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Book 4

4.17 The master said, “When you see someone who is worthy, concentrate upon becoming their equal; when you see someone who is unworthy, use this opportunity to look within them.

As I read this, I realized that sometimes we should reflect more on our actions. Sometimes we judge people from their outside and that gives us certain opinions that we are unable to fully develop until we look beyond the outside and look within the person. When we get a first impression we might say that a person looks beautiful in the outside but however, how do we really now his/her character? If we look around we usually stay with the people that we consider right, good, or similar to us, but what if we didn’t look beyond that. We would end up with no friends and alone in this world, because everyone is different. We will always have discussions or different points of view with other people, but doesn’t mean we can’t be friends with them or even admire them. A true friend will always try to comprehend you, although he/she may think differently. We admire people like our favorite actors, writers, singers, and artists. We can concentrate to become similar to them or become their equal. But within us we should always concentrate on looking in the inside before the outside of a person.

Logos, Ethos, and Pathos

Logos

 

This is an Axe advertisement that uses logos. Advertisements always look for a target market. But what is a target market? It is who the product is for based on age, genre, and socio economic class. The target market for this particular advertisement, are men between the ages of 15-30 of a good socio economic class. But what does this have to do with the technique used in the advertisement? Well, logos is a technique used for the viewers reasoning. Based on the target market (men) when they see this advertisement their natural thoughts could be "If I use axe I will get girls". That is not necessarily true but it will be the effect that the advertisement will bring and what the technique logos is looking for.


                                               Ethos

In our tastes in music, movies, and TV shows we all have our favorite singers, actors, and actress. This is something the advertisement technique ethos loves to use. Don’t drink any water; drink the water that Jennifer Anniston drinks. In reality is the same water as any other water, but we all know her and if she drinks it, why not give it a try. Ethos looks for people we know and people we admire to think, "Well she is one of my favorite actresses, I will use the same products as she does". It could be a singer, actor, actress, or even a cartoon character but what is important is we all know them and we admire them, so we would use the same products that they use.

                                                                      Pathos




 

"In town, car accidents don't just happen to cars". When we see this picture and read this quote we feel both fear and pain. We see the pain the little girl's eyes, and feel fear of that happening to us. That is exactly what the technique Pathos is looking for (generating some type of emotion in the viewer.)

 

 

Malala Yousafzai

Sometimes we worry about not having a shirt, wanting to buy some jeans, many different insignificant things that don't affect our lifes. But if we look beyond our country and the small bubble we live in we can find that there are so many people our there that really have to suffer in life.  As I read two articles based on a girl called Malala Yousafzi, I realized that my life is really perfect ccompared to hers. She is a girl that wants to learn and wants to study. She wants to have a future as a doctor and she knows that the only way to get there is to study hard. But hte Talibans took over her country and city in 2007 and closed all her schools. In a rebelious act she started to write a blogg just like this one in which she expressed the things she felt towards the situation her country, and city were living in. A few years after she started writing the blogg, on her way home from school she was shot in the head and in the neck by the talibans.

When I read this I thought I was fourteen too a month ago. I know what is like to be a teenager and as the years pass and I turn more into one I realize that it is very hard for a teenager to express what they feel with words. They rather express it through their music, hobbies, and activities in school. But Malala was an exception. She expressed what she felt and showed it of to the world. She wasn't afraid of showing the cruel reality of her life and of her world. And because of that she got attacked.

It is very sad this happened to Malala. She is a very courageous girl with a very big heart.

The Sheep

As I read through this chapter I could connected a little with my own life. Last year I moved to Minnesota and nevered imagined I would make so many friends and leave some of my best friends there. When I read this chapter I wondered if any of my friends felt like the main character in this book when her friend left to the United states.
Apart from that part I thought this was a very unexpected chapter. It has both sadness and happiness, but mostly sadness.
I felt really sad when her uncle was arrested and killed, because loosing someone you love is really hard especially when they are really attached to you.

Persepolis

As I read throught this chapter I had some questions about it.

1:Why was her grandpa in prison?

2:How many years was her grandfather in prison?

3:How does the main character feel about her grandfather being in prison? Ashamed or proud?

4:What did the goverment think and feel towards the Martyrs?

5:How much attention did people get by crying and screaming for the Martyrs?

6:What did the widow think about her husband being a Martyr after he had actually died of cancer?

The Veil

As I read through this chapter, I thoughts that some words were very important to the text because they explained and demonstrated what the author was feeling, and what she was trying to say.

Veil: I thought this word was important beacuse it showed why the author felt the way she was feeling, and what was her reaction.

Revolution: This word tells why the story is taking place. Why people don't agree with their goverment, and how the girl in this book is impacted by this word.

Obligatory: I think this word is important in this chapter, because it shows/ explains how people are force to do something. In this case girls were forced to wear their veils.

Decadence: a decadence is the act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state. This describes the reason for the revolution the main character is halving to face.

Prophet: a prophet is a person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration. This has relevance with the other words mentioned before. But in a different way. All of the words above were things and problems the main character had to face. But this word is what she wanted to be.