Parvana

On November 18, 2015 By Risa1 Comment

Chapter 1

This story is told by the third person’s point of view. Afghanistan had a huge affected life by the Taliban-rule. There are 5 examples of the problems, which is treatment of women, dress codes, war, living conditions and education and literacy. Kabul was a beautiful city but after the rule is changed, the living condition became really bad, buildings have been destroyed, and bombs and rockets taken over by the Taliban. And also, the Taliban had ordered all the girls and women in Afghanistan to stay inside their homes. They even forbade girl’s to go to school. So, Parvana and her siblings are not allowed to go to school and her mother had been kecked out of her job as a writer, only her father can go to work and go get to foods and drinks.

Chapter 2

Parvana’s father is a history teacher, an intelligent man and modern thinker. He believed in women’s rights. Parvana’s mother was a writer for a radio station but after the rule changed she felt bored in stay the house. Standing on a land mine died Hossain who is Parvana’s elder brother. Nooria who is Parvana’s elder sister is young women that she will get married. Parvana thinks her sister is treated like a princess. Maryam who is Parvana’s younger sister is 5 years old. Ali is Parvana’s baby brother. The purposes of Parvana’s father telling this story is to teach don’t give up hope. The reason why Parvana’s father calling Parvana “my Malali” is because father thinking Parvana is going to be a hope in the family.

Chapter 3

In this chapter, we learnt about the women cannot go out without permission note from man. The photographs were illegal in Afghanistan, it represents the life in Afghanistan is rigid discipline. The photograph was tore into pieces by soldiers and they hit Prvana and Paevana’s mother with a stick. The significance of the last lines of the chapter is Paevana and Parvana’s mother were could not bring back their father. They lost their hope, there was nothing can do with Parvana and her mother. The soldiers were did not allow to see their father to them and also they keeping drive away Parvana and her mother from prison.

Ethiopia – Ebook

On October 26, 2015 By RisaLeave a comment

A Project – One Dollar a Day

On August 13, 2015 By Risa1 Comment

-If you could live on just one dollar a day. What would you buy? What can a dollar realistically buy?

If I could live on just one day, I would buy water because we cannot live without water and also we cannot buy any food in one dollar.

-Who are the boys? What are the boy’s planning to do? How do they prepare for the trip?

They are college students who wants to study rural poverty and they planning to live in a dollar for two month. They only bring some clothes like three shirts and rain jacket.

-What problems do you think they may encounter? Why will these be problems?

I think they will get hungry because they don’t have enough money.

-What are the the questions they hope to answer?

What it really means to live under a dollar a day.

-What are the statistics they mention?

They mention that the most of extreme poor live in rural villages and work as day laborers or farmers.

-What is your reaction to this project?

They said this project is an amazing opportunity to learn for myself, i agree with that but their will be not enough money so they cannot eat enough food and drink clean water.

Reflection – hunger banquet

On August 7, 2015 By Risa1 Comment

In last class, we did simulation about hunger banquet. There is 3 different levels which is high, middle and low. I was lower class and in my paper told me that the my family is poor but someone is supporting me so I can go to school. Even I can go to school, I felt that is really unfair because the high level can eat really good foods, drinks like sprite and some snacks and also, they can sit on the sofa. The middle level can eat good foods and water and they can sit on the chair. The lower level such as me only can eat 3 slices of bread and no drinks but we have to share that together and we were sit on the floor. In this simulation, I learnt the world is not the equality and there is so many poor people. For this reason, we have to help the people who are in trouble in poverty.

Poster

On August 7, 2015August 7, 2015 By RisaLeave a comment

Poetry-Rhyme

On March 19, 2015 By Risa1 Comment

This is our group work with Soobin, Giacomo and me.

HANAMI

On March 12, 2015April 21, 2015 By Risa4 Comments

HANAMI…….Video

Writing

This celebration is in early April which signals the end of winter and the coming of spring. The celebration is called Hanami in Japanese. The reason why Hanami is my favorite celebration is because the cherry blossoms or Sakura are very beautiful and relaxing. The cherry blossom also bloom in a very short period of time. I celebrate this in big public parks. There are many people at the park and there are also, many food stalls. I always celebrate this celebration with my family and friends. I usually wear casual clothes like, jeans and sneakers. The color of the cherry blossom is pink and it has really soft floral leaves. There are thousands of cherry blossom trees in Japan and there are many types of cherry blossom and the famous one is called, Somei-yoshino.

Usually, I eat street food and eat some of the food that my mother makes. I also like to watch Sakura and take picture because it’s a really beautiful time of the year. Sakura starts to bloom around the end of March and early April. The time it blooms depends on the climate and the place. It grows fast and falls down fast. In winter, the cherry blossoms are sleeping and the leaves starts falling. In spring, the leaves start to grow and the flowers starts to appear. After that it starts to bloom. When cherry blossom petals float, the landscape is amazing. In summer, the petals starts to fall and the leaves stay until autumn. During autumn, the leaves turn yellow and orange and they fall from the tree as well.

When we watch the cherry blossom, we usually eat Hanami dumpling. I always eat Hanami dumplings. They are pink, white and green in colors in dumpling. There is a meaning respectively in this the pink represents the cherry blossoms as the sign of spring, white represents snow to express the passing of winter. Finally, green represents ‘Yomogi’ as an early sign of summer.

I think Hanami is really different from other celebrations. Hanami is in Spring and everyone can celebrate it. Whereas, some of our other celebrations might just be for different religious groups.

Reflection

I made a video about Cherry blossom viewing which is called Hanami and I used Video Scribe. I think Video Scribe is really good and easy program to make a video because we can record our voice or includes other music. I like Video Scribe more than other program such as Powtoon because in Video Scribe there are a lots unique sketches or images and, if I couldn’t find any sketches or images I can search in the internet and put it on my Video Scribe. In Video Scribe I didn’t like it took a long time to save it the video which is really annoying. I also didn’t like it because it difficult and a long time to upload my video on YouTube or saved the video in PowerPoint so, to overcome the problem I decided to just saved the video in my USB. I found recording my own voice in Video Scribe really interesting, but at the same time, I felt really embarrass because I don’t like to hear my voice and I don’t want other people to listen to it. After I finished recording I put music on it to cover my voice. In my opinion, Video Scribe is really useful program. If I have to make a video, I really want to use this program again but I can’t because Video Scribe has only 7 days free trial.

Colour my world photograph

On February 12, 2015February 16, 2015 By Risa3 Comments

Photo 1

I think this photo was taken in Korea. Because the woman wears Korean traditional clothes called Hanbok. In this photo I can see red and green of colours. And they are doing coming of age ceremony I guess.

Photo 2

I think this photo was taken in Japan. Because they are wears Japanese traditional clothes and I can see tags of Japanese in the back. In this photo I can see white, black, orange, green and purple of colours. And they are doing coming of age ceremony I guess.

Photo 3

I’m not sure where this photo was taken but I guess this photo was taken in Africa. Because of their clothes and colour skin. In this photo I can see many colours like blue, right blue, red, pink, yellow, orange, right green, white and black. I think they are doing traditional dance or ritual.

Photo 4

I’m not sure where this photo was taken but I guess this photo was taken in Kenya. Because of their clothes and colour skin. In this photo I can see a lot of colours red, black, right blue, right green, yellow, purple and pink. I don’t know what they are doing.

Photo 5

I think this photo was taken in Indonesia. Because of clothes, hair accessories and colour skin. In this photo I can see red and gold of colour. It looks very gorgeous. So I think they are going to get married.

Photo 6

I think this photo was taken in Japan. Because that clothes called Kimono is Japanese traditional clothes. In this photo I can see red, blue, pink, right blue, orange, white and gold of colours. Usually, the Japanese girls wearing Kimono means they have a coming of age ceremony called SEIJIN SHIKI.

Photo 7

I think this photo was taken in Europe. Because the colour of the floor is red and the men clothes black suit and hair colour is looks like European. I don’t know what they are doing.

Photo 8