Does my head look big in this

Does my head look big in this was a little cute story about a girl and her struggle with wearing a veil. I have to say its not my kind of story because i would have wanted to read a more intense story about these struggles for women whom actually are killed and abused for wearing them not a westernized drama of a high school girl. I mean dont get me wrong it is compelling to read her story of how she had to make a decision on the veil. But nevertheless its a nice drama story, when i read it i laughed not at the story because it was good but it reminded me of a Taylor Swift video.

What the novel did best was provide a depiction off how many of these girl that live around the world are Muslim and have to make a decision on wearing the veil or not, it was refreshing to read a more drama filled story not a bloodshed or cruelty story. Its a little more passive and relaxed story compared to many of the films we watched and the stories we read but nonetheless it is important to read what many of these girls go through in high school and even college. We had a nice discussion where Sara's speaker told her side of the story a teacher that has had many students ( i cant remember her name) nevermind i remeber Monica i think. Well she explained that she had many students that went through this one even missing her graduation because of the veil. Which is sad. But the story is solid i felt sometimes that the novel stepped away from the important parts and sometimes filled it with a little drama on the side but overall i liked it not my cup of tea but still good

Escape from Saddam

I read Escape from Saddam and i must say this short story was very good, its pretty graphic and you feel the realism in pretty much every word. Its one of those stories that make you ponder and think about different situations specially the situations in the Middle East. It crazy how they are forced to join the army or have a very harsh punishment i would say, cruel. Join or not join you will die and its quite a powerful message, families have to endure this!? Nobody should endure this no family should.

i wouldnt say the training was harsh i mean the going through the barb wire, the crawling the live shooting it is intense but i have seen it before im pretty sure marines endure that kind of training too. These men had to be turned from soldiers to devils. The transformation was fascinating though some methods were a little 2 intense. The visits to their family members probably helped out a lot of soldiers cope with the training and the daily life of being a soldier.

This story was one of the best i read i enjoyed it all i learned so much 2..

Guantanamo Bay

In class we read an interesting story of an innocent man Murat Kurnaz, detained and sold to Guantanamo for three thousand dollar. Its quite a story, very harsh. The abuse this man took for years is outstanding. There are not to many men that can take the beating the drowning, the electric shocks and the hanging by the arms the way he did. A tourist, the day he was going back home to Germany was detained at a check stop in Pakistan apparently he was detained because of the way he looked pretty much. Transferred and sold to Guantanamo all because they thought he was a spy of some sort. The way he describes his experience is crazy. He saw with his own eyes the cruelty of Guantanamo's soldier towards its inmates. He saw a man beat to death blood all over, and the soldiers didnt even move the body for days, Murat could see the body how it lied there for days. I ask myself if these soldiers that are at Guantanamo have any remorse for what they have done or what they will do!?

Though im not saying that all inmates in Guantanamo are innocent, i bet there are a lot of inmates that are "evil" and are terrorist and the world might be better offff without them. But cruelty these soldiers show to the inmates, no man deserves that, not even how bad or evil or what they have done in their past, torture is never the answer.

Honor Killing in ummm CANADA!!!!!!!!

I recently found this shocking piece of news about how immigrants are bringing their Honor killings to the west in this case Canada.. It pretty messed up and i wanted to share the news papers aritcle with you guys....

This is part of the article news letter you can read the rest of it here >>>http://www.canada.com/news/Honour+killings+females+rise+Canada+Expert/1821831/story.html <<

As many as 5,000 women and girls lose their lives — most at the hands of family members — in "honour killings" around the world each year, according to the United Nations.Up to a dozen have died for the same reason in Canada in the last decade, and it's happening more often, says Amin Muhammad, a psychiatrist who studies honour killings at Memorial University in Newfoundland.One of the earliest honour killings involving a Canadian occurred in 2000, when Maple Ridge, B.C., resident Jaswinder Sidhu was murdered in India in what police called a contract killing, after she married a man she met while travelling.In 2003, Amandeep Atwal, 17, died after her father stabbed her 17 times. The Kitimat, B.C., teen had been secretly seeing a boyfriend.Sixteen-year-old Aqsa Parvez's father and brother are currently awaiting trial for her strangulation death in 2007, and friends said the Brampton, Ont., teen had been clashing with her family over her refusal to wear the hijab.In May, an Ottawa man was sentenced to life in prison for killing his sister, Khatera Sadiqi, 20, and her fiance."We cannot say there's a huge number of cases, but now the cases are increasing, and very soon we'll have a problem in Canada," says Muhammad.

You can read the rest on the link above... I found it crazy that its happening in Canada so when i found the article i had to put it up on blogger.. The question is if it happens in Canada what would stop immigrants from bringing it to the United States.....

Talk to an Iraqi

We watched a short film in class called "Talk to an Iraqi" this short film (very short) is about an Iraqi immigrant that comes to the United States and using his little man - made hut tries to talk and converse to different Americans about the situation in Iraq, and see the point of view of Americans when it came to the war in Iraq. In the short film we see various point of views of many Americans, often time these views were ignorant and without facts. This short film like many film before tries to exploit the ignorance of many Americans that quite frankly dont know anything about Iraq and its situation. I understand that the film is suppose to be spontaneous but i feel that quite frankly it exploited many ignorant thoughts and quite absurd thoughts that many Americans have towards Iraq. Ofcourse this has been done before, where a director or camera crew has the opportunity to speak and ask an American difficult questions about many issues this may be war in the middle east, foreign policies, political scenarios etc.. etc.. Sometimes you get to see a lot of ignorant and stupid answers from americans which depicts americans as "ignorant and idiotic" people. The truth to the matter is i wish that the film director of "Talk to an Iraqi" would have taken the time to actually talk to a Professor or a professional about the situation in Iraq. I guarantee you that he was not going to get an ignorant answer. But i was thinking if an American goes to Iraq with the same exact idea of bringing a little hut with a sign that read "Speak with an American" what kind of reaction would the american have gotten in Iraq??

Operation Peace For Galilee: Israel invasion of Lebanon

Because i will be showing the film Waltz with Bashir in class i want to shed light about the films war, and what war they are talking about throughout the film. I had no idea that this war ever took place if it wasnt for the film Waltz with Bashir.

This is the basic description from http://academickids.com/encyclopedia/index.php/1982_Lebanon_War
The 1982 Lebanon War, also known as the 1982 Invasion of Lebanon, and dubbed Operation Peace for the Galilee (Shlom HaGalil in Hebrew) by Israel, began June 6, 1982, when the Israel Defence Force invaded southern Lebanon in response to the Abu Nidal organization's assassination attempt against Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom, Shlomo Argov, but mainly to halt Katyusha rocket attacks on Israeli population in the northern Galilee region launched from Southern Lebanon. Israels objective was to push out PLO militants about 40 - 50 kilometers to the north. But during the whole raid many things happened the creating and slaughter/massacre of refugee camp Sabra and Shatila among others. In the film Waltz With Bashir we will be able to be enlightened more on what really happened in those refuges camp..

Waltz with Bashir film

Waltz with Bashir is an animated documentary directed by Ari Folman. The movie has been recognized of one of the best films of 2008, also one of the best Anti- war movies to come out of the Middle East. The movie is a documentary, it is a journey made by the films protagonist Ari Folman and his psychological journey of war. He participated in the 1982 Israel invasion of Palestine. But somehow he does not remember any detail of it, he is haunted by this dream and tries to find meaning behind this hallucination. Through out the movie we see him interview many of his friends that went to the same war, and piece by piece he attempts to remember the war.

The war happening in the film is the Israel invasion of Lebanon where the Israeli invaded Palestine through the south of Beirut to push out PLO militant. In the film its also shows the massacre of Sabra and Shantila, which were little towns used as refugee camp and how the Lebanese Christian Militia, also known as the Phalangist massacred innocent Palestinian civilians these include; children, women, older citizens, male, etc..

This movie is quite the psychological journey its puts you into the soldier situation and it ridicules war and depicts it as a stupid entity and that war isnt necessary and often time most of the soldiers are un aware of the situation at hand and are just told to shoot anything that walks by you, it shows the ignorance and irresponsibility of war. It also shows how many of these soldiers often time dont remember what happend during a long and gruesome war because their minds push out the intense memory. It is quite frankly one of the best Anti War movies in the last 25 years. I will discuss more in class..