Internship Talks

The 11^th graders did a pretty good job explaining their internships to a large audience. There were a few things that struck me about internship. One of them is that some of them waited till the last minute to get their internship some ended up not liking the one they got. I liked their advice to start early. What I am looking for in internship is for me to have some freedom. Have a mentor actually have time for me. I also want to have hands on and shadow a nurse.  I want to see if I fit to be in the medical field. The Vignette that made me like I was there was the first one. It was like if I was like right there watching her she was really descriptive. I actually felt what she felt it was cool. I like it because I actually pictured the scenery I did not really feel it with the other presentations they were good but they did not grab my attention that much.  I can’t wait till internship. 

Sheir Hammad & Marjane Satrapi on War Part 2

      I think that her poetry she is telling the people that there is a cultural revolution going on. They blame all Muslim and Arabs for being terrorist. She is saying that her brothers are in the navy and they are protecting the U.S. but because they are Arabs and Muslim they blame them. The U.S. citizens are making a whole race suffer because of some people decided they wanted to hurt our nation. We are bullying them for something not all of them were part of. Suheir Hammad is trying to make people see what is really going on with her beautiful and powerful words. They are also asking her if she knew the high-jacker's and what nay her brother was in just because she is  one race or religion and they must know the people who are doing this evil. People just look for someone to blame.
    She describes war with the truth it so horrible the children are the ones the suffer so much as well as people in poverty. She is describing how Arabs must be feeling fighting their own people.  How hard it must be that people you were friends with blame you for something you had nothing to do with. It does not make since to me how her powerful, sad but beautiful words are so true we just want to say it was the whole country's fault but it was not them it was a few of their people who were lead through a bad path. How the soldiers must have felt being between their 2 homeland and killing innocent people that had nothing to do with this. The ones that were most affected were women in poverty because their children got taken away to fight in the war against America.
     In Persepolis people are having a revolution for a democracy they don't want one person in power. They are also having a revolution for women's rights. In Persepolis the revolution is so intense it turns into war. The war was so awful they send Marji to Austria. To have a better future but she was so confused by what was going on and with out her parents their to guide her she was messed up and had a terrible experience their. Revolution confused all the kids because the teachers told them one thing but their family told them something difference.

Suheir Hammad & Marjane Satrapi on War

     This is are the key points that caught my attention in the first poem. "I know that beat it is lifeless". "I will kill for you especially i would not die for you"." I will not morn the dead for murder or suicide". "I will not dance to bombs because everyone is dancing everyone can be wrong". "I will not be played". "This heartbeat is louder than death. Your war drum is not louder than this breath" .
     This are the key points that caught my attention in the second poem. "Our holy history baned. Who son should it be. We cherise corpse. we mourne women complicated.I think now that I was never pure. Girl spoiled befor rippen. One women shoots her face. One women belives love will never find her. We mourne each one or we mean nothing at all. Harvest bombs. Smoke redemption. Smoke breathe. If you must fear, fear the unexploded".
   They both want the war to and they want people to stop suffering. They want to have freedom. They want to be there own person. They stand up for women. The most important thing they have in common they speak what is on their mind.
    What struck me about Persepolis is how can they treat their women like that. How could they let them not have their own life. Let them give their own opinions. Let them be part of the government. How could they think men and women are not equal.
     The thing that struck about Suheir Hammad's poetry is that she had so much power in  her words that you can't describe how true and powerful her poetry is. I love her powerful words. I love this women she expresses her life freely. Speaks her mind. I just love it.

The Role of the Women in Islam

     The role of women in Islam is to be a wife have kids and then take care of them. The man is the one that is supposed to maintain you. You have to be loyal to your husband you are stoned to death. The women has to cook, clean and do everything her husband ask her. Women file for divorce sometimes but both partners have to agree.

I noticed that I can transfer a lot of techniques to my project. I can sketch and then stencil. I don't have to be the best drawer I could do like the MBW and photoshop it. I also could be more creative and send my message more clearly.  What amazed me was that they had amazing talent they started small and their art kept getting better. They had a lot of work to do to get to were they are right now. The only one that did not start small is MBW and his art to me was not that good as the other ones. He just copied pictures and edited on photoshop. They wanted to send a clear message to the people that saw their art. I think that most of the artist message were peace. They had their original message they wanted to express