Practice sat essay

When considering if schools should teach children and help them understand moral choices and social issues I belive that there are two very strong arguements that can be made for both sides. Asking this question is just like asking the question of "Did the chicken come before the egg?" Obviously we are intitled to our opinions but when I consider this question, I cant seem to anchor to one side of the arguement. I dont have a solid yes or no for it.

On one side schools SHOULD teach their students how to make moral choices in life and help them understand social issues because school is getting them ready for their grown-up life and who doesnt make moral choices one in a while in their life? We are also faced with many social issues daily. Basically, thats what we do in school anyways right? When I was a Kindergardener, I useto do what all kindergardeners did and caused trouble some of the time. Without the disipline of my teachers, what would i be now? Maybe its because I have been going to a private school for practically my whole life but it seems that Punahou adresses social issues to us. Maybe public schools dont make as much of a emphasis on social issues but I really dont know how they teach in public schools so I have no experience that I can talk about.

On the other side, I think that people against schools teaching their children moral choices and social issues have a point because when you think about it, it comes down to the childs parents and what they feel is important for the child to know at their age by now. if parents dont want their children to learn how to make moral choices, the parents probably wont be their parents for much longer. Eveyone is entitled to their own ideas and if they feel that social issues might make their child feel strange in school, I think its okay for them not to be exposed to it.

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"She wasnt batised yet," he said
I looked up when he said this, startled by such a pathetically inadequate observation. Was that really what mattered to him right now-the condition of Ruth May's soul? Mother ignored him, but I studied his face in the bright morning light. his blue eyes with their left-sided squint, weakened by the war, had a vacant look. His large reddish ears repelled me. My father was a simple, ugly man.
It's true that she wasnt baptized. If any one of us had cared about that, we could lay the blame on Father. He maintained that Ruth Many was still too young to take the responsibility of accepting Christ, but in truth i think he was holding her back for the sake of pageantry. He was going to baptize his own child along with all of Kilanga's on that great day down at the river when his dream finally came true."

I thought that this passage from Bel and the Serpent was significant because it showed how much Nathan really cared about his daughters. The whole reason why they came to Kilanga wasnt for anyone other than Nathan himself. Throughout the book we can see that Nathan is above avarage when it comes to his devout to Christianity but when his daughter dies, all he thinks about is not being able to baptize her. What was more important was that Leah said this and this was part of the beginning of her moving away from the shadow of her father. Before, when they first arrived at Kilanga, we observed that Leah would try and impress her father but now she thinks her father is ugly. I thought that this quote also connected to the beginning quote because Leah was looking at her fathers reddish hair in the sunlight as he was digging up the reddish dirt trying to start the garden and now she looks at him in the light and thinks the opposite.

Lit circle for Exodus

Lexicographer
I had somne words that I didnt know so I looked them up on dictionary.com and tried to make my own definitions for them.

Precocity: the state of early development or maturity

Stupefaction: astonished or in the state of great amazement

Unequivocal: certian; only one possible answer

Bereft: deprived

Devoid: lacking;empty

Argyle: being diamond shaped

Disjunct: separated

Exonerates: to free from blame

Austere: strict;harsh;rough

Papist: a nickname given to roman catholics

Refectory: dining room

Shindigs: party that often includes dancing

Neurologist: a medical doctor that specializes the the nervous system

Agronomics: the science of land distribution, soil and crops

Global Warming

Today in assembly, we got a speech on global warming and how that could affect us. I found this assembly quite interesting and the talker made a few jokes that kept my interest going. I learned that we humans make CO2 which causes the icebergs to reflect less solar radiation back into outer space. This is very important because the amount of CO2 in out atmosphere has doubles in the past years. This means that the ice caps are melting revealing more ice that will melt and contribute to the rising sea level. Knowing this made me more aware because we live on an island and when you think about it, rising sea levels means less island to live on. If this keeps happening, where would I live. Temperature levels also increase drastically in areas making dirt harden and crack. I have noticed that over the years, I felt that it was becoming more and more hotter. Hotter temperatures mean warmer sea waters which means stronger tsunamis and hurricanes. The list of concequences that happenes if this continuing problem grows is very long. I think that my previous post on the 2016 plan for Punahou really connected with the speech today because it tells us to be aware of what could happen to our children or even us in the future if we dont stop burning gasoline and other petrolium products that destroy our planet.

Lit circle Bel and serpent

I decided to be a historial for the Bel and the serpent book and i looked up the history of the story online. I noticed that throughout my search, there were alot of site that had Bel and the Dragon instead of the serpent. I guess the story has two different names. The story is originally from a Jewish background and in the bible part of the story of Daniel. In the story, Daniel meets up with babylonian people and wonders why the offer and waste loads of food to their idol, Bel the serpent. Daniel knows that the statue cannot consume this fod so he lays a trap to show his proof. He lays charcoal out on the floor of the temple overnight. In the morning, they check it and find the priests footprints in the charcoal meaning that they were the ones that take the food. When looking through different websites, I noticed that snakes and serpents play a big role in Christian religion and many other religions as well. The snake is believed to be both a evil god and a good and has regenerative powers. Many cultures use the snake as a symbol of a god. Egypt, the Aztecs, Greek, Hindu, and China are some of the cultures that use this symbol.