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THE HEADLINER |
| Heritage Christian High School | Friday, February 28, 2003 |
| What is That?
By Paige Swan “Oh! It’s moving really fast and it looks like a euglena! No, I think it looks like a paramecium! Mr. Medema, what is this?” Last week, during our freshman biology class, we studied protists. We conducted a lab for a couple of days and took a look at different organisms from the surface of a pond. This lab gave us a chance to take a closer look at contractile vacuoles, flagella motions, and other intricate parts of these amazing creatures that God has designed. Our lab helped us to better understand how these creatures live and function. Although class seemed a bit chaotic at times, with people talking a mile a minute because of something they thought they found, we learned about a lot of interesting things and enjoyed doing it. From
Gardens to Mummies Mr. Van Uffelen’s world history class recently worked on a project dealing with the artifacts, people, and places of ancient history. The presentations ranged from collages to oral reports to home videos. Most
groups provided really good visual aides. Paige Swan and
Lori Vermeer put each of our names into Egyptian hieroglyphics.
Bonnie Boer and Grace De Jong made a mummification home
video, complete with Ramen noodle intestines and zip-locked
lungs. My partner, Courtney De Jong, showed her beautiful
watercolor masterpiece on the Hanging Gardens of Babylon,
while I gave the presentation. The projects were a success.
Good job, world history class!
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National Latin Exam By Martin De Jong The National Latin Exam can be taken by any Latin student around the world. The Latin students of Heritage CHS are scheduled to take it this week Friday, February 28. It will test our knowledge of everything we have learned so far this year, and maybe even some things that we haven’t learned. The exam will cover Latin vocabulary, numbers, Roman numerals, translations from Latin to English, and the history and geography of the Roman Empire. Many awards and honors have been given each year to students who have done well on this exam. In 2001, out of 46,761 students who took the exam, a total of 21,693 students received awards and honors, with 501 receiving perfect scores. These awards would look good on a college application. Some students have even received scholarships for their hard work. Doesn’t
Make a Difference?! “Whether you’re in E2 or in a church, it doesn’t make a difference. It’s about your relationship with God.” Rev. Wilbur Keith spoke these words, quoted in Tuesday’s Chicago Tribune, at the funeral for one of the victims of the E2 nightclub stampede. Twenty-one people died in the stampede last week when a security guard released pepper spray to break up a fight. It is unbelievable to me that people truly believe this. It seems that the god of many is a god of convenience, turned to only when they need to feel good when something bad happens. People who forget God when things are good and remember God when tragedies occur don’t realize that the real tragedy is their lack of a relationship with |
God. We cannot serve both God and man. If we have a true relationship with God, we will understand the importance of living the antithesis. God requires this of His people, and for this reason, it definitely does make a difference. How Could Christians Does the slaughter of thousands of Muslims, Jews, and even other Christians sound like a Christian act? Of course not. Yet this is exactly what Christians in the Middle Ages did. The Muslims had taken over the Holy Land, including Jerusalem. They made pilgrimages to Jerusalem. They saw the Muslim presence in the Holy Land as a threat to their pilgrimages and decided to do something about it. The popes tried to get many people to go on these crusades, promising the people both spiritual gifts (forgiveness of sins) and earthly gifts (loot from war.) The Christian crusaders made eight major crusades and hundreds of minor crusades, most of which were disasters. They only completed their goal of recapturing Jerusalem once, and they ruthlessly sacked other Christian cities. When we learn about how un-Christian these medieval Christians were, we ask, “How could they do this?” These Christians fought for what they thought was the cause of Christ. Not only did they think that they were getting rich and earning the forgiveness of sins through the Crusades, but they also believed that they were expanding the kingdom of Christ. Christ tells us that His kingdom is
not an earthly kingdom, but a heavenly one. God’s people
are not to try to establish a kingdom here on earth,
but to look forward to the heavenly kingdom to come.
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