Adolf Hitler's Childhood

Here is a website I found about Hitler's boyhood:
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/boyhood.htm

Hitler went to a primary school when he was 6, and his father, Alois, who was 58 years old, retires at the same time. Hitler was accustomed to the ordes from his strict father, and seemed that Hitler would have the same habit of commanding others as his father. He lived in a crowded farming family of the three sons. Hitler had an elder half-brother, an elder half-sister, and a younger brother. He was in the middle of his brothers and sisters. They had a quite hard life. The oldest son, Alois Jr., was the one who was hit by his father occasionally. In the next year, 1896, Hitler's younger sister was borned. Moreover, Alois Jr. left the family, unable to endure his father. Thus, Hitler became the next one who was hit by his father.

The same time, Hitler's family moved into Lambach. Now he had more free time without farm works. He attended a Catholic Benedictine monastery. He saw many swastikas over there, and he also admired and considered to be a priest, like Abbot, who had held a great power. Hitler read a lot books about a white person who had sheer power and defeated Native Americans. One day, he found a book from his father about military nature with pictures of wars. He was deeply bewitched by it. He believed that wars were very glorious events.


I can see that Hitler borned in a violent family. He had a critical father, and that where how his violence originated. During the time he attended the monastery, his idol was Abbot because he also admired strong authority. Hitler read many books of wars and military later, and they really made him into the wrong way of thinking of wars.

The Meaning Of My Life

I think the meaning of life is dreaming. To find your dream,the biggest wish and the deepest desire that you crave to fulfill and improve, and do your best to accomplish it, and don't let your family, your friends, your own worry and fear, your surroundings or anything else stop you! Just try! Besides, we have to find the strong and stable belief, faith and conscience of ourself and never disobey them. The last thing I think the meaning of life is happiness. We need to be contented of what we have and treasure them, or we can't be happy at all. Sometimes, if we look to far away, we forget the things I possess. We must hold right now first, and then we can plan our future. To enjoy every moment we live and chase our dreams. During the life, there are still many important things we need to learn: to love people and everything around you, to take on duties, to get rid of vexation, to face and conquer any kinds of predicaments, to challenge ourselves, etc... There still many things and meanings of life I have to learn. We should find, or create the meaning of our own lives by ourself. No one can help you about it but yourself.

Here is a website I found about how to accomplish your dream:
http://www.ehow.com/how_2256791_accomplish-dreams-simple-strategies.html?ref=fuel&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=ssp&utm_campaign=yssp_art

It tells the necessary steps to fulfill a dream, and it also says that the only way to really accomplish your dream is to do it RIGHT NOW.

Now, I must do something for my dream. I need to learn more knowledge which helps me make my dream come true. Therefore, I have to study hard right now. I will be able to fulfill my dream someday.

Farming Myths

Here's a website I found about a goddess of farming, Demeter:
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/religion/demeter.htm

Demeter is the earth goddess for greeks. Her name means the mother of the Earth. She controls every growing things and gives it birth such as grains. Persephone is her daughter, and Demeter is the daughter of Gaia, or the Earth. Demeter is also the sister of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades and Hera.

Here's another myth about Demeter's daughter, Persephone:
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/religion/persephone.htm

Persephone's mother is Demeter, the goddess of harvests. One day, Persephone was abducted by her uncle, Hades. He took her to the Underworld and forced her to marry him and be the Queen of there. Demeter was really sad and looked for her daughter everywhere and finally appealed to Zeus. He told Hades to give Persephone back. However, Hades said if Persephone really eat nothing in th Underworld, he would give her back. Finally, she just ate six seeds of pomegrante. Therefore, Persephone was accepted to go back to the Earth for six months. In the other half year, she has to stay in the Underworld. That's how the seasons come.

Persephone is just like the grains. She grows up in the first six months. Then, she dies and was harvested. The grains go back to the ground, and the farmers put the seeds into the ground. Demeter is very sad and cries, the tears are the rainfalls.

Egyptian myths

Here is a website of Egytian myths:http://www.nekhebet.com/m_myths.html

The Story of Ra : The Creation
There was nothing but chaos of water in the begining of the world. Then, Ra, the god of sun, created the ground, the air, and the sand by naming them. He could create things with merely a call of names. Ra named Shu, his son, the god of the wind, and Tefnet, his daughter, the god of the rain. He also created plants and the animals., and his tears became the first humans. Then Shu and Tefnet made their own children, Geb, the goddess of the earth, and Nut, the goddess of the sky. After the creation, he came down and became the first pharaoh of Egypt. He ruled Egypt for centuries, but His secret name was revealed by Osiris, the son of Nut. Ra was forced to leave. Then Osiris became the next Pharaoh.

I think Ra was kind of strange because his done of the births of his great grandson, Osiris, is contradictory to himself. He was afraid that he would take his place of the Pharoah and forbad his grandson, Nut, to have any children because of a prophecy. However, he had to go back to the sky finally.

The Rise of Horus
Osiris became the new pharoah of Egypt. He had a son named Horus with Isis. Osiris taught people how to grow grain, make bread with it and brew it for beer. People were happy under Osiris' rule. Nonetheless, Osiris' brother, set, was envious of him. He trapped Osiris in a chest to suffocate him and dropped it into the Nile River. Isis fled into wilderness with Horus. She started looking for the chest because Osiris needed a funeral to go on the afterlife. However, Set found the chest and cut Osiris' body to pieces and spread them to many countrysides. Isis found each of them and performed the funeral ceremonies. Horus grew up gradually. He and his armies fought with Set, which transformed into a giant hippo. Horus killed him and became the next pharoah of Egypt. After Horus died, he had a battle with Set in the underworld. They're still fighting right now. If Horus wins, he can go back and regain the place of pharoah.

Isis tried really hard to find Osiris' dead body for that he could pass into the underworld. She didn't fear hardship and finally accomplish that. Horus was really brave to fight with the murderer of his father, and he triumphed at the end.

Myths of Heroes

Here are the myths of the heroes that I found on the Internet:

King Arthur http://www.pbs.org/mythsandheroes/myths.html


King Arthur is born of adultery of Uther Pendragon and Igraine, a duke's wife. Merlin raises Arthur away from his parents and teaches him. Merlin is also the designer of the Round Table of 150 knights. After Uther dies, Merlin tells that the person who can draw a magical sword out from a stone can be the next king. Arthur becomes the new king resorting to drawing it out. He routs the Saxons and becomes a kind and just king.


King Arthur also searches for the Holy Grail with his knights. Sir Galahad, one of his king finds it, but not Arthur.

King Arthur marries Guinevere, which falls in love into another man. She and her new lover run away. During the chasing, Arthur's nephew seizes the power and fights with Arthur. Arthur is heavily wounded, and he goes to Isle of Avalon and rests there.


Even though Arthur was born of a really lowly background, he still became the king of Britain. Futhermore, he was a good and well-loving king. Nevertheless, he was betrayed by his wife and nephew. His nephew fought with Arthur for the power. The power is always making people decayed. People are arguing for stronger power all the time.


Hercules http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/religion/myths/herakles.htm


Hercules is born of Zeus and Alcmene, so Hera, Zeus' wife, tries to kill him. Hercules becomes the strongest man in the world when he grows up. However, Hera uses her godly power to drive him crazy. He kills his wife and children. In order to astone for his sin, he has to accomplish twelve labors for Eurystheus. After he has done all them, his crime is expiated. Furthermore, he can become a god after he dies for doing all the labors. Nonetheless, he falls into a trap of a centaur, and his whole body is burning by the centaur's blood. Finally, he kills himself to end the pain. In the end, he becomes a God in Mount. Olympos.


Fire proves gold, and adversity proves men. After the twelve labors, Hercules became a real Hero. People are like this. If there are no straits and predicaments, people can't become strong and brave.

Mythology

Here is a website I found about hunting myth, "The Man Who Helped the Eagles":
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/na-mytheagles.html

Pueblo Indians lower an Apache with a rope to a nest of eagles on a cliff, and they pull up the rope of the Apache and leave. He stays with the little eagles and feels thirsty. Then a person a person appears and gives him a small piece of ice and satisfies his thirst. The father eagle comes back home and thanks the Apache,DagônadeL, for taking care of the little birds. And then the eagle calls another group of eagles. They carry the man up to the sky hole? and find their enemies-hornets. DagônadeL puts on the buckskin made by Panther, one of the eagle, to protect himself from fatal stings and uses a quirt to kill the hornets. Then DagônadeL, Panther's grandson?, and other eagles come back their home.

I think this story is about the braveness of the Apache. He stays with the little eagles fearlessly. And then a person laughs below him, and that person jumps up to him and gives him a piece of ice which can satisfy him. The story becomes really strange right here. Anyway, the Apache goes up with the eagles and fights with the enemies bravely. Finally, I have many other questions: What's a "sky hole"? And what is the relationship of the Apache, DagônadeL, Panther, other eagles, and the secret person who gives the ice to the Apache?

Samurai

I searched around on the Internet and found this web page:

http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2127.html

Samurai were the Japanese military warriors. They used many kinds of weapons like spears, guns, bows and arrows, but the most famous one that they used before and some Japanese still use right now is the sword. We can even say that the sword is the symbol of Japan. The Japanese sword has been famous for its sharpness and beauty since feudal times. Today, a Japanese needs to possess a permit if he wants to keep a sword.

Samurai also had to follow a way of warrior called bushido. It was strongly Confucian. They focused on being loyal to their master and being disciplined to themself and respectful to others. Furthermore, they cared about showing ethical behaviors, too. Some samurai would prefer to kill themselves resorting to stabbing the swords penetrated through their bellies than die in a disgraceful way when they were lost in a battle.

This is a whole-bodied samurai armor. It can protect almost everywhere of one's body, but of course it's very heavy because of that. Even though the armor is really old, it still looks cool.