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Adrian Garza En 1313 Iyengar 5/11/11



Adrian Garza Ovalle EN1313 Iyengar 05/15/11 __Name Game__

My name is Bahman Rezaie, I am teacher in St. Mary's University at San Antonio in the Engineering department and I have been constantly asked about the story behind my name so here it goes. I was born in Iran and as in many other cultures parents name their children with a common rhyme at the beginning or at the end of the children's name, in my family our names rhyme at the beginning. Bahman is a very common name in Iran and it is the name of the eleventh month in our calendar and it also means avalanche. My last name is extremely common in Iran, you might even find people with the same last name that have no relationship between each other, as in every other place my last name, Rezaie, was passed on to me from my dad and it means someone who has a very good heart and someone who is a giver. Even though a lot of people are not able to pronounce my name correctly I really like it and would not change it for any other name. I believe it is the person who gives the meaning to the name, not the other way around. It doesn't matter what my name means because it is the way I am and my character that gives the meaning to my name. (Good job/5/16/11)

Dear Adrian, You missed class today. Please work on your narrative essay and post it before Wednesday. Thanks.

Adrian Garza Ovalle SE1321 Iyengar 05/16/11

===It was a christmas night and my whole family was gathered in my house as usual. Before dinner all of my cousins, my brother and I were playing outside. A week before that I had gone to buy fireworks with my dad and my brother to use them during Christmas and new years day. When I came out of the house with the fireworks, we were all very excited and started throwing a lot of them all over the place, but I remembered one firework specially. While throwing the fireworks one of our cousins didn't want to throw any of them because his parents did not allow him to do it, so we made him throw a smoke bomb to the patio of our neighbors and when he finally did, nothing ever happened and after a while we went back into the house to my room. From my room we could see the neighbor's patio and while we were playing video games, we started seeing fire. At first we thought it was really nothing but the flames kept growing more and more. By the time the flames were as tall as the walls of the fence we really freaked out, we had no idea what to do. As any other kid would have done, we told our parents that the neighbor's house was burning but of course we left out the details of how it happened.=== ===Our christmas dinner was interrupted in order for our parents to stop the fire with anything they could and with the help of one uncle on top of the fence with a hose the fire finally stopped as well as our worries of burning down a complete house. The funny thing was that the next day, our neighbors stopped by our house with gifts to thanks us for stopping the fire without knowing how everything happened. Now that almost seven years or maybe more have passed I can still remember that incident in my life as if it was yesterday, I can remember the sound of the fireworks and the games we were playing at my room when we saw the flames. We never told our parents how the fire started they never even suspected we might have done it. I have many memories in my life that as time goes on I can still remember very clearly and this is one of them because it was probably one of the first ones to cause a rush of adrenaline and a great concern. It is funny how memories work, we might remember something that happened the past decade but not remember what we had to eat last night. I believe it is the importance we give to events that make them prevail in our memories.===

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Adrian Garza Ovalle EN1313 Iyengar 5/30/11

India and Pakistan The India and Pakistan border shows a lot of violence and this made me start thinking a lot about racism. Nowadays, racism is not heard or talked about as it used to be back in the days when black people were enslaved but still this is a major example of racism. Just because of the way you talk or because you where born 10 miles in the wrong direction you are not accepted in some places. I believe this is a huge problem which is not only going on in that border but in many other borders too. This problem is also going on in the Mexico and US border, people born just across the border in laredo are treated way different than people who were born in the other side of the river, Nuevo Laredo, and this kind of situations need to stop. It is unbelievable for me to think that people can hate others for the way they look, speak or even just for the place they were born. It is not somebody's fault that you were born in some place, nor the color of your skin or your language. We have no choice of our culture as kids and ounce you are old enough to choose it is hard to apparent something your are not, plus I believe everybody should be proud of who they are, the way they are. No one can tell you, you are less of a person just because a racial aspect.

Adrian Garza Ovalle EN1313 Iyengar 5/30/11 Topic Proposal Violence in Mexico Katel, P. (2008, December 12). Mexico's drug war. //CQ Researcher //, //18 //, 1009-1032. Retrieved from http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/ McGirk, T., & Schwarz, S. (2010). Ballads For the Bad Guys. //Time //, 176(18), 66-70. Retrieved from EBSCO//host //.
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Adrian Garza Ovalle EN1313 Iyengar 6/6/11

Adrian Garza Ovalle SE 1321 Iyengar 6/6/11

Adrian Garza EN1313 Iyengar 6/13/11Please edit your responses before you post the same. "The Act of Writing" has grammatical errors. (6/13/11).

Adrian Garza EN1313 Iyengar 10 QUESTIONS 1) Is it hard to maintain a balance between home, school and work? 2) What is the hardest aspect of balancing your life? 3) Which of these three aspects requires the most time? 4)What is your worst and favorite part of your day? 5) Does your husband or kids demand more time of you? 6) Which is the most tiring teaching, studying or home? 7) Did you ever saw yourself doing these 3 things at a time? 8)Do you rather be teaching or studying? 9)Do you have time for yourself to have fun? 10)Are you willing to give up studying or teaching any time soon?

Adrian Garza EN1313 Iyengar 6/13/11

Adrian Garza EN1313 Iyengar 6/13/11

Adrian Garza Ovalle SE1321 Iyengar

Champion of the World Writing Assignment 1) The difference between these two stories is that white people have always been victorious over black. This is why it will sound racist to beat black people, it will seem as if whites were doing it all over again. However if black beat the white it will not sound racist because black people have never been racist with whites. I actually enjoy when I see a black person succeed not because of what he has been through because white people nowadays also go through very hard conditions but what it means to their ancestors, coming from a slave race and reaching a point which they never imagined, beating a white person. Proving themselves equal to them and in many cases better, the boxing heavyweight champion of the world has always been a big deal in america and having a black man to represent not just America but the whole world is very important and proves the hard work black ancestors have been through in order to reach the top. Through years, black men have proven to be very successful in sports and now with the first black president in America they have finally reached practically every single place any white person has. To conclude with me reflection I just want to stress my point that the main reason why this story is not seen as racist unless papers where changed is because of how whites use to treat blacks and it has never been the other way around.

Adrian Garza Ovalle EN1313 Iyengar

FINAL EXAM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzhFan3kk0E