Timeline: Iran

559 BC 559 - 332BC The Achaemenian Dynasty & the Great Persian Empire which was the dominant world power for over two centuries   550BC Cyrus the Great established the First World Empire 525BC Persia conquers Egypt 332 BC Alexander the Great conquers Egypt and Persia 323 BC 323-141 BC - The Seleucid Dynasty was established by one of generals of Alexander the Great 247 BC 247 BC-224 AD The Parthians conquered the Seleucids   224 AD 224 - 642 The Sasanian Dynasty 570 The Prophet Mohammad was born 632 The Prophet Mohammad died and his teachings were compiled into the Koran, the name of the holy book of Islam   642 642 - 1220 The Arab Caliphate 1220 Mongol Era when Persia conquered by Gangis Khan 1271 The explorer Marco Polo journeyed through Persia en route to China 1295 Ghazan Khan becomes the first Mongol leader to convert to Islam 1501 1501-1524 - Safavid Dynasty founded by Shah Ismail I who united all of Persia under Iranian leadership   1795 Qajar Dynasty 1851 1851-1906 - The Qajars lost central Asian provinces to the Russians and were forced to give up all claims on Afghanistan to Great Britain   1925 1925-1940 - Pahlavi Dynasty 1979 The Shah was overthrown by the Islamic Revolution ending 2,500 years of monarchy 1980 July 29: The Islamic Revolution

http://www.history-timelines.org.uk/places-timelines/23-iran-history-timeline.htm

This was all I could find on Iran History Timeline....but I don't understand what caused Iran (in the book) to become the way it is.

Forrest Gump

The war time movie I picked was Forrest Gump. Forrest, Forrest Gump is a simple man with little brain activity but good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, starts a ping-pong craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, create the smiley, write bumper stickers and songs, donating to people and meeting the president several times. However this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny. Who has messed up her life. Although in the end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love anyone. (:

When  Forrest is on stage at a rally at the Washington monument he and other vets are there speaking out against the war in Vietnam. When Forrest gets up to talk at the Vietnam rally in Washington, the microphone  plug is pulled and you cannot hear him. According to Tom Hanks, he says, "Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don't go home at all. That's a bad thing. That's all I have to say about that." I realated this to Slaughterhouse Five because the book is about anit-war and speaking out about it; kinda like Forrest Gump. I think that if Kurt Vonnegut were to watch Forrest Gump he would be pretty happy with the movie and meaning of it!

Is the Scooby Doo Gang a Hero?

In college Lit we talked about hero or anti-heros. I find Scooby Doo and his Gang to be one big hero. Scooby Doo would be the protagonist; main character, but without Scoobys team he would be nothing :/

Fred -Physical - Is always on the move and lifting thing to make way.

Daphne - Moral - Not very smart; would attempt to solve her problems in a fashionable way. She later became more confident and started playing a more active role as time wore on

Velma - Mental - Velma is the most intelligent in the group and often makes great use of her skills in such areas as reading Chinese, deciphering scientific formulae, operating communications equipment, and so forth.

Shaggy & Scooby - Sentimental - They have a lot of feeling and take things to heart. They are not big on cracking down on the crime.

Heroic Virtues: Physical, Mental, Moral and Sentimental.
From the list about I think that Scooby Doo and his gang is pretty heroic.

Slaughterhouse Five

So we have started reading Slaughterhouse Five and it is very different. It is a book that is a powerful anit-war protest piece and a science fiction novel. Billy Pilgrim is the main character, a protagonist, time traveler, and optometrist. The book takes you through Pilgrim's varied and life. We also get to read about his abduction by telepathic aliens. At the start of this book, it was just a little too werid for me to read but now I find it page turning and can't put it down. What do you think about Slaughterhouse Five?

Memento

Memento is about a man who is suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife. In the movie is find the color difference very interesting. Memento was presented in two different ways, a series in black-and-white that are shown chronologically, and a series of color sequences shown in reverse order. I found this to be very creative and reminded me of Slaughterhouse five; How he always talks in present but then has memories of the past.

 

A member of a group

To be another: I have been a part of a group once or twice. I am in HOSA and a few people had to get together and make a thank you sign for people that have donated money to us. I decided to take part in this group and help make the signs. The signs were huge and it would have took all night if just one person did it all by him or her self. It was nice to work on something together as group; when it is done we all got to give ourselves a pat on the back for what we have created. It was a fun time too (:

True West Analysis of Characters

Austin

Austin is a screenwriter with a simple life; house, family and producer! As True West starts Austin is doing "research" for a screenplay he is writing. He thinks of himself as a simple laborer, with a simple life and a simple family--until his brother, Lee shows up! At the start, they tend to butt heads a little...Austin is square and he knows it. However, there is a slow transformation in Austin's character that charts the evolution of the play as a whole. The failure of his movie deal makes Austin become more and more like his rambunctious brother, and eventually, the two effectively switch roles. Instead of the hardworking screenwriter, Austin actually becomes the drunken thief. Lying drunk on the floor, Austin screams at Lee while Lee is trying to write a screenplay. Austin also becomes obsessed with the idea of moving to the desert with Lee, as he is no longer able to take solace in his normal life. When Lee tries to go the desert without Austin, Austin strangles Lee with a phone cord, almost killing him. From a symbolic point of view, Austin can be seen as one half of the creative process. He is the methodical, diligent aspect, while and Lee is the creative, inspired side. Together they form the basic ingredients of an artist and together they are able to write the beginnings of a screenplay.

Lee

Lee is the play's representative of the Old West. He is a drunk, a thief, prone to acts of violence, and generally combative in most situations. Before the action of the play he spent a few months out on the desert with a fighting pit bull. However, Lee is also the comic center of the play. His nagging is a hilarious counterpoint to stuffy Austin. At first, Lee seems to exist only to make his brother's life a living hell. He refuses to let Austin get any work done, then demands the keys to Austin's car to make the rounds of their mother's neighborhood to check out the houses he intends to rob. Furthermore, the physical threat Lee represents becomes evident when he suddenly lunges at Austin during an argument about their father near the beginning of the play. From that point forward there is almost an electric tension of the threat of further physical violence.

Lee is not only a physical threat to Austin, however. He also weasels his way into a movie deal with Austin's producer, and actually manages to pull the rug out from under Austin's project. Lee pulls this off through a bit of gambling on the golf course with the producer. After he seals the movie deal Lee begins to pull another coup, becoming more and more like his brother Austin. Night finds Lee sitting at the kitchen table pecking away at the typewriter with one finger, while Austin pesters Lee just as Lee had done to Austin. Eventually, however, Lee regresses, realizing that the respectable life is not the one for him. His decision to go back to the desert is not a surprising one. Lee is the most constantly surprising and vivid characters in the play, and the catalyst for most the action and the laugh track as well.