, satan got caught by a couple of angels sent by gabriel to guard adam and eve because gabriel heard that an evil spirit had slipped into paradise in the disguise of a good angel. I think it says how they figured out that the supposedly "good angel" was an evil spirit, but im not sure how. Then it says he fleds back to hell. Then milton goes on to tell about satan and his motives for his fall and his creation. When he was created he woke up and wondered where he was and what purpose he had. Satan went and looked into a lake and saw his reflection. Because he was vain, he desired to see himself, and i think that is the beginning of his fall, his vanity. And his vanity goes all the way back to when he was created and when he looked into the pool. I realize all of this is probably wrong because i read this at 11:30 while i was half asleep but this is what i comprehended reading. Sorry if it is wrong.
-Harrison Hix
Brook Irvin's Response
Welll my internet was out when we were first suppose to read this so i didnt get to read it but after we read and discussed it in class i agree with you that this was much easier to understand than the first two. i like how Satan can make himself look like a good angel when he really isnt. this book is probably the first book in class that we got a very good conversation out of. the people that read it understood it instead of reading the book and not getting anything out of it. harrison did you feel bad for satan when he was throwing a pity party for himself or not? and i liked miltons way of using gabriel to find out the truth about satan. if he wouldnt of found out that satan was not a good angel then maybe the story would be completely different. satan is looked at kind of like hilter. he talked everyone into thinking that he was a good man then tried to take over everyone after he got their trust. i dont think satan likes looking at himself because he knows he is evil. i might be wrong but it just seems that when you see yourself in vein you dont want to keep looking at yourself. satan made this story because he thought of a way to try to sneak around God. but since God knows whats going to happen he knew this would not work.
Response to poems 4/28/13
The poems everybody brought in were really awesome and there was some really good art work thrown in there as well. My drawings were awful but i thought my poem was alright. I talked about a young man who grew up in a southern town and was in a southern baptist family. He was taught a strict interpretation of the bible his whole life and there was nothing else to go on. Basically if he screwed up he messed his whole life up. But when he did mess up and he was in bad shape his pastor lent out a helping hand and helped him. This shows the transition from innocence to experience because he was young and hadnt done anything wrong his whole life. Then one day when he did mess up he had to deal with the consequences. But his pastor helped him get back onto "the narrow path". My poem was pretty short and i probably should have put more into it and explained better. But oh well. Whats done is done.
Sup everybody, I'm Harrison. You can just call me Harry if youre too lazy to say the full thing (its cool i would be too if i were you). Well im a junior at Wren and I play football and run track. I also am a member of NHS and obviously, our [[#|english class]]. I was born at Greenville Memorial and I've lived in this area [[#|my whole life]]. My Dad is from here and my mom is from upstate New York. Yup, that means I'm half yankee. It's ok though cause I'm a redneck at heart. Well i hope and expect to have a fun year this year in english with all of you guys.
Reader response on Genesis 1-3, Februrary 26th.
-In reading this I can't help but be awe struck. It's crazy to think that God made all of this universe in seven, well six really, days. Everything he does he does for a purpose and everything that happens happens according to his plan. No matter what the instance, it all goes back to God. Because [[#|Adam and Eve]] did the one thing God told them not to, there were consequences. God even said in the beginning, "do not eat of the tree of [[#|knowledge]] of good and evil or you will surely die." This consequence of course wasnt enough for them and they ate of it anyway and there were more consequences. The snake had to be on its belly its [[#|whole life]] and eat dust. Adam had to work and toil in the field to grow his food. And God also said that he will [[#|return]] to the ground as dust because that is what he came from. Eve had to go through immense [[#|pain]] durring labour and be ruled by her husband. No matter what it is, every sin has a consequence and every consequence falls into place in God's ultimate plan for us all. Proverbs 3:5 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understand. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your ways straight." (No matter how crazy this life gets and how much you don't understand "why" these things are happening, trust in God.) He knows why and he has a plan for all of it!
Brook Irvins Response
-I completely agree with you Harrison. Seven days seems like no time to make everything and God rested on the seventh day. He truely is amazing. His plan is made for us to live for him in everything we do. I think he tried to show that to Adam and Eve, but I dont think they wouldve understood if they didnt feel guilty about eating from the tree.God wanted our life to be filled with sin so when we were able to walk with him in Heaven we were sin free and guilt free. Everything does happen for a reason. I comepletely agree when you said everything goes back to God no matter the instance. In my passage I talked about how Adam and Eve ate from the tree. I think that the serpant needed to learn a lesson just as Adam and Eve learned theirs. God made them pay for what sin they had committed and made sure they knew they had done wrong. God has given us all consequences and for us to pay the price for what we do. You are very knowledgeable with how we should act and pay for our consequences. I love how you included Proverbs 3:5. you took one lesson and made it feed off into what could become another discussion in class. If we dont trsut in the Lord than our lives will be full of trials and conquences that we are going to HAVE to pay for. He makes everyones path for them and only puts trials in their lifethat they can handle. "He makes our ways straight because we believe in him and trust him. Again i love how you put that second verse in your response to sum up the passage. Great job Harrison!!!!:)
Reader response for March 6th,
[[#|Socrates]] is obviously a pretty smart dude. Reflecting on what he said, i realize it would truely take a very intellectual mind to come up with a theory/ story like this. The [[#|men]] are basically on subjected to shadows and can only hear echos of sounds and are made to believe that those are actually the real things when, in reality, the real things are far more than shadows. The real thing has color, depth perception, a different size, etc.. Then the man was taken out of his subjected area (only seeing the shadows), and put into the real world. He reacted like anyone would walking out of a dark cave into the sunshine. He was blinded and his vision was obscurred at first. Slowly, his vision got better and he got used to the real world. He also came to know it as the real thing and recognized it as a better depiction of life and reflected on how inadequate his former outlook had been. Then socrates said that if the man were to be put back into the cave where he only saw shadows he would be very sad indeed because he would know what was missing and how so much was missing from the shadows. After reading this, i think of people brought up from humble [[#|back grounds]] who aspire to be better. Their humble back ground, such as the man only seeing the shadows, humbles them. So when they move up in the world to bigger, better things, they truely appreciate the better things for what they are not ignorant as to the [[#|true beauty]] of the world.
-Harrison Hix
Brook Irvins Response
He is a very smart man. Socrate took what he thought could be a perfect image, like we discussed in calss, and compared it to the human that is not perfect. i think one of the most difficult things to grasp is how the man only saw the shadows and believed that that was all there was in life because he didnt know any different. then when he was taken into the real world reality set in place of how the shadows and where he actually was, did not compare to what else what outside of that cave. when we discussed this in class i understood it a lot better but i like how he says he would be sad if he had to go back into the cave with the shadows. i think that is sometimes how we feel during our lives. people will think they have it all and that there is nothing better but then they find bigger and better things. i like how you think of the humble people. i agree that they appreciate the better things in life than a man who is not humble about his belongings and is ignorant. there are so many people in this world that could step back and look at what they have and be humble and thankful but they never do because they are blinded abot what is going to come next. if you dont know what is coming or what is out there that can be bought then you reallly arent struggling without it. my favorite part about our class discussion was when we talked about how if you put the posion in a box with a cat is that cat dead or alive. i like how you worded your respnse when talking about being humble and ignorant and not seeing the true beauty of the world.
Response to book 1- "the arguement"
Sup. This was a particularly difficult read. One that i hardly understood. But nonetheless, i will try to respond to it as best as i could. The "arguement" that milton is arguing is one of mans first disobedience. The reason that sin entered this world as well as "death and woe." The man that saved us from this is jesus. The article goes on to talk about how man reacted to this disobedience and what has become of the human race and how this affected us today. Milton also goes on to explain satan, "the serpeant", and his motives as well as his back ground story. This article is composed mostly of explanations of the characters and their decisions. As well as gods. Which i find hard to understand how Milton tries to figure out what God is thinking. This literature is difficult for me and i seriously need help to comprehend it further.
Response to book 4
Well this was interesting and to me, more easily understood than the first two we read. In the beginning waht i got from it was it was telling how satan went to paradise and saw how beautiful adam and eve were. They it told about how he planned to use the tree of knowledge of good and evil to tempt adam and eve. However, satan got caught by a couple of angels sent by gabriel to guard adam and eve because gabriel heard that an evil spirit had slipped into paradise in the disguise of a good angel. I think it says how they figured out that the supposedly "good angel" was an evil spirit, but im not sure how. Then it says he fleds back to hell. Then milton goes on to tell about satan and his motives for his fall and his creation. When he was created he woke up and wondered where he was and what purpose he had. Satan went and looked into a lake and saw his reflection. Because he was vain, he desired to see himself, and i think that is the beginning of his fall, his vanity. And his vanity goes all the way back to when he was created and when he looked into the pool. I realize all of this is probably wrong because i read this at 11:30 while i was half asleep but this is what i comprehended reading. Sorry if it is wrong.
-Harrison Hix
Brook Irvin's Response
Welll my internet was out when we were first suppose to read this so i didnt get to read it but after we read and discussed it in class i agree with you that this was much easier to understand than the first two. i like how Satan can make himself look like a good angel when he really isnt. this book is probably the first book in class that we got a very good conversation out of. the people that read it understood it instead of reading the book and not getting anything out of it. harrison did you feel bad for satan when he was throwing a pity party for himself or not? and i liked miltons way of using gabriel to find out the truth about satan. if he wouldnt of found out that satan was not a good angel then maybe the story would be completely different. satan is looked at kind of like hilter. he talked everyone into thinking that he was a good man then tried to take over everyone after he got their trust. i dont think satan likes looking at himself because he knows he is evil. i might be wrong but it just seems that when you see yourself in vein you dont want to keep looking at yourself. satan made this story because he thought of a way to try to sneak around God. but since God knows whats going to happen he knew this would not work.
Response to poems 4/28/13
The poems everybody brought in were really awesome and there was some really good art work thrown in there as well. My drawings were awful but i thought my poem was alright. I talked about a young man who grew up in a southern town and was in a southern baptist family. He was taught a strict interpretation of the bible his whole life and there was nothing else to go on. Basically if he screwed up he messed his whole life up. But when he did mess up and he was in bad shape his pastor lent out a helping hand and helped him. This shows the transition from innocence to experience because he was young and hadnt done anything wrong his whole life. Then one day when he did mess up he had to deal with the consequences. But his pastor helped him get back onto "the narrow path". My poem was pretty short and i probably should have put more into it and explained better. But oh well. Whats done is done.