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Book Club Blog #1

Summary: In the book titled "The Complete Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi, we are introduced to the main protagonist who is the author herself. Marjane Satrapi is growing up during the Iranian Revolution in which her parents always attend protest. Marjane looks up to her parents and want to join them in protesting the revolution, but her parents feel it is unsafe because what Marjane doesn't realize, is that these protest are really violent in which people are killed. We later learn that Marjane wanted to go the United States to attend a University but her dream was crushed after her father read on a newspaper about fundamentalist students taking Americans hostage. Not only was it for educational purposes to go to the U.S., but also to see her friend Kaveh. At the end of The Jewels chapter we realize that Mali's home has been destroyed and the only thing they had were jewels. They lived with Marjane for a week until they can sell those jewels in order to start over aga...
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Practice Write 9/28

I believe that both Tinberg and Berger help me add more definitions into the meaning of a text. With Tinberg, I was introduced to ethnography in which is the study of a culture which made me realize how important it is to know about not only the culture, but notice their language, traditions, beliefs and activities that's different than other cultures. Berger on the other hand, made me realize the importance of publicity image in today's society. Berger states how people catch their attention to certain images because they know that the image behind is something that they can relate to. Overall, both Tinberg and Berger made me receive more information to the understanding of a 'text'.
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Annotation #7

Summary: In this article titled, "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger, we are introduced to Berger's idea of publicity images. He introduces us to seven essays and these seven essays aren't your common three page essays where you have to write about something in five paragraphs or more, these essays involve only images or images with a few words. By looking at the images we are trying to find the hidden message and how we prefer certain images because it's something we can relate to. Berger also mentions how publicity images don't have to be just pictures, but it can also be sculptures and paintings. In conclusion publicity is very important to our culture and without it, we would be living in a very strange and different society. Quotes: 1. "Publicity is the culture of the consumer society." (140) Everything that people do today is for publicity and it's something that's been a thing for a while whether it's drama, commercials or pictures....
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Practice Write 9/26

I feel that things that are important to consider when describing a culture is their language, the traditions they follow, the special holidays they have that other cultures don't celebrate,  if they wear any special attire for the holidays, what types of food do they make for special occasions, and lastly if they have code that they follow.
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Annotation #6

Summary: In the article, the author introduces us to ethnography, which is the study of people and cultures. The author feels it should be included in our writing  and bring evidence into the writing on how a student used this to learn about a specific community.  The author also mention how this student interviewed several people and notice how by working, the community has united and they al get along. Another thing that the article mentions is how young writer's can figure out a way on what to write about as majority of them struggle. The author feels that  ethnography  will help us learn more about people and  their cultures and realize that we all come from different places. Quotes: 1. " Finally, our experiences with unfamiliar workplaces give us a valuable perspective on the classroom as our workplace, and also, in a slightly different way, the workplace of our student." (79) I feel that being in a environment helps us analyze new things and the pe...
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Practice Writing 9/21

The way I define proofreading is by looking over my paper and trying to see how many grammar errors and typos I've made throughout my paper. I also like to read all of it just to make sure that I make sense and I don't sound too repetitive. I feel like both the reader and writer have responsibility in the peer workshops because it's good to have two people reading a paper as sometimes we always end up missing a little mistake that can affect our paper. By having both the reader and writer proofread, it allows us to bring more ideas to help improve the paper and it's purpose.
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