Euphemos

“Our First, Most Cherished Liberty”

HFHS — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:27:07 +0000

Today, May 10th 2012, we read an article about “A statement on religious liberty from the U.S. Bishops.” It starts out saying we are Catholics, we are Americans…. we should not have to choose between the two. Freedom is not only for Americans… it is for all those that wish to be free. In several states unjust laws have been made. For example, in Alabama there is a law that prohibits a catholic priest to baptize, hear the confession of, celebrate that anointing of the sick with, or preach the word of God to undocumented immigrants. We call them unjust because of the word of St. Augustine that “an unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law”. “This is not a catholic issue. This is not a Jewish issue. This is not an Orthodox,Mormon,Muslim issue. It is an American issue.”-Colombia magazine. Our religious liberty is not to go to mass on Sunday or pray the rosary at home it is about whether we can make our contribution to the common good of all Americans At the end of the article the bishops suggest that the fourteen days from June 21-the vigil of the feasts of st john fisher and st Thomas more- o July 4, independence day be dedicated to this fort night for freedom- a great hymn of prayer for our country

M,J,S.

resources gathered from Columbia Magazine

History

HFHS — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:48:11 +0000

Today, Tuesday May 8th, we watched a show call “ America The Story of Us.” The first episode was about when the settlers first came over to the North American continent. At first they spoke of the settlers in Jamestown Virginia, the people traveled there by boat and arrived after a long 2 to 3 months journey on a ship. These settlers got started building and planting… they planted tobacco. In the first year alone the grew enough tobacco for over 1 million dollars in today’s money. Up in Plymouth they had sandy soil so many of them died from lack of food and at times there were only 6 people able to carry on with the task of building shelters. After the first winter they discovered they were not alone… they had settled in Indian territory. The Indians were friendly and taught the pilgrims how to plant and grow in the sandy soil, using fish as fertilizer. The pilgrims made peace with the Indians. 70 years later the 13 colonies were growing and the tension between the Americans and the British was growing. In Boston there was a Red Coat for every 4 civilians.
After the bloody massacre the conflicts grow. They formed militias and the Red Coats were trying to enforce the kings laws.

build it bigger

HFHS — Thu, 03 May 2012 21:03:59 +0000

Today we watched a television show called “Build it Bigger” this show was about a man who was looking for large and amazing buildings. This episode was about the new cardinal stadium with the moving roof and the moving field. This huge building was built to resemble a snake curled upon itself and the barrel cactus which are both natives of Arizona. The field is on a track like a train so that it can have sun light while the stadium lid is closed. One of my favorite things they did was they used molten metal to bind two rails together. The roof is made of a material that is like a trampoline but it can carry lots of weight so grown men can walk on it for maintenance and construction. If want to learn more it is on the science channel again the name is “Build it Bigger”. I enjoyed this show and would like to warn you that there is some bad language but otherwise it was great.

Jesus and the end times by Dr. Brant Pitre

HFHS — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:52:33 +0000

In the Bible Jesus says:

Immediately after the tribulation of those days… they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heavenwith power and great glory… Amen I say to you, this generation will not pass away till all these things take place.(Matthew 24:30, 34)
Many believed Jesus to be wrong in saying that and because of that they thought that Jesus in the words of Albert Schweitzer “A false Apocalyptic prophet”. Also C.S. Lewis believed it to be “the most embarrassing verse in the Bible”. They believed this because of the way David describe a false prophet (see Deut 18:19-22)
Earlier Jesus says to the disciples after they point out the temple,

“You see all these, do you not? Amen, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone uponanother, that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying,“Tell us, when will this be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” (Matthew 24:1-3) The account of Jesus being wrong about his prophecies was actually miss interpreted to mean what it literally meant but he actually meant the Destruction of the temple in 70 A.D. By the Romans.

This is only the beginning of this class so please stay with us to learn more.

S,J&M

science

HFHS — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:27:57 +0000

Today for science we watch a movie about a female turtle and her incredible journey across the Atlantic ocean. It all starts on the coast of Florida were she hatches and digs for three days to reach the surface. When she does reach the surface she is no bigger than the size of a child’s palm. Her and thousands of others start their journey by first getting to the ocean and there are many obstacles. Crabs and sea birds feast on the tiny, helpless turtles, more than half of them die. Some of them reach the sea, but they are far from safe. The sea birds plunge in after them and get even more. Once the turtle gets far out at sea she is safe on a seaweed raft. The raft drifts on the Gulf current. She grows to a meter long and her shell hardens. She encounters many animals on her way to the North Atlantic where there are feeding grounds. Then during the fall she goes to the Caribbean sea and grows to a fully mature. Then she heads back to the Florida beaches where she was born so that she can mate and lay her eggs. And so goes her life for the next half a century.

History

HFHS — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:36:44 +0000

This week in history we continued our television series on World War II. The series is called The War, By Ken Burns. The one episode we watched this week were called “The Ghost Front” and it was about Hitlers counterattack on the allied troops in the Ardennes forest. Hitler took the forest but then got pushed back. We also it shows us how the American bombers begin their assault on Japan and how one small island would change their plan.

This island called Iwo Jima is a Japanese air strip the allied forces were planing on just flying over it but when they realized it was a valuable air strip were they could have a safe haven were damaged bombers could be repaired they attacked. They bombed them from the air and the attacked from the sea like most battles it was horrific. One of the men they interviewed said that one of the men who had a flame thorougher would go and burn dead bodies and then go swimming because he was so convinced he was going to die that he might as well cool off. In the end we won and the air strip was ours. Through the rest of the show many of the prisoners of war were freed or freed and recaptured from camps in Germany and the Philippines. Many of the prisoners were starved to death in the camps or got sick there is one woman who still live today and was in one of the camps with her mom,dad and her brother.

Science

HFHS — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:49:19 +0000

Today for science we learned of the coral reefs of the Marshall islands and the life that is among them. There are many creatures in theses waters from tiny fingerlings to marvelous stingrays. They also taught us of the people there and their way of life. The people make a living off the island they are also very conservative. The people there are so ingenuitive they even make a fish herding device out of palm leaves. One of the main foods on the island are coconuts there are many types of coconuts but in this episode it only show too one is used for making oil and fuel and the other is eaten. The island were formed by one larger island being submerged and then forcing the smaller island upward. In a couple thousand of years the main is land may resurface.

The Move…

HFHS — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:07:50 +0000

For several years now we have been going down to visit our great grand father in Lufkin Tx. From the beginning we have liked down there. There are trees, there is family, and there is water. My great grand father is now 85 and his wife has Alzheimer’s and he has been taking care of her for a long time. Starting a couple of years ago we have thought of moving down there. When we went down there for the family Christmas this year, January 1^st 2012, we really got to thinking about moving. Popo, our great grand father, loves it when we come down and visit him but it is a long drive. The trip takes 9 hours one way. When we were leaving to come home we made the decision to move down there and live in the little house that Popo was renting out. At least until we could buy the 27.74 acres down the road. The land has Popo’s pond on it and would be great for horses. So in February we are going to spend time down there to fix things up and start the moving process. The official move date is yet to be decided. All that we really now is that we are going to be moving down there some time after our sisters wedding which is in April.

J,S,&M

science

HFHS — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:43:49 +0000

Recently we have watched so very interesting shows the most resent was “Can We Go To Mars”. Scientists are working on making us able to go to mars there is still a couple of years left before we can go. If we chose to go now it would take 2.5 years to get there over 1 million pounds of food and would cost a lot. Not only are the trying to make it possible they are trying to make it more comfortable by building better g suites and other things like that. Though we still have a long way to go to mars they have robots there discovering things every day. Many people ask was there life on mars and scientists are finding fossilized bacteria and minerals that are in water. So perhaps there was life once maybe we will live there and find out for sure or maybe it is just a barren wast land.

Chemistry

HFHS — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:37:53 +0000

This week we work on a logarithm and antilogarithm. Which was very hard to do. After banging our heads against it for almost three days our Mom finally helped us. The hardest thing about it was that it was very hard to understand the instructions for this section. When we finally understood how to work it we found that it was not really that hard and we just needed to not think about it so hard. Thanks Mom!