Manal al-Sharif: A Story about Cultural Conflicts

Manal al-Sharif is a Saudi Arabia woman that defended the rights of women in this country. She was involved in a movement against the prohibition of the women drivers.

She dared to break the rules that fatwa impose to the Muslim people and in 2011 she took the car and drove for the city.  Manal al-Sharif was in jail for breaking this prohibition, but she insisted in drive, because is a rule imposes for the religion and not for the laws from Saudi Arabia, so she was sure about her innocence. For her this prohibition is based in the fatwa and it’s just a custom and traditions.

But the Muslim worshippers, including her friends and family, attacking her. She was faced with organized defamation campaign in the local media with false rumors, even they called prostitute.  It was a punishment for daring to challenge the society’s rules.

Talk about this topic is very complicated, because is necessary understand the context of this situation. The first of all, Saudi Arabia is a country very religious, where the daily life is based in the rules imposed for the Islam. Therefore, it is a way of living is involved in something much bigger associated with cultural facets. For the occident culture understands this way is not easy, and usually we say that traditions are horrible and it infringes upon the women rights.

For me, we can’t judge the traditions based in religion because in our culture don’t give this importance at the religion. For them is something that you should not even doubt. But the problem is the globalized world, where in the present everyone has access to know the way life of the others cultures, and some people aspired to live like an occidental world, causing these cultural conflicts.

earth 2100

 

Movie Review

 

Name of Movie: Earth 2100

Describe/list/ outline the main themes of the movie.  (50 words)

 

The main themes about is:

-          Will be the human future in the earth because the rate in us living now is running out the natural resources, like the oil and water.

-          The global warming for the toxic emissions.

-          It teach us take awareness and begin the change the life style for keep up the this planet for the next generations.

-           We need use the clean energies for the

 

Write a review (200 words) of the video.  Highlight the importance of the movie’s information/ themes/ topics to your own personal experience and professional perspective.

The movie talks about Lucy and her experience in the earth in the XXI century, and her experience is the history by all the people of this time. She grow up in a moment that the global warming is the real phenomenon.

She tells us how they have to living when the natural resources was running out because in the past the people don’t doing anything for prevented this situation. When she grow up the crisis was even more dangerous, so the people and her family leave to the city looking for a best life.

This film show how catastrophic will be the earth if we don’t doing about this problem. According to the movie the price of oil will rise a lot, and the same will happen with the food.

The water will be limited in a few years. And the sea level will increase; so many cities will disappear under the sea. The situation will make worse when appear strangers diseases and the people will die for that, and the population reduce it.

I think that all this will happen if we don’t take conscience about these problems.

 

List a minimum of three facts, pieces of important information or “other” from the video that you would like to remember and would want to tell a friend about.

 

 

1.  The level of the ocean will be increase very quickly and in a few years many cities will be flood.

 

2.  The natural resources are exhaustible so we need protect to environment right now, so we need change right now.

 

3. We need take care of the water because it is the most important element for the life. Without water anything in this planet can live. Doesn’t matter how much money we have or how important you are if you don’t have water. We stop wasted it.

 

My Holyday

Hello, my name is Gabriela Díaz, I’m student of geography at Universidad de Chile. In the summer 2014 my plans was very different at the most people, because everyone plan go out any place, but I decide stay working in Santiago, that is a city where I live.

I wanted collect money because in this year I want to leave at home of my parents.  Then I work in January and February in the new job for me, because I have always worked like a waiter, but this time I was working like a mailwoman.

This experience it was really funny because I was riding a bike all day and I knew many streets. Also this job was completely different because it was a job for men. In the fact, I was the only woman in this office. This is an area very interesting that much unknown for the society, but is very necessary for all us.

At the first it was difficult because I didn’t how worked, so I was afraid. Also, the heat feels very strong, so the sunblock was my big friend.

In conclusion my holiday was very useful for me and it was really exciting that I recommend for a young people.