In the passage “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark” by Gary Blackwood; the Appleton family demonstrates to the son the that even without proper education there is still other kinds of education even though he doubted them. The reason he doubted them was that they never had a proper education that is taught at school. The father’s nickname was Noah because he was building a raft to escape the flood that was coming into Mississippi. The way the family was able to make the narrators view about their education change was due to that it was raining even though there weren’t any clouds, their early preparation, and that they found good land to wait out the flood and got back to their farms. Even though the narrator stated that there were no clouds the rain and the flash flood still happened.
In the story Noah count and the Arkansas ark by Gary Blackwood, the author demonstrates how the family in the text are poorly educated and how the boy thinks of his family. The boy in the story learned the lesson that even though his family members aren’t educated the way he is, doesn’t mean they aren’t smart. The boy’s views of his family change as the story develops. When the story begins, the boy thinks that his family isn’t very scientific. In the middle of the story, he Is embarrassed by them.
Gary Blackwood uses his short story, “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark” to teach the different varieties of education and why we should value them. The narrator goes through a hard time trying to embrace his family and how their grammar is different from the rest of the community. Blackwood includes many ways that shows the readers why we should value everyone’s education, and also how the main character feelings change about it. There are many times when his thought process is changed.
Discussion Week Two Questions 1. Similarities: In both versions of the myth, with the group of gods in the Sumerian version and the one God in the Israeli version, the gods view the world as being corrupt and in need of cleansing. In the Sumerian version of the myth it reads, “The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible. So let the gods exterminate mankind.”
Introduction In Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark by Gary Blackwood the narrator’s point of view about his family’s lack of education changes throughout the story. Paragraph One At, the beginning, the narrator’s point of view about his family’s lack of education was that none of their reasons were logical or that he is smarter than them. He thinks this because after his granny and his parent’s reasons for rain stated in paragraph 7 the narrator states that “I’d been going to school for a while, you see, and I thought I knew just about everything.”
Noah’s Ark is an oil on masonite painting done by Aaron Douglas in 1927. The 48 by 36 inches painting is currently on display at The Carl Van Techten Gallery of Fine Arts at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. The representational portrait painting shows an outdoors scene. There is a source of light coming from the top right corner. Following down the painting, there is a man at the front of a large boat, pointing to the left.
In the passage “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark,” written by Gary Blackwood, the author demonstrates the significance of education through the lives of the narrator and his family. As the storyline changes his view of their education changes. In the beginning, he feels more educated, which changes to him feeling really embarrassed, but at the end, he finally gets a great understanding of his family education. At the beginning of the text, it shows how he thinks that because he has been in school for a while he knows just about everything. In paragraph 7, it states “I’d been going to school for a while, you see, and thought I knew just about everything”.
Flood Essay Introduction Killing an estimated 1,833 people, Hurricane Katrina was one of the deadliest hurricanes to ever hit the United States. The flooding alone caused massive devastation and destruction. Millions of people lost their homes and all their possessions. This flood was horrific, but imagine a flood so great that it destroyed all of humanity. This great flood occurs in the stories of Noah, Utnapishtim, and Deucalion.
The Parallel Stories Whether God is real or not, there’ve been many stories in ancient times concerning god. Especially stories about floods. For example “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, and “Noah and the Flood”. The Epic of Gilgamesh, is one of the oldest epics ever to be created. The sumerian story was composed before 2000 B.C.
Noah the Movie vs Scripture There are quite a few differences in the movie Noah than from the Bible. I didn’t like the movie as it wasn’t very accurate and is giving false depictions to anyone who doesn’t know scripture or what Genesis or the rest of the Bible says about these events. I am glad we read the Bible first and then watched the movie so we could really see the differences. In the movie, Noah was distant from God.
Noah’s Ark: Voyage for the Truth The Genesis Flood is an extraordinary event that occurred thousands of years ago. Approximately 4,800 years ago, God decided to flood the Earth in order to cleanse the world of sin. God gave Noah the task of building a gigantic vessel large enough to hold two of every species in the world.
Around 4000 BCE, environment conditions finally settled into the pattern we see today (Origin myths, 37). In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Ea, the cleverest of the gods, warned Utnapishtim that the gods would be sending the great flood to wipe out humankind. Utnapishtim then builds a boat to save as many people as he can and every living creature. After seven days, Utnapishtim released a dove and raven to find dry land. The Great Flood story is very similar all around the world, as we can find similar stories in West Asia, South Asia, and China
In Popol Vuh the gods try many times to create the perfect human. When they used mud, their creations dissolved into the water. When they used wood, their creations could speak, “But there was nothing in their hearts and nothing in their minds, no memory of their mason and builder”(Popol Vuh 81). The gods were angry about this because if the wood people could not remember their creators, the gods would not be worshipped. They destroyed these creations in very gruesome ways, one of the methods of destroying them being a flood.
Even though both The Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis are similar in that they all use the floods for a destruction, both the stories are different from each other in the distribution of roles within the gods and a way to warn the extermination from the gods. First, the similarity between The Epic of Gilgamesh and Genesis is the relevance with the flooding that used to exterminate the human. To prove the occurrence of the flood, chapter 5 of The Epic of Gilgamesh records, “For six days and six nights the winds blew, torrent and tempest and flood overwhelmed the world, tempest and flood raged together like warring hosts (line 62-63, p. 21)”. Also in Genesis, the text “The waters flooded the earth for a hundred
The main differences between the two are the length of the flood and what birds were released after the rain
