Into Spellbound

1. Every single person in the movie spellbound wants to win the spelling bee for different reasons. Winning is specially important for Neil. This is because according to spellbound he has been studying the hardest and he also has a lot of pressure from his parents.For him winning is practically an obligation. Indian culture demands excellence in everything in life this means that Neil must feel pressure to win the national spelling bee because he thinks that if he doesn't he will bring shame to his family. As I could tell from the film his family is native of the Indian region of Goa, which is the only christian region in India, this region is also known to be the one with best education in India. These cultural backgrounds must fill Neil with fear of losing because if he loses he will feel that he let down his family and his country. Also Neil has studied really hard and if he loses he will feel that he wasted a lot of effort.

1. After watching some scenes of spellbound I concluded that spelling bees are not necessary. I got to this conclusion because it is pointless that people put so much pressure in kids for something so ridiculous as spelling. It would be the same as if they did a similar nation wide contest on basic arithmetic skills. Spelling is something basic in life there should be no spelling bee because there is simply nothing extraordinary about spelling. It would be like a nation wide contest of babies learning to walk, it is simply something a normal person needs to know for life. Spelling bees are also ridiculous because they put too much pressure on their kids. The pressure these kids feel is almost as if their lives depended on them winning.

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Rhetorical Techniques in Advertisments

Ethos: 


     Ethos is the credibility of the, or in this case the viewer. This shows ethos because this piece of advertisement is trying to convince us to help. They do this by showing the image of the helping hands. This means that they have done this before and therefore they are a credible source.


    This piece of advertisement shows ethos because it´s message to the viewer is to do something to help the environment. The fact that they show a hand holding the world is a clear example of juxtaposition makes the viewer infer that they are experts in helping the environment.

      This image shows ethos because it is telling the viewers to donate money to charity. This shows ethos because they show hands giving money and this makes it clear that they can trust the organization when they give them money.

Pthos:

  This cigarette advertisement shows pathos because it is appealing to the emotional side of the consumer. This is shown in the part where it says be happy.



           This piece of advertisement shows pathos because it shows many material things that make people happy coming out of the bottle of coke. It also describes the word coke as an emotional feeling. This is shown where it says "Open up the Coke side of life". as if coke where a feeling or philosophical point of view.



   This piece of environmental advertisement shows pathos because it makes people feel bad fot deforestation. It is also a good example of ethos and logos.

Logos:



     This piece of advertisement shows logos because it states that coke has continuous quality.
Logos it the logical approach to the consumer and this piece of advertisement is trying to convince the consumer that coke´s quality is something logical.



 
        This piece of advertisement shows logos because it is showing facts based on reason for the consumer to analyze.


      This piece of advertisement shows logos because it is showing facts about the consumption of fast food in several countries and the consumer can use reason regarding obesity is these countries.

Malala Yousafzai A Real Hero

Malala Yousafzai was only eleven years old when she begun writing a diary for BBC urdu using the fake name. In this diary she described the situation of  the swat valley in northwest Pakistan.In it she describes the radicalism in which these fanatics rule over other people triying to impose their extreme version of the muslim sharia law on ohers by force. Malala describes these events in some of her entries. In one othe them that was written on January 13, 2009 she describes how afraid she is of going to school because the Taliban have banned females from getting any kind of education. She also shows she is afraid when she tell that on her way home a man yelled “I am going to kill you”. Luckily he was talking on the phone and was threatening someone else. Another proof that the Taliban are radicals is the fact that hey banned girls from using colourful clothes. This is also described in her diary. Malala also describes how the Taliban are radical in a misogynous way. She describes this in the entry she expresses that she might not go to school again, because the taliban issued an edict that banned all females from receiving education. Malala has shown that the taliban are religious fanatics who think that they are always right.

Malala started writing her diary when she was eleven. She started doing this with her father´s support who said that it was a risk but it was a greater risk not to say anything about the horrible situation that the Swat Valley was living. In this diary she describes how sharia law is enforced by the Taliban in ridiculous ways. In 2009 she started to appear in tv as a women's rights defender in Pakistan. Last year she was nominated to the International Children's Peace prize and last year she was awarded a national peace prize in Pakistan. This national prize was later re-named after her. After being able to speak out in a society that is filled with fanatic indoctrination she truly deserved those awards. Malala Yousafzai was shot last week in a murder attempt by the Taliban, but the doctors say that she is now out of danger, and local journalist Faryal Guhar said that this murder attempt will only give strength to Malala´s voice.

Pakistani Activist Girl Shot

      As she was on her way home from school 14 year old Malala Yousafzai was shot by a taliban militant. This is due to the fact that she had been writing a diary about life under the Taliban in Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan. She had been writing this diary anonymously. She revealed her true identity when the Taliban were evicted from the region. Pakistani Taliban militants reported to BBC that they tried to murder Malala Yousafzai for being anti-Talibán and secular. Although other girls were with Malala at the moment of the attack, and one of them was shot to there are two versions of the events. The first version states that a van stopped and a bearded man called Malala´s name before shooting her in the head. The other version says that the girls were getting in a bus when they were attacked. Despite the events doctors say that Malala is out of danger and will recover.

 The fact that the Pakistani Taliban wanted to kill a harmless girl shows without any doubt that this is a radical fanatical group. First the Taliban have a history of terror and radicalism. Eleven years ago the ruled Afghanistan. During this time period they forced women to wear the burqa which covers the entire body and face, and bombed Buddhist statues in Afghanistan. They also made it against the law to listen to any kind of music. These radical points of view inspired a brave girl such as Malala to write a diary describing the situation to BBC urdu. The fact that Taliban followers tried to kill Malala Yousafzai only confirms that the Taliban are radical and short minded fanatics that think they are always right. This is confirmed by the fact that they publicly admitted to have tried to murder this girl, and more shockingly the reasons why they did it. They tried to murder her for being secular a

Reading Blog Persepolis------The Dowry

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               I have never lost jewellery ,or being expelled from school for hitting the principal. But I understand that people who go through these experiences. People who lose jewellery with sentimental value tend to get aggressive towards the person who took it away. This would explain why someone would hit the school principal this way. Afterwards Marjane's mother said that she feels worried that her child would be raped and then executed. This is a natural horror for any parent.

               The fact that it was forbidden to use jewellery and other similar items in school is comparable to how the Taliban enforce their radical view of the sharia law in the same way the fundamentalists did in Iran. The scene where Marji points out that her teacher is telling a lie about political prisoners is comparable to good moments we have all had in which we correct the teacher. In the next pages it is shown how her family worries that her attitudes might get her executed in the future. This can be compared to situations in which your parents tll you not to talk about a specific subject.

            When Marji´s parents decide she must go to Austria is comparable to how many people are moving out of Venezuela for security reasons. Also you can see the act that Marji and her parents are nervous and sad. Her parents because they are sending their child away, and Marji because she is going to a place where she does not really know anyone. And none of them know if they will ever see each other again. This is comparable to situations in which a parent has to give his child to an adoption agency for many different reasons.They are all scared and sad because they do not know if they will ever see each other again.

         

Death penalty in Iran

Reading Blo Persepolis-----The passport

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    This chapter reminds me of Colombia a little. Here in Colombia unfortunately there are people who manufacture  fake passports. But in persepolis the want a fake passport for Marjane´s uncle who was ill and needed treatment in England. Here in Colombia people made these fake documents to smuggle drugs into other countries . The fact that the place where these documents were being manufactured was destroyed doomed the uncle. Ironically  his real passport arrived the day of his funeral.

This chapter also reminds me of a case in which a man was waiting in line for medical treatment and died. This is comparable to the fact that uncle taher´s passport arrived the day of his funeral.The fact that this man was not able to receive medical treatment is really similar to uncle Taher´s case.The fact that the “passport manufacturers” were hiding a communist woman in their basement is comparable to political persecution here in Colombia. People often had to hide just for their political beliefs.

Fake Passports