Month: October 2021

An interesting discussion that I would like to delve deeper into was about curiosity and how it is not always a good idea to satiate it. In The Cairo House, Gigi sneaks out of her bed, and she starts to roam around her home, stumbling upon a horrific site – a lamb being slaughtered for… Continue reading Reflection on the Opening Chapters of The Cairo House

Previous to this reading, I knew little about how Muhammad came to be the religious prophet. I now know that it was around 610 when he first began to get revelations from God via the archangel Gabriel. I had previously thought of these messages as merely dreams, but in the reading it said they were… Continue reading Muhammad Religious Origin

On October 18th, we all met Kwan at Global Village to learn about lion dancing. Growing up I had seen it in parades in Chinatown and even at my church when celebrating Chinese New Year, so it was nice to learn some history behind it from Kwan. Lion dancing started in China around 300AD when… Continue reading 10/18 IACA Reflection – Lion Dance

For today’s session, we went to the Global Village to learn about the Lion Dance and look around the center. It first started off with a presentation, by Kwan, about the origins and history of the Lion Dance. It is celebrated in several parts of Asia, not just China, and means different things to everyone.… Continue reading 9/18 ICR Reflection

Yesterday my ICR class got to visit the Global Village over on Lafayette Road. Here we helped Kwan, our instructor unload his car of all the equipment he would later use to represent the history on the Lion. The lion is not found in china, but rather Africa so the natives of china were not… Continue reading Learning the Lion Dance

The Cairo House and documentary show a lot of the values that the Islamic faith has. In Cairo House, we learn that there are certain gender roles regarding holiday celebrations. When the Gigi sees a sacrifice during the Feast of Sacrifice, she is shamed because a girl cannot be in the presence of the ritual.… Continue reading Cairo House 1-26 & Islam Documentary

During my visit at IPS Newcomer, I assisted the class with several different activities including helping Juan and Danury develop his interpretation of a film the students watched in class. Additionally, I assisted Juan and Martin with a quizlet over the film that explains some of the english terms used in the film. At the… Continue reading 10/20 ICR Reflection

I thought the reading for today was interesting, especially when it comes to gender roles. The main character was not allowed to see the animals slaughtered or observe the ritual. She couldn’t even ask her mother to do so, because she knew she would say no, and going against that advice would have been more… Continue reading Cairo House 1-26

In class today we talked about the idea of how you can act differently based on where you are. For example, we act differently around our family than we do with our friends. We tend to have different personalities to fit the people we are around. I think this is fine as long as you… Continue reading Different Location… New Person

Today in class, I had a flashback to my FYS class last year when someone brought up Abraham sacrificing his son. The FYS class that I took was Faith, Doubt, and Reason, with Professor Hege and we just so happened to have read and discussed Genesis 22 which is about The Binding of Isaac where… Continue reading Intro to Islam and Cairo House Pg. 1-26