HP GCE Portfolio

For this project we had to find an example of the heroes journey in fiction and in real life. The heroes' journey is split into eight parts and two halves. One half is the ordinary world or what the hero considers normal. The other half is the special world which can be a physical, emotional or social place. The start of the heroes' journey is The Call to adventure, pretty much the hero being beckoned to adventure. The second event is meeting the mentor. The mentor will give the hero the proper guidance to over come any obstructions that the hero encounters. The Trials are the obstructions that the hero encountered. The Abyss is the lowest point that the hero encounters usually caused by failure of some sort. The Rebirth is when the hero is given another chance after hitting their lowest point. Atonement is how the hero applies the second chance given by the rebirth to redeem himself. the Return is how the hero applies their knowledge they gained from the special world. The rea...

For this project we had to write a fable. A fable is a short story that uses animals as characters with the intent of teaching the reader a lesson. The reason why anthropomorphism or personified animals are used is to establish traits of the character without stating it in the story. In developing my fable, I first picked the moral of the story. I chose the beaver as one of the characters because of the patient and hard working traits and I choose a hare because of their trait of being impatient. Next I thought up my conflict, setting, mood and tone of the story. After I made the first draft, I had someone review it I used the feed back in this final draft. The Beaver and the Hare One foggy Monday morning a determined Beaver crawls out from his den and starts to collect wood for his new home. The friendly, outgoing Hare walks up to the Beaver and asks, “What are you doing?” The Beaver replied uninterested “Making the dam.” The Hare keeps trying to get the Beaver’s attention sa...

For this project I had to create an origin story. An origin story is the explanation of how places, objects, or ideas, became to be. origin stories have a lot of power in many cultures and all religions usually being the best known, most influential, or most referenced stories. The best known origin stories are the ones that tell how the world was created or other universal effects. Origin stories and stories in general are used to explain the unknown such as the creation of the world, the creation of life & humans. To help with relating the usually massive and other worldly events, similes and metaphors are used in the stories. Similes and metaphors are used as a story telling device to help with u nderstanding by stating two objects are similar or the same. Sometimes objects in stories are meant to be completely unique or mundane so sensory language is used to define the unique traits. The process for writing this assignment was to first pick something to explain I deci...