Thursday, February 28, 2008

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

My N.H.D Experence

What we did for N.H.D was Not so Secret Societies which talked about the order of the eastern star and the men masons which talked about how they became an organization or should I say a societies. What we was trying to say is that its a lot of things that are in these societies that is not a secret. At the exibit part of the N.H.D we set their waiting for the judge to come at our exibit board so they could examine our board. Before the N.H.D day we had help with our board.

Monday, February 4, 2008

Thursday, January 10, 2008

N.H.D

My N.H.D(National History Day) project is on secret societies. Me and my partner are talking about mostly about the Men of the Mason and the Order of the Eastern Star. The Order of the Eastern Star is the largest fraternal organization in the world to which both men and women may belong. Worldwide, there are approximately 1 million members under the General Grand Chapter. Masonry (or Freemasonry) is the oldest fraternity in the world. No one knows just how old it is because the actual origins have been lost in time. Probably, it arose from the guilds of stonemasons who built the castles and cathedrals of the Middle Ages. Possibly, they were influenced by the Knights Templar, a group of Christian warrior monks formed in 1118 to help protect pilgrims making trips to the Holy Land.

Geomtery project on John Napier

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Opinion On Religion In School

As my opinion on weather or not religion should be taught in school or not is that religion should not be in school some people might say that we should understand different religions to understand the history of the United States of America. Although that might be true I think it would cause confusion to those who have a certain religion, which might case fights in school or problems in the streets and in the households. Like Atheists and how they have no awareness of the existence of God. Now if it is spoken this could lead to unknown questions as well as Jews, because of centuries of Christian persecution, tend to oppose government involvement in religion. The same problem has even been brought up in courts.
Public schools in New York are under the supervision of a state government agency, the State Board of Regents. In the late 1950's, Statement on Moral and Spiritual Training in the Schools." One component of the statement was a prayer to be recited by public school students. If the Supreme Court agreed with the parents, then state-mandated prayer in public schools would be unconstitutional everywhere in the U.S. But If the Supreme Court ruled decisively against the parents, then it would be pointless for anyone to initiate future lawsuits against this form of school prayer. The court upheld the claim of the parents. They ruled that the Regents' prayer was unconstitutional. Mr. Justice Black delivered the opinion of the court. http://www.religioustolerance.org/ps_prag.htm