the Mind

On this week, we took unit 6 which it talks about The Mind. We discuss in the class about the mind and we shared the idea with the classmate. Also, we talk a bout the dream. Everyone in the class talk about their culture. In all culture have suppression. Likewise, in my culture we have suppression which it if you dream bad thing you keep it secret and don’t say it for any person because when you say it , it might happen. Also, if it’s good dream you can say it. But, it’s opposite to Juan culture. In addition, there are many theorizing the dream. For example, if you dream you have rabbits the theorizing for this dream is form each rabbit you will have million dollars. Also, when we were in the lab and we searched about some information. For example, I read about the cabs drivers in London, they can remember the direction with no navigation and London is one of the biggest cities. Also, we did IQ Test to see how we are intelligent. We all do it and we are enjoy do this because we can see how we are intelligent. This is really good time and we enjoy doing like this. This is first time we do it. Also, the topic of this week was really interesting because we know more about other culture and suppressions.

Shocking dream or reality!

This week, we have learned about mind and dreams. Usually, when we fall asleep, we tend to be more unconsciously and knowing nothing. Also, many of people do not remember dreams when they get up on the bad. Sometimes, although we totally awoke up, something is going to happen strange. Let me introduce you. I heard very strange dream (exactly not dream) from someone who works for me at the military when I was a sergeant. One day, in the almost morning at the barrack, everyone was sleeping but him. He wanted to go to the kitchen to drink water, but he couldn’t get up and move. The only movement is his eyes. Suddenly, he realized that a stranger who does not have legs is going to kill him by wring his neck. He tried to resist, but he couldn’t any yell. Then he thought that maybe I am going to die. Unexpectedly, the alarm clock went ring, so everyone get up on the floor. Then he can get up with a cold sweat on whole body. Everyone was surprised from his horrible experience. I wish I don’t want to happen that kind of shocking events.

... including my theory(you might not accept it)...

The world of dreams is really interesting and strange. All people dream, but not all of them tell about their dreams. Among different cultures, there are different beliefs about dreams. In my culture, we deal with dreams according to our religion which is Islam, and there are two possibilities of dreams. The first possibility: if a person had a good dream, he is encouraged to tell other people about it assuming that his dream will happen in the reality. The second possibility: if a person, on the other hand, had a bad dream, he is encouraged not to tell any body about it because it might happen if he did. In fact, I think people always dream about what they think about. For instance, I dreamed that I went to my home in Saudi Arabia many times because I think about that all the time. About my dreams, I don’t remember any special dream, but I remember a strange dream that I heard from a friend who is from Saudi Arabia: he dreamed about a very huge fire ball which was suspended in the middle of the sky, and all people were looking at that ball. I couldn’t figure out what does that mean, but I think it’s strange enough to talk about. Also, I want to hammer a point home that sometimes I do something, and I feel that I saw it before. My theory about this is that I had already dreamed about that thing. Then, when I saw it in the reality, it had already been in my subconscious. In conclusion, dreams are, sometimes, really strange and interesting.

dreams, dreams, and dreams!! another world...

The mind and dreams!! What an exciting topic is!! This is the most interesting topic I have ever read since the beginning of the semester. It shows how we have extraordinary machines that if we used it totally, we would not need to use computers!! We use only 10% of the capacity of our minds which is a little percentage. However, this is not my main point? I want to talk more about dreams, especially, how human-being visualize the reasons of dreams. I read this article about dreams for Kristin Von Kresisler. It says that ancient Greeks believed that dreams are messages from gods. On the other hand, In middle ages, people thought dreams are a signal that the demons visited you!!! Really exciting topic!! Decades ago, experts thought dreams and nightmares are results of problems in breathing and lack of Oxygen in the body. In this era, scientists have had more than one interspersion of dreams’ causes. The first group of whom thinks that dreams happen as a reaction for some minds activities that progress while we sleep, nevertheless, the second group of whom believe dreams are a deep messages from ourselves warn us from something, or want us to do something else. Others think dreams are prediction of our next lives. However, the debate about this topic still has not ended yet. My opinion is dreams might be a result of all of what have been mentioned. Sometimes, I can connect my dream with my future or an event has happened to me, but sometimes I feel it was only something has no sense. Really, Its interesting topic, and as long there is human-being, there will be debate about dreams!!! In the end, I wish you all good dreams. Have nice nights all…………… I wish I would dream about my mom !!! at least I can meet her somehow ......

The dreams in my Culture !! <--- - - - -

I really enjoyed this chapter, It was about the dreams and their effect.
In our culture, there are some important thing that relate to the dreams. People whom dream about bad thing like the death, accident and problems in general, the avoid telling any body about their dream, because that doing make this bad dream happened, on the other hands if someone had good dream, the people can share this dream with the others. Last year one of my best friend had dreamed about something bad, he told, he saw his mother died in front of his eyes. After this dream by three weeks, I heard his mother died, and what happened in the dream had happened again but in real life, she was taking him to the school, after she dropped him., she made an accident on front of his eyes, and this was the reason for her death, I was sorry for that. And also was hard lesson for my friend and for everyone who had heard about this story.

What’s in a Dream?

I think everybody dreams every day. Of course I dream everyday but I don’t remember my dream after I woke up. According to Freud’s view, dreams were full of hidden meaning and repressed desires. I think dreams are the result of subliminal thoughts and desires. I think dreams are made of many small parts of memory and imagination that get combined to form dream imagery. I experienced the same situation as I am thinking about now. Yesterday as soon as I got home, I did my laundry by my hands. I hung my clothes at a bathroom. I was very tired and I went to sleep earlier than before. I dreamed that In my dream, I saw my clothes that I did laundry yesterday night and the water from a bathtub was flooded. I was very shocked and worried about flooding water in my dream. After I woke up, I went to a bathroom and noticed my clothes. They are hanging on the rack as usual. I think about this week’s topic, Dream, very carefully. I am not sure I have a dream tonight. I want to see my mom and dad in my dream. What’s in my dream, tonight?

HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT " sleep -walking"???

Hello everybody,

This week, we learnt about "mind" and "dream" in Brandy & Amy class. In my opinion, This topic is very interesting because it brings up a variety of issues and questions.
One thing is certain that my classmates and my teachers, of course, don't believe that the dream will become real.
On the contrary, most people believe the dream because of their traditional culture, superstitition and their ancestors. For instance, in my country, if a member of the family had a nightmare, the following day they would sacrifice a cow. Another example to share with you of superstition about dreams is whether you plan to take a plane, the night before you have a nightmare where the plane crashes, you should cancel your trip. That superstitution still exist in my country even today.
Finally, according to Laureat'wisdom, the sleep-walking ,as it name suggest , when you are doing things or activities when you are awake but in fact, you are asleep.
1- has it ever happen to you?
2- when you wake up from a good dream, are you upset because your dream wasn't real or are you excited because you had a good dream?
3- one question came up for me is whether there is a universal dream that all men have and difference dream that all women have.
For example, while the men dream about sports, the women dream about beauty and aesthetics.

mind

I really enjoyed this chapter about the mind this week. It is very interesting, and always they are new thing to learn about. The mind is a subject that always had been researcher, and always researcher discover new things. One of the most imported thing that researcher had discovered is that we use just 10% of our mind and it is not only the memories. Can you imagine if we use more then that? The following question is; if we have the possibility to use more then 10% how can we us more then the normal? As one researcher said that people who are left handed are more intelligent then people who are right handed. The reason of that is because we have two part in the mind; the right and the left. In the right part there are different capacity then the left part, and when people use their left hand they automatically make also the left part of the mind work harder, and they gain both. The right side of the mind, any way, they have like every one. I really want to try working and writing with my left hand, who know maybe i will be more intelligent?...

Aesthetics.......

I think that apperance is so important to live a society. In my culture, image is so important. So many korean people spend a lot of money and time to look nice. there are so many reasons to make appreance. To get a job, to get a girl friend and to make a friend, people dress themselves up. I agree that exercising, cutting hair and skin caring is a good way to look nice. But, plastic surgery is so bad way. Although, many people knew that the plastic surgery was so bad to their body, they want to do plastic surgery. Because the plastic surgery very easy way. Frankly speaking, in my country, so many people have been exprienced doing plastic surgery. Even men have exprience's with plastic surgery. I really hate that. It's so dangerous. And our face and body are presents that our parents give. Anyway, the beauty is getting important to us. as you make yourself up though good way, it's a very good to you. If we struggle in life we do not place emphasis on aesthetics.

“Super Models should be allowed to be as thin as they want?”

Last week in Amy’s class, we were talking about one topic that completely caught my eye: “Super Models should be allowed to be as thin as they want?” I think that the debate we had in class was very interesting because there were very good points of view to be for and against. My particular opinion is that in these days many young people try to imitate the style of life of the supermodels, not only wearing the same clothes, also getting special diet to be as thin as the supermodels. Many of them don’t care about their self health and they start to stop eating well, doing a lot of sports and anything they could, only to be thinner. Like a consequence of that many girls develop two eating disorders which are very dangerous and unhealthy for them: Anorexia and Bulimia. One friend of mine had bulimia a couple of years ago and that was horrible not only for her, also for all her family. It took her more than 1 year to recover for it physically and emotionally.

I know that anybody have their own rights. Some people might say “It’s my body, and I could do anything with it because is my life” and it’s true. But I think there are some people who have to know they are models of life for many others. Maybe, many people have the money to take care of their self with the help of a doctor or a nutritionist, but there are many people too, who don’t have the money and they put in risk their life trying to imitate supermodels life.

It is a very controversial topic and I’m looking forward hearing your opinions.

"BETTER BIRDS ARE THE WORST SINGER"

First, I apologize to choose another topic because my classmates talked a lot about tattoos, I don't want to re-tattoo again my topic.

Second, this week, we learnt about Beauty and Aesthetics. So, I take advantage to repeat the question in classroom : What makes people look attractive? How important to you is apparence?

Some people are interested in beauty, some are interested in body. Everyone has a lot of comments about apparence such as face,clothes, tattoos,hair, body, tall, short, young,mature. There are all stereotypes of beauty.

In my opinion, beauty is useful but not important. there is a proverb : better birds are the worst singer. By and large, I noticed that pretty women and handsome men made a lot of mistakes if I compare with ugly men or ugly women.
To be honest with you, good attitude or nice behaviour is very crucial for me.
For example, due of my beauty and my clothes, my boss was impressed, was eager to hire me in his company. After , I stole the money in this company, I am not sociable with my teamworker. What conclusion would you explain if you were my boss? Because I'm handsome and I wore nice clothes , you cannot fire me???. my clothes are very important because they are expensive.???

Another opinion, beauty is also not important for me because you need it for a short time of period, not permanent. let me explain:
For example, there is a nice car TOYOTA, very nice. whether you don't have it, you push yourself to buy it or to have it. By the time you have it, you need another car BMW. You noticed that TOYOTA became old and you need to buy another one, nice one BMW. so, it is vice-circle. In addition, you know, of course, that human beings had never been satisfied.

In conclusion, whatever his or her apparence with tattoo or without tattoos, ugly or handsome, nice attitude is tremendously important for our community or society.

Tattoos

After reading beauty and aesthetics this week, I thought about appearance especially wearing tattoos. It is very interesting that meaning of tattoo which comes from the Tahitian word "tatau". "ta" means hand , and "ta" is repeated and "u" represents "color" With the origin of word I can realize tatto is related with a part of body with color. To put it bluntly, I am very afraid of wearing tattos. Recently, tattoos have been more popular than before. Young guys are prone to wear tattoos to show their brave and strength, carving strong and animals such as dragons and eagles. On the other hand, some young women tend to wear "henna" ( a sort of tattoo) to reprent their beauty especially in summer season in Korea. I think wearing tattoos could be personal taste and a symbol of beauty.

Beauty and Aesthetics

This week we had a lot of desiccation about Aesthetics and Beauty. It was really an interesting topic and we enjoyed it a lot. I learned so many things about the beauty in this world such as the most beautiful building in the world like the great castle of Taj Mahal, Alhambra palace, and Himeiji castle. We compared between them and learned lots of words from this comp ration. Because Brandi has visited Taj Mahal we had the opportunity to have extra information about it. She showed us some photos of Taj Mahal and explained about it history. I also learned a lot of reading strategy through reading about those castles, as getting the meaning from structure contacts, illustrating ideas and previewing a reading to identify the key people. On the other hand I learned lots of things about academic assays on the writing book. The tattoos were hard subject to write about, but with the research that we did before writing the assay it became easy. We also discussed about how important is our appearance to us and some of us thought that it is very important, while other thought it’s normal. Finally I learned that Aesthetics is the philosophy of the beauty. I think that our book is a really interesting book because it has lots of great topics and every chapter surprised you with the verity and the amount of information that it has. Thank you Brandi and Amy for choosing those wonderful books

Aesthetics and Beauty

On this week we study about the Aesthetics and Beauty. It’s really interesting topic. Under this topic we discuss a lot of things with student and we know a lot a bout different culture know. One of these topics is tattoos. Tattoos are marked which people do it to be different from other people. Tattoos are familiar in some country, and in other country tattoos are kind of bad things like wise in Japan the people who put a tattoos are gangsters. In my country, nobody put the tattoos but there is something it maybe it’s similar to tattoos but it disappear after few days it’s called Al-Henna, it’s just for lady not for a man. I think tattoos have many disadvantage. First, when you make the tattoos you can’t disappear. Second, it makes a lot of diseases like cancer. Also, when you have tattoo and you come old, the tattoo looks like blurring. In addition, what I think Al-Henna better than tattoos because it has benefit for person, it doesn’t make dieses. Also, tattoos are burn yourself but the al-henna just draws what you want. On the other hand, I think it has an advantage which is covering the scar. Finally, when I get a chance to do tattoo I will not do it because I like my normal body with out any thing drew on it.

Beauty and Aesthetics

There are many people think appearance is very important and I think it is true. Our appearance makes us have more chances. For instance, when we have an interview for a job, we have to wear very neatly to enhance our appearance. Therefore, we not only give interviewer have a good impression but also get more chance to talk to interviewer. In my case, I very care about my appearance because I want to give people who see me have a good impression. I do not make up but I try to make my heir and wearing neatly and cleanly. This week we also discuss about tattoo, and I have some opinion about it. Actually, I do not like tattoo; it make me scare when I see someone have tattoo. In Taiwan, if people have tattoo, we will think he is a gangster or bad person. According to my observation, 80% gangsters have tattoo. I do not know if it is a true or not. It’s just my observation and opinion. Now, the social concept is gradually changing because there are many people have tattoo for beauty and fashion. I think I should try to change my mind and try to accept people who have tattoo.

This is just my opinion!!!

Tattoos are considered as bad things in my culture. Although I know many motivations why people get tattoos, I still don’t accept them. I think tattoos do not make people look attractive. I know that some people get tattoos as a symbol of their tribe, and others get tattoos because of their interests about the body’s art. I think that people who get tattoos to enhance their bodies’ beauty are not quit happy with their appearance. I feel that it’s disgusting to have tattoos on your body. When I hear that tattoos are known as a self expression, I think that people are able to express themselves in other ways which would be better than having tattoos. In fact, there are other different ways to enhance body’s beauty such as having cosmetic surgery and wearing attractive clothes. While I believe that wearing attractive clothes to enhance the beauty of a body is more attractive than having tattoos, I still respect opinions and motives of people who have already gotten tattoos. Also, I believe that beauty and looking attractive is important thing in my daily life. Wearing attractive clothes gives people an idea that you care about your appearance; on the other hand, getting tattoos might gives people bad ideas that a person who have them on his/her body might be a bad person, and that is because it’s common that members of gangs usually get tattoos to show their membership in such gangs. Not to beat around the bush, I hate tattoos, and I would never think about having one.

Tattoo-so scared

In my culture, a number of people, especially tattoo, often thought that people who have tattooed must be the mafia. Because doing a tattoo is not common event in Korea, it is hard to find a tattoo. Also, whenever I watched the mafia from the news which appears in court for crime, almost of the mafia have tattooed on theirs back. That’s why Korean is easily frightened to people who have tattooed. 3 years ago, accidentally, I met elementary schoolmate in the downtown. I was so happy to meet him, so after we went to the bar, we go to a public bath. I was surprised to him when he took off his clothes. He has tattooed a lot of dragons and flowers on his whole body. After I saw that, suddenly I corrected my attitude more polite, and gave him soda and many snacks. He said that I belong to the mafia. According to his speech, almost of his group have tattooed on whole body. The point is, I am still afraid to people who have tattoo in Korea. That's a shocking experience. I'll never forget what I saw.

Tattoo !!

The history of tattoo began over 5000 years ago by accident!There was someone who had small wound, and rubbed it with a hand that was dirty with soot and ashes from fire. Once the wound had healed, they saw that a mark a stayed permanently. There are a lot of ensure story, but the real story that had approved is this story. Tattoo is very popular in the world and especially here in USA. People are doing tattoo for many reasons. First reason, people has tattoo to remind them by something that happened to them, for example the prisoner and the people in the war, and in some culture in the past they used it to show they from which tribe they belong. Second a lot of people whom likes and loves are considering tattoo from body art and this specific reason for them to do have tattoo, and relate tattoo to the fashion. finally I my opinion if I will chance to have a tattoo I will never accept that because I think it's crazy thing to colored your body, and keep on your body for the rest of your life.

tattoo in my dream !!

Beauty and aesthetic is a very big title to talk about. The vision of beauty and aesthetic is different from a culture to another. In many culture, having a tattoo is a big deal. In Japan and the U.S., it’s a sign of gangsters. In my culture, having a tattoo is a sign of being bad. Actually, I like to see wrestlers wearing tattoos. Its really look nice on their body, they really show that the wrestlers are strong and tough. On the other hand, I feel disgusting when I see them ahead of me. I have no clear opinion about them. To put it bluntly, I would not like to have one. The wearer would find it nice today, and he would hate their appearance tomorrow. Because of that I’d like to have the same appearance that I was born in. I wonder why people wear tattoos?? Is it because they believe in them?? Or there is subliminal reason for wearing them? I really would like to talk to a tattoos wearer and gain some knowledge about their motives?? Setting with someone and asking him or her about their motives is better or more helpful to understand him or her. There may be some really motives that might convince me to wear one! Why not!! I’d like to do so if I found a logical reason. However and up until now, I still have my reasons not to wear tattoos.

beauty

there are many way how people can change there appearance; One way to do it is by doing tattoos. the historical of tattoos is very interesting. Tattoos was started 2000 years ago and one of the first group was Polynesia's Societies across the pacific ocean. tattoos was mad by mix liquid: sugar, candienut oil, coconut mikwater and other plant liquid. The liquid was inject by a thin shark and the pain was extrme. usually tattoos was the same design from father to son and that show there relationships between them. tattoos was very imported that they mad a big ceremony for children how get tattoos. women also did tattoos but after there were married. usually women were aloud to do it on there hand or on there lag and it called Lima. to mad a tattoos was very difficult and took a year to complete the design. people used to spend a lot of money to make it more beautiful and attractive. Tody people are doing tattoos for beauty and to be attractive and different. There is 16% adult in the u.s.a that they have at least one tattoo. women use to do tattoos on there lower back and on there nails. men use to do tattoos on there shoulder or on there face. as a conclusion beauty and the way people look is very imported and people accept to spend a lot of money and to support the pain.

Gender and Relationship

Male and female both of them are human. Everyone have their responsibility. Also both of them have their characteristics. Male and female both have his/her responsibility to do it.
In my culture, male has more responsibility more than women. He can protect the female which it his wife, his mother, his sister and his daughter. He has emotion but he is disappeared it because he didn’t want to show he is a weak. Male work to bring money and to take care for his children and his wife.

I addition, female is very weak. She just takes care for his husband. Some of female don’t work just work in her house to take care for his children. Female is very emotional, in my country the women can’t be the judge because she is very emotional maybe she will be at wrong and the people can be the victim. She must obey his husband.

In conclusion, in my country, male and female are equilibrium. Both of them has/ her job. But female must obey the male rules to be saving because he takes care of her.

Some thoughts of Omar Sabir

I like this topic because it’s related to our daily life. It explains some behavior that we don’t pay attention for. Every person has relationships with males and females, and that’s why this topic is important. For example, a student has relationships in his school with his friends (males or females). A wife has relationships with her husband and her relatives. I notice many things we studied when I chat with some friends from my country. When females talk, they always use tag questions, and they always share their privacy lives with their close friends. On the other hand, males don’t talk as much as females. Also, males hang out with their friends to get away from it all. When I talk about this point, I remember my self in Saudi Arabia. When I have any problem, I hang out with my friends, and that help me solving my problems. In contrast, females like to talk about their problems with their friend on the phone, and this is noticeable in my country. Because of the different ways in communicating, misunderstanding happens a lot in relationship between males and females. In many cases of misunderstanding, a problem lasts for a long time because both (male and female) think that they didn’t make something wrong, so they don’t apology. In a relationship with someone whom you love, I think it’s necessary to expect that you might have some result that you don’t like. At the end, I believe that in this the life. There is no perfect situation.

gender and relationship

As i heard about other culture's relationship, i really suprised. Specially, i knew all of the people has a same thinking about relationship of men and women. I thought that other culture's people had a different problem about love. and i thought that they had a different role. but, my thinking was wrong. men don't want to talk about their private life. And do not care about other people's feeling. In my culture, men have to be a real men. If you revealed behavior like women, you are blamed by other people. Likewise women should be a more women being. Most of korean guys like "girly girl". In case of the women little different, long time ago women like a tough guy , nowadays, however women like more sensitive men. that is a sad news. because i am not a sensitive man.

Gender and relationship

At the last time in Korea include history, There was a lot of unfair things between male and female in Korean society. That was common thought that women don't need high quality education. For example my mother couldn't sing a song in her house when she was high school students. And my mother couldn't get a high quality education which are kind of college or university. Because, financial funds were using for their son's education and future. Anyway almost female who is mother in Korea were felt unfair in their childhood. But there is many changing in Korea. There is a government of women’s rights in there. It makes that solve a lot of unfair problems. But it rises up another problem in solving unfair problem in Korean society. A government of women’s right is solving the problem without result. Of course, they solve the problems about unfair between sexes and about prostitute. But they solve the problem not to fair between male and female, they solve problem to not fair against male. For example, male in Korea has duty of military for 2 year. They could get a extra points in government exam which is to be national officer. A government of women stopped this law, because they thought that is not fair in employment policy. All of male feel upset. Because, The extra point is a rightful. It’s compensation of duty. Anyway government of women are doing such as a idiot thing in now.

Gender and relationships

There are many kinds of relationships for everyone like relationship with family, relationship with friends and relationship with your lover. Therefore, Relationship is very important for people. The hardest relationship is a relationship between woman and man. History culture in Chinese, the only one thing msn had to do is go to work. The woman had to take care a lot of things like housework, child, and only could stay at home. Woman also had to listen to her husband in everything and she could not have any reject. At that time, there were many men and wives really did not have a good relationship. Fortunately, now the society concept is better than before. Many Men like to do housework and share wife’s toil but some men’s concept still maintain as before. Just depend on person. In my opinion, the relationship between woman and man is very hard because there are many man and wife divorce. Why they divorce? I think either affair or they don’t have a good relationship like they don’t love each other anymore or always argue even just a tiny thing. Maybe when we find real love then it will be easy.

In my country it’s different

In my country the relation ship between the two gander men and women are different from U.S. the relation ship before engaged is different, the wedding is different and the live after marred is different .

In my country the relation ship between men and women before engagement are totally different from here, for example here the girl start dating boys when she almost 16 years old or maybe less, but in my country it not allowed for you to date a girl before you get engaged. of course you can take to here and meet her but her family must be aware of what happing between you and here. for example you can meet here at her father house and they will let you to talk alone but they will be watching you from far distance ,or you can go with her family out to dinner or some where else where you can talk to here while her family aware about you two. Usually in my country relation ship begin from working together or from school or even college. Also it’s common that the girls and boys let their family know when they are seen some one, spatially girls must do that. The community there believe that on this way they will protect the society from the problem that the other society suffering from such as children with unknown fathers and girls who get pregnant early so she doesn’t complete here studies because of the heavy responsibility that they will have to curry.


In my country also the wedding are so different from here. In my country men take almost all the responsipelity of the mirages steps but women play a very small role. For example in my country the men have to give a gift to the women before mirage (amount of money usually between 20 two 30 thousand doers). He also will have to take care of every thing from the party and the ring of engagement until the wedding. In addition it’s common that the man gives the bride a voluble gift on the first morning for here mirage. So I thing that women in my country are so lucky.

Gender and relationships (0 <)

It was nice chapter about gender and relationships, we had useful desiccation about the theme of this chapter, we learn a lot thing about the way of men and women life in the USA and the treatment between each other for Brandi also from the movie that we saw it yesterday, also I learned new thing that were unknown for me about some cultures. In general me and my class mate gat excited about this chapter we learn a lot and we talked a lot to be honest because the theme of this chapter are need more talking and desiccation. And I don't forget some disagreement that were between girls and boys about things that related to this chapter, the girls were so excited as us but some time they gat excited more than us, but finally as usual our thoughts were better and we and persuaded the others easily.
Finally I would thank my classmate for their working hard this week and hope them spend nice cold weekend.

The differences of expression; Men and Women

Today we discussed Gender Differences in Communication in class. I am usually interested with communication method in terms of men and women. In general women are capable of more speaking skills than men. Probably women like to talk with somebody. It is interesting that women use tags and question, whereas men make more declarative statements than women.
In real situation it's true I think. When I chat with my friend by messenger, I often ask him such as what are you doing now? what are going to do ? something like that. After studying today's lesson, it's a big difference between men and women in communication. I read the book " Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus by John Gray a long time ago. It was a little impressed and amazed by the book. I could know the differences between men and women. It was unusual that men solve the problems by themselves when they are in trouble. For instnace, men go to a burrow and then speak thier troubles by themselves not to share with other people. However, women have a hard time solving problems, they talk with their family and friends. Women would like to solve the problems with others' help. Next time I want to have an opportunity to survey and do the experiment about the gender difference in communication.

What we studied today was a very wonderful lesson. I thought at first it’s only that kind of lessons to fill the book for students with topics most of it does not have any kind of reality. In fact, I found something happening while we were studying. That thing is when we were in our group discussing the questions, we had a small argument about the answer among Jenifer and I. she was trying to cooperate with me to find the correct answer; however, I felt when I said something and she did not accept my answer, at that moment, I felt kind of competitive. This really happened before we got to the next question which was a bout some experiences from you life about it. When I read the second question I believed that there are many differences between men and women when they talk or discuss something. This might seem strange or rude from men when they do something like that, but for reality, it’s our nature that we are used to using when we treat each other, otherwise we will not be real men. This is one of the funniest stories in my life because I had learnt something, and experience it the next minutes without meaning doing that. Also, we might disturb or tease each other when we speak, but as I said it’s not intentionally because it’s something we are used to.

Gender Differences: Innate or Learned?

Thank you everyone for your interesting discussions.

I tend to agree with Juan--that there aren't any real differences between males and females. I've observed male/female relationships in different cultures, and I think that where strong differences do exist, this is do to learned social behavior, which is strongly influenced by political, religious, and cultural norms.

In societies where women have the freedom to make other choices rather than merely getting married and having children, we see that they enter into politics, science, a variety of professions. And many of them make the decision to live independently, or to delay marrying and having children until they are older.

Also, in societies where the men have freedom to make other choices, we see them choosing roles that are traditionally limited to women, such as staying home to raise families, becoming nurses or other fields traditionally dominated by women. I know a number of couples who decided together that the woman would work because she makes more money, and the man would stay home to raise the children, because he wanted to spend more time with the children. Both people in the relation are happy because they are free to choose to do what they love.

What about your countries? How are the gender relations where you are from?

No differences between men and women

I have to say before I start writing that I have talked about this topic many times with my friends and also with my family. I’m strong defender about the human rights and I think there are no differences between anybody. I think there are no differences between people from different religions, culture, color and also between male and female. Everybody of us has the same rights and we have one thing in common: we are humans. I heard that in many societies woman are not supposed to have higher jobs in a company or in politics. I’m totally disagreeing with that, but I respect their opinions. Anyway, I want to share with you, maybe some of you have heard this before, that in South America we are living a time where women have reached a very high position in society and the roles that they are playing are the same and in many cases, better than the roles which are playing by men. One example of that is that in Chile a woman -Michelle Bachelet- had been elected as the president of the country the last year and she has been doing very well. In my country, another woman was very close to be the president; she loosed the elections for less than 3%. In many companies higher positions are occupied for women because they have shown that they can do the work better than a man.

On the other hand, is very common to hear that women are supposed to be the people who have to take care about children and home. They are supposed to spend more time with children and I’m not agreeing with that. I want to be a father in the future and I’ll make anything as possible to spend a lot of time with my children playing, talking and laughing with them.

Finally, I’ll try to bring all of you, my opinion about the question of our friend Laureat. Is there any difference between Love and Real Love? Well, I’m totally agreed with you Laureat. I don’t know any difference between love and real love. I love my mom, I love my brothers and I love my friends. And what is love? It’s something real. Maybe you can love someone more than other one, and also you can love in different ways, for example the love that you can have for your mother maybe is different than the love you can have for your girlfriend, that’s true, but in both cases love is love, and both are real.

I’m looking forward reading your opinions.

GENDER AND RELATIONSHIPS= male + female

By and large, human beings express different ways to communicate, to think, to choose someone or something in the world. Each decade, everything changes. That's why the older person say: "taste and color , don't discuss" or love is blind. This two sayings allow me to discuss about love and real love between male and female in our country that we discussed in class this week. Because of time, I take advantage right now to explain a little more.
In my country, female is not supposed to choose her boyfriend or her suitor. It's up to the male to choose and say his love to the female. Furthermore, the people consider rude to a female who begins to express his love to the man.
Consequently, Malagasy female are shy to communicate because of this stereotype. Even if they should express their love, they try indirectly to show them step by step.



Before saying good bye to you my friends, I want to explain a little bit about our definition " love and real love, last week".
In my opinion, love and real love is the same definition.
1- How could you share some love on your partner,or relatives if it is not real.? it may be called " TRICK LOVE OR HALF LOVE or WHAT ??
2- If someone says to his boyfriend or girlfriend " I LOVE YOU, I'd like to ask your opinion at this time, for you, REAL LOVE OR HALF LOVE OR WHAT???

My classmates, it would be nice if you answer my questions or share some ideas.

Gender

In itch culture gender is different; the way meal and female should beehive, their jobs, their relationships between theme and even there thought. In the modern world meal use to compare there slave to men and they try hard to get all there equality. now, women really succeed and we can see they are in good jobs, they are in the political lives, they can do almost every thing that men do. In my culture is almost the same, but the different is that a women know to be also a mother, to take care of her children, her husband, her House. I thing that women can do both,and that is the way that she can fill she is a women like her nature. I thing women in modern society loss allot of their feminine even if they gain others good things,like equality in many ways. I want to say an important point. way should women always compare her self to men? Every one know that men for example have Moor physical power, are we already saw a woman how work in a moving company? I meed god give every one his nature,way should people Brok those law? isn't ridicules if men stay home to take care of the children ,to cook and to clean regularly? isn't a beauty for women to get birth for example and to live with her husband and to fill his protection of her? I personally, like to ask advies from my husband I like when he tell me what to wear for special occasion, or when he come with me to buy cloths. I know what I'm saying not every one will agree with, but i respect any other opinion, and i hope no one will be angry of what i say.

Gender

In itch culture gender is different; the way meal and female should beehive, their jobs, their relationships between theme and even there thought. In the modern world meal use to compare there slave to men and they try hard to get all there equality. now, women really succeed and we can see they are in good jobs, they are in the political lives, they can do almost every thing that men do. In my culture is almost the same, but the different is that a women know to be also a mother, to take care of her children, her husband, her House. I thing that women can do both,and that is the way that she can fill she is a women like her nature. I thing women in modern society loss allot of their feminine even if they gain others good things,like equality in many ways. I want to say an important point. way should women always compare her self to men? Every one know that men for example have Moor physical power, are we already saw a woman how work in a moving company? I meed god give every one his nature,way should people Brok those law? isn't ridicules if men stay home to take care of the children ,to cook and to clean regularly? isn't a beauty for women to get birth for example and to live with her husband and to fill his protection of her? I personally, like to ask advies from my husband I like when he tell me what to wear for special occasion, or when he come with me to buy cloths. I know what I'm saying not every one will agree with, but i respect any other opinion, and i hope no one will be angry of what i say.

rachel

A lot of people are trying to do dangerous thing for many reasons. One of them is for having fun and to do something new.I have already done something dangerous, i tryed to do water ski. water ski is not relly dangerous, but if you dont know how yo do it, it could be very dangerous especially if you do it withe any halp. When me and my husband went in Florida fore vication, we rent a jess ski for doing water ski. I have never been on skis and i didnt know how to do it, but i wantedto have fun as many other people there. The first time i pout the ski and my husband started to pull me, i almost drown and my foot got cught in the rope,and i started bleeding-it was terrible. When i arrived in the hospital and they pout me a lot of Alcohol on my foot, i thought i was going to die. during the vication i couldn't move,it was to bad for us. If i thouht i will nevere do it again, i guickly realized that was a roung thouht. When we went this summer in Turky,i tryed to do water ski again, and i even succeed without falling and be hart. the most importent thing was that i took leesons withe a professional toter. I felt so good to succeed something new and do being able to do something alital bit dangerous.

Danger and Daring

Some people like extreme sport but I don’t like it except bungee jumping. I have seen somebody play it many time but I have never tried it. If I have chance, I really want to try it. Maybe it will be very funny. Yet, I will not try other extreme sports like skydiving or free diving. Those are too dangerous for me. I am a scaredy cat. If I have chance, I will not climb Mt. Everest. Even you give me a lot of moneys I still will not do that. There are two main reasons for it. First reason is too expansive and second reason is too dangerous. There will have many accidents happen when we climb the Mt. Everest. In my opinion, the people who climb Mt. Everest are very crazy and rich. I don’t want to waste my money just for fun. Life is precious for me and I love my life. I don’t want be die due to I doing extreme sport. I prefer to do other things instead it like shopping, travel, or listen to the music. I would like to keep my life safety and enjoy it. Therefore, extreme sport will never attract me.

Khamis's Journal is Here !!

It such a great experience to climb Mt. Everest if I have the chance. It will great chance for me to have an experience and to do something crazy that l have ever think about it. So if I have the chance to climb Mt. Everest, I would never think about the answer, because my answer would be absolutely yes!!
I know I will face a lot if obstacles, for example, the less of food and water, in addition expose ourselves to the dangerous animal, also less oxygen and that will case some damage for some people for example case the headache and dizziness, those some obstacles that we listen a lot about it from the people that have this experience before. Also there are a lot of advantages for this experience, it will let me have new experience and this very important thing for me, also let me as depend on our own, and in the other side I found some people climb Mt. Everest or practice dangerous sports just to be famous person and sees their selves on TV one day or on the cover of some magazine, but as I mention before, I am looking for this experience to see the known places that I am sees every day in the TV or by reading in the magazines.

Finally hope you like my Journal. (0<)

Danger and Daring

In the second week of MEI classes, we took Danger and Daring. It’s about extreme sports. Many people think when they are in the safe way they will die. They want to try dangers sports. They like adventure the most people who like doing these sports are teenage, because they think they are a hero and strong people. Also, they want to do anything nobody does it before. In the reading and writing class, we took a bout person who climbs Mt Everest and how it is dangers and how it is interesting. They interesting because they do a dangers things and they can get to the top of mountain. On the other hand, they face a lot of dangers because in the Mt Everest oxygen comes low than usual, they lack of food .also, the weather is freezing.
In addition, I am a teenager, I like to do like that sport. In 1998, I had been going to Australia and I jumped from parachute. Last month, I went to Lebanon and I went to the mountain to skiing and I went to the top of the mountain. First thing, I fell down but I contains to the bottom of the mountain but I can’t stop I tried my best, and then I hit a man who he stopped in my face. After that, I fell down again then I stopped.

From Rachel

This is a test, testing, one, two, three

MOUNTAIN FUDJI - MY REAL DREAM ON FEBRUARY 2007

Everyone is interested in sports. Many of famous sports activities require us to spend money, to be brave, to motivate, to be thrill-seeker, to have fun, to win the prize, to challenge with teammates and to undergo experiences. One famous sport that I have never practiced yet but I would like to try is the climbing Montain like Mountain Fujdi in Japan. However, Some people say that climbing Mountain is dangerous because of lack of foods, because of lack of oxygen, because of equipement non adequate and also it is unsafe.
In my opinion, climbing mountain is exhilerating, it makes me being famous in the world especially in Madagascar and it takes me up one of the collectifs sports.
First point I would like to make is that the climbing Mountain is exhilerating to me. Imagine if I arrive on the summit of mountain and then I can take picture of myself, the landscape, the glacier. Believe me that It would be wonderful in my life.
Second, I have a dream to be famous like Stacy Allison, the first woman who climbed Mountain Everest in 1988 or Edmund Hillary, the first man who climbed also mountain Everest. Then, I am thinking by asking a question for myself WHY NOT LAUREAT? the first man from Madagascar, the first student from MEI, the first man from university of maryland, and the first daredevil from students of teacher BRANDY. I definitely believe that I could achieve my goal.
Finally, there is a proverb that two heads are better than one. Climbing Mountain Fudgi with my teammates gives me a lot of energies to pull off my sport because there is a teamworking. Everyone recognizes, of course, that climbing mountain is not a piece of cake. It requires a lot of motivations, a lot of equipments. This stunt sport needs us to share our experiences and our forces.

In summary, All sports are interesting and we have our own reasons to practice them. However. climbing mountain is one the hullabaloo sports. Therefore, I recommend this sports for my classmates from Quatar, Korea,Vietnam,Saudi Arabia and why not my teacher Brandy to take it up????ha!ha!ha!

Laureat