IR section 2 review

Azadeh tries to adapt to the American culture in her own way. Azadeh's parents are divorced. Every morning she goes to her friends house to go to school. When she goes to her friend's house she is "Iranian acceptable". When she leave the house she Americanizes herself which would be unacceptable for her parents. Her father has abandon the Iranian culture and because of that Azadeh wishes she lived with her dad. Her mother still is a firm follower of Iranian traditions. Azadeh struggles by saying shes an immigrant but her mother fights with her saying they are not immigrants because her grandparents where the ones to move over.

section 2 of IR

Azadeh was born in California. This book is talking about Azadeh's past. She already lived in Tehran where she was a reporter. When she came back she realized how much she appreciates her freedom. Her family stays very close to the Iranian culture. Iranians are not fond of Americans because of the Iranian revolution. Azadeh's grandparents were the ones to come over to San jose. Reading Azadeh's thoughts on how she precieves everything seems like she takes it too much to heart and she puts too much effort into it. "Asay-e dast-e mani, you are my hand's cane" was what her grandmother said to her. Azadeh takes bigger responsibilities than she has to.

Amir's amends

Amir made the mistake of not standing up for Hassan and lying. He should have told Hassan and apologized. I am not sure that he is ever going to be able to make amends because he keeps avoiding Hassan and he is trying to get rid of him. Maybe in the future if he stands up for someone else getting rapped and then he can feel atonement with himself.

kite runner atonement

It is possible to make amends. I think that it depends on the person to accept. Somethings may be thought unforgivable but I think that everyone should try to make amends instead of it becoming more and more hatred. It really all depends on yourself if you make the mistake and to atone.

Lipstick Jihad book preview

The FRONT:
Lipstick Jihad/ Azadeh Movaeni/ Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle Beast seller, Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the year

Looks like the girl is incognito talking on a cellphone with Arabic writing

The book will be about her not feeling like she fits in America from her Afgan heritage
will she ever feel comfortable in America? How much will her heritage effect her?


The BACK:
She was born in California into an Iranian community. She feels uncomfortable with her identity and college has a big effect with that. She moves to Tehran as a journalist. Living her she finds interesting results.This story is about her searching for her "home" country that may not exist.

This book sounds like it will be a struggle for the main character to find out who she is and to be comfortable with who she is as well.

The setting is in Palo Alto, California and Tehran. The main characters name is Azdeh Moaveni.


Inside the BOOK:
copyright 2005/ published 2006 by PublicAffairs

For her parents and Kaveh Golestan

Intro, the secret garden, homecoming, we don't need no revolution, my country is sick, election, I'm too sexy for my veil, love in a time of struggle, summer of the cockroah, not without my mimosa, acknowledgments, permissions.

no other books written

It's descriptive and in first person


Overall IMPRESSION:
This book will be about Azadeh struggeling with the American culture because she feels out of place. She will move to Tehran and learn that the culture there is so much more confusing and harder to fit in with. Will she move back to America? What makes her move to Tehran? What are her parents like, do they make it hard for her to fit in?

Good vs. Evil

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

I strongly agree with the quote. Every person is going to need a hand every now and then. The only way the world will succeed is if we help one another. Specially if people live by an eye for an eye...then only good will come from it and everyone will help everyone to make this a happier place.

Decision making

Most decisions I make are based around my friends and family. I usually always attempt to make the right decision. Usually with my decision making I would like to think that I put other before me, to make them happy. With my college decisions I try to see what has the best offer. That can be education, money, internships, how far away from home it is, transportation, and etc. It seems that when I am about to make a decision it mostly just falls into place. The person I would like to become is someone who makes decisions always thinking of others if I don't do so already.

Afganistan pie recipe

Ingredients

1 2/3 of a cup mountains
2 cups south central asia
2 tbsp of either gold, sliver, copper, or zinc
2 cups of Islam
tbsp of civil war
pinch of September 11th
2 cups of either monarchy, republic, theocracy, or communist state
1 1/2 cups of opium
2 cups of oil
2 cups of Persian
1 cup of Buzkashi
pinch of a famous photographer
2 cups of Muslim
1 1/2 cups of Sunni
half cup of males literate
1/4 of a cup females literate


Directions

Combine mountains and south central Asia in a bowl.
Then add either the gold, silver, copper, or zinc and mix.
Shift on the Islam and grab a pinch of September 11th.
Mix well with monarchy, republic, theorcracy, or communist state.
Add in 2 cups of opium and oil.
Then add the Persian and Buzkashi.
Bake and the Muslim and Sunni will appear.
sprinkle on both literacies and the famous photographer.
Enjoy the country!

SPRING BREAK

My good was I went to New York City to visit my uncle. I did some shopping even though I did not buy anything. I love just walking around the New York so I was happy just to be there. After we went to an authentic Cuban restaurant with loud spanish music that we couldn't hear one another talk. There were lights and it was just very festive.

24,000 ft (prompt 4, chapter 12)

what supprised me in this chapter is that there were so many people on this trail. I can not believe that this many people attempt to travel up the mountain. There were 40 people besides their group heading up the mountain. He also realized how hard it has gotten to breathe without the air supply mask.

29,028 ft At the top [last blog post] (prompt 18)

The book's title is Into Thin Air. This describes their journey. As they climb mount Everest the oxygen gets lower and lower, the air is thinner. The title fits the book perfectly because once you put it together you can tell what the story will be about. If I were to give it a different title I would rename it "The toughest climb". Not just because the book is about climbing the toughest mountain to climb but there is also so many mental things and physical features that make this one of the hardest things to do.

27600 ft (prompt 11)

Reading Into Thin Air was reading something I was used to since I read his other book Into the Wild. His writing is passionate and appreciative of nature. In Che Guevara's book it is also very appreciative of nature. The way he describes mountains and gives elements personification. My only negative comment on Che's writing is that since it is so descriptive it becomes boring because you just want to know what he will say, even though it is poetic.

24000 ft (prompt 10)

Throughout what I read so far I have tried to compare it to two different sources. I compared it to Into the Wild because Jon Krakauer wrote that book as well. The second source is the core book Che Guevara's motorcycle diaries. All of them were very simialar because each book had a main character that was very humble and did not think much of himself for doing such an extravagant journey. They all had different feelings about civiliazation but they were all in such different locations. Che and Chris, the other main characters from the other two books, were more negative on the people that they met. All three characters are one to help the lesser man. Whether it be disease, injury or, loneliness the characters were there to help them.

17,600 ft (prompt 5, chapter 6)

When they found Scott Fischer's body it really moved me. It was real eerie and made you and the characters in the book realize the dangers of the journey. In a way the characters felt that this was real and it could definitely more than probably happen to them.

23400 ft (prompt 3)

Beck seems like he is a really determined character. He always is set out to do more than what he has to. Krakauer is a humble person and seems to be the center of the group. Krakauer is very observant. Hansen seems to be the annoying person on the trip because he is injured and is in a way dead weight. Hall is also very observant becuase he was the one to notice that they were being followed. At first it seemed that he was being parinoid.

19,500 ft (prompt 2, chapter 7)

I am confused about how they fix their wounds and frostbite. Do they just ignore the frostbite and that's it? How would they survive? Will the journey be affected because of the death of Ngawang?

Important quote from 30,000 ft (prompt 14, chapter 3)

pg 36 "As I gazed across the sky at this contrail, it occurred to me that the top of Everest was precisely the same height as the pressurized jet bearing me through the heavens...My palms felt clammy." This quote tells us a lot and has a hint of foreshadowing. We can assume that right now he finally realizes how big this climb is going to be, it hits him. From this quote it seems that he feels small and he is about to tackle something that most people can just dream about. In early chapters he was talking about great climbers and how they were traveling up this mountain and he felt as if it wasn't real for him to be there. The quote in a way tells us that in the future they will soon run thin of oxygen because it is so high above ground.

9,186 feet (prompt 15, chapter 4)

I choose this picture because one of the places they went through was where Buddhist lived. The majority of this chapter lies with those people. They are surprised of how the Buddhist live by not using cars often and jsut living the healthy lifestyle.

30,000 feet (prompt 1, chapter 3)

What I do not like about chapter 3 is basically what I have thought of the book so far. It seems to move slowly and is worded in a way that I am not used to with the exceptions of The Motorcycle Diaries of Che Guevara. What I really like that Jon Krakauer does with his books is before every chapter he adds some type of writing that is not his. For example in chapter 3 it starts out with a letter from a man. On page 36 he talk about how Mt. Everest is as high as the jet he traveled on, which made me tremble in fear and can only imagine what he is feeling in that position. I also like in chapter 3 when they stay at the hotel where other climbers stay when they compare themselves to that legacy of mountain climbing.

Do now: Peru

Why do you think they loved Cuzco so much?

I made this question because Cuzco was really emphasized in the Peru section. Also When the were heading there he but Cuzco in capitals with an exclamation point, and when they left he was talking about how sad he was to leave.

Che essential question

Che went to school to become a doctor, I think this was the beginning of him wanting to be someone who helps others. Through out what I have read so far, Che always has a soft spot for people suffering which leads to his revolution.

The Chilaen experience

An important part of the Chile experience was when he was reflecting on the events that happened to him. When he was drifting at a night's rest he recalled what had happened to him thus far. He thought of when they punctured their tire, When they received help from Raul, and the interview they gave for the newspaper. I would like to know why did he reflected on these specific events instead of others. What makes these events so significant, is it a sense of foreshadowing? Also when he is in bed he remarks about the, "value of a good bed". While he is in bed Che calculates the calorie of his previous nights meal. Is that foreshadowing to some type of behavior that escalates to the future Che? These are all bits and pieces of a psychological puzzle which the end picture makes a more aggressive person.

America in six words

Home of the free and opportunity.

My idology

I believe that a smile can go a long way. Passing by strangers and smiling at them can hit harder then what people can imagine. I heard a story about this guy who wrote a suicide note. In the note it explained that if he got one smile on his way to his suicide point then he wouldn't do it. Unfortunately they found his dead body. I believe that smiling to anyone is a little stretch of making this world a better place and making people feel better.

apples and oranges

When talking about what Che did in Bolivia and comparing it to the activities happening in Pakistan I feel are completely different. It is the same in the way that both the US and Che are trying to take out this high archy but it is still different because of the people that each are dealing with. They are the same though in the way that the two are training secretly.

Documentary on Barack Obama

This documentary would be interesting to audiences of today because he has just recently become an icon to many. I would start the documentary with his parents and work up to today where he is, in the white house. I picked Barack Obama because he is our first African American to be president. I love seeing documentaries of people that have either had it tough or have made a significant change to the world that has made it how it is today. I feel that people would be really interested in Barack's life and would help people better understand his future thoughts he has for this country.

My own documentary of Che

If I were making my own documentary about Che I would include a lot of the same events as the timeline included. My questions to be answered would be how did Che come to the power that he beheld? How did Che come popular in the Western (our) world? Why did it take them so long to find his body? All questions to answer the main question who is Che? Why do people like or dislike him? My main aspects would be answering those questions.

The real Che Gruvara

I definitely agree with Beck! Why do kids wear these shirts? Do they have any idea what they are supporting? It was a great point when Beck makes the point kids wouldn't wear a Hitler shirt, but why are they wearing Che shirts? By wearing a Che shirt or calling him an idol is calling Hitler, Stalin, Castro and idol as well. He killed thousands of people. In Che's camps/ prisons it killed more people in the first 3 years than Hitler's did in the first six years.
Why the heck would they put in the news paper, "Che's legacy looms longer than ever. Forty years his execution, the ionic revolutionary embodies a modern leftist spirit."
The western world changed the thought of Che from a Stalin wannabe to a iconic revolutionary.
Beck is quiet interesting with how he makes you feel ignorant of not knowing the true story. He makes anyone feel ignorant if they did not know his true story. He definitely uses sarcasm.

Cinquaine poem

Sleep
Peace, silence
Healing, relaxing, soothing
Repairs soul and Body.
Rest

Mr. Yost English

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Reflection

Political science taught me so much more about current politics. Before this class I did not know names of congressmen nor their job descriptions. What I have taken from this class is being able to have intellegent conversations about my ideas on current events with current political leaders. This semester was perfect to learn about the president and his roles because this past election was the most interesting election ever. Learning about the current event in school made it easier to pay attention and watch all the debates and conversations outside of school. I could not have been happier having this class to teach me about what I thought I had "no" interest in.