Transcript World History Humanities Portfolio. 2nd semester, 2005

World History Humanities
Portfolio. 2nd semester,
2005-2006. Larnell Smith
Sophomore Port Charlotte
Introduction
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For this second semester I have learned a lot
more about serving others and how other
people have served others. I also had more of
an opportunity to practice my grammar
skills. I have also had the opportunity to
practice leadership skills this semester.
Table of Contents
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Responsible Citizen
Commitment to the Church
Interpersonal Relationships
Acceptance of God
Personal Management
Intellectual Development
Communication Skills
Aesthetic Aspiration
Career and Service
Healthy Balanced Living
Responsible Citizenship
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For the responsible citizen goal this semester, I felt I improved myself in the
goal of responsible citizenship. Last semester I wrote about what I knew about
the worlds different cultures, and what I knew about them. This semester I want
to talk about the new things that I have earned this year. When we were doing
research on the Gandhi movie, I learned some things that I didn’t know about
the Indian culture. I didn’t know the sad plight of the Indians people before
Gandhi stepped up to the plate and decided to change things. I think that I
learned about the world around me when we had to do a retell where we made
up a developing country and develop it. I was the president of the country; my
job was to help to organize my classmates and to make sure that every one
was present for the presentation. This assignment was a real eye opener to
how hard it is to run a country, even though our country wasn’t real. It gave me
the chance to develop leadership skills. I really had never had the opportunity
to be a leader; I am more of a follower which is ok because if every one was the
leader there would be no one to lead. I think that in the future I will have more
opportunities to be a responsible citizen, whether it’s for picking up trash on the
highway, volunteering in a hospital. Or simply watching the news and gathering
information on the world around me.
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Commitment to the Church
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This semester in the commitment to the church goal, we had some
assignments that helped me to understand this goal better. The ADRA projects
that we had to do, educated me of a way to help to spread this gospel. When
one of the ADRA workers was talking about how they do their jobs, she
mentioned that they aren’t allowed to talk about Jesus to the people they help
in many of the countries that they go to. Their way of spreading the gospel is by
their actions. Some of the people take notice of the kind gestures of the ADRA
workers and ask them how they can be so kind. They then tell them that it is
Jesus who makes them so kind. I thought that this was really cool that they
evangelized in this way. I fell that the assignments that helped me grow in the
area of commitment to the church were the ADRA assignments and the J-Bible
assignments. In the future I would like to go on mission trips to other countries
so that I can share our faith and help others who are out there already helping
others. Just recently I went out with my class and passed out tracts to people
around our community. As I know this is just the same spreading the word as
going to a remote country and preaching. So yes in the future I see myself
going out and helping to spread the gospel, especially in these times where the
coming of the Lord is very near.
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Interpersonal Relationship
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The interpersonal relationships goal this semester was easier to progress in than last
semester I think because of the harder retells that we had to do. This semester we didn’t
just have the drama, poetry, or presentation. We had to do things that involved half of the
entire class. And with these large numbers we had some difficulty doing things. But with
this challenge I am sure that our teacher had a plan for all of the work that she had us do. I
am sure that she wanted us to work out our problems and pull things together, in a mature
fashion. Well this was a very good idea I think for our teacher to do this because working
with others well is a very important skill for adults to have. And since we are being trained
to be responsible adults it is important. When we go to work or to school we interact with
people, if we can not do that we will not do very well in life. I think of my self as a sociable
person, so before this semester I think I was doing well with this goal. But I still think that
the retells and some of our journals helped me to accomplish this goal. I just got a job this
past week, and am getting to know my fellow employees. Working with other people is kind
of different than working with classmates because you have the customers right there and
they are demanding things. You have to work together to get the customer what they want
fast. So all in all I feel that I did grow in this goal this semester.
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Acceptance of God
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Acceptance of God. From last semester I believe that I have grown in this goal.
I have to admit that it hasn’t always been an easy trip to remain close to God. It
takes a lot of work and devotion on my part to remain saved. I heard a sermon
preached where the pastor told the congregation that some one had asked him
if he was saved. The pastor took his time and then answered “well I know that
for today I am still saved”. After I heard this sermon it helped me to realize that
you cant just have a spiritual moment and then forget about your relationship
with God because you are “saved”. Being a Christian is a working relationship
just like with your girlfriend, or boyfriend. So I think that this semester I learned
a lot about the miracles that God does when we ask of them. I have seen it in
the Gandhi assignments that we had, or in the prayer requests that were
answered when we prayed for them in session. In the future I hope on growing
closer to God, in fact I look forward to it. When you are separated from God or
when you stop praying, the feeling is like you are empty. It is hard to describe
but, I think that as I mature and get older the ups and downs will lessen even
though it will still be hard sometimes to resist temptation from the devil to stop
praying and communication with God.
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Personal Management
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This semester for the personal management goal I think I learned several valuable lessons
for why this goal is important. Last semester I had at first a hard time getting my act
together. But then after a while I got it and I ran with it. Then the second semester came
and I kind of got lazy and that of course caused my grades to go down, just a little bit. Well
I have learned my lesson that you have to keep on top of things, you can’t wait till the last
day to try and get things done. It just doesn’t work right at all. Another thing that I learned
this semester is to read the instructions, it really pays to o this that way you don’t have to
ask your teacher about every thing five times. I have to admit I do have a problem with
reading the instructions and at many a time it has caused me some real problems. But I am
learning to check the front page for things and then promptly do what I fine in need to do
because procrastination is not good. These skills that I learn now will save me a lot of
trouble in the future because as I go to college they wont be telling me that I have to turn
this thing in 10 times, or what the instructions are every time I ask. So learning this now I
believe will help me a lot when I get to college and even when I get out and am working. If I
follow my ambition and am a doctor, I can not be in the hospital working on someone and
just forget to tell some one that the patient has some kind of problem. That would cost me
my job and maybe the patient’s life. So as you can see all of these things are connected,
what I learn now will carry with me when I get older. And this semester I have learned how
to help myself with this goal.
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Intellectual Development
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For the intellectual development goal this semester there were a lot of assignments that
helped me to realize this goal. It was the debates and some of the journals that helped me
with this goal. I feel that before this semester I had a pretty good grip on this goal, but ii
was of course still learning about different things, because a person never stops learning.
In the beginning of this semester I had to pick my self off after Christmas vacation and get
back to work. It was hard at first but I had to get over it because there was a lot of work to
be done. This semester we changed up the retells a little and they were a little harder than
the ones before. They caused me to be able to think more in a problem solving way
because we sometimes had to communicate with others far a way and at times it was
challenging. But we learned how to do these things and the kind of thinking that went into it
will be useful to my future. Like I said before a person never stopped learning, and the way
a person learns effects how a person will remember what they learned. Mrs. Pinter was
telling us different ways to remember things that were hard to remember. She suggested
note cards and walking while you are studying. Talking about loud and reciting. These little
tips help a lot. They help with studying and with remembering what you learned. I am glad
that this semester and the entire ae21 year I have been able to challenge my self more that
usual because of the learning environment that I work in with the computer and other
equipment that we work with. I appreciate the opportunity that I have received this
semester for learning and I hope to come back next year for more .
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Communication Skills
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This semester for the communication skills goal, I think that at the beginning of
the semester I had improved from when school first started. At first I didn’t even
know how to type, at least not very fast, by the second semester I had a much
faster typing speed than when I first started. That wasn’t the only thing that I
improved on. I think, and I may be wrong but I think that my writing skills
improved over this last semester because of all of the writing that we had to do.
This was the extra practice that I needed to get a better background in writing.
Also as you talk on camera more you become better at speaking and saying
what you want. The debates that we did this semester were a help to the
communication skills goal as well. As we debated you learn how o defend what
you think and you also learn how to take criticism from other people. In the
future I think that I will be using the speech skills that I have learned over the
years to get me jobs and also in college because I know I have to take some
sort of speech giving class. So yes this semester I think that I grew in the
communication skills goal
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Aesthetic Aspiration
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Aesthetic aspiration. For this goal I think the assignments that helped me realize this goal
were the FFT”s that we had to write and respond to. Some of the ones that my fellow
students were very well thought out. They had really put some thought into what they had
written, and some of it made me think. Writing these FFT”s also helped me to realize this
goal as well. When you are writing them you can get a sense of what it is like for an artist or
an author to sit there and create something out of nothing. Sometimes it was really hard to
do this, but in the end something came out. This kind of thinking is good for the mind and it
helps one to think in a different way other than mechanically. One of the assignments that I
had to do, it was a journal, which was on a subject that I really liked. It helped me to think
about the subject in a different way than I had before. As I looked at it I felt moved and I just
started writing. As I sat there and typed with the words poring out of my mind, I came to
know what it must be like to write an award winning book, or poem. When I get older and
have a family, I want my children to appreciate the fine arts and not just go to school and
get good grades. Because even thought those are just as important, looking at abstract
things like art and music really helps the mind to grow out side of the mechanical box we
sometimes get into. So for the future I will try to supplement my education with music. I play
the cello and this is my outlet sometimes when I am upset of excited. I play to match my
moods, and this can produce songs that are sad and solemn or light and airy. So I think I
learned a lot about aesthetic aspiration this semester and I have ae21 and Mrs. Bacon to
thank for that.
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Career and Service
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The career and service goal was one of the one that I think I grew the most in this
semester. We had a lot of exposure to different career opportunities this semester with
ae21. I have wanted to work in the medical field for a while and when I saw the doctors that
came and talked to us about what it was like in medical school. it first I was a little scared
because they were saying that it was very difficult to stay in school and practically be
studying the entire time. I know that I am expected to work but I also want to have fun I
college. But still for some reason after a while it didn’t bother me that I would have to be in
school for all that long time, of about how much it would cost. I know that I would really
enjoy being a doctor or at least working in the medical field healing people. One of the
other things that I was exposed to this semester was missionary work. I think it would be
really good for me to go over seas and work as a missionary helping out with the sick. As I
had said in one of my journals that we had to do, I think that one year in college I would like
to spend as a student missionary to another country, it would help me to see if I would like
to do missionary work or if I was cut out for the job. I would like to thank ae21 for exposing
me to these different careers options. This semester I have also learned how to achieve the
careers that I want. This semester I have also improved on my knowledge what tit takes to
get into college. And that is what I think I learned this semester about the career and
service goal.
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Healthy Balanced Living
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For the healthy balanced living goal this semester I definitely got the physical
part of the goal. It wasn’t the AE21 program that did it but the P.E. that Mrs.
Pinter has our class do. This semester we had a lot of physical education for
our health class, we did running, pushups and sit ups, and all kinds of other
activities like that she had us do. We also learned a whole lot about how to care
for our bodies, like how to eat right and exercise. I think I learned a lot of good
habits that will stay with me for the rest of my life. And I am not just saying that,
because really I don’t even drink soft drinks any more unless we are on a trip or
something. For my mental health I think that the mental exercise I received was
from the work we had. I surly did get some mental stimulation in for this goal.
Which I think is good because I know that I am learning something and not just
sitting down and doing nothing. For my spiritual health I had the experience of
spiritual battles with the Lord. This was where I think I grew the most over not
just this semester but the entire year. In the future as I mature I can anticipate
that my mental health will be tested more that it is now. I say this in a funny way
but I think that the little stress that we have now will help to prepare me for the
future as long as I know now to handle the stress in the proper way.
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The Industrial Revolution changed the way we work
it helped give rise to possibilities,
worked all day worked all night, that’s
the way of the industry.
With the revolution the religion changed as people
sought new thoughts.
The Darwin’s thought self. The Marxists thought share,
and the Christians, God. With all this change
the people were happy that their lives went mush.
But they soon found out that the Revolution wasn’t
easy if they wanted to live in prosperity.
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Yesterday we waited for the Lord to come. My entire family was so excited, all that the little ones
could talk about was what they would do when they entered those pearly gates. Oh the bitter pain
of it all! To think that we thought that our savior would come and save us from the sin and
destruction of this world, to be released forever from sins deep and icy grasp. Alas my soul cries
out to the heavens and I ask "Is there a God? To be so cruel to promise eternity and happy bliss,
and then not bother to show?" I feel like a fool, I told all of my friends that the Lord was coming
and that they needed to prepare for the advent. How they laughed, I was scorned and I was
taunted, they left me but I didn't care. I was going to heaven soon and nothing they could say
would stop me from believing. I thought of them as poor fools. Ha! Little did I know that I was that
fool! What are we to do? We have sold every thing but the bare necessities. How will we survive
the winter? But at this moment in my utter despaired I hear a voice in my head. It say's " Believe,
believe and you will be saved." How am I to believe any more? Every think that I thought was true
is not. I have nothing to my name and all my friends are gone! But the voice has changed it now
say's “Read and you will understand". What am I to read? It replies "My word, read it and
understand; and you will be released from your suffering." I know that voice and I cannot deny it I
must obey. I open my Bible, well thumbed and dusty. The light is thin, I light a lamp. I don't feel like
praying so I just open it, the verse that I open it to is Matthew 24:36. “However no one knows the
day or the hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son Himself.
Only the Father knows." At this I rejoice! The clouds of darkness begin to lift from my head and I
begin to feel at peace. The Lord doesn't even know when he is coming back, only the father. And
no man knows either! The most unspeakable joy runs through my veins, I cannot contain it. I must
chare this news with my family; they must share in this incredible joy that the Lord has bestowed
on his children. He loves us and has not forsaken us, now we only must hold on a little longer
until the Lord comes in the clouds of glory to take us home to live with him for ever and ever!
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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the
people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please
them by doing what you know is wrong.
William J. H. Boetcker
I like this FFT because like it or not this is true. We can't always
please people, and sometimes people want us to do thinks that we
know are wrong like smoking. We may like this person, but you know
that if you take that cigarette you will be degrading yourself. If you
were to take the cigarette the person would be happy that you took it
but you yourself would feel that you cheated yourself. Also the person
may be looking for your approval for their behavior, and if you say that
you won't do it you may push them in the right direction. So I guess
that there is a up side and a down side to asserting self control for
yourself
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I think that Gandhi will be in heaven. I have a couple of reasons
why i think this will be so. First even thought Gandhi wasn't a
Christian, he was following the way of God and he believed in
the things that God would have us do. In the Bible it says that
you cant be saved by works alone, but that you must believe in
the Lord Jesus Christ. But I believe that Gandhi believed in the
Spirit of God, and he was misled by the Christians that he met.
My teacher made a good point she said that if Gandhi had been
a Christian, the people of India wouldn't have listened to him.
So it is my belief that God had him be a Buddhist so that he
could led India to freedom. I am not God so i cant say weather
or not he will be there, but I believe that he will be.
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Striving for accuracy is like trying to get a bull’s eye. It takes time to
get it but you feel good when you finally do get it. Robert Rayburn .
I chose this FFT because it has explains something that
most people don’t realize. To become an accurate person, you
must practice. The concept of getting the bull’s eye is just an
example that we should follow. People don’t just wake up in the
morning and start to be accurate people. You have to have trial
and error, and in the end the reward will be being able to do
things without mistakes most of the time. Sometimes it is hard
to practice the patience that it takes to realize the dream of
accuracy. But I think that one thing that people should keep in
mind is the fact that there is no such thing as a perfect person,
and striving to do so is impossible. We all make mistakes and
even thought there is no such thing as perfection, we should all
work our hardest to do our best.
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Ok I am going to write about language. I am very interested as to how we have so many
different ways of speaking English, even in one country. I did a little research and I found
out how an accent comes about. It said that as a group moves away from another group
and isolates themselves, their offspring begin to alter the way they speak. They come up
with slang and different ways to change the sound of speech. Eventually after a couple
generations you have an accent. This will only happen if the group is almost completely
isolated from the mother accent, as were the Americans for the most part. I then looked at
how come we have too many different ways of speaking American English. I found that
there is no such thing as a person with no accent, in America or in the world for that matter.
There is always a slight difference in the way people speak, depending on the region they
are from. Even different parts of a state will produce a slightly different accent. In the south
where I’m from there is a drawl and a lot of slang. I grew up in rural Mississippi and let me
tell you, people from Mississippi have the roughest country talk you will ever hear. There is
a difference between the people from Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and other southern
states. The accent that we find the most pleasing in America is the Midwestern accent or
the people from Wisconsin, Michigan so on and so fourth. But I read some where in my
research that the southern way of speaking is now the most common accent in America at
this present time. (When I say southern accent I don’t mean the “Black” talk that you hear
on BET). I found all of this rather interesting I hope you found it as well.
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For the ADRA assignments we had to make up questions that we would like to ask an
ADRA volunteer. We also had to watch a video about what ADRA is doing around the
world. As I sat and watched the video, I saw the horrible conditions that some people
around the world had to deal with. One of the stories was about the elderly people in the
former Soviet Union. Since they were retired they had to way of making money to support
themselves as the cost of living rose. In the end they had to resort to living in huts made
out of mud, with their only nourishment as tea and bread. In these appalling conditions they
were forced to live, until ADRA caught wind of this atrocity. ADRA began organizing soup
kitchens for the elderly. For those who couldn’t get out because of their health or age,
ADRA brought food to them. This display of kindness was gratefully received among the
elderly people, they didn’t even want the ADRA workers to leave when they had to go on
and deliver food to other people.
The word of ADRA has helped me with the career and service goal because it
opens a new horizon of things that I could do for people in mission work. I would most
certainly like to participate in something like what the ADRA volunteers are doing, and I
think that this assignment has helped me to get a better focus on what it takes to become
and ADRA worker, the risks and the rewards.
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Even before the ADRA presentations I have thought about becoming a
student missionary. I don't know it’s just something that I have wanted
to do since I became aware of the things going on in this world. The
ADRA presentations have helped me to at least have an option of
where i could serve when I get into college. MY plan is to serve at
least one year in college as a student missionary. I would like to go
some where in the pacific, maybe some of the islands near Australia.
Maybe even Korea and Japan. Japan is by the way my favorite
country besides America). The presentations made me think about my
self and my serving abilities. I don't know if I could do some of the
things that the ADRA people are doing. Like risking their lives for
people they haven't even met. But In the Bible it says that we are to
love our neighbors as ourselves. And I know that I would want some
one to come and tell me the gospel of Jesus Christ if I had no idea of
the wondrous peace it can bring.
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I think that this was a very thought out FFT. We as a people forget that
we shouldn’t give things in a hope for something in return. Its like we
give something with one hand and then we hold out the other one
empty waiting for it to get filled. What we take from people is also
important. When we take something from some one, we should
remember it and not just put it some where in the dark corners of our
minds. Like I said I think that this was a very well thought out FFT.