What are the purposes of religion?

 Religion can mean many different thing to many different people. Religions can be similar in the way that they bring people together. Religions can give us answers to your questions about life, such as the question that all religions try to answer, what happens to us after we die. Religions can give us advice in times of need and unite people to over come obstacles.


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This I Believe

 Listening to the This I Believe essays I heard many inspiring stories especially Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace. This essay was about the journey to mustering the courage to overcome an emotion tail spinner. This essay was written by Dani Weathers who is studying at Ohio State University and want to be a teen fiction author. She discussed that courage plays a big part in over coming obstacles in life. Dani believes that life is worth fitting for and we shouldn't give up because life is too precious to loose. 

 She tells us her story to show how her experience have helped her to become who she is today. Her story is about her struggle through her fathers death and how she copped through the situation. He first feels like when her dad dies that she had died too. Dani starts to cut her self in the hope that when she feels the pain of sharp object digging into her skin, she will be reminded that she is still alive. She started to hate people around which made her feel even more lonely than before. Dani Weathers finally came to her self when a former boyfriend shouted at her, "It happened four years ago! Get over it already! Just move on!" She realized that she couldn't continue to let cutting and depression control her life. After years of trying to mend her life by cutting, she was finally ready to start the real process of healing.

 I was drawn to this essay as to me courage is something everyone needs to help them overcome obstacles in life. Just like Dani, I have had to learn that sometimes we have to get over our fears and face them. It is never easy but with help from others everyone can face even the biggest of their fears. I feel that Dani Weathers discussed one of the most important lessons that everyone has to learn one way or another. "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. " By: Eleanor Roosevelt. I think this best describes Dani Weathers reason to write this essay.     

My DomiKnow Profile

In class we had to complete many different test to find out which profile we were. This was to help us learn more about ourselves and our teachers can learn more about our learning strengths and weaknesses. We learnt about which body parts were dominant and if we were a logic or a gestalt dominant learner. I turned out to be a logic dominant learner and a profile E. We all got to read about our profiles and learn more about ourselves. In the class we had a variety of profiles.

I am a verbal learner and I must talk about what is being taught in class in order to absorb it. I learn best when analysing and communicating through verbal or written, information. I think that this is true because I have seen this in class many times. It has proved right because I like taking part in discussions in class. The analysing is proved when I like to look over information again and again. This is so that I understand the information and remember it correctly.

I need to explore emotions and movement a little more than I do now. Drama is encouraging lots of emotions and movement which I find very fun and amusing. A balance of art and music skills will be help lots in opening the gestalt part of my brain. This with help me to learn much better and make me more relaxed. In class I should pay more attention to my  gut instincts and trust my intuition. Activities that can sometimes help with feeling or being stressed in class can be things like lazy 8's.

The strategies that will help me in my learning are things like brainstorming my ideas on paper. I also be part of a group that has the freedom to talk to learn.We had groups for our literature circles that we discussed are work. I think that I would like my teachers to let us work in groups . In these groups we could discussed what we were learning that day. I would like my teacher to know that I should sit further back in the class where I can write and talk without disturbing others. 

 I was very interested in how we found out about are learning profile at first. It was a fun way to find out about myself in class. The profiles were a great way to get to know how to improve or help yourself with your learning. Teachers can now help us on the things we need to improve on. When I first read my profile in class I was very surprised. Many traits I recognise, they were just like my traits. Even when I got home and read the profile to my family they could see that it was all like me!