Persepolis Reflective Statement Having an interactive oral always improves my understanding of the cultural and contextual elements of the book‚ as it provides more aspects and points of view to consider and add to my own analysis of the book. Within this interactive oral‚ I feel as if I got more from the book‚ and had a better understanding of a lot of things. For example‚ one of my seminar questions were “How does religion define us as people and effect how we interact with others”. I expected
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Reflective Statement: Perfume Perfume by Patrick Süskind‚ exposed me to a series of literary texts‚ themes and ideas. It also opened me to a variety of cultural developments that happened throughout the book. In the slums of 18th century Paris‚ Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born‚ with the gift of scent. As he grows up he lives to decipher the smells of Paris. He journeys to satisfy his obsessions with capturing odors‚ and it’s this that drives him to a murdering quest to create the ultimate perfume
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Reflective Statement How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the IO? The interactive orals were quite interesting as I could easily connect what was being said to the cultural and contextual considerations of the play Antigone. As a general background‚ one can possibly notice that Sophocles was more about the art then about the economy. He was the Michelangelo of his time‚ so to speak. Antigone is a great nationalistic play which illustrated
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Reflective Statement On December 5th‚ we had an oral discussion of the book Persepolis. We discussed what the book was about‚ some of our personal questions we had about the book‚ etc. This is basically how our discussion went: We had 5 members in our group that talked about Persepolis. The first and general question that was asked was who was everyone’s favorite character in the story. Everyone said that Marjane was their favorite‚ but Tyler stated that Marjane’s mother was her favorite character
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Reflective statement: How was you understanding of the cultural and contextual considerations of ‘Perfume’ developed through the interactive oral? In the street markets of Paris Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born. As other people use sight to perceive objects and people he uses his superhuman sense of smell. In the novel Perfume the intellectual Grenouille uses his hidden ability to wreck the innocence of twenty-five virgins of which he strips of their innocence‚ to create his ultimate scent.
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Ethical Reflective Statement What I have learned through taking the surveys on the Ethical Lens Inventory taken throughout the this course is that my preferred lens is the Reputation Lens. According to my Ethical Lens Report my strengths are that I use my head‚ I have compassion‚ I live out my role responsibility and I make virtuous decisions. On the contrary the surveys have concluded that my weaknesses are entitlement‚ hardness of heart‚ confusion and self-righteousness. Lastly‚ my value is
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I participated in an interactive oral discussion; about the novel by Nawal El Sadawi named ‘The Woman at Point Zero’. From the interactive oral‚ I was able develop a new idea which I had never thought of. The idea was that the characters in the novel were two dimensional‚ so that the main character Firdaus is able to change‚ which she is not. The idea stemmed from what Ashleigh said about how Firdaus has the power of rejection using her physical body. So I said that it was a delusion for women and
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Introduction of life history of anna hazare Anna Hazare was born on 15th January‚ 1940 in Bhingar village in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra state to Babu Rao Hazare and Laxmi Bai. His parents christened him as Kisan Bapat Baburao Hazare. Anna Hazare was raised up by his childless aunt. He couldn’t pursue his studies beyond 7th standard due to family reasons. He started his career as a driver in Indian army in 1963. He served Indian army for a span of 15 years. During this time‚ he faced
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Thesis Statement for Reflective Essays Should contain: 1. Event/ topic of focus 2. Event’s impact on you Example / A friend’s forgetfulness helped me see beyond my contempt of my great grandmother to contempt of myself for loving so conditionally. Are these thesis statements or not?? This past summer’s lesson was perhaps the most memorable one yet. Gazing from across the pasture to the creek‚ I realized that love is universal among earth’s creatures‚ that they all possess the
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Reflective Statement 18 March 2014 Word count: 341 Reflective Statement: Sophocles’‚ Antigone Reflective Statement Question: How was your understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the Interactive Oral? The Interactive oral on Sophocles‚ Antigone helped me gain a deeper understanding on women’s role in Ancient Greece society during the fourth and fifth centuries. Understanding the historical context of the play I was able to develop a deeper insight
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