Ethos, Pathos and Logos

This ad uses ethos. It shows Santa Claus drinking Coca-Cola, which makes people want to drink it themselves. Santa Claus is a famous person, who a lot of people respect.  

This photo uses logos. Because it gives you a fact about smoking. It shows the hand with a cigarette but the shadow with a gun, this means that you are killing yourself. And for people that smoke the fact about people dying because of smoking is shocking. 

This ad uses pathos. Because it is a really shocking and important picture. The photo shows awomen with a cellphone and blood jumping out of it, the ad is meant to "scare" people so they dont use their phones while driving.  

Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai is a girl that was shot lately in the head. She was shot because of her beliefs of fairness in the world. She lives in Mingora, a northwest region of Pakistan. Her hometown was brought under Taliban rule. The Taliban wanted for the religion to be respected and strictly used everywhere. Malala was a brave little girl that wrote a dairy for the BCC Urdu. In this dairy she explained what she thought about all the unfair and forbidden  things the Taliban rule was opponing on her town, and the suffering they were facing because o the Taliban rule. The main reason she stood up for her rights was the closing of girls schools. The Taliban's prohibited the education for girls. Malala was shot and people wanted her dead because she respected herself and stood up for her rights. 

I think Malala was a very brave girl. Although she knew that exposing her real feelings and thoughts would be bad and dangerous for her and her family, she never gave up. She is supported by her parents who said they preferred having this risk, than the mayor risk of not letting people know about this. She clearly inspired a lot of people, because she was one of the little amount of voices that spoked out, and made people realize what was happening infront of their own eyes. Also her hard work to prove this events to people succeeded, because she was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize in 2011. And she was awarded the National Peace Award. She indeed was had great bravery and the great independence she had, to do all of this practically alone. I think that what was done to Malala was really wrong, because every person in t he world share the same human rights. As the the list of human rights states:

18. Freedom of belief and thought. 

19. Freedom of expression

26. The right for education

This three and probably more rights wer not given to Malala or to the people of her town. This rights were forgotten and they were apart from Malala when she was shot. Although the militants thought this was a lesson for her and for the people that wanted to follow her steps, it wasn't. It was an unfair act. Malala is not the bad one here the Talibans are, and they are making life impossible to so many people that don't deserve it.

List of HUman Rights: http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/ 

Persepolis

The Veil

In my life, there has been restrictions  but never as strict as shown in the book with the veils.  I mean I could have family restrictions such as rules, but never rules that implicated how to dress in an obligatory way. This chapter of Persepolis reminds me of a Holocaust book named "Sarah's Key" because at first the Jew kids didn't put attention to the stars the stars sewn on their clothes, they thought it was a game, such as the war. The kids thought it was all a big game, and at the beginning of the book the girls who were required to use the veils thought it was a game.

Persepolis

In a personal experience, I have never suffered hard times, but as a volunteer at homes and very poor towns, you can watch similar behaviors as the book is telling. Were kids told me stories of their parents working for the army, and how they waited for their dads to come back home, how they  waited for days even weeks. Kids told me how they saw lots of dead people from wars and wounded soldiers. You can relate this two different stories because in the book Marji waits for her father to come back home from taking pictures of a demonstration. And the part of dead people is how there were dead martyrs from the revolution.

The Sheep

This chapter reminds me of another Holocaust story, it is a movie called the "Pianist", in this movie the main character is looking desperately a way to move away from the city he is living in. He wants to leave everything for a new life, a new start. In the book it says how many families were moving out of Iran. Also it says how they looked for people who could cause problems, tortured them  and finally executed them. This relates to the Holocaust too because they gathered Jews or people against the german rule, they captured them, tortured them in concentration camps and then executed them in cruel ways. What will happen to Marji and her family now that war has started? Will they go to follow and start a new life? Or will they fight for the freedom of their country ?

The Passport

This chapter talks about how ill people hadn't a major importance as they should have. I can connect this chapter with my personal life, because when I was little and I had hited myself with a desk so i was bleeding a lot, but in the hospital they weren't paying any attention to my injury, so my parents got really mad. The doctors started talking about random stuff, which didn't help my case, until my parents were taking me somewhere else to help me, they decided to help me closed the opening in my chin. This relates to the chapter because Marji's uncle has a heart attack and the doctors wouldn't give him the help he needed. so Ebi, Marji's dad went to get a false passport to take the man to a place were they could help him. But he died before he even could get hold of the false passport.

The Dowry

In this chapter Marji's parents tell her all the dangers she is exposed when she shows independence and when she fights against the rules.  This reminds when my parents thought me the dangers of life, and things I am exposed every day. Then when Marji's parents tell her about how she will move to Vienna. This reminds me when I went for 3 months to France alone, it is not as big as Marji's move, but it must feel the same sadness and loneliness we both felt. Although both situations were for the best, the feelings stay the same. I wonder what will happen to Marji in Vienna? What will happen to her parent? Will they ever catch up with her daughter? What happened to Marji's mom at the airport? Will Marji be happy? And will she succeed away from her parents? 

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Tablet XI

In this tablet Gilgamesh finally arrives to Utnapishtim. Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh the story of the flood and the reward the gods gave him and his wife of immortality. Utnapishtim explains what happen in those days in the boat in which he freed birds to see if life could "work" after the flood.  Then Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh he has to do a test in which he will show the gods his worth, he will rest for a week. After not accomplished the test, Gilgamesh begins the journey back to Uruk. Utnapishtim tells Gilgamesh a bout a secret of the gods, a secret plant that will help Gilgamesh. In his journey back to Uruk a serpent takes away the plant, so after all the hard work of Gilgamesh and the great journeys were for nothing. When he arrives to Uruk he asks Urshanabi to measure Uruk the city of Gilgamesh.

The end of tablet XI keeps me thinking what will happen to Gilgamesh and to his hard work to accomplish immortality. Will everything  will just stay the same? or will the gods will ever reward him?

What happens to us when we die?

I think that when we die, something else happens. I dont think that death is the end of everything, I think reincarnation could be a possible way in which I believe fully. I don't think our body stays were they left it but I do think that another stage of our "life" starts. Maybe reincarnation happens, or people go to Heaven or probably people just die, and nothing happens.   

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Tablets I - III

I really like mythology, and at the beginning of The Epic of Gilgamesh it starts by introducing this hero named Gilgamesh who is the king of Uruk. He created the right for him to sleep to new married brides. The people pleaded to the gods for help, the gods respond to their pleas by creating a similar creature as Gilgamesh named Enkidu in order to distract Gilgamesh. Enkidu was found by a hunter, who gives the notice to Gilgamesh. He decides to seduce this new creature with Shamhat. Enkidu and Gilgamesh have a battle, but after that they become friends. Gilgamesh talks about a journey to the Cedar forest to kill Huwawa so he could regain his total power. Ninsu the mother of Gilgamesh adopts Enkidu as her son.

Tablets IV- V

After traveling a lot Gilgamesh finally gets to Huwawa to kill him. Huwawa tries to convince Gilgamesh to become his servant. But Gilgamesh doesn't accept the offer and kills Huwawa.

Tablets VI - VII

In this part of the epic it shows how "friendship"overcomes love. When the goddess Ishtar is jealous of Enkidu and tries to break their bond. It shows how they can work everything together. But the jealousy of Isthar is so great that she decides that the path that will lead her to success is death. Enkidu dies and Gilgamesh can't do anything about it.  

Photography Inferences

The moment I saw this picture I was in loved with it. I really gets to your heart and makes you think. It gives you a lot of sad thoughts about what will happen to this little kid and to his father.  Also the picture gives you this feeling of shock where you just want to help the people in it. Here are my three inferences:

1.  The first thing you can infer from this picture is sadness or pain. You can infer this because of the expression the little boy has on his face, that indeed shoes sadness. Compassion with this little boy who's sad because of this person. It shoes the little kid crying in the arms of this person who could be his father.  You can infer that this adult is a soldier, because of his uniform. And that he is going away from his family or seeing them again, which also makes you think of compassion with the soldier.

2. By the picture you can also infer that this adult has a great responsibility, in the case that this person was a soldier. It shoes the responsibility that he has for his country, and for his vocation. You could say the responsibility of the man means he has to leave almost everything apart so he can accomplish his mission. Even his family.

3. Also you could infer that they are going to be apart of each other for a long time, or that they are reuniting from a long time separated. This thoughts could  give you nostalgia, thinking that they could have been separated for months, even years, and they can finally see each other again. Or in a bad occasion saying a painful goodbye. Which also shoes the pain and sadness some people live.