Spelling Bee

5) Should we still have spelling bees? 

Before spelling bees to me where just competitions for fun, people who where good at spelling letter by letter and form eventually a word. After being in the middle of spelling bee I realized it creates so much tension in the kids who participate. I really can’t say that I’m in favor of this; this really can kill someone because they had a heart attack. I think that stuff like this should be only to have fun, and maybe it starts of like fun but then it becomes into a kind of torture I could say. So if spelling bees are not making kids have a good time then I think they shouldn’t happen.

4) Do you have a something in your life like the National Spelling Bee? 

Nowadays in my life I feel like the best comparison I could do with the spelling bee having this in common but many things not is soccer. You play soccer because you like it and nothing can change that or else you wouldn’t play. But when there comes a time in a tournament or in a game where you go to penalties you put yourself in a really nervous situation where you really have to make it for you and your team so its a pressure of everyone. This situation you have to be realy calm just like people in the spelling bee are and it actually creates a lot of tension because as the well as the spelling bee if you don’t make it then you’re out. But off course in soccer you like don’t cry because you are afraid or things like this that in the spelling bee does happen. 

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                                                                             PATHOS

Pathos is the technique that is used to create emotions in the audience. This photo or poster that puted in a subway creates a sad feeling for anyone who has the chance to at least stare at it. It creates the image in ur heads or at least mine of pigs dyeing and it makes you think twice in the future when you are going to not reject factory farm.

ETHOS 

   Ethos is the technique used to create credibility in the audience, in the example of this picture. If you see that the best player in the world used that model of soccer shoes, that color, that reference everything it makes you think and believe that those are going to make you better because he, Lionel Messi uses them. It’s the point of making you think that they are good because someone famous in this case uses them, followers like me and many others is proven that they are eventually going to have them just because the model or the chosen person has those on.

                                                                 LOGOS

 

Logos is the technique used to create and show facts and like numbers so that the product shows the benefits in this case.

Articles

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19882799

This news is from a Pakistan city called Mingora, the main reason of the attack made to her was because she made a campaign explaning the situation they were living after the Talibian militants took control of the valley in which she lives in. 

This article shows a lot of what I can call injustice to a little innocent girl who the only thing she did was express the her feelings towards a life problem that maybe many people didn’t actually know the reality. The message this article most gave me was that people that do things wrong and suddenly are ¨discovered¨ have to take extreme things in this case hurting a girl for life because of talking out, everyone disserves the freedom of expressing themselves. Also the way that she was attacked was something that someone really desperate and crazy has to do.. at a bus where there are more kids, those other kids may get traumatized or so and Malala hurt for life just for saying what she felt like.. Amazing..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19899540

In the second article we could read and get to know some of the traditions and ways that people in those faraway places from us are and more about their culture. By some of the letters that Malala did and we were able to read we can see how they are all like depending on the Taliban and afraid from them.  At first she starts talking about like her daily routine and what she does but then almost when it was winter break the Taliban demanded education to stop just like she predicted. She was actually like the first person to stand up for what she thought was right and says what she needed to say.  After she starts getting interviewed by several medias. Malala thanks to a miracle is not dead and recovering from the shots she received, so I think we all can see that she was not meant to go yet and is still fighting for what she wants including winning several peace awards and is doing alot to help others.

This 2 articles impacted me to be honest, a girl who just said what was happening got shot and almost died. This is something that can’t happen again, nowhere, never. I hope that Malala gets totally cured and can move on with her life being a great example to admire up to. 

Persepolis

The Veil:

This first chapter was the intruduction of the characters and they started to tell us that they were starting some kinds of revolutions and some things that are being obligated to wear that is the veil.
After reading chapter number 1 I connected it to the sterotype we have about indian or arab women who wear veil´s, if someone would tell me to wear a veil I would not accept it in a right way just as the girl, but thisI connect to when my mother tells me that for everyday live I can´t wear Crocs that are like my live and suddenly tell me that i need to wear opend shows that I dont like and don´t feel good with. that is what i think that she felt. 

Persepolis: 

This chapter talked abput how the girl wants to talk to her grandma abput well like her live and what happend to the little girls grandpa.  This chapter before I tell you to what I can connect I really think that it made me clear up ideas that I had and made me understand, those flashbacks explain really good the setting of ancient times. I connect this ALOT to when my grandfather talks to me about what he´s life was, with all the details what he did, the diffrence between what we live in now, the ways money worked everything. I ask him alot of those kinds of questions becuase it´s always good to know what life was like. Not only that my grandpa tells us all this storiees but also that we sit up in the table my cousins, brothers and me just listening. 

The Sheep:

This chapter is when you can see that the girl and anoosh creat a relationship not only familiar becuase well hes her uncle but also because they actually became friends. It was really impacting for the girl that one night she came home and suddenly he wasnt there. this was really impacting to the girl once she figured put that Anosh was not actually back home but he was arestend and sent to jail, something really good was that she could actually go and visit him in jail which i think was a very important gesture from him before he was executed. I think the fact that he was killed created a hole in the girls heart. This I can connect to the movie Taken and Taken 2, when Brayn kills the guys who had kidnapped his daughter the dad of one of the bad guys that he killed in taken 2 wanted revenge because he felt the total fear against brayn of killing a beloved friend/family. 

The Passport:

The internal war started to become everyday a bigger problem, uncle Taher is a grown up that is really conserned like for young people that can get killed, his son is going to be send away and he is realy nervous for that.. I was wondering if the had any personal experience or something that made him so afraid of the situation of people being killed? why did suddenly they started like beliving of telling so much things about god (the man in the medical center)? something that really impacted me that we still see now is that the way money can like buy many things. 

The Dowry:This ending chapter was kind of unexpected but at the same time really good. She was expelled from school after hitting the principal, then her parents came to the idea that the best thing that should happen to her is eventually leave because it would be saftier for her and for her future. I founded really impacting and wierd the fact that to be able to execute a virgin girl they had to violate her and then kill her, thatt was really wierd and like hard. I think that the fact that they decided to send her to europe at that early age seems to me that first they trust her alot. but a quick question why did she had in her head the fact that she was going to be forgotten? what made her feel that way? and so she finally left..  To end I would like to accept that someparts of the book like the begining and when taher appears are parts that are wierd but at the end everything endsup like maching and making sence to the point that this book becomes good and with also a historical context that we can realte to what we had learn before in live regrard the culture and many more. 

Tablet XI

Tablet XI happend some of the unexpected because we thought that G was never going to find out who he really was, after E's death which marked a point in G's life because he changed and his pride went away and he started to look for inmortality. This tablet was a long one, sometimes I lost track of it but anyways it was really cool, as a matter fact this exact weekend with my brothers we were watching a movie from the same producer Bruce o Mighty, that is a really fun move that is called  Evan o Mighty. Connecting it to Giglamesh when Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh all the journey to become a god. In the movie I saw this weekend Evan had to do an arc because god had sent him to and that way he could get one of each species of animals in the arc and save them from the flood. 

after death..

I think that when you die you are only dying like physically meaning that in that point well you can’t move or do anything like in the world but that if you have been a good person then your soul is in complete peace and that peace that I think of is what you liked to do and to see and take like care of people who surround you but if you have been a bad person you can’t have a infinitely time of peace and love. So I think it all depends on who and how you have been, but once again is not like dyeing but internal peace forever.

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Ask questions to later answer:

why are the dreams about death?

is the figure the ¨Bull of heaven¨kind of like the dog with the 3 heads?

why does one of them have to die?

why does he want to celebrate the fame of E?

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Visual Vocabulary 

SNOUT- the part of an animal's head projecting forward andcontaining the nose and jaws muzzle.

STEERED- to guide the course of something in motion. 

OBLIVION-  being completely forgotten or unknown

GORGE-a narrow cleft with steep, rocky walls, especially onethrough which  a stream runs.

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Connect text to another book, a film, work of art, a comic or any other creation:

Througout the beginning of the book we could see that G and E were in a fight for power and to see who was better and so on, in a movie called The Parent Trap there were this 2 twins who didn’t know they were twins until they were in a camp and at first they were like always fighting and in the activities to see who was better than who and so on, but at the end they found out that they are actually twins and work out a plan so that their parents are able to reunite as they were separated. 

Implying and Infering

In this picture you can observe Lionel Messi the worlds best soccer player.

1. He is in a soccer court because you can see all the people arund him in the bleachers.
2. You can see that he just scored a goal, because you wouldnt just celebrate.
3. You can see that he is a very spiritual person based on the celebration he is doing pointing up to god, specifically to his grandmother.