Perseverance Reflection

As well as the quality of spoken language that children hear on a day to day basis will have a vast impact on the grammar and language they use. Therefore teachers and all teaching staff should ensure they continue to develop children’s confidence when it comes to communication by developing the skills needed to explain their understanding this is also vital when it comes to understanding and explaining of books or other recourses. All children should have access to and be encouraged to develop their role in drama. Pupils should be able to adopt, create and sustain a range of roles, responding appropriately to others in role. They should have opportunities to improvise, devise and script drama for one another and a range of audiences, as well as to rehearse, refine, share and respond thoughtfully to drama and theatre

As Susy Kassem once said, “Just like freedom, truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for – because one without the other would be hell” (Kassem). In the beginning of 1980, the Cultural Revolution began, and with it the people of Iran fought back against the existing regime. The government oppressed the citizens by changing their education into a religious based system and forcing the women to wear veils, stripping them of both their truth and their freedom. Refusing to conform, the revolutionists had to secretly rebel while hiding from the government and their neighbors. In Marjane Satrapi’s

During this drama activity the teacher will take on the role of Pearl Gibbs, explaining her life and some of her achievements to the students. Firstly the teacher will discuss that a very important guest is coming in today to share with us about her life, but the teacher will not be able to stay to hear it so the students will have to listen carefully, take notes and ask lots of questions to relay what Gibbs has shared with them. The teacher will then leave the room and come back in as Pearl Gibbs, using props such as glasses, an aboriginal flag and take on the role of Pearl Gibbs. The students would have been involved in the teacher in role activity before so they understand what is happening. During this role the teacher excites interest, control action, provoke tension, challenges thinking, assess knowledge, meanwhile is teaching the students in an engaging and inclusive way about an historical Indigenous person (Gibson & Ewing, 2011).

Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the greatest of them all? I ponder over this question as I stare vacantly at my reflection. It shows myself at the age of four, wobbling back and forth like a rocking chair, nerves and empty thoughts racing through my mind as I stand at the very front of the line on the first day of kindergarten. It shows myself ten years from now in a stable job as a successful lawyer on a more busy than average day. It shows me my struggles, my doubts, my anxieties, and my failures. It shows me my successes, my euphoria, my dreams, hopes and aspirations. It shows me my teachers, my peers, my culture, religion, my friends, my mother, my father, my brothers. Myself. I see the world,

“Persepolis” is an autobiographical graphic novel written by Marjane Satrapi that shows her childhood in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. (Wikipedia). The book was originally published in 2000, and translations later published in 2003, 2004, and 2005. (Wikipedia). The book was made into a film, co-directed by Marjane. She also directed three more movies after. (Garvin, Kerry). I chose this book because I wasn’t familiar with the topic and never heard stories about the Islamic revolution. I also thought it was really cool how it was made into a comic book and even a major motion picture. The topic was really intriguing because the topic was hardly talked about and the author personally experienced the whole thing and I got to see her point of view during it. The fact that the author was actively involved during the whole war and got to write it down and turn it into a comic book makes it more fun and exciting to read.

Recovery is a long and arduous process. I have attempted to recover from my eating disorder twice, and only been successful once. The first time I went into treatment for anorexia, I did not understand what it would take to get to a place where I had a healthy relationship with food and with myself. My assumption was that if I just started to eat, then everything would be fine. It was ignorant and naive to think that, and without tackling the root of the problems, it was not possible to get the healthy place I was searching for.

The purpose of this assignment is to discuss the contribution of reflective practice for clinical nursing. Reflection has been defined as a way for individuals to “capture their experience, think about it, mull it over and evaluate” (Boud et al 1985: 19)

The actions of an individual will impact their future this effect is called the Butterfly Effect. This effect is often described using the example of a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil and a week later after a long series of events caused by the butterfly there will be tornadoes in Texas rather than clear skies. Though it also applies to human life being an action that they perform today will lead them down a path tomorrow. Though not often visible it can be such as the chain of events that lead to the first world war which started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This lead to a heated diplomacy between Austria-Hungary and Serbia both of which had powerful allies and eventually lead

The second section of Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi focuses heavily on the reactions of the people regarding the revolution. This section is titled “The Bicycle” because it centers around the idea that “when the wheels don’t turn, it falls” (Satrapi 10). In other words, the revolution will only succeed if the people cooperate with the government in the revolution. The pedals of “the bicycle” are analogous for the people of the government. This is because only continuous support (pedaling) from the people can maintain their government’s decisions (balance).

What is perseverance? Perseverance is the ability to go on when things seem hopeless. It is also a measure of success, or at least how much sacrifice one is willing to make in the name of success. As students, it is impossible to achieve personal success without having a goal, or direction. The goal and direction that often propels us to achieve is perseverance. Perseverance is the ability to forge ahead despite setbacks that threaten to undermine all efforts to succeed.

The second oldest form of literature after poetry is drama. Dramas have changed a lot over the years. They use to plays that were wrote to be performed in the theater, and now they are mostly written to be performed in a movie or a television show. There are many dramas today that most people would not considered to be drama. Before reading the information in our text book, I thought drama was basically just a story or movie between people who had problems with each other; but that’s not completely true. Dramas can basically be anything that has a hero or dialogue to a certain extent. For this paper, I choose to write about the drama in the movie The Hunger Games. This movie is not just only drama, it is also adventure and sci-fi movie.

The media only reports the barbarity and atrocities of countries experiencing turmoil, ignoring the lives and achievements of the people who live inside. This ignorance removes the humanity of the people living inside these isolated nations. One of these countries is Iran. News outlets frequently show Iran as a primitive and vile nation where everyone is an Islamic terrorist ready to strike. In reality, many of the citizens of Iran want to live a normal life and the children are no different. Marjane Satrapi captures her experience as a child growing up in revolutionary-era Iran through her graphic novel Persepolis. The book follows ten year old Satrapi with her wealthy parents in the capital city of Tehran. The people overthrow the king of Iran, the Shah, and eventually religious extremists take control. Their subsequent tyrannical and conservative rule of Iran contradict Marjane’s family’s progressive values. In her graphic novel Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi writes about her growth from an addled child into an expressive young woman through the recognition of her own values.

The graphic novel Persepolis, written about the Islamic Revolution beginning in 1979, paints a vivid picture of the life of a seemingly ordinary girl. Author Marjane Satrapi’s life, recorded in this novel through the perspective of “Marji,” produces strong feelings in the audience through drilling in her reoccurring theme. Her book is centered around the idea that she needs to find the truest version of herself and to set it free. This theme is displayed throughout the story throughout her childhood, teen years, and adulthood.

Despite the claim that Drama in Education ( DIE) as a pedagogy dimmed its popularity in the Western world since 1990 until 2016 (Gallagher, et al. , 2017), in the year of 2011, Morrow, et al. included it as one of the best practices in literacy instruction. Some of the teachers who had the experience of trying process drama in their classrooms found that the pedagogy improved students’ participations, pushed students to use their imaginations, performed deeper understanding of the topics being learned and made the students learn to have empathy ( Long, 1998). Do the voices from the classroom resemble to what researchers and theories have to say on process drama?

That is another reason for the lasting effect of the dramas. A reader would be able to take the play and use its lesson in his or her own life.