Hi everyone, I am sorry it took me a while to post a reply. I had found the cause of my confusion in identifying the components of my built kit with help from lesston who provided pictures of diodes and resistors.
seeing the pics of the resistor in which I have been mistakenly identifying as a diode has always been a resistor.
With the picture of the resistor, and the part list that came with the kit identifying each of the components, I discover
the list had a typo, instead of describing the resistor as a resistor it describe the resistor as a diode, also on the list
a description of the diode as diode. As newbie I accepted the description of each on the list as two types, and my confusion started when trying to figure out the polarity of the two components. I don't want to make a long story of
my blunders, but like to thank everyone in the EEVB community's for their tremendous support and teaching in diodes 101.
Thank You
God Bless each and everyone