Hero Myths Of Ancient Greece And Rome

     The Greeks had many ideas of what qualities a hero should have.  In The Adventures of Theseus, Theseus had courage to slay the evil Minotaur.  In Perseus and the Quest for Medusa's Head Perseus had the strength to cut off Medusa's head.
     Theseus had a lot of the characteristics of a Greek hero.  The most important of which is courage.  He had courage to kill the Minotaur and lead his people out of the labyrinth.  In the story the Minotaur was confused when Theseus faced him with that much courage because no one had faced him that way before.
     Greeks also thought that a great hero needed to have physical strength.  Perseus' physical strength and abilities helped him in hard times.  Perseus had to have the strength to chop off Medusa's big head.    Perseus had to have swung the sword pretty hard to get the head off the beast.
       The Greeks believed that a hero should possess great strength and no fear to complete a risky task.  They believed that with strength and courage a person could solve conflicts, fight beasts and enemies, and save innocent people.  Theseus and Perseus where courageous, and strong Greek heroes.

     The Greeks thought that a hero needed to have courage, boldness and quick thinking.  Perseus had the courage and boldness to confront the king, cut off Medusa's head, and turn the sea creature to stone.  His quick thinking helped him to snatch the eye and tooth from the gray sister's hand, and pull the Medusa's head from the sack in order to turn the sea monster into stone. The Greeks admired these qualities because they help you fight against the problems that appear, and help with emotional doubts and mistakes.

     I think that the characters in the Greek myths will have strength, courage, and no fear.  Some might have the strength to control the sea and weather.  Some of the gods and  goddesses in the stories will have the courage to turn a person into an animal.  They will have no fear to do what nobody has done before.  Edgar guest's poem The Things That Haven't Been Done Before says" From the beaten paths they draw apart to see what no man has seen.  There are deeds they hunger alone to do though battered and bruised and sore, they blaze a path for the many who do nothing not done before".  The Greeks were kind of leaders to the Romans.  They made paths that the Romans followed and saw what was unseen.  then they made many stories about their quests and some of the stories are still being told and read.

Humans and Animals

     I think that animals are individuals and can be like people in certain ways.  A scientist said "The most important thing to know is that animals are all individuals, he adds.  Just like people, they have different personalities and learning styles." Gulls are protective of their belongings just like humans, and dogs can communicate and think about things that humans think about.  In many ways animals are like humans and have personalities and learning styles.
       Dogs are smart and know all kinds of things we do.  Dogs have many different personalities and learning styles.  For example when my dog is hungry, thirsty, or has to go, he will act like it.  When my dog needs to be fed he will bark and whine.  He knows when his body needs some nutrition just like we do.  If he has to go to the bathroom, first he'll try to stand by the back door till we notice him standing there.  Second If we don't notice him in at least two minutes he will stand near us and stare at us till we realize what he wants.  Third If it takes us another two minutes to figure him out he will rest his wet chin on your lap until you get annoyed (that usually works).  When he wants to play he'll bring us his ball and bark at us till we throw it for him.  When we are young we tend to nag or beg our parents to do something.  Dogs do this too, they beg their owners to do something for them.  When you are young and get lost somewhere you try to find your parents and when you see them you are happy.  When a dog gets lost it tries to find it's owners or in it's case parents.  When my family and I go on long trips and come back home our dog gets all giddy and happy because he has missed us.  Once while we were gone on a trip our next door neighbor came over to feed our dog and when he walked in our house our dog jumped on him and growled.  He was trying to be protective.  We humans are also very protective.
     Seagulls are protective of their children when another animals or humans interfere. When the people we love are hurt or someone we don't like tries to interfere we get protective.  In a magazine I read for school a scientist was researching seagulls and how they acted.  Well he went a bit too far with his research and got dive bombed by LOTS of seagulls.  He ran to a safe place, and when he came out again he was again dive bombed by a lot of seagulls.  He ran back into shelter and thought of how to go back out without the gulls recognizing him.  He dressed up in different clothes and a mask then went out.  To his surprise nothing happened!  When he took his mask off he was dive bombed.  In the same way us humans can remember certain characteristics of another person.  Gulls have different personalities and learning styles.
     These examples show how a human and an animal are similar in many ways.  These things are what make it easy to live with animals and earn their trust.  Animals are individuals and have different personalities and learning styles.

Paragraph on Ida B. Wells

     Ida Wells fought for her and the people that were being killed for religion, and their race.  The way that she fought was with her pen.  She wrote in the news paper about the lynchings (or murders).  If Ida B. wells didn't stand up for the people that were being killed, There might have been a second civil war.  The bible says that If Satan drives out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand?  In the same way this applies to us, So if America kills America, it is divided against itself.  How then can our kingdom stand?  Even when people threatened to kill her she still wrote about the murdering that was happening in America.  All she did was move, buy a gun, and keep writing.  People started to realize what was happening and the were embarrassed.  Today their is still murder going on because of how people are but Ida stopped some people and had them think about what they were doing to our country.

Interdependence of the Characters in Storys

     Some of the animals and people in this unit relied on each other to survive in rough situations and when they need to feel loved.  In the stories Stray, Vern, The Dog of Pompeii, and Zlateh The Goat animals and people rely on each other In certain ways.  In Zlateh The Goat and The Dog of Pompeii the characters rely on each other to stay alive.  In Vern and Stray they depend on each other for love.
     Zlateh the goat and Aaron show interdependence by doing the things they do best.  When it was cold Aaron made a shelter out of hay so that Zlateh could eat and stay warm.  Later when Aaron was hungry Zlateh let him drink her milk.  In the same way Tito and Bimbo from the story the dog of Pompeii trusted each other's abilities to stay alive.  Tito relied on Bimbo's sense of smell, leadership, and sight to stay alive.  Bimbo needed Tito to trust in where he was leading and what he was doing was good, and Tito did.  Tito and Bimbo where good friends and trusted in each other in so many ways.  In the end of this story Tito was probably wondering what he would do without Bimbo.  In Zlateh The Goat they rely on each other's love to stay strong just like in Vern and stray.
     The dog in Vern and it's owner love each other a lot.  The dog comforts it's owner when he is sad.  The dog depends on its owner to feed and love him.  Without The dog the owner would get depressed, and with no owner the dog would feel lonely and hungry.  In Stray The dog relies on the owners love for him.  If the owners didn't love the dog it would either be out in the cold freezing to death or in the pound, but instead the owners realized that they really loved the dog.  Doris depends on the dog to be well behaved and cute so that Her parents would except the dog as part of the family.
    In this same way we should love and, look out for each other.  To be a good friend we should love and care for everyone around us.  In the bible it says that, We love because He first loved us (1 John 4:19).  

Innovations

     Three innovations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries were the assembly line, the plane, and the telephone.  These inventions helped the American people to communicate, transport, and manufacture.
     The assembly line helped people to build their products more efficient and easier.  Henry Ford invented the assembly line to make it so he could sell lots of cars in a little amount of time.  In WWII the assembly line helped to manufacture large war equipment.  Lots of company's products go down an assembly line during the production process.  This invention is very useful to many people but so is the plane.

     The wright brothers' invention of the plane made it so people could fly far and fast.  Planes are also used in the war to transport equipment from place to place, transport people, or sneak up on the enemy.  Planes can get LOTS of people from one side of the world to the other!  Orville and Wilbur Wright wanted to prove that they could stay up in the air for long periods of time, and they did!  This innovation helped with transportation.  Like the plane the telephone helped transport, but it also helped with communication.
     Telephones made it so people could talk to relatives, and friends that are far away without having to travel across the country.  Many people allover the world are using a telephone right now.  The telephone was also used in wars to transport messages from place to place.  The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.  His innovation was demonstrated for the first time at the Centennial exposition.
     These innovations helped shaped America. Manufacturing, transporting, and communicating would not be the same without these brilliant ideas.  Thanks to the four men who invented these things companies can produce more products, people can travel fast and far, and you can talk to a far away friend!