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Ethos: This add is clearly ethos because it shows Rihanna, who is a very famous singer and an influential person. Just with using this lipgloss, she can make at least 5 thousand people use it. She makes the add worth it. It is clearly ethos because it influences other people by using people or things that makes people use it, which is kind of a definition of ethos.

Pathos: This add is pathos because it gives emotion. When you see the picture, it gives you a feeling of sadness. It also gives you a feeling of fear and compromise. To see the comparison between the real foot and the fake one gives you a little cold up your spine. The fake foot is also very ugly and its obvious that it looks fake, which makes you realize that there is no original part to replace it. This can happen to anyone, not just to this person. It gives you a compromise  not to drink and drive ever, because you just don't want to end up like her/him.

Logos: This is obviously a logos add because of everything that includes. The title sentence gives you a hint of persuasion that you clearly notice. it has a company logo at the bottom (GSA) which gives security of the add, and that its actually real information given. Theres also bullet points that are like data that assure that the product works. It also says that its guaranteed that it works and it includes a phone number too. 

The Dowry

 The Dowry is the last chapter of the book. This chapter is about Marji  leaving school because of her behavior in class with her teachers. She gets warnings until her parents get tired and finally decide to send  her to Austria to finish her studies. Marji thought and then figured out that she was traveling alone, without a companion (her parents) to be with her. She knew that she would only see them in their visits, and not actually live with them. When she realized that, she got scared and didnt know how to feel, because this was a complete new experience. Marji turned around one last time to see her parents and then left to Austria. She knew that there was something left to do, but I guess that that will happen in the next book. This reminded me of the first time I traveled alone in a plane. I thought that I would never see my parents again, and that I would have no one to rely on. I was so frightened that I didn't know what to do. Even if I knew that my sister was going to wait me on the other side of the world,  I was scared. One thing different was that I knew that I was going to see my parents again, and she knew she didn't, but I know how she might felt in that moment. 

The Sheep

I think that this is the roughest chapter that this book has. It is about the time when Marji's friends and family leave her there alone, mentally, physically, or in most cases both. Most of them are being killed or are leaving forever. A really important boy in her life was leaving to the United States, which made her really sad. In this chapter they introduce Anoosh, who is Marji's uncle. He is a calm person who cares a lot about her. He has all the right things to say all the time. He is the one that Marji most cares about, which makes him a very important character in the book. This chapter reminds me of the Holocaust's book "Number the Stars". It is about a Jewish girl who had no clue about what was going on in the time of the holocaust. Her friends parents are taken to the concentration camps and they are left with her. Then they take them to the concentration camps all together. I find this similar mainly because in the chapter you can see the religion and racism, just like in the holocaust.

Persepolis

In this chapter Marji asks her grandmother about her grandfather. Her grandma, instead of answering Marji's questions, she started to tell her about the Shah. Marji doesn't care about the topic that grandma is talking about, so she gets mad. She really wants to know about her grandpa, not the Shah. They talked for a long while and they left to the kitchen to wait for Marji's dad. Hours pass and he doesn't appear. Everyone starts to get very worried until her dad comes back home. They where so relieved that he was home that they felt the excitement in the air. As soon as he gets there, he starts telling a tale about some revolutionists who thought that this dead old man was a man killed because of racism but his wife told them that he had just died as an old man. This revolutionists where very racist people, so they had said that the Shah was the "murderer", so she joined the protesting. The girl's family found it like a big joke, unlike her but she still laughed. This reminds me of my little cousins. We where once at a family reunion and we sit by groups. I sat with my older cousins and the little ones came along. He was telling this funny story which made me and my older cousins laugh. My little cousins made awkward faces and then just laughed along. When I read this chapter I thought a lot of that time with my little cousins. They act a lot like Marji. 

The Veil

This chapter was the introduction of the book. It was in the time when the religions stood out and made a bigger part of life than what they do now. In Marji's time, the people in her religion had to stand out and follow their beliefs, even if she didn't wanted to. Marji is a girl with a very different point of view that the people in that period of time. She wanted to be the 1st female profit, which made it harder for her because of the fact that she was a girl. In this chapter you could see that the men where the authority or the source of power of the time. This reminded me of the book "the Iliad" because here the main characters are men. The fighters and the strong ones where men. I find this very stereotypical, just like in is book. Men aren't always the source of authority, and I think that that is a factor that Marji is trying to point out. 

Gilgamesh Question: Where Are We Going?

Gilgamesh's question: Where are we going?

I'm an extremely catholic person. I believe in heaven, in god and in the sky. I think that when we die, we seek for a door or how some people would say "the light", and then find it. I think its more like a journey to get to heaven, and when you get there, you find yourself with god and with all your friends and family. I believe that god is taking care of us and that he is the one who decides when you leave and when you don't.

Reading Blog VI and VII

The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablets VI to VII Reading Blog:

When I read this book I think about friendship. At first I thought that this book was going to be about war, but the main thing I get about this book is the friendship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu, which is completely big and inseparable. Gilgamesh and Endiku are not only friends, they are more like brothers. These two understand each other, and know what the other is thinking. They feel proud for each other, and give mutual support, like brothers would do. I have never had a friendship like that, but I really wish I did, and everyone in this world deserves to have a real friend like those two are.

Reading Blog: IV to V

The Epic of Gilgamesh Tablets IV to V Reading Blog:

Until now, I haven't found any exact similarities to my life. I can't walk as fast as Gilgamesh and Enkidu, but I can recall that Gilgamesh had a bunch of dreams, that maybe in the future can be called de ja vu's, and that each time he dreamed one of them, he woke up exactly at midnight. This has happened to me before, when I have a dream and I wake up exactly at midgnight. Once, about a week ago, had a really weird dream, I woke up and looked at the clock and it was 5 minutes afte midnight. I was really strange, although it had happened alot of times before.

Reading Blog: I to III

Epic of Gilgamesh Tablets I to III Reading Blog:

How did Gilgamesh actually became friends so easily with Enkidu? Gilgamesh exceeds his power alot and he wants to fight Huwawa, who seems really dangerous, but is he exceeding to much his so called overwhelming power by fighting him/her/it? Who is Huwawa? Gilgamesh and Enkidu decide to go to the forest to find Huwawa, but will Enkidu's knowing will help Gilgamesh? I will answer this questions later on in my blog.

This picture is a picture of a room half white, half full of graffiti. I got this picture out of Tumblr (2012). This picture was probably taken at some kind of exposition, or maybe it could be someone's room.

I infer that what the photographer expected me to think is that this room could be simple and complex, both at the same time. I think that when it meant to be simple AND complex, it was like life. Life can be very simple and easy sometimes, but it can be complex and hard at other times. Or maybe it could be both, like this braid. This room represents the complexity with all the graffitis it includes, which takes a lot of patience, time and, as how people would say, "erase and do it agains". The other side of the room is the simplicity that life can be, with nothing to worry about and just pure relax. It seems that the person took a lot of patience and time to make all those graffitis and make it exactly in half of the room. The person who did this made the room look more colorful and street-like.