It Must Be Walked

The most amazing of journeys seem to end, not by my choice but for the one who traveled with me. You are the proof that loves does exists and it is hard to accept you are not here. We walked hand by hand in this path of hate and envy with hopes and dreams, with fears but certain and with moments of happiness. Like I said, it seems to be over even if I think it was a mistake,but the path must not be left alone, it must me continued alone for now. I have search for a solution to this loneliness, I do not know who to blame or if I have to fight against you or against myself. The thing I'm sure about is that you still love me but somehow you are not here. Now in the darkness of my room and in the darkness of the night, I lay my head against my pillow hoping that one day your hand will be there before it touches the bed and as your perfume fades away from my things, I hope that mine never fades from your memory. As I walk these empty spaces I dream that tomorrow you realize that is empty because of your absence.

My Blog Reflection

This blog has been different for last semester. Last semester was a group blog where we posted some of our journal entries. Now this blog was personal and was actually our journal. The online journal entries were about stories and novels read in class. It’s been great working in an online journal that everyone can see because they can comment about their opinions and show the way they think about mine. We could also view the entries of our group members and other classmates that opened our minds in the different point of view everyone has.
A disadvantage of this online blog is that, sometimes we do our entries late because we don’t have to hand it in the classroom. That eventually makes us forget about the assignment and then don’t do it at all. The advantages of the online blog is that after we finish the semester we can keep on writing about everything we read, write or whatever that happens in our lives. We could also keep in touch with the teacher and our classmates and their future readings and writings.

Perspectives

Frederick Winterbourne was really fond of her and her charisma, so he decides to arrange an encounter between Daisy and his aunt Mrs. Costello. Mrs. Costello was a really elegant lady who knew a lot of people, but when Frederick tries to introduce Daisy to the lady she says that they are common meaning that they are from a lower social class than her.Mrs. Walker, who was a lady the met in Italy, tries to get some sense in the mind of Daisy, because a young unmarried girl should not walk with a young man and this case two at a time. Walker think Daisy is ruining her and her reputation, but Daisy stays in her place doing what she wants. All of this fuss about Daisy Miller and her young male friends leads to a phase where everyone turned their backs on Daisy and they simply chose to not accept her behavior anymore. Mrs. Miller thinks that Daisy is engaged to Mr. Giovanelli and she talks about it with Mr. Winterbourne.Giovanelli did not even care about her and she showed in that way he disappears when she was ill.It is clear for us that Winterbourne defended Daisy in the eyes of Mrs. Costello and Mrs. Walker and that he thought that Daisy was innocent and good.In the novel “Reading Lolita in Tehran”, we can see that some people thought that “she was not merely immoral, she was “unreasonable””. Some men pointed out that Daisy was a sinner. In Iran a woman is worth half a man and her voice is not taken seriously, that why some mea think Daisy’s behavior is reckless. Some women thought that Daisy was a courageous young woman because she acted like herself at all times and no man or human being could change the way she is.

Egyptian Conception of Marriage

Marriage is the center of contemporary Egyptian social life. It is the primary focal point in the lives of both women and men, followed only by the birth of a child. There is no dating or interaction prior to the wedding, but there are other occasions where Egyptian men and women can meet each other. Usually, this will take place at a public location. It started by the parents of the man visiting to his fiancée's house to get the approval to complete the marriage and reach an agreement. In the wedding. The contract is signed by the groom with the family of the bride. The wife has the unconditional right to economic support from her husband, but she remains in control of her property, including inheritance or earned income. In case of divorce, she is entitled to three months' alimony and to those possessions that she brought with her at the beginning of her marriage or those that she acquired with her own income, as well as any portion of her mahr that is due her.

My opinion on this matter is that there are religion and culture are a strong influence on today’s human behavior. We have seen so many different types of weddings and marriages that is surprisingly hard to believe that we are the same and yet we are so different. On this marriage, I would say that, the fact that is the most important occasion on a woman’s life, followed by the birth of a child shocked me because in our society, the most important aspect of the modern life is education. We have the privileges of going to school, choosing who we want to marry and what is going to be our future and in the other part of the world is the other way. Our country is base on free will and that free will took us where we are today. Some of us may think this type of marriage is weird, but they think the same of us too.

Most of the people in the Middle Eastern are followers of the Islamic law and this is the main reason or explanation for the doubts we may have about marriage in these places. I like to think of it as a chain, the religion modifies the culture, and the culture modifies the people and the way they live. Egyptian marriages are influenced by both the Middle Eastern tradition and the European tradition and that is why some weddings are looking more like the weddings we are used to see. The Egyptians are also a patriarchal society, the man is provider no matter what the income of the woman is and he has the right to obtain the greatest part if they divorce, including the kids. Everywhere in the world there is something new to discover and today we have learned how human being have built their own systems and ways of living.

Our presentation was about Eskimo Marriage, Egyptian Marriage, African Forced Marriages, and Indian Marriage. Two of our group members were absent in the presentation day. Their topic was Japan's Arranged Marriages and Intercultural Marriage. We, the present members of the group, dressed up as our topic and one showed a video about African Forced Marriages.

Reaction to "GEORGE AND THE PINK HOUSE"

George seems like the classical grump. He screams at children and beats his family. It is so funny to see all the town boys reunited talking about his issues and aggressions. This is the story of how life makes you pay for you mistakes. There is always this kind of people in our community and is really sad to see haw this people can be like this. I would like to respond to the fact that after his wife death he passed trough a hard time with money and suddenly he has money, his house is full of women, soldiers and sailors. Some people may not get this directly, but all the women in his house were prostitutes and the sailor and the soldiers were costumers. It is at the time of his daughter wedding that people start to say that he ought to put her to better use meaning that he ought to make her another prostitute. All this boys did not understand what was happening in this man's house. After years of bothering them and after his wife death, his daughter got married and after his son moved he just died and the boys got some money together to bury him. His son went to the funeral.

Reaction to "Story of an hour"

This story is about a woman whose husband was "killed" in a train accident. It is just surprising how this story can captivate you attentions since the beginning. At first she is told that her husband was one of the dead persons in the train accident. She feels weird at first because there were all kind of thoughts in her head, but suddenly a calm attitude confused me of the true feelings of her. She showed relief and freedom and this is an uncomfortable feeling for the reader. Instead of feeling bad, sad, miserable or just confused, she feels more powerful than ever and even more self sufficient than before. The story is quite shocking because when you receive news like that the usual feeling is abandonment, sadness or confusion. One can feel alone and lost just because he was a part of you that was beside you a certain amount of time and even in the worst of circumstances marriage is a huge deal in the past and in the present. Nobody expects to see something like this and the experience of only reading this story is an important fact, because now you know that even in the real life this can happen.

Reaction to "The Storm"

This story is very interesting, because it narrates how a woman and a man get together in passion even though she has a husband and he has a wife. I like that the story expresses the encounter of the man and the woman in a delicate and mysterious way. The theme is one that society has learned to talk about over the years and it is written in a time of controversy and political changes. My favorite part of the story is the final. The son and the husband of the woman came back home after the storm and the woman behavior was absolutely normal. The man writes a letter to his wife and he shows that he cares for her and for his babies. When the storm ended everything was normal, as if nothing happened.