World History

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World History

• Amanda Cornwell
• 2nd Semester,
• 2004-2005
• Murphy, NC

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Introduction

• Hi,
• My portfolio for my second semester of World
  History Humanities is
• A little bit different from my 1st semester. I
  worked hard on it and I
• hope you enjoy it!
• In this portfolio I will be referring to Journey
  to Excellence Goals
• (J2E). You can find this document and learn a
  little bit more of
• what Im talking about here at the website
• http//catnet.sdacc.org/resources/res_ID15.pdf

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Table of Content

• Acceptance of God
• Commitment to the Church
• Interpersonal Relationships
• Responsible Citizenship
• Healthy Balanced Living
• Intellectual Development
• Communication Skills
• Personal Management
• Aesthetic Appreciation
• Career and Service

J2E1
J2E2
J2E3
J2E4
J2E5
J2E6
J2E7
J2E8
J2E9
J2E10
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Acceptance of God

• The J2E goal 1 of acceptance of god is where I
  would surrender my whole life to god
• develop a relationship with Jesus Christ And
  allow the holy spirit to work in my life. I
• think at the beginning of this semester I had
  developed in this J2E goal quite well, but I
• also realized that there is always room for
  improvement. Doing journals like the artifact I
• put for this portfolio has helped me realize that
  there is room for improvement and I
• need to get busy improving. The journals we have
  done this year have really made me
• think a lot. Especially this one, where you kind
  of had to evaluate your self. Evaluating
• your self is a real eye opener You realize just
  what condition you are in, weather it be
• physical or spiritual. I know that sometimes I
  back slide in my progress getting to know
• the lord better, and then I do a journal like
  this and I wake up and see that I am going
• backward not forward! Its like falling asleep on
  the job and I think the lord knows when
• to send something like this journal along at the
  right time to wake us up. I know in the
• future I wont always being doing eye opener
  journals, but I still always want to make
• progress getting to know the lord! By doing these
  journey to excellence goals this year
• the principles are embedded into my brain so that
  when I am older and out of school I
• will still probably participate in activities
  that go along with these goals. Which is a good
• thing I think. These goals are good principles to
  live by. I believe they are good
• principles to have in the home and at school, and
  doing things like this journal helps to
• reinforce them into our lives.

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Journal
J2E 1
J2E 2
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Commitment to the Church

• The journey 2 excellence goal 2 states that I
  will have a desire to know, live, and
• share the message and mission of the Seventh-day
  Adventist church. With this goal at
• the beginning of this semester I think I had this
  goal under control. Doing activities with
• the church and activities with the school this
  goal was pretty well good. But as I have
• said before there is always room for improvement.
  Some of the assignments that have
• helped me accomplish this goal better would be
  the Legacy Projects, the journals, and
• the song dramas that we have been doing this year
  and semester. By doing the song
• dramas and the legacy projects we are actually
  out in the community and are sharing
• the Seventh-day Adventist message. Those
  assignments are a very good way to
• accomplish this Journey to Excellence goal. The
  journals that we have been doing have
• helped reinforce what we have done in the
  community. The artifact that I used for this
• J2E goal has helped a lot. It is good to discuss
  your progress and what else you need to
• work on. That is why I thought this journal would
  be a good artifact for this J2E goal. In
• the future I dont think that this goal goal will
  be to hard for me to master, because I
• will be participating in activities such as VBS
  and other things that our church and school
• will be doing. And also in my everyday life with
  the people I meet, I can share Gods
• word by my example to them. This goal is one of
  the easiest for me so I dont think that
• I will have to much trouble incorporating it into
  my life. I also think that the Lord will
• empress upon me the right activities that He
  wants me to do . So with the Lords help

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Interpersonal Relationships

• This Journey to Excellence goal tells that I
  would develop a sense of self-worth, skills in
  interpersonal relationships, and understanding of
  the responsibilities of family membership, and
  the ability to respond with sensitivity to the
  needs of others. This goal is a little bit harder
  to do, but I think at the beginning of this
  semester I was okay with that goal. I think over
  the semester I have progressed some. Assignments
  like the retells and the projects where we had to
  grade other peoples work helped me with this
  goal. Especially when you are grading somebody
  elses work, its hard to do constructive
  criticism and do it tactfully, because you
  wouldnt want to her that persons feelings. And
  by doing assignments like these you get to
  practice your skills in that area, and hopefully
  you get better at is so you wont her peoples
  feelings. Also I think it helps you to respect
  other peoples opinions better, while
  respectfully disagreeing with them. This is a
  very important skill to possess, especially when
  we all get older and have jobs and have to
  respectfully disagree with people that maybe in a
  higher position than we are. This is definitely a
  much needed life skill. The retell assignments
  that we have been doing this year have enforced
  this Journey to Excellence goal well. When we did
  the dramas we all had to agree on one idea and
  many people would have completely different ideas
  than everybody else. And when we would journal
  about somebodys poem or creative writing we
  would have to be tactful if we really didnt like
  it or whatever we felt about it. I think in the
  future I wont have a hard time with this goal in
  my life, because there is always going to be that
  person that tries your patience, and pushes your
  last button but the Lord will always help you
  when you need Him.

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Retell
J2E 3
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Responsible Citizenship

• This Journey to Excellence goal says that I will
  develop an understanding of cultural and
  historical heritages, affirm a belief in the
  dignity and worth of others, and accept
  responsibility for local, national, and global
  events. At the beginning of this semester I was
  okay with this goal, but I believe I have
  improved a lot over this semester. We have done
  so many assignments that have helped us with this
  goal. For example the Gandhi video we watched,
  and then the paper we wrote about him later. The
  study of World War II, and the Holocaust museum
  we went to go see. All of that has developed in
  me a deep sense of history and what our world had
  gone through. I still cant believe the horror of
  the Holocaust! It was unimaginable the pain that
  those people suffered through, I only have a very
  minuet sense of what went on during that time.
  Another assignment that has helped with this was
  all of the reading that we did this semester. In
  the Bible book, and the World History book. And
  all those vocab articles that we have read and
  took a test on. Those have made me more aware of
  the news and what is going on in my world. And
  our legacy project that has been going on all
  year long. It has helped me in the sense of
  community and world responsibility. With all of
  these assignments that have really made an impact
  on me I dont think this J2E goal will be hard
  for me in the future. I think now at the end of
  this year this goal is probably the one that I
  have completed the most. I think this is the goal
  that I have progressed in this year it may be
  another goal though.

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Legacy Project
J2E 4
J2E 10
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Healthy Balanced Living

• This Journey to Excellence goal states that I
  will learn to accept personal responsibility for
  achieving and maintaining optimum physical,
  mental, and spiritual health. To be honest at the
  beginning of this semester I dont think I
  thought about this goal that much. I believe that
  I was striving for this goal only I was doing it
  without realizing it. Because I strive to be
  physically fit, and I read a lot so my mental
  capability is enhanced, and devotionals have
  helped me in my spiritual life. I was striving
  for this goal without even realizing it. But when
  we would do assignments like reading Emma I think
  I started to realize what this goal was all
  about. Reading Emma was a good mental exercise
  for me, it was also very enjoyable to. I enjoy
  reading Jane Austin's books. It tied in well with
  this J2E goal, and also the journals we would do
  after reading chapters in the book helped as
  well. I think reading the World History and Bible
  books helped as well. They were definitely very
  interesting to read. As far as the spiritual side
  of this goal I think by reading the Bible books I
  moved closer to this goal. For the physical part,
  although I cant think of anything we did in
  World History Humanities, we did a lot of
  physical activity in Personal Fitness class. In
  the future I dont think that I will have to much
  trouble reaching this goal. I think that it will
  come naturally because in my daily life I already
  try to read, workout, study my Bible, and spend
  time talking to God. I will probably slack of on
  one of the other, but I am hoping that I can
  accomplish them all equally. At least I hope I
  can!

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Journal Emma
J2E 5
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Intellectual Development

• This Journey to Excellence goal tells me that I
  need to adopt a systematic, logical, and
  Biblically based approach to decision-making and
  problem-solving when applied to a developing body
  of knowledge. This J2E goal was probably the one
  I had the hardest time with. I am not quite sure
  why but I did. I think the journals that we have
  done this year have helped me. And also the vocab
  articles and comprehension quizzes have also
  helped. The vocab articles that you had us read
  Mrs. Bacon were challenging, especially the
  political ones. They made us think and comprehend
  what was going on in the world. Which is a good
  thing, but it was a little difficult for me.
  Sometimes the political stuff confused me a bit
  and I had to really think about it. But it just
  helped me develop this goal further so it was
  okay in the end. And challenges are always good
  for the mind and body. I think this year has been
  the most challenging for me, but it has just
  helped me in the long run. So I guess I am kind
  of glad about it. I think now I have progressed a
  lot since the beginning of this semester. And in
  the future I think that I will progress further
  with this Journey to Excellence Goal. I am sure
  that life will always through something like a
  vocab article or a journal in my way to help me
  move forward towards the finish line of this
  goal. Okay maybe it doesnt have a finish line,
  but it will help me move forward anyway. I think
  this goal will be an important skill for my life.
  I dont exactly know how yet, but I am sure it
  will be someday soon, or maybe one day later on
  in the future.

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Journal HOM
J2E 6
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Communication Skills

• The Journey to Excellence goal of Communication
  Skills says that I need to recognize the
  importance of effective communication and develop
  the requisite skills. This is such an important
  skill for school and life! Many families,
  coworkers, bosses, and employees have a hard time
  communicating with each other and that just
  creates problems so this skill is a wonderful
  thing to have. At the beginning of this semester
  I dont think I was as good as I shouldve been
  but I was working on it. The assignments that
  have helped me this semester were the vocab
  quizzes, because you have to have a good
  vocabulary to be able to communicate effectively.
  And also the retell assignments. With the retells
  you have to make sure everybody in your group
  knows what to do, when to do it, and make sure
  they have all of their materials they need.
  Because it is not very nice if you just IM or
  email somebody right before class and tell them
  that you dont have your script, or your part.
  That creates a big mess. You need to communicate
  with them earlier and let them know way ahead of
  time. That is why this goal is so important. It
  makes life a lot easier if everybody communicates
  what and when they need to. We had a lot of
  retells and vocab quizzes this semester so I
  think I have progressed a lot from the beginning
  of the semester. And for the future I see myself
  progressing even further. Just being in a family
  helps me with that. And hopefully as time goes by
  I will learn even better how to communicate with
  people, so that everybody knows what they are
  doing. It makes life so much simpler. And I am
  sure my parents and teachers appreciate it when I
  communicate with them.

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Vocab

• Pyre A heap of combustibles for burning
  a Ubiquity Existence or apparent
• corpse as a funeral rite. existence everywhere
  at the same
• Dengue An acute, infectious tropical disease.
  time.
• caused by an arbovirus transmitted by Mitigate
  To moderate (a quality
• mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, or
  condition) in force or intensity
• rash, headache, and severe muscle, and
  joint alleviate.
• pain. Concedes To acknowledge, often
• Dengue An acute, infectious tropical
  disease reluctantly, as being true, just or
• caused by an arbovirus transmitted by proper
  admit.
• mosquitoes, and characterized by high
  fever, Sordid Filthy or dirty foul.
• rash, headache, and severe muscle, and joint
  Nanotechnology The science and
• pain. technology of building electronic
• Pilloried To expose to ridicule and abuse.
  circuits and devices from single
• Parsimony Unusual or excessive frugality
  atoms and molecules.
• extreme economy or stinginess.

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Personal Management

• Personal management means I need to function
  responsibly in the everyday world, using
  Christian principles of stewardship, economy, and
  personal management. This one is toughie. It was
  hard for me to chose an artifact for this one,
  because life in general teaches this Journey to
  Excellence goal quite well. But I ended up
  choosing a journal that we did this semester. I
  think that all of the assignments have helped me
  with this J2E goal because in the unique
  schooling that we do here in AE21 you have to be
  very responsible or else you dont get your work
  done. Of course we do have facilitators to help
  us with that but it is still up to us to do the
  work and turn it in. So this skill is a MUCH
  needed one in AE21. If you dont then you arent
  going to make it in AE21 very long. I think that
  the journals we have done this year have made us
  more aware of what is going on in the world. They
  have helped me progress in this Journey to
  Excellence goal by not only making us more aware
  of what is going on in the world, but helping us
  to understand and learn how to discuss it. When
  we learn how to discuss it we can see what we
  need to do as Seventh-day Adventists to help the
  world and to function how God would want us to in
  it. I think in the future I will further progress
  in this skill. I believe that by being actively
  involved in the church I will learn how to be a
  better stewardess and how to live using the
  Christian principles in my daily life. I think
  when I get a job it will help me in personal
  management and economy. Because I will be
  learning how to invest my money.

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Journal
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Aesthetic Appreciation

• This Journey to Excellence goal of Aesthetic
  Appreciation says that I need to develop an
  appreciation of the beautiful, both in Gods
  creation and in human expression, while nurturing
  individual ability in the fine arts. To show how
  I have progressed in this J2E goal I chose my
  media journal that we did this year. Another
  thing that we have done that helped me develop an
  appreciation for the fine arts was tunnel that we
  went through in the Capital with all the high
  school students art and the art gallery that we
  went to in Washington D.C. It was a beautiful art
  gallery and I did appreciate the art there. I had
  a really good time looking at all the art pieces
  and discussing them with my group Heather,
  Daniel, and Pastor Reid. It was quite interesting
  and I am very glad that I got the chance to see
  it. This media journal helped me to appreciate
  Gods creation properly. As you notice in todays
  world the media displays humans in a very
  immodest way. I didnt realize just how they use
  people (mostly women, but some men) to get people
  to buy things. It is very sad and disheartening.
  But I am very glad that I know now a lot more
  about the media and how they can twist something
  beautiful that God created into something that
  man lusts after. This assignment was a very good
  way to become more aware of what Satan destroys.
  And what wonderful things God has created. Satan
  will always try to tempt us to look like and act
  like what we see, but if we remember this Journey
  to Excellence goal and ask for Gods strength we
  can get through temptation and we can make it
  through without being damaged to much.

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Journal Media
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Career and Service

• The Journey to Excellence goal of Career and
  Service states that I should develop a Christian
  work ethic with an appreciation for the dignity
  of service. At the beginning of this semester I
  think I was good with this J2E goal. I think that
  I had an appreciation for the people that do
  service for others. I have always had a deep
  appreciation for people that do missionary work
  in other countries and in the United States. The
  assignments that helped to me make more progress
  with this goal were the Bible book chapters that
  we had to read, the legacy line that we had to
  add to through out the semester, and the legacy
  project that we have been doing all year long.
  The legacy project especially helped me with this
  goal. Us girls at Murphy decided to do a legacy
  project together. We are sponsoring a child over
  in Thailand. We did things like a bake sale to
  raise the money to support her. And it isnt very
  much money to sponsor a child yet it provides so
  much for her. I greatly admire people who go and
  teach those children about Christ, history, math
  and reading. I also admire people who start
  organizations like REACH and ADRA to help
  countries that arent as well developed as other
  countries. And I admire people who go and help
  out when disasters like the tsunami strike other
  nations. I think in the future I will always have
  a deep admiration for these people. You have to
  have a burning desire to share Christ with other
  people. And I admire that greatly. I hope that
  someday soon I will be able to share Christ with
  others perhaps as a student missionary, or maybe
  just in my everyday life. I dont know what the
  Lord had planned for my life but I do know that I
  want to serve Him with all of my heart, and these
  Journey to Excellence goals have helped me
  fulfill my dream.

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