Category: Weekly writing assignment

Overall this course has taught me that writing is not as scary and hard as I think it is. The biggest thing that I learned about writing in this class was the importance of drafts. The biggest change in my writing is definitely the ease of getting my ideas onto paper. I used to have […]

Photograph’s Orientalism is an article written by Ali Behad. The introduction to this article ends on page 13 right before the “History Matters” section. The introduction ends with Behad’s thesis, “In the Orientalist photograph, the fragmented images of the geographic region encompassing the Middle East and North Africa are unified through a system of ideological […]

Adding Our Own Stories to the Nights- The movie Aladdin ends after Jafar has been defeated but ever since I was a little kid I always wondered what happened next. Today I will write what I believe happened. A few months later, Jasmine and Aladin get married. Of course, Genie officiates this wedding because after […]

Ernst’s overarching claim is that Americans and Europeans do not understand or respect other cultures.    “Americans are not very good at understanding other cultures” (page 2) “The extraordinary mismatch between Euro-American ideas of Islam and the realities lived by Muslims will form a recurring theme throughout this book” (page 4). “Religion is not a […]

Long Summary: The article “The Dark Side of ‘The Arabian Nights’” is an article that is intended for a reader of “The Arabian Nights”. Most people when they hear Arabian nights think about the opening song in the movie Alladin. My point is that when you hear Arabian Nights you think of a positive and […]

One thing you must know about me is that I love fairs! Whether that be a Science fair, an Art fair, a Renaissance fair, a Job fair, or any other type I will always go. But my favorite type of Fair has animals, games, food, and rides (especially a Ferris wheel). This type of fair […]