The world as we all know will be over one day. You really don’t even have to believe in religion to know that; the earth has limited resources that cannot last forever.  However, it is when the earth will end that is the question. No one knows when the world will end but God, so why people try to speculate when it will end is beyond my understanding. Not a year goes by without hearing some type of “world end” speculation.  Most people make these speculations because they base it on world catastrophes.  People try to relate the catastrophe to the Bible saying that such and such events were said in the Bible,  so the world must be coming to an end really soon. Although the Bible does list certain events that are a sign of the end of days, I feel that people should not speculate when the world will end. People should just live their day to day lives (keeping true to God’s word) and when the world does come to an end they should just accept it and hope they will be able to live in god’s kingdom forever. I feel by assigning a date, they are just trying to reason why they acted a certain way in the past, but now that the world is coming to an end soon, they must act like ideal Christians. Like with Hurricane Katrina, people tried to rationalize the destruction of New Orleans by saying that God was purging the city of all of the wickedness that was in it. “These people” that go around saying this type of stuff are probably the worst people out of everyone because they point out the wrongdoings of others, rather than taking responsibility for their own actions.  If you take responsibility for your actions, admit your wrongs, and try to become a better person, then it should not matter when the end of the world is; you have been a good Christian and you have done what God has asked you. “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Be poor in your spirit and realize your own wrongs. If you do this, then there will be no end of the world; you will live for ever with God. Just the place will change.

I cannot easily say what I deserve for my blog grade. Of course I am going to be a little bit biased because it is my own project but I shall try to look at my project in a subjective manner.

I feel that my project deserves a b. I feel that my project ideas were good, but I felt that my ideas were a little scatterbrained. I feel as if I never laid down a solid enough foundation for my project to stand on. Also, my ideas changed too much and I was not able to set out to do what I intentionally wanted. In addition to all of this, my timing was not of the best manner. I feel as if I took so much planning the project and not enough time doing the project. ( at least for the class sake) This project was to change the world and not just think of ways to change it. I lost sight of this which lost me lots of valuable time. But, I still think that what I have done with my project should be applauded. I still had the book drive which was a success and I plan to still personally reach out to the kids in my area. Furthermore, many of my fellow classmates have left me comments that were in great favor of my project. I feel that my classmates felt that I had significantly changed the world. (I also feel that my classmates were more proud of my project than I was.)

I feel that my blog also deserves a b. According to the blog criteria which states that a B worthy blog  must contain a project that had a large scope and lasting duration and that the writing must show that the student did all of the reading and understood the lectures and discussion topics. Plus, the writing must show the student’s ability to think critically and to clearly communicate. I felt that my blog reflected these standards. My blog, for the most part, had no grammar mistakes (Spell check was used profusely.) and at least 1000 words were blogged each week. I believe that my project can become a permanent fixture in my life as well as the life of others and can grow even more, although the class is over.  This is the most important aspect of my project to me. My project has the ability to be carried on for a long time, which is what I plan to do. I must say that this class has given me the motivation to become truly interested in humans once again. I had lost that feeling for so long, but being a part of this class and doing this project has given me this spirit back. Now, that I have this spirit back, I hope to share it with other people.

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