Exhibition

Last night we at High Tech High had exhibition night. Personally the whole thing went pretty well. Starting with the graphic novel project we answered the simplest questions to the explaining the whole thing to the people that came. I believe our major weakness was when people came by they would often start talking about the project and then talk about their own personal business so we would cut them of then they would feel offended and walk away. Our most difficult interaction during the whole thing was when an old woman came by and asked us to explain everything and then asked us a bunch of questions after word and then people kept asking us to show them what we were working on and that really toke a lot of patience because I had not drawn the arm on one of my characters and then they would “Why doesn’t he have an arm?” so we would always Answer with “It’s not finished yet”. Next time we will work on a writing piece and try to answer questions faster.

Persepolis

Persepolis refers to various people in history starting with Cyrus the great. Cyrus the great conquers most of Persia in Seven hundred B.C. In 1906 the Iranian constitution is set into place. 1925 Reza Shah Pahlavi becomes emperor of Persia, and changes the name to Iran. Reza Shah takes over his father’s reign during WWII. Shortly after the WWII, oil is discovered, so the United States of America and the British along with a few other countries occupied Iran. In a short time the Cold War began. In 1951the oil companies are nationalized. Mosedeq is overthrown in 1953, and the Shah returns. After a period of time, the Shah began to westernize. In 1965Ayetola Khomeini was exiled by the Shah for writing books and organizing an Islamic revolution. 1970, there is a border dispute between the Iran and Iraq; Iran supplies weapons to the Kurds to fight the Iraqis. Iran stops supplying the Kurds with weapons to oppose the Iraqis. 1979, the Islamic revolution begins with protests and the dreaded Black Friday, a lot of deathes of protesters. Soon after there is the Iran hostage crises happens. 1980 Kumani has entered the picture and establishes an Islamic state clergy. Along with a war that starts with Iraq invading Iran that lasts until 1988, Iran had a reservoir of soldiers.. During this revolution Iran sets a veritable embargo towards all western influences.

In the book Persepolis a little girl named Marji goes thru a bunch of things. In 1980 all bilingual schools are shut down the Veil becomes mandatory in schools and it was because of the Islamic revolution which was called a cultural revolution. Her parents are the kind of parents that are protesting and are always expressing themselves in their own way. I believe that when Marji was growing up in this period of time in Iran she liked her home but when she went to school in 1980 and saw the veil she knew something was going to happen. I think that as the whole Islamic revolution and she saw that her home was changing and when she heard her family’s involvement she was proud but as this progressed she was disappointed. I also believe that when she realized how different she was from her culture she understood she didn’t belong. Marji must’ve wanted a less decadent and more secular Iran. This young punk rock loving, owning a bunch of clandestine posters.

I think that when Marji heads to Vienna she is scared for her parent’s sake. When she saw her mother faint and all the boys that were going to be forced to martyr them selves, then she was sad the whole ride to Vienna. She goes to school but she is always trying to find out things about her country and always missing her parents and is sad. She then goes to college where she finds that she wants to write her story but later she wants something different and chooses to make a graphic novel. She finds that she is always depressed because her parents never came. She grows to marry a person who is investigations and finds that her parents are still alive. While living Proletariat life and eventually reunites with her family. This is what I believe happens after Marji goes to Vienna.

Vocab Quiz

Evan though I don't support Hillary Clinton I still Believe in her coalition with senator Obama in the sense that they are both democratic party's. "The youngest slice — the under-25 set, typically among the most elusive voters in all of politics — gave Obama a net gain of some 17,000 votes. He won by just under 20,000." this was said in the Times artical titled the year of the Vote. Showing that he has a progressive favoring in the politacle race. I would like to emphasize how Barrack Obama does not act evangelical as compared to Mike Huckabee the republican. Barrack Obama Is a great conservative choice for president and I hope he wins. If I had suffrage I would most defiantly vote for him. I hope he becomes an great incumbent leader. I believe if a propasition to lower taxes I doubt he would veto it.

The Kite Runner

This is the story of two Afghan boys who after going through so much they separated continents apart. The divisive friends leave each other with unresolved issues. Finally after 20 years he returns to find his friend had a son and was to use the pinnacle of his ability to find the child. In his search he finds that the scrupulous Taliban had usurped the child. Amir had to fabricate a plan to get the child from the Taliban. While critiques say that it's a good story but average quality acting it's just there opinion.

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/385202/The-Kite-Runner/overview

Purdue News-Experts say fairy tales not so happy ever after

"In the recent film "Shrek," which follows a traditional fairy tale format, the beautiful maiden lives happily ever after when she is transformed into an ogre. Such retellings are few and difficult to achieve because they break with the traditional format, and the researchers say such attempts should be rewarded."-Lori Baker-Sperry and Liz Grauerholz

I think that this is right because Shrek an ogre ended up marring a beautiful princess and when they kissed fiona transformed into a ogre her self and they lived happily until Shrek 2. this is a good "fairy tale" in the sense that it shows that you dont need to be beautiful to have you happy ending.

"In the eye of the beholder?"-BBC article

"While Africans still prefer women to be fleshier than they do in the West, young girls here are increasingly concerned with being thin. The more exposed we are to western media, the more we buy into it."-Clair Murphy

I think this quote from the BBC article "In the eye of the beholder?" is really dead onto the fact that the influence from the west is in fact change the way women see beauty because over in Africa the men still like the more fleshier women to the super skinny, and starved female. In a way I sort of agree, because when your super skinny a women and man doesn't look very healthy, and I wouldn't think they were healthy enough to bare a child, And they need to eat.

Mali Women And Skin Bleaching

When reading how people use bleach to change they're skin it sounded disgusting and painful, I felt bad for those who have had to do that to them selfs, because it sounded like it burns and would make the skin really pallid. Even so I think they have thoughts that they are mesmeric to the men of Mali. This is not salubrious and the women think they are going to embellish but they are just hurting them selfs. They may even think they are salacious to the men of Mali but to me it sounds like they burn them selfs for some privileges that they should have any way. I think the people of Mali would become jovial if they're communities would outlaw the bleaching creams, because they can cause skin cancer especially the poor people because the cheaper the product the more harmful. The creams are made by brand names like Marie-Claire or Diana, the products come from Morocco, Nigeria, the United States or Saudi Arabia. these harmful products sometimes even ebullient(Boil) the skin and that is very painful.