Wednesday, August 29, 2012

                                                                                                                                  By: Michael Mark


                                                                       Myths

     Myths are stories that involve the twelve Olympic Gods, Goddesses, and more. Nobody knows if these stories are true or fake for sure. People back in ancient Greece believed and lived by them. People in today's society think that these stories are fake. The people from ancient Greece where very convinced that these myths where true. Myths had a very important role in ancient times, many people practiced and believed them.
     
     People in our current society believe that myths where created to entertain, and they still do. You can see myths and gods in movies such as "300", "Percy Jackson and the Olympians", and "Hercules". There is one thing that really makes myths look fake and thats religion. Religion is in every ones life nowadays. Myths really don't have an important role in today's society because they aren't thought about much. People really don't care about them.
   
     On the other hand in ancient Greece it was everything. Myths where there religion. Myths had an extremely important role in ancient Greece. Myths affected everything. They affected war, how people live, and everything else. People thought that thunder and everything that is of mother nature was from the gods.

     The people of ancient Greece and today's society had one thing in common. They both where entertained by the myths. The people of ancient Greece and today's society had very much in difference. Ancient greece has different feelings towards myths and today's people have religion. Myths overall made there part which is big in history and will still be known in the future.      

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Michael mark

     My name is Michael Raymond Mark. I am fifteen years old and was born on April twenty ninth, nineteen ninety seven, in Altamonte Springs. I was born just after my twin brother and three years after my sister, who is eighteen. My family has five members in it, my mom, dad ,sister and brother, also my family has a dog named yoda who is a Boston terrier. At the age of two, I started practicing mixed martial arts and still do it today as a jr black belt, the jr is because I have to be 16 to become an adult black belt. At the age of ten, I began to practice jujitsu. My mother started her own school of mixed martial arts and jujitsu in the year 2007. In sixth grade I started playing football for the Pierson wildcats and then went on to play for the DeLand bandits. I now play for the Lake Mary Prep griffins. I started racing at age eight with gocarts and now I'm working on a 1972 pinto to race. I'm also a surfer. I've been surfing ever since I could walk, I remember wearing goggles so water didn't get into my eyes. I have lived in DeLand my whole life and want to stay in Florida as I grow up. I want to become an NFL player and study sports medicine when I grow up. My favorite classroom study is chemistry in school and that's pretty much it. My life is good.