Blog #11

my feelings now!!!

This might sound weird, but I have never blogged before or even knew what blog was. Yes I am one of those people who doesn't really go out of my way to learn something new or to explore. But thanks to my English 102 class I got to start blogging. I have learned to love blogging, When I first start blogging I was so scared I didn't even do my first few assignments because I didn't know what I was doing and I didn't want to make a fool out of myself. However now I am thinking about starting my own blog about being stuck in between two cultures. Blogging is a great way to explore, I read blogs of my classmates for fun, and there are some awesome blogs about different things. There was a blog of a classmate who was raised in a camp, he talks about how life was in his homeland compared to life in the States. By reading his blog I got to learn something very deep about him, I got to see life in the States through his eyes, his point of view. 

Blogging is unique assignment for an English class. I didn't only get to write my ideas but I also got to read a lot of other blogs and other student's ideas about different things. Blogging has became my favorite pass time, I don't so much blog as I read more blogs now. Blogging is very creative and it makes a person think outside of the box.

I believe Chris should keep on doing blogs as class assignments. Maybe he can add extra crated if students start blogging on other website, or if they start their own blogs. This way they become more imaginative and also they pick on a fun and educational pass time. 

Blog: #10

CLASHING CULTURES

Many people are facing huge problems with clashing cultures in United States of America. For example, a lot of people comes to the States from Middle Eastern countries with Muslim background. Over number of years, the parent’s changes a little bit while the kids grow up and learn everything here. When it comes time for them to start dating and get married, the parents wants them to have arrange marriages like how they were married themselves. The kids being raised here does not want to hear, that they have to marry their first cousins (it is very common for people to marry their cousins in many Middle Eastern countries). This kind of difference creates family bond breaking problems within that family. I am not saying the parents are wrong or the kids, but this is just how their lives are. They are constantly fighting their discussions, to either make their parents happy or do what makes them happy.   

Blog: #9
                                                                       FACE BOOK

When I hear the word media I idiomatically think about Face Book. Face Book has grown so much since it first started in so many ways. When I first joined face book, it was not popular and now that I think about it, it did not have much more to offer than myspace for it's users. Over the years face book grow raptly, in many ways, one of which is gorps. Face book now has gorps, where people can like a gorp/page and in that page there you become part of it, you get notification when ever any one in that page uploads anything. These pages are very helpful for people who wants to stay inform about a topic. I personally am very interested in Afghan culture, so I liked a page called Afghan Girls vs. Boys, and in this page people from Afghanistan who are living all over the world writes about Afghanistan. It is really cool how I can learn so much about my country without taking classes or having to hear it from parents, it is a fun way of learning in my opinion. Another awesome thing about face book is that it keeps me connected to my family and friends. I have cousins that I have not seen in the past 10 years but I still know everything that is going on in their lives, do to media.

This is media!!!

Blog: #8

                                                        

                                                                         MED MEN

There is a interesting TV show that I watch, it is called Med Men. I did not really looked it up to see when it was filmed but I am guessing it was filmed in the last 10 years. So in this program it shows how the work forces were, long before men and women were allowed to do the same jobs. They have certain jobs for men and others for women. For example, the men always does big projects and the women are their secretary. These women are not just their secretary, they have sexual relationships with their bosses as well, even though the bosses are married and the secretary are usually young and beautiful ladies. I like this show, because it represents how everything used to be. It also makes me thankful that I was not born in that era, I do not think I would have handled it like those women in Med Men. Watching these kind of shows makes an individual like myself be grateful for everything that I am allowed to do. Another reason why I feel so connected to this show is because, I was born in a Muslim family, which means there are a lot of things I am not allowed to do. Thankfully I am in the States, (away from strict family members) which allows me to be my own person. Muslim culture is like how this show is, men are valued more then women, because they think that women can not handle many things in life.

The men in this video is the ladies boss. 

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Blog; #7

All About Capitalism: A Love Story 

When out teacher said we are watching Capitalism A love story, I was all excited about "A Love Story" I didn't even hear the 'Capitalism" part. Most young people like myself don't even know what it really means when others talk about Capitalism so here is a link of the Capitalism meaning and a few details. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/capitalism \

While watching the movie I was waiting for the love part, where someone is going to fall in love with someone else. But no such a thing happen, however there were a lot of people falling in love with money, and going to an extreme extant to get that money. In the whole movie, almost everyone was trying to get rich. Michael Moore's has done a great job crossing his point by capturing everyone's attention through giving facts, showing the suffering families, and making it funny. My favorite part about the whole movie, was how he went to the banks and was trying to make a citizens arrest. It also showed how "smart" people didn't understand or valued some of the laws, they laughed and kicked him out of the building when he was trying to do a citizen's arrest, and now one really stopped to listen to him oven help him. This movie did open my eyes on how the government system works in the United States of America. 

  

Blog #5

My first reaction about this clip is, yes people can get really lazy and depend on technology more than needed. It’s nice to enjoy convince but not to the point where neglect our health and depend on machines for our needs. I didn't like how they have shakes for meals, I like to enjoy chewing my food not drink it. Also, how fast they can change was awesome, I wouldn't mind being able to change that fast either.  What resonates within me the most is how people carry a conversation with each other, Like they were “face timing” with each other as a way of communication. I mean, we currently do that now but, it’s more like texting each other from a different room to ask a quick question about simple things. Another thing that stuck in my mind about this clip is how there are no humans working. Everything is done with robots and machines. In our current society there is a great demand for machine labor such as lifting heavyweights for construction and other physically demanding jobs. If it comes to the point where all a person had to do was to find out what they wanted to do that day, then our health is in jeopardy. As it shows in this clip how they will look like balloons if our health is neglected. What I found concerning is this movie clip is the obesity of the characters, not because being overweight isn't attractive or acceptable. But the impression I received from it is that they didn't notice or even care about any difference in their appearance. Speaking of them being overweight it brings me to think about the lack of exercise in their lives, they don’t even walk to a restaurant to have lunch.
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Blog #6
 
               Over the weekend I tried an unusual restaurant, it is called Pak Afghan Halal (Pakistan and Afghanistan Halal, Halal is a different way of killing the animal) the place looks like a hole in the wall, with dark red and black painted walls and all plain tables and same boring color chairs. I went there with a co-worker after ditching work a few hours early that day. We were the only people in the whole restaurant there to eat, a few other people were sitting on the table near to the kitchen but I thing they were just family members visiting with the owner or a worker there. The menu was huge compare to any other Middle Eastern restaurant I have been in. For appetizer I chose a dish called "Bolani" which it looked like a pizza but it taste nowhere close to pizza, it was made of mush potatoes, onions, and some other kind of spices.
 
 We were only able to eat one third of it to keep room for our chicken and rice dinner. My friend's plate called "chicken boti" I don't know how they made that chicken but it just melted in our mouths. My dinner was rice and chicken cooked together, where I was able to taste the chicken flavor in my rice. Our plates were at least two servings each, so we had lots of leftovers that we took home with us. This place was so much different than any American restaurants I have been in. At fist the place gives you the vibe that it won't be no good and that it is just waist of your time and money, but after tasting the food it becomes your favorite restaurant. Now I like the place so much that I don't want to share it with friends and family because I am a little bit of a selfish person when it comes to good food. 

Entry #2 Work Hard Play Hard

               

                What does this “work hard play hard” means to me; umm I guess work when it is work time (when you are at work) and play when it is play time (free time). This is one of my definitions, another one could be that you go to school and to well when you are younger, and you party hard when you get older as an when you have lots of money. Well as good as this sounds I really don’t believe it, you know why?! Because people wants to party when they are younger, not when they are 50 plus. I causally don’t even agree with this term, as much as I been told to focus on school and stop partying I know am not going to. I am not going to because I don’t look at life like most people do. I think I can do both, week days school and work, and weekends work and party. I am young; I can stay up till 12am to study and get up at 8am and be at work at 9am ready to go. Weekends I can party my heart out till 2am and get up at 10am be at work at 12am and ready the same thing the next day. Knowing what I am capable of why must I be boring and wait to party till I am 50plus?! At that age I won’t even want to party, because I will be too old!! Who am I going to party with my kids?! Even they will be too old and out of that parting stage. So I say work and party at the same time!!!

Entry #1 How I Feel About Blogging

I read through a lot of blogs the ones that were in the “Best Bloggers according to Time Magazine and also the ones that were posted by other students of English 101 and 102. I liked the ones that were posted by the students a lot more than the ones that were posted on other sites. This could be because I relate a lot more to the students since we are doing “blogging” for the same reason or just that the style of their writing. If blogging was just like how other students have done then I love blogging. Also blogging reminds me of facebook, you can imagine how those people are just by their blogs.

However I did make myself read a few of the blogs of Best Bloggers according to Time Magazine. The one that I kind of liked was 20 Nothing, I liked how everything had its own calm, like she would talk about a topic and have pictures and then go to a different calm. My two favorite calms were when she writes about J and her husband, I want to do the same checklist as them when I get married. It is fun and it gives you and your partner something fun to do together that can bring you closer. Also the 30 resolutions for 30-somethings and the”Let’s put this whole ladies Intimidating Men” Debate to bed; they were both funny and yet true. Another one that I read was 101 Cookbooks which was very boring to me. Because it was all about healthy food, I do understand that its goal was to be healthy but still the pictures of the food didn't look good and it sounded even worse. Oh it was very time consuming and hard like how to make the Detoxifying Mint Tea, do they know that we are all lazy? I mean that is why we get fat at the first place right? So why would we spend so much time on a nasty tasting tea?!.  Anyways I feel this way because I am not looking at it from a healthy person’s view point.