I Am Thankful for My Family and Friends

This Thursday is Thanksgiving, and it has inspired me to think about what I am thankful for this year. I am actually thankful for many things, such as our successful move from Alabama to Tennessee. However, I think I am most thankful for my friends and family whom have supported me throughout my life and made me a better person. They have always been their for me during the most difficult of times; I'm truly grateful that I have them.

My Analysis of Career Day 2011

     Today, my school hosted something called Career Day, where we liistened to several different topics relating to a specific career lectured by people who specialize in that particular career. The four career lectures i chose to attend were: business, law, engineering, and nursing. Of the four, my favorite was probably business. I liked it because business and finance has been a career I have been interested in; I have always favored the practical and direct style of thinking that is usually required in math and have always preferred to keep everything, from my time to my possessions, neatly organized. Something interesting that I learned, which I had never put much thought into, was the concept of how the different levels of authority were "layered"--such as, how there are managers of small groups in most businesses and how those groups were put in larger groups governed by managers of higher power, and so on.

Depiction of Marcus Brutus from "Julius Caesar"

   My English class was assigned a project relating to a play that we had recently read--Julius Caesar. For my project, I drew Marcus Brutus, the protagonist of the play, on a large sheet of poster paper. I referenced some pictures of men's faces on the internet to determine the proportions of my drawing's face. I used a 2H pencil to sketch the outline and proportions, a 2B pencil to darken and shade, a mechanical pencil to draw the hair, an eraser to add highlights, and a tortillon to blend the shaded areas. I think this project really helped me with my reading of the play because I got to bring one of the characters to life which changed my view of the character.

Don't Be a Hypocrite

At my school, we had a special guest speaker come and talk to us about things that people, especially Christians, struggle with. One point that we talked about felt really special to me because I felt like I could relate to what he was saying. He discussed with us was about the actions of people influenced by the cultural  world view and how people felt like hypocrites when they went to church because they have done things  based on the cultural world view. He told us how it was actually the other way around: People are hypocrites when they act from the cultural world view and not the biblical world view. The explanation of this is that the definition of a hypocrite is someone who pretends to be something they're not. We are not people of the cultural world view; we are people of God.