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The Alchemist

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In seminar we read the alchemist, and wrote about what our Personal Legends are. This is My Personal Legend.

I have always wanted to be a vet.  Ever since Kindergarten, that has been my dream.  I’m not sure if I want to work on Marine animals, horses, or just the usual: dogs and cats.  Another Personal Legend I’ve always had, since preschool, is going to college.  So far I’m on the right track.  I’ve had very good grades, all As and B+s.  I think I want to go to Villanova University, if it has a veterinary program.  A few things that might try to stop me from reaching these goals are, one, being tired from studying, two difficult work, three tests and four temptations.  Some temptations are friends going to parties or doing activities instead of studying.  I look forward to reaching these goals.  I believe in myself so I probably will.  To reach these goals, I will need optimism, grit, curiosity and especially, self-control.

On Laziness

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PIECE OF WRITING:

When I retired recently, my only thought was to bother about nothing but spending the little life I had left alone and in peace.  It seemed to me that I could do my mind no greater favor than to leave it alone with no work to do but think about itself.  I hoped it could do this more easily now that I had become wiser and more self sufficient with time.  But I find that my mind gives itself a hundred times more trouble than it had when I was busy.  It gives birth to many fantastic monsters one after another without order or purpose.  I have recently decided, in order to think about this experience, to put these monsters down in writing.  I hope in time to make my mind ashamed of itself for its laziness.

FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO WRITE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU LET THE MONSTERS TAKE CONTROL.

The dangers of day dreaming are that monsters are coming out of your head.  The character traits you lack if you are having these dreams are grit and self control.  Grit, because you need to stay active and not zone out even if you don’t want to otherwise the n=monsters can stay alive.  Once the people are lazy the monsters do bad things to you.  The bad things the monsters are doing represent the bad things that will happen to you if you zone out.  All the people in the picture are asleep or really lazy.   All the things except the monsters are being sloths and the monsters are tending to them so they stay that way.  People need to stop with all the zoning out so they will have good lives.  these people need self control and grit so they can do this.

Fragments

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THE 10 RULES OF LIFE

1. Learning of many things does not teach someone to have understanding.

2. Many people do not think about things they experience. Nor do they know the things they learn. But they think they do.

3. Those who seek gold dig up a lot of dirt and find little of value.

4. Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.

5. When one does not know how to listen, one does not know how to speak.

6. Opposition is good. The greatest harmony arises from difference. Everything begins in conflict.

7. Let us not make guesses about the most important things.

8. Let different waters flow over each of us who enter the same river.

9. The way up and the way down are one and the same.

10. We ought to follow what is common, but people live as if they have their own wisdom.

In seminar we were supposed to write about which one is the most important rule to us. 

This is the best advice for someone because it means that two or more people may be asked the same question, but have two different answers.Two different people will most likely have two different opinions because they have two different minds, and two different trains of thought. Not everyone thinks the same things and if they do it’s probably a coincidence.  

Up Hill

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POEM:

Does the road wind up-hill all the way?

Yes, to the very end.

Will the day’s journey take the whole long day?

From morn to night, my friend.

But is there for for the night a resting-place?

A roof for when the slow dark hours begin.

May not the darkness hide it from my face?

You cannot miss that inn.

Shall I met other wayfarers at night?

Those who have gone before.

Then must I knock, or call when just in sight?

They will not keep you standing at that door.

Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak?

Of labour you shall find the sum.

Will there be beds for me, and all who seek?

Yes, beds for all who come.

For this seminar we were supposed to write our own poem similar to this one.

MY POEM:

How far’s the top?

300 feet up.

What number do I press?

Number 33.

What’s at the top?

A green house full of trees.

How long will it take to get there?

It depends.

On what?

How many stops we have to make.

Ding, there’s one stop,

The screen shows 12,

the doors open and stay,

What do I do?

Step out and quickly step back in.

What if I’m not fast?

You will be stuck forever.

Out then back in

the doors close and up,up,up we go

bing, the does open at 30

out and back in, the doors close

up,up,up,

Ding, 33 at last.

*Seminar* Category

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Seminar posts go here….

5Ws Charts (Who wrote/painted/composed the reading/artwork/musical piece? What was the title/genre? Where & When was it created? Why was it created? Identify two crucial sentences, elements, or melodies);
Combined History-Seminar Projects (Timelines: Great Ideas, Great Authors; Essays, Mock-Trial Readings: Fact Patterns, MindMap of Foundation Documents: Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, etc.).