{"id":12,"date":"2015-09-30T15:30:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T22:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/?p=12"},"modified":"2015-09-30T21:25:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T04:25:28","slug":"a-new-perspective-on-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/2015\/09\/30\/a-new-perspective-on-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Perspective on Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello once again! I have started to incorporate university into my everyday life;\u00a0getting\u00a0the hang of all the work load, keeping up with all my readings, taking notes, reviewing, getting enough sleep, and most importantly, finding the time for FOOD. So far it has been pretty manageable, and\u00a0I would definitely say that I am not the same person I was on the first day as clich\u00e9 as it sounds.<\/p>\n<p>This week in ASTU I had to read and finish the comic memoir,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Persepolis<\/span>, by Marjane Strapi. Strapi \u00a0depicts her experience with the Islamic Revolution. Not only does she illustrate her perspective from her own childhood point of view, she notes how she views the revolution after she has grown up. I don&#8217;t have a lot of\u00a0previous knowledge on the Islamic Revolution and this memoir has brought me to a curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, this book has given me quite a bit of insight\u00a0on the Islamic Revolution. As I have previously read the article, <em> The\u00a0Role of Interpretative\u00a0Communities in Remembering and Learning<\/em>, by Farhat Shahzad, I have \u00a0noted that this memoir is a technology of memory, which gives me a knowledge on the revolution.<\/p>\n<p>On page 6, Strapi points out at how she wants\u00a0to be a prophet, this made me think about what I have learned in Political Science recently about Feminism. Just because she is a female, does not mean she cannot be a prophet. Why did everyone in her class laugh at her and think she is crazy? In her dream, she draws out a few past prophets and they all ask,\u00a0&#8220;a woman?&#8221; \u00a0Personally, I feel like anyone whether male or female should be able to aspire what makes them happy.<\/p>\n<p>Strapi shows us that at one point there was a food shortage but the black markets have helped solved the shortage issue (page 132). This made me think about Economic class when Professor Gateman discusses about how government control can increase the amount of black markets.\u00a0Black markets inflate the prices of goods which Strapi and everyone else in her community had to encountered.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, in my perspective, young Marjane was a very rebellious girl and still is. She stands on her ground and is not afraid of expressing herself. I really admire Marjane\u00a0and adore the writing style she uses in the memoir, it made it easier for me to understand and imagine what it was like to be in her shoes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/files\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-30-at-9.15.01-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/files\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-30-at-9.15.01-PM-217x300.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-09-30 at 9.15.01 PM\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/files\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-30-at-9.15.01-PM-217x300.png 217w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/files\/2015\/09\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-30-at-9.15.01-PM.png 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Taken from the book\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Persepolis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/knopfdoubleday.com\/2009\/06\/30\/the-veil-from-marjane-satrapis-persepolis\/\">http:\/\/knopfdoubleday.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/files\/2015\/09\/marjane-satrapi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/files\/2015\/09\/marjane-satrapi-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"marjane-satrapi\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/files\/2015\/09\/marjane-satrapi-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/files\/2015\/09\/marjane-satrapi.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ncacblog.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/09\/marjane-satrapi-to-cps-find-your-brain-again-stop-lying\/\">https:\/\/ncacblog.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/files\/2015\/09\/Persepolis1Cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/files\/2015\/09\/Persepolis1Cover-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"Persepolis1Cover\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/files\/2015\/09\/Persepolis1Cover-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/files\/2015\/09\/Persepolis1Cover.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cbldf.org\/banned-comic\/banned-challenged-comics\/case-study-persepolis\/\">http:\/\/cbldf.org\/banned-comic\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the UK Trailer of Persepolis the movie:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NZ22VyjJ6n8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello once again! I have started to incorporate university into my everyday life;\u00a0getting\u00a0the hang of all the work load, keeping up with all my readings, taking notes, reviewing, getting enough sleep, and most importantly, finding the time for FOOD. So far it has been pretty manageable, and\u00a0I would definitely say that I am not the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35934,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35934"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jlai97\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}