Author: Domnika

Islam portrays as a bad religion and the people who are in the religion are terrorists. However, on the other hand, the religion itself has two sides/faces (like any other religion), there are people who bring a bad name to the faith and they do not practice their beliefs. The other side/face of Islam is that there are the modern believers who bring faith, prosperity, and peace to themselves and to the community. Also, they practice in what they believe (praying, charity, volunteering, and also the faith does not discriminate). Ms. Marvel couldn’t come at a better timing in what is going on in the world right now. The comic brings Islam, modern society/community (in all races), and generally, it brings in what the people are going through on a daily basis. The thing that brought to my attention the most is that they brought the Quran into the comic and that they had a mosque setting. The comic brought such a diverse society through the comic(when you are reading it) and that it shows that Kamala is becoming such a confident, powerful, and funny woman that is bringing justice to the world.

When Kamala saw Zoe fall into the water (when Josh pushed her) Kamala recited the Quran and she stated:

“Whoever kills one person, it is as if he killed all of mankind and

Whoever saves one person, it is as if he has saved all mankind”

The reason why Kamala said that (in my perspective) is that she was learning her new powers and when you recite a part of the Quran, you have a benefit of something not bad happening to you (just like reading a bible).  I have been told myself (while I was growing up as a Christian woman and before converting to Islam)  is that “if you do harm to someone then harm will come your way and if you do good to someone then something good will happen to you”.  One of the things that I liked the most that Kamala revealed herself to Bruno that she was Ms. Marvel, after the fact that she got shot. That reminded me so much of me because I had to hide that I converted to Islam and later on (after I got married), I had to hide my pregnancy from my family.

When Kamala was in the mosque/masjid she was listening to the Imam/Sheik (basically a priest) there was some kind of binder blocking the men and the women. She asked the imam why they couldn’t sit together as a group instead of separated. Islamically, it is to reduce temptation, arousal, smelling of perfume/cologne, or any kind of thoughts (sexually or just having a simple conversation) and it goes the other way around for the men as well. However, if you are doing business of some sort it’s fine but as long as if you keep it clean.

“In most of their secret talks there is no good: but if one exhorts to a deed of charity or justice or conciliation between men, (Secrecy is permissible): to him who does this, seeking the good pleasure of Allah. We shall soon give a reward of the highest value” (Surah 4.57.114).

As Muslims believing in a certain faith, in which we have to resist ourselves in many occasions, however, as Muslims we have to put ourselves on the front line to help/protect ourselves (from harm) or anyone who needs the help (homeless, charity, etc).

When Kamala went inside the house (with the flying robots), she was warned in not going inside that house, however, Kamala needed to go in there to find out what’s really going on and to defeat the enemies who started scaring the people throughout the neighborhood.

What I learned about Ms. Marvel is that it brought in a diversity with the general society, communities and Islam (how its hated but yet it’s not). Even though i hate reading comics, I really enjoyed this comic and that it couldn’t come at any better time because of islamophobia. For the guest that came on Monday, I didn’t learn anything from her I felt like she was repetitive in what she was saying and simply I was bored.  Ms. Marvel gave me some ideas in what kind of format that I want to do, I would want to do is a spoken word, Quran, and or a poem of my own. The thing that was unique about the comic is that it brought along Islam and how it has the diversity of any regular person and that I learned to be powerful, strong, and confident in your own skin. Ms. Marvel is teaching me to think outside the box and to be more creative.

Artist statement

 

What I am aiming for (with my paper) is for the audience to understand more about how drugs have health benefits and how it can harm you as well. In what I want the audience to learn from my work is that to be more open to their surroundings and to have a little more knowledge about drugs. I hope the audience will learn something from my piece because of what is going on in the world today about drugs and how it’s being abused. The uniqueness that I brought to my last paper is that I did a personal interview with family members and the value perspective is to bring into any paper, in general, is have some kind of personal reflection because it can be more informational than any other information. I learned from the paper is that I learned is that there more laws and regulations into certain drugs and that also is health beneficial for you, however, I didn’t learn much in the paper because I felt that everything it was repetitive in repeating everything all over and over. I would like to learn more about how it was more beneficial for the health and as well as how the plant was used in clothing. The roles that the peers that they played are that they gave me great ideas in what you can add or drop from the paper. This project changed my thinking because I got stressed and writing the paper, as well as, having the wrong emotions in writing this paper (emotionally meaning dealing with personal issues). If I had another week in writing the paper is adding more details into the paper and to be less stressed about it. The last thing that I would say is that explore your options there is more information that surrounds us on a daily basis instead of academic articles and to have some kind of creativity

I decided to post this video because it some what relates to the play

Domnika E.

Marijuana was brought to the states in the early 1600’s by the Jamestown settlers. The hemp/marijuana cultivation remained a good part of the plant production until the 1800’s.  Throughout the states, there were at least 8,000 plantations on 2,000 acres. Between 1850-1942 marijuana was starting to become an illegal drug and that it didn’t have any health benefits to it, so the government decided to make laws against the marijuana drug. The laws include United States Pharmacopeia (they didn’t recognize marijuana as medicine), Marihuana tax Act (1937), Controlled Substance Act (the 1970’s), Compassionate Use Act (1996).  Those laws didn’t really allow recreational use of marijuana and if you got caught with that drug you could get into big trouble for it.

On the other hand I did a personal interview with a family member and while they were growing up in the late 1940’s and throughout the !950’s they would grow marijuana in order to produce oil, thread, clothing, rope, and or anything that is useful for them in order to survive the hard times. At that time they didn’t know that you can smoke it, however, the marijuana plants were different in order to consume/smoke it and or to make something you can use daily. But when my family would make the oil, they would grind the seeds enough so the toxins would come out and use the oil to cook from it and they wouldn’t get high. However, for religious purposes, they are not allowed to do any kind of drugs.

I think the type of research that the playwrights have done is by personal stories also (maybe) going to the police station and getting ideas in how they train police cadets. The research that I would like to do on my own is, I can research historical documents/plays, do interviews with people and or go to Youtube and look up certain/specific resources. The sources that I might want to examine is, too look at more plays to understand how to combine plays into an analysis research paper, as well as (maybe), use Youtube and to look at plays to help me understand in what I am researching.

The Intersections grabbed me when some of the people were starting their new career paths and towards the end, it changed a little more dramatically.  The thing that I didn’t like about Intersections, is that they focused on a specific nationality/race and that I wish it could have been more diverse. The challenges that I face for a research paper is to find a research paper that I can find to go within what I am writing about and it’s really difficult for me to find a good topic to choose from. The word “research” means to me, is to research a specific topic that you are writing about, for example, documents, the web, books, etc.

The research paper should be guided by in what you would want it to be, as well as, to be clear in what the Professor/ Reader would want it to be. What should motivate it to be is that person needs to motivate themselves in what they want to write. What motivates me to write, read, and to speak is that I give myself a little hard to do it and just to take a pen and write little notes here and there. When I am done I combine them all together.

hopefully, this can go somewhat with the play that we are reading

Domnika Elarabi
English 102
March 27,2017
Professor Polish
Final draft

The audience for this project is the people itself that are reading my writing. What I want them to know is that having a loving mother that takes care of their child and that death plays a role greatly in our lives.What I want them is to learn is that the mother works very hard to provide for their child and that she is very loving, as well as the mother always worries more about their child than any other and that she wants her child to grow up to be a wonderful, smart child. When death comes along, it is okay to accept it and that no matter how hard it is it’s fine. I hope the audience will learn from my piece because maybe in what I put in the writing they can use it for the future reference, as well as, maybe use it an example for their daily lives. The unique perspective that I put in my writing is that I used a personal example that I never talk about and I felt it was important enough to put it in the final draft of my paper. The value of the perspective that I put it actually came true. What I learned about this project is that I learned to be a little more creative in my writing then I usually am. I am very used to writing paper in what the teacher wants, instead of making the paper a little but less structured than normally I would have it and I learned to be a little outside the box as well. What I would like to learn is to be more creative in writing, to think more outside the box, and to maybe write better papers. The peers played a huge role in class discussions because it gave me an insite to know them, how they think, they would leave amazing responses and as well as they gave me ideas in what I can put into my paper. My thinking about poetry is that for me it’s a little difficult to analyze because I frustrate me and for me, I don’t catch on really easily on simple little details that can have such an impact in what they symbolize or what the poster is talking about. If I had another week to work on this project I would add a few more little details into my writing and that I would make sure that it would be more understandable.

The pieces that I have chosen two spoken word poems called “Dear Mum,” and “Women of the World Poetry Slam Finals 2016” by Emi Mahmoud. The reason why I chose those particular spoken word poems is because they reflect on my day to day life and how they show that they are part of religion, inequalities, and love for the world. Also, there’s a lot of misconception of the meaning of Islam. However, in the videos, they show such a beautiful stance of seriousness, being powerful, and the love of humanity. Those poems are by Muslim faith people and they know where the society the society stands upon the religion faith and well as how the people treat each other. It reminded me in why I converted to Islam and how it gave me peace to myself and given me a better meaning in life.
Our mothers are the strongest human being that God has ever created, no matter how much we hurt them, we can always go back to them for anything. Our mothers are like soldiers because they are always their when we need them, when we put them down they do not lose their stance, and or we make broken promises. We can always forgive and forget in what we do to others but our mothers never forget what we have done and they remind us not to do things in life, in order for us to become the person that they want us to be. Our mothers are the best medicine that we can have because without them we are not complete. “I mean the love she gave me was the best medicine that was pure”. A mother’s love is the best medicine that anyone can get because even if you were just born, a toddler, teen, and or adult/old (lovely) person, you will not get that much love from your own mother then from any other mother. Mothers have a special way of knowing that you are sick, worried, and or in any way that you might be in danger. However, when a mother dies you start to think about what you have done better or should have done. Promises are made and promises are broken, although you wish them to be in a better place because of all the deeds that she has done and as well as she helped to become a better person. “Alhamdulillah all praise due to the Lord You did it all for me and not once ever expected a reward”. Mothers never expect anything from a child (like gifts, rewards, accomplishments, etc) all they want is for them to grow up as good children.
My mother is an amazing woman, that had 14 children and all natural birth. She was always up early in the morning to prepare food, make sure we got up early in the morning, made sure we had our homework done, made sure we had clothes and that we were fed every day. Every time I think of her, it just motivates me to hopefully become like her with my son.
Death always does wonders to everyone around the world. We consider death a scary thing and or more so not so scary, however, death can resemble many things in our daily lives. When we find out that our loved has passed and moved on to the other life, we don’t know how to feel. We tend to throw up, hold our stomachs, and or scream/cry our hearts out. But over the years we tend to forget how (our significant other) smells, what they did to help us to get better, and any kind of small reminder. Sometimes you have to go to a morgue to identify a body because due to an accident of some kind, it can be heartbreaking but you have no choice in doing it. “I do not recognize it it’s emaciated from dimmed form by a death I did not prepare,” sometimes death can be heartbreaking, excruciating, and possibly doing harm to yourself, more so, especially identify a body. Sometimes after you lose someone you lose someone, you can end up losing you own native tongue, culture, and or own family. When I was growing up, I have a lot of loved ones die, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. Every Time we had to go do a viewing of the body to make sure it was them that passed, I didn’t know how to feel, it felt like I lost everything and everyone. When my cousin died (due to tuberculosis) it hit me hard, my hair started to fall out, I was shaky for a few days, and I was numb from everything, I wasn’t close to her at all. But after she passed she came to me in a dream three days later. She was the most beautiful spirit that came to me and (I remember clearly) she said: “overtime when you leave this place (the monastery) you will either go into drugs or convert into another religion”. In what she said it came true, I converted into another religion. After I saw that dream I was in disbelief and also it reassured me that everything will be alright, to me death isn’t scary anymore.
Loving your mother is always a special bond between anyone that has a mother. Even though there can be hardships between mother and a child, mothers are always there to help, no matter what time it is. As follows death, no matter how bad it hurts to lose that special someone especially a mother, father, brother, sister, and or grandparents. We can always hope to see them in the afterlife. Many of us somehow consume a lot of sadness or sometimes people take it as a positive and learn to deal with it, also use it as an example and to work our way around it.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rlu7IEOJMm_q0nW8dvBm-ymfu1Kyig4HMx9V7qqg6t8/edit (rough draft)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h0mM3i4FTYB2A-hN8V_P0NI1XXcoQCL41QmT4MxAI3g/edit (expectations)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Bp67wo7YTdKlMB5TmeiNjtDRa_sClwM7uQdNtDyEPE/edit (pre-draft)

The people I peer reviewed is Adrian and Sandepk