TV Show

When I moved to live in the United States, it was difficult for me to watch any TV show or drama, because of the lack of English. But since my skills has improved in a way that help me to understand well. I start to follow a funny American show called, “late night with Jimmy Fallon”. Then, after I watched many episodes, I really started to love this show. Maybe the reason is that James Fallon, who introduced the show, is so funny and multitalented. He is a host, singer, comedian, actor, and producer. In addition, what makes me love this show the best is, because it criticized the problems in the American Society in ways that make people laugh, which is something we need it, after a long- stressed day filled with work and think.

Prezi

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The link is taking about the, “the art institute of Chicago”. It is considered one of the most historical museum in Chicago. It opened on May 24, 1879. At that time, it was considered as a high skyscraper in Chicago. The collection of the Art Institute of Chicago includes more than 5,000 years of human expression from cultures around the world and contains more than 260,000 works of art. In addition, it features a collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in its permanent collection. Art institute is the best example of high culture, because it consists of painting, sculpture, and others art works that held in a high esteem by cultures.

Food

 

“The only way to have a cow”, is one of the best readings that I read about food. Indeed, the reading interested me in general, but the part that I found the most surprising was the negative impacts on climate changes; that come from our increasing consumption of meats. This came as a shock because when I’m thinking about the high percentage of meats that are eaten by the people daily. This mean our environment in danger of extinction, because of the climate changes. In addition, the reading motivated us to find other manners of how we herd the livestock in order to protect our earth.    

Movies

If there’s a will, there’s a way” this comes to my mind when I watched Million Dollar Baby. It is a sports, drama movie directed by Clint Eastwood in 2004. The main performers in the million dollar baby are, Maggie (Hillary swank) who is a woman in her thirty ages, and doesn’t have any goal in her life. Frankie (Clint Eastwood), a gym landlord, his job is to train fighters to become a professional boxer. Scrap (Morgan freeman), who was trained by frankly, and working in his gym. Mainly, the movie is about woman, who aspires to become a successful boxer. Million dollar baby is a sports, drama movie, filled with exiting and interesting events. In one of the critical moment, Maggie got a serious injured in one of her fighting against an aggressive fighter. As a result, Maggie’s life turned upside down. Million dollar baby must be watched by everyone, the actors were very experience, and they played their role perfectly.in addition, the story was very emotional and touching. Indeed, it was one of the best movies that released in 2004. It won an academic award, and nominated for many others.

Music

The music part in the class was one of the most interesting parts we did, because after I finished from the project. I realized the importance of music in reflecting the cultures around the world. In addition, I learned about lots of new singers and genres of music from all over the world. While I was doing my assessments for music project, I found an interesting singer called, “Bob Marley”; I like him, because all his songs were about criticizing the problems in the society. He published many songs throughout his life , but I think “Redemption song”, is considered one of the most famous songs for Bob Marley, because it is focusing on an  important issue in the society, which is salve’s people in the our society  .Indeed, it is one of my favorite song, and what make  me love this  song the best is  the message that he was tried to reach to the world, “No matter what  your skin color is, we are all human beings, and we must all have equal rights”.

Reading

The reading that interested me the most throughout the semester was, “They’ve got to be Carefully Taught”. The reading discussed very sensitive issue in the American society, which is teaching our kids if they are different from one another or not. Indeed, at the first, I was kind of agreeing that we should tell our kids, if they are not American, about their ethnicity and backgrounds, but in the way that the article mentioned. After finishing the article, I would say that all the kids must treat as American, regardless, what their backgrounds, religions, and colors skin. Due to the fact that kids are pure, and we shouldn’t tell them that they are different from the others, because that will back with harm effect on the society in the future.

Cultural Identity

My poster mainly talks about the ancient and archaeological areas in Syria, as we see in the upper middle, the free Syrian flag. In the left corner, the Umayyad mosque, which is considered one of the ancient mosque in the world, and in right corner. I chose citadel of Aleppo, because this castle was witnessed on many wars throughout the history. In addition, the way how the castle builds was remarkable, unfortunately some of the ruins are destroyed because of the war that happen in Syria nowadays .In the lower middle of the poster, there is some picture about the food, one of them, the Grape leave, which is one of the most delicious dishes, and the favorite one for a large number of Syrian. It is combination of rice and meat wrapped by the leave of the grapes .basically, this a brief description about my poster, and hopefully you will like it.