Muslims vs. Christains

The sickness, disease, and death of the Plague have all been witnessed by many people. The Black Death devastated the Middle East and Europe around the mid 1300’s. There are three different kinds of the Black Death. They were the bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic; and they were deadly to all those who got it. Some of the symptoms of these plagues were buboes, infection of the respiratory system, chills, high fever, delirium, vomiting, and fast heartbeat (background essay). This pandemic affected both Muslims and Christians. Although the plagues affected both Muslims and Christians, the two religions reacted differently.

In the Middle East the plague devastated many. In document 4, it states that when the Muslims were infected with the Black Death they thought that it was a gift and a blessing from god and that they should accept the gift. They were preached to and taught that it was a test from god and that if they endure it well then they will be blessed and exalted in heaven. The Muslims at first wanted some reasoning of why the plague was upon them. So they started to come up with ideas and explanations concerning the Black Death. In document 5, the author Michael Dols and Philip Ziegler, made a lists of such things. The Muslims thought that warm ovens, too many shooting stars, and sin could all be causes of the pandemic. Because of the plague, the Muslims fasted for three consecutive days. They all meet in the Great mosque and then spent a night there praying (document 9). The Muslims had a lot to deal with, however so did the Christians.

The plague also devastated the Europeans. In document three, it says that there were so many people dying all around them that they didn’t have enough time and people to give the deceased a proper burial. In result of this they had to dig a huge ditch and throw the dead into these ditches. Then when the ditch was filled with corpses they put dirt over them and called it good. In Document 2, it shows how much of a certain group died. The percent of monks and priests that died were 44%. That is almost half of them that died. The cause of this is because the Christians wanted the priests to give the dead their death rights. Because of this they were around the sick a lot so most of them got sick also and died. Then as for the monks, if one of them got sick they were all at risk. Monks live in monasteries where they are in close quarters with the rest of the monks, so you had a great chance of getting sick. The Christians in Europe also got scared and desperate; Document 5 it proves this statement. Michael Dols, the author, writes about some of the causes and preventions that they came up with. The Christians thought that excessive clothing, impure air were causes of the Black Death. They believed that latrine vapors, windows with wax cloth, not sleeping on your back, and building fires were all ways to prevent getting the disease.

Although the plague devastated both Muslims and Christians, they responded differently. Gabrele de Mussis, in Document 4, writes that both Muslims and Christians thought that it was from god. However, the Muslims turned to God and the Christains turned away from god. Muslims thought it was a blessing and a test from God, the Christians thought it was a punishment for their sins and they have to repent to live (Document 9). In document 7, the author write how the Christans thought that it was the Jews fault that the plague was upon them so they started kill them.

These two religious groups got sick with the Black Death, around the same time, and thought it was from god. Nevertheless, Muslims and Christians responded differently. The Muslims embraced the illness, the Christians repelled it. If we ever have such a devastating problem like the Black Death in the future, society should consider the problem closely and not jump to conclusions.

Patella Tendentious

Patella Tendentious is when a ligament between your knee cap and your tibia starts to have pain. You usually start noticing it when you are exercising or just after. Sometimes it becomes a nuisance. It starts getting in the way of your normal day routine.

            Patella Tendentious it isn’t as serious as it sounds. It is a strain on your ligament in your knee. It is bad, but not as bad as it sounds. When you get patella tendentious you get a pain in your knee. Your knee will often swell up and become red. The swelling is trying to help with the pain. Swelling is your body’s way of a temporary relief. Some common causes of this are athletes who jump around a lot. Basketball players often get this condition. However, even though it is most common in people who run and jump, you can get it just from everyday life and not from sports, because it is an overuse injury.

            Patella Tendentious is usually treated through RICE. Sometimes your doctor might refer you to physical therapy where they help you strengthen your muscles in your knee to prevent further damage. Your doctor might also give you a strap for you knee to relieve pressure on the tendon. To prevent such a condition you can strengthen your muscles in your legs. If they are strong they won’t put so much pressure on your knee. You can also stop if you have pain in your knee. Since this is an overuse injury, once you start having pain stop and go through the RICE process.

            If you have patella tendentious then you should consider exercises to help you knee. You can use the exercise call the slant board squats. This exercise is when you “Place one foot on a bench behind you, and the heel of the other foot elevated on a 2-inch by 4-inch board or an angled board. Perform a slow squat, lowering yourself to the midpoint in five seconds, and return. Repeat for up to three sets of 15 repetitions on the afflicted knee” ( livestrong). You should feel this in your knee. It will hurt for a little bit because you need to strengthen that muscle. Another exercise is called ankle mobilizations. With this exercise you “Kneel on your right knee with your left foot in front. Place a stick perpendicular to the floor by your left little toe. Keeping your foot flat on the floor, push your knee to the outside of the stick until you can no longer keep your heel on the ground. Repeat up to 15 times before switching sides. Perform up to three sets on each ankle” (livestrong). You will also feel this in your knee for the same reason above. Another exercise is called the eccentric squats. With this exercise you bend your knees as if you were sitting in a chair so your thighs are parallel to the floor. Hold there for ten seconds then slowly come back up. Do 10 rep of this exercise. Again you will feel this in your knee for the same reason above.

            Patella Tendentious is not fun to have. If you want to avoid having it I would suggest doing the squats. Even though I told you to use it for rehabilitation, you can also use it for prevention. If you do these before or after you are preventing this condition. Your tendon will be strengthened and you will have decreased your chance for having this condition. I am not saying you are guaranteed to not have it; just it is a good way to prevent it.

Food

Potatoes are such a wonderful discovery. I mean potatoes go with almost everything and there are so many ways you could cook potatoes and eat them too. There are mashed potatoes and baked potatoes. You could also cut them and bake them into homemade French fries. Homemade French fries are they best kind of fries out there. They are better than McDonald’s French fries or Arby’s French fries, just about any kind of French fries out there. There are so easy to make and so much less expensive. You could buy half the fries you could make for the same price. So in the long run you are making twice as many French fries as you bought at a local fast food place. Potatoes are just a wonderful discovery that anyone could ever have made.

            Now along with the wonderful discovery of potatoes, there is another amazing invention slash discovery. This discovery is called popcorn. Popcorn is also the one of the most amazing thing ever since life spread. You can do so much with popcorn. You can decorate a tree with popcorn. Sting them onto a string and then string the stringed popcorn on to the tree. It adds so much to the decoration of the tree. Then you can have movie theater popcorn or homemade popcorn. The best kind of homemade popcorn is air popped popcorn. You can also make caramel popcorn. Caramel popcorn is just amazing. Another kind of amazing popcorn is cheese popcorn. There is this kind of powder cheese that you can buy and put it on it. Cheese popcorn is a very yummy treat at movies.

            Another kind of amazing food is bananas. You can also do so much with bananas. You can make banana splits, banana cookies, banana bread and oh my so much more. I just can’t think of living life without bananas. Oh and one day my brother, Garry, told me that you can bite off a piece of the banana and in your mouth you can split it into 3 equal parts in your mouth. It is so much fun to do. I could eat bananas all day and do just that, split bananas into three parts. I found this poem that just about sums it up about bananas.

Sweet Banana Splits

Egyptian; Candie's                                             

Chaste marshmellows

Delicious...

Autumn's shaved ice

French vanilla cream

Covered with, German

Soft milk chocolate's...

Virgin Italian cherries

Soaked; coconut rum

English pineapple bits

Melting in our mouths

Swirling intoxications...

Asian strawberries

Spanish caramel

Candie's; African mints

In, Autumn's native cream...

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...Sweet banana splits *

Then here is one about potatoes.

Potatoes, potatoes

So tasty, so small

Turn them into chips

And make them warm.

                                                             Potato

Potato. Potato, lovely and round,

You come out of the ground.

Peel off the rot, and put it in the pot.

Go to a seat, and get ready to eat.

If they are made precise,

They should be nice.

Meat

Meat is one of the food groups that you need. However, some people don’t like a lot of meat. For example I don’t like most of the meat that is out there in the world. I don’t like any kind of sea food so that clears up fish, sushi, shark, octopus, shrimp ect. Meat with a lot of fat on it is just gross. Why would you buy something that you would have to alter which in the end having only half of the food left to eat?

                I’m going to tell you a story about a time at school with their meat. So I used to be able to eat their meat without any problem. I even enjoyed eating it. Then one day I was eating lunch with one of my friends, Erin, and she said that she had a run in with the school’s meat. She said that she found something of a bone. Erin wasn’t quite sure but all she knew was that it was hard and pinkish white. Since then I started finding those in my meat. I have never eaten the school’s meat since then. Now she and I, mostly me, dissect the meat. We always find those mystery bone things in there every time. So we started to call the meat at school the mystery meat.

                Now done with the story I will now tell you guys why I don’t like a lot of meat. I don’t like chicken very much anymore because one time I found a huge bluish purple vein in the chicken. I bit into the chicken not knowing it was there. So I looked at the chicken to get another piece and that’s when I found that there was a vein sticking out of the chicken and that I had eaten a little bit of the vein. Now I only eat chicken after looking at each piece closely. But since that is very tiring to do, I rarely eat chicken anymore.

                I don’t like steak either. I don’t see why someone would spend a lot of money on a piece of meat and only eating a fourth of it. There is so much fat that is on there you spend more time getting the fat off than eating the meat. That and that I just simply don’t like steak is why I don’t eat it.

                I don’t like sausage very much either. It depends on the day if I will eat it or not. Sometimes I will eat just a little and other times I won’t even consider it. I think that sausage just tastes like rubber. It could bounce on the floor.

                I don’t like bacon a lot either. I know you are probably think what does she like. Well I will tell you later. Well bacon I don’t mind eating if it is cooked right. It has to be almost burn to be ok to eat, because I don’t like having all the fat on there and tasting it.

                The only kind of meat that I love is hamburger. I don’t know why but it just is the perfect kind of meat.

High school

High school is going to be a big change for me. I am excited and nervous for this change. Last week I went and talked to the counselors at Davis for my classes. However, first of all I was very lucky to be able to get to go to Davis. I am in Layton high’s boundaries, so I put in a variance. Some of my mom’s friends that work there told us that there was a lot of variances and that they were only taking a handful of variances. My mom and I got nervous that I would not be able to get in. The main reason that I wanted to get in was for their marching band there. Ok so a couple weeks later we got a letter in the mail that said that I was accepted into Davis High School. I was so happy that it wasn’t even funny. Well I guess it was. Back to the counselors, so with them I picked out my schedule and classes that I wanted.

One of the classes I picked was Chemistry honors. I am really nervous about this class. I do not do well with chemistry. My mom said that it will prepare me well for later science classes. My brother loves chemistry so he will be able to help me with the class. Although, next year if I need help with my other classes he won’t be able to help me, because, he will be on his mission.

My other class is AP world history. This is my class that is going to give me the most stress in my life.

Next I have English 10 Honors. I am not too worried about this class. I do pretty well in English, even though it is my least favorite class.

Then I have algebra 2 honors. I am not too worried about this class either. I do fairly well in here too. So if I have problems I have people that will be able to help me with it. I think that this will be a fun class.

Next I have band. This will be my best class because I will be able to play my sax and just have fun. I am though, not looking forward to all the tests that I will have to take. For instance the scales test and what not.

Then I have seminary. I think seminary will be another fun class and I will enjoy it a lot. I have enjoyed seminary this year in the 9^th grade, so I think I will like it next year. But we will just have to see.

Spanish 4, an interesting class. I have done ok with Spanish 3. However, I have always had the same teacher all three years that I have taken Spanish. So we will just have to see how it goes.

Then I had the health class for 10^th grade. I am looking forward to this class because they subjected it for what I want to go into.

I think that high school will be fun new experience. I can’t wait for it to be here.  

Stress is a huge thing in my life. I hate stress. It is unnecessary and it just makes your life miserable. This week has been particularly stressful. I have honors English to catch up with; I have a lot of unfinished homework. I have Spanish plays to perfect. It has just been a crazy week. My family has been sick these couple weeks so that just adds to the mess. Oh I just want all this to go away. I hate it when life has to be like this. But I guess since everything happens for a reason it just has to be this way.

                So Honors English, what a wonderful topic. I have been forgetting to read Great Expectations. So I am really behind on the book. Then I had to skip a church thing tonight in order to get this blog done. Since it takes me an hour, or so, to get the blog done. Most of the time is trying to figure out what I am going to write about. I am struggling each week with coming up with ideas and topics on which to write about. Then I get an idea in my head then it ends up not being what I thought it was, and being lost on what to write. Then I sit there trying to come up with ideas, and I feel like I am wasting time just sitting there.

                Then with all of my homework I still have to do. I have a whole bunch of math that I have barley started. Then I have Spanish lines to get down solid. Then I have been sick these past two weeks so I haven’t been able to practice my saxophone for band. So I have a bad grade in there right now. Then in science, that class is just stressful all by its self. He assigns a lot of homework and reading. Which I have no time for by the way.

Then I am doing classes online on EHS. I have a goal to be done with computer tec by middle of next month. But I have to do 5 assignments a week in order to meet that goal. Then while I’m doing computer tec I have to do fit for life online also. That class is going to be hard to find time to go exercise when I can’t even find time to read a book, let alone listen to a book.

 Can I just say that I want summer to come very quickly? Because once it does, I won’t have school to worry about. I will have my online classes done. All I have in the summer is marching band and work. I won’t have to worry about anything but having fun. Once summer is here then I will have a life again and have a fun life at that.

So as you can see I complain a lot when I am stressed out. I just want to get everything done at once and I end up not having any time to do those things, so I get stressed out and it’s just a big mess. I hope things get better soon…

weekend madness!

Ok so I know that this post is really late, and I’m sorry about that. I have had a crazy weekend. However, it was a very fun one. So on Friday I had some friends over to have a party and to show my house to them. I have wanted to have them over for some time but my brother had friends over whenever I wanted to have my friends over. So I had to keep waiting for a weekend when they could come over. Then when I had a weekend planned, no one could come so I had to put it off till the next week. Then finally on Friday I had them over.  It was a BLAST! I had about 6 friends come over so it was a full house. I had baked a pan full of brownies for that night, my mom had bought a 6 lb. bag of gummy bears, and she had bought 3 lts. of pop. The snacks where yummy and they were almost gone by the end of the night. Then Mallory Lunsford brought Despicable Me to watch. That was a funny movie, I love it. Then after the movie we played sardines. We turned off all of the lights and we picked two people to hid them we counted. We played this several rounds till we decided to play just hid and go seek. We played that for ages until everyone had to go back home. They came over for 4 hours of fun.

Then on Saturday I went dress shopping. I was invited to a quinsenyetta so I had to have a fancier dress than I had to wear. So we went everywhere and we couldn’t find one. So we went back home empty handed. Then later that night we had a family friend, who is an electrician, come over and put in the intercom system.  When they came over they finished the intercom system except for the main one. We still had the order in the mail and it hadn’t come yet. So they started on the security system. That took up the rest of the night and still has more to do.

Then on Sunday we went to church, came home, cleaned the house, and made dinner. We were having some family friends coming over to have dinner with us. So we worked and worked. They arrived and had dinner. My parents had to go to a meeting so we entertained them until they got back home. Then we played Just Dance 2 on the wii. That was really, really, really fun. I was on a roll and winning until I got tired and started losing everyone.  But oh well, it was really fun.

Then on Monday I got really desperate for a dress. So my sister took me to some more stores to find a dress. But every dress I tried on it was too short. Until I finially found one a Ross. I bought it and now I have a dress.