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Oral History Project

Izabella Curtis ELA/IHSS Dr Cobos and Dr. Lee 10/29/2017           The "process" of my groups Oral History Project went pretty smooth. We were (at the start) the only group of 4. So that meant an even distribution of work, It all went well Ilan chose the person, he emailed her, she said yes. So then our group start making questions we made about 25 then Dr. Cobos added a few more. Then we did the interview, I was the interviewer, Kaylee the note taker, Ilan did the audio, and Abby did video. After everything was done we started transcribing. Again 4 people 4 equal parts. Over all I think my group was pretty awesome.         Then we had the section B presentation. That went kind of chaotic..... our section was the last know and of course the last to finish. I feel like it wasn't an even distribution of work, I only feel that way because I was stuck doing half of a 20 minute analysis for my gro...

The End of Persepolis

In what ways did Marjane find it difficult to fit back into Iranian society? In what ways did this surprise you (or not surprise you)?        I chose this question because I thought it was very interesting to me. Ok, to start off clothing vise in Iranian culture was in page 246 when a man at the airport tells her to fix her veil. Also on page 250 when she is back at her home, this is when she almost forgets to put her veil on.        When she leaves her house for the first time when she's back in Iran on page 250 she sees these really depressing murals all around the city, and as she walks around she notices that the streets she played on as a kid were no longer there during the war, and the joy from the people she once loved was gone. She noticed that everything changed all together. (page 251)      Then I noticed when her whole family and friends came to see her she was overwh...