Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Hi every body. There was a class of astronomy and because I like the sky of night, stars and the most important one, my love, moon, I attended the class. There I found lots of interesting things. I write some of them here for you.
_when we look at the sky we are looking at the time not the place and the lights we see from the stars belong to the past. I mean maybe a star that we se tonight has died many years ago but because of the far distant we have, we can see it now.
_Jupiter is a very very big planet. A little smaller than the sun. It has lots of gases and dust around itself and if it was a little bigger we would have had two suns in our solar system. We can say that it is the protector of Earth. Because lots of the stars that hit it if they hit to Earth there would no Earth anymore.
_young stars are blue and have high temperature. Old stars are red and have low temperature.

Monday, December 17, 2007

Most Caring Child

Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child.

The winner was a 4-year-old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. When the boy saw the old man crying, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said "Nothing, I just helped him cry."

Hamlet

Summary of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Hamlet is the son of the late king Hamlet (of Denmark), who died two months before the start of the play. After King Hamlet's death, his brother, Claudius, becomes king, and marries King Hamlet's widow, Gertrude (Queen of Denmark).Young Hamlet fears that Claudius killed his own brother (Hamlets' father) to become king of Denmark. Two officers and later Hamlet himself saw the late king Hamlets ghost appear at midnight .The ghost tells Hamlet privately that Claudius had indeed murdered King Hamlet by pouring poison in his ear .Hamlet is decided to revenge his fathers death.

About Shakespeare

He has a critical view of life ,so he likes to write about tragedy. In his criticism, revenge and murder are as central targets and in Hamlet there are many contrasts and conflicts.
But honestly , I don’t like his way of writing, of course I think I have this idea of him, cause I compare him with Dickens and other writers .Shakespeare uses old English so understanding it is somehow difficult for me but I like the content of this story but I don’t like his language .I think his language is unfamiliar to me.






BY: Zahra Hatami
Literary Criticism (short history)

*Tragedy and Comedy: The internal focus

Poets have a strong tendency to form opinions about their craft and to use these opinions as part of their messages of their poems.
There are many ways for expressing these messages. Here in this book, I have read two ways, Comedy and Tragedy.
*Comedy is away in which poets transfer messages while making the readers laugh.
*Tragedy is away in which poets express their opinions while making the readers sad or even making them cry.
Before reading this book, I thought that when the language of your poems is comedy, it means you should talk about interesting and funny subjects and when it is tragedy, it means you should talk about disappointing subjects. But in this book I understood one of the best and effective way of talking about disappointing subjects is comedy, cause while the poet makes people laugh ,he/she makes them understand their problems in an indirect way which is much effective but tragedy makes people sad and directly asks them to solve their problems.
After reading some parts of this book, I understood that Plato and Aristotle had ideas about poetry so I decided to study their ideas about poetry (tragedy and Comedy……)

Plato's opinion about poetry

He is a moral critic. He rejects art and literature because he is moralist .He believes poet is a holy thing, it is winged. Poet is like a prophet, poem should be inspired by God. There is no invention in him until he loses his sanity, he can do nothing unless he is inspired. He says poetry is not some thing you can learn, it is not rational. It is not conscious so there is no logic behind it .therefore it can not be trusted. There can be truth behind poetry but it must be examined .even the poet does not understand his poetry because it is the result of moment of irrational within the poet. Plato is idealist .the world of reality is just an imitation of ideal world .he says, beauty, goodness is just a copy from an ideal world. Poetry is the copy of the copy so it is twice copied of ideal. It shows that the poet has no knowledge of ideal and the poet lack of useful purpose .Plato says there are 3 art related to every thing. One is
1. How to make s.th
2. How to use s.th
3. How to imitate s.th
So a carpenter is superior than a poet .the third one is the lowest art and this art belongs to poets and painters .poet just imitate the surface of reality .there was no imagination in Plato's world. Now I am comparing my ideas about poetry with Plato's and I am going to go through it deeply so I will let you know in my notebook.



BY: Zahra Hatami
* Summary of Oliver Twist

Oliver's mother dies when he is born and he is brought up in a workhouse. His first years are cold and lonely and then he runs away to London. But he falls into the hands of Fagin and the terrifying Bill Sykes. They try to turn Oliver into a criminal .Will he escapes to find a better life?

About Dickens

As a child ,Dickens endured the harsh conditions of poetry .his family was imprisoned for debt and Dickens was forced to work in a factory at age 12 .These experiences haunted him for the rest of his life .if you pay attention to his stories ,you can understand that in most of his stories he talks about a boy who has many difficulties in his life but at the end he will succeed .I think Dickens experiences during his childhood make him write in this way .before reading this book I just thought that he just thinks about negative points of life but after finishing his book ,I understand that he shows the surface of his stories negatively but if I go deeper in his stories ,I really feel positive points in his stories ,I really feel hope because in his idea ,I think being successful after having many problems is much more valuable . About his grammar and language, I can say in most of the times he used past tense(ed) but when I read the story,I feel present , I mean although in appearance it is s.th that finished in the past but when I read, I feel that it happens now, cause in some parts I really feel myself instead of that boy. Then I start to cry because I feel that pain and I remember a boy that lives near our house somehow with these problems.
In this story, Oliver provides insight into the experiences of the poor and his experiences demonstrate the legal silence and invisibility of the poor.

*
Here is a point that really affects me:

I believe that all the human beings are created with pure soul and all of them are innocent, but our activities during our lives can have both positive and negative influence on our lives. The thing that was really interesting for me was that although Oliver had many problems in his life but he did not want to commit a sin, he didn’t want to do s.th wrong.
Problems which he had were enough to destroy his pure inner life. But he just considered the beauty of being innocent so he tolerated all of the problems and finally he could be successful in his life and throughout the novel, Oliver's virtuous nature survives the unbelievable misery of his situation.

*Don’t worry…..

If you think you have done something wrong, don’t worry, you have time to return to your pureness' myself when I do something wrong, I try to justify myself but actually no problems can justify your sin.



TRY TO BE WHITE SAME AS THE FIRST DAY OF YOUR CREATION



By: Zahra Hatami
Summary of the Scarlet letter

This story is about a woman named Hester, whose husband was sent to a war ,cause he was a doctor, During her husbands absence, she fell in love with a priest in a church named Dimmesdale.After she understood her husbands death, she had illegal relationship with that priest and soon had a child. The court asked her o say the name of babies' father but she didn’t confess so the court made her put the scarlet A on her bosom, to show that she is adultery. Hester named her daughter, Pearl.After two years Hester's husband came back alive and tried to disturb the priest because he understood the priest was the Pearls father. Finally at the end of story Dim confessed that he is Pearls father and they escaped to other city to live.

‍Critique

The question which comes to my mind was that why the priest didn’t say his name at the first of the story .For finding the answer to my question, I have studied many critiques of this story and finally I got the answer and many other beautiful points about others cultures. The answer of my question is this; the story happened in Victorian time and in that time people were very religious, they all believed Dim deeply as a source of pureness so he couldn’t disturb the people's good ideas about himself. So during the story he had challenges with himself.

Other points

Scarlet A: scarlet means red, a means adultery .Why is it Red? Because red is symbol of passion (earthly love not a spiritual love).
Pearl: is valuable and beautiful product of ugly and dark sin (illegal relationship). Narrator considers Pearl as an elf and wants to say she is devil, because Pearl hasn’t two parents and her father is absent .Pearl is always associated with nature, cause both of them are innocent, so nature is the place of love.
Dimmesdale:
Dim 1) dark: s.th not clean 2) lack of courage/lack of will
Couregness is related to male but here Hester is female and has courage.
*some critics say it is novel of sin, sin against religion and morality but another critic says it is sin of nature ,it is crime of silence by not confessing the name of lover.
*These two partner of same crime (Hester and Dim) are suffering. Hester has external suffering by wearing scarlet letter on her bosom but Dim has internal suffering by wearing scarlet letter on his heart which is worse than external.
*The writer finds love higher than rules and morals of the strict society because at first he had some religious background but little by little he became more introduced by scientist like Darwin and read their theory and lost his own faith and this lack of faith has dominated his works. Nearly all his important novels are set in agricultural areas which he grows up in mid 1800.
*About the writers language and grammar I can say although he used present in many sentences but I feel past cause their religion was unfamiliar to me that I can never understand it because some strict rules of their religion made people commit a sin .For example, when one woman's husband die, she must not get marry until ten years. This story helped me know Islam better than before because when I search about history of Islam, I feel the present, it means Islam's rules are eternal, so I am happy cause of having this eternal religion.














BY: Zahra Hatami

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Secrets of the Love ( by Kahlil Gibran)

“Secrets Of The Heart” is an attractive title. Not only the title, but also the content is wonderful. It takes you through your heart, through the soul, and gives you a very very especial feeling which you wouldn’t like to lose. You will really live it and feel it. It’s the experience itself…
It consists of different stories but with the same motif and the same feeling. Among the stories one of them named “John The Madman” is very familiar to us. It exactly shows the terrible differences of the true religions and what dominant systems pretend to be the religion. They do what they want under the name of the religion and that means under the name of what God says. It clearly shows the rich priests of churches in front of the poor ordinary people. They live luxurious lives and just accumulate wealth while others are suffering poverty. They are like thorns growing among flowers and not letting them grow up… And this is where the great character of Islam “Imam Ali” shows itself to our minds. How he lived was the same way as others. No luxurious life, No wealth but an ordinary simple life.
It properly shows that every person can read his holy book and understand it depending on his heart and there is no limitation for reading it. Every person can understand and fill God as much as his heart lets him, but that’s ok. For God there is no limitation to fill him…
It is suitable to call it SECRETS OF HEART since it describes some especial secrets. Secrets of heart that lets you communicate with your God, feel him and talk to him. What is needed is just your light HEART and nothing else. No high education, no wealth, no gold… But a Heart full of love and light…
Without love nothing will improve. I’m not talking about just the divine love but any other love. Anything you want to do require your love for it, anything… No matter you are wealthy or not, no matter you live in a palace or not but you must have love to live alive…And these small but valuable loves for anything in our lives are a small drop of that greater love for God. They are a preface to the main text to understand it better and to feel it completely…
If you read this book, you will live it with the bottom of your heart and it will surely sound familiar to you as the problems explained in this book are the problems of all communities with all humans with any religion they believe in, but be careful to not become a ruined flower between apparently these powerful thorns…


Be Careful you Light-Hearted!

The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter “A “is the symbol of adultery- a religiously and socially illegal action done by Mrs. Hester Prynne and her lover Arthur Dimmesdale. The word “scarlet” implies two meanings: First RED which is usually used to show shame; however Hester was never shown to be ashamed of what she did. She was described to be calm and walking with dignity among the angry people. Second is the implication of SHAMEFUL which is again in opposition with what Hester thought of her action, but it was the community’s attitude towards adultery.
The story shows the conflict of passion and Puritanism, of individual and community. It clearly explores the effect of adultery and its punishment in those days in Puritan New England and the reaction of people for this action.
The writer is concerned to show us different ways of considering adultery. The community implies it as a sin against God, a crime against people, while Hester knows it as the consequence of a natural love. The Colonial State believes it to deserve public punishment while Hester sees no necessity to condemn it publicly…
The writer shows all these reactions without any personal or suggestive idea. He leaves you alone to make judgments yourself about the truth…
There are four central characters shaping the plot of the story. The most important is Hester, the symbol of loyalty and no selfishness. These are shown when she refuses to name the father of her illegitimate daughter and keeps it a secret. She is shown as adventurous, and nonconformist. She has a tough character and an independent mind. She stands suffering the punishment alone and she could be judged as a scapegoat. She is also honest, shown especially when she told her husband that she never loved him. Next is Arthur Dimmesdale, the popular priest who is also Hester’s lover. He betrayed the religion and never announced himself as the Co-adulterer. If he did so he would ruin all the respect and love people had in their minds and hearts for him. He was about a coward character but showing the challenges of a priest in Christianity especially in those years of Puritanism. Third is Hester’s husband whom she didn’t love, and he was just the symbol of vengeance and he was to take revenge of Arthur Dimmesdale. A symbol of hatred. And finally is Pearl, the illegitimate daughter. A wild and solitude girl who is the result of a love, a true love, though being known as a sin…


Wednesday, December 12, 2007

my personal review of the Alchemist(2nd version)

The Alchemist is a simple, motivational and exciting novel. It is adventurous and at the same time inspirational. I think the writer tended to inspire something, to convey an important message and it was…..The Secret…..
After seeing The Secret, I felt that there is something special and common between these two. I felt a same motif which is “
If you really want something, the whole universe will conspire, so that you’ll achieve it “
It is really motivational and energetic, especially when you understand that God talks to you in your dreams. It is wonderful, it causes you to determine to follow your dreams and there is no fear of not reaching it, ‘cause if only you decide, God and the whole universe will help you and show the way to you. No matter how impossible it is, just DECIDE…
I have really experienced it, and I have seen the wonderful result. Once a chemistry Olympiad was taking place in Tehran for school students, I decided to take part, however, I wasn’t prepared for that. I told myself that there was no problem and I would be successful because I really wanted it to happen… And it happened… I…Succeeded…
I have seen many people following this rule of the Alchemist and getting the results. They are really contented people, always happy in their lives as they always follow their destiny and listen to what God tells them in their dreams. They never go with the fate but go through the way of destiny, the way at the end of which God awaits them. They are never afraid of getting lost on the way of destiny since they believe that the whole world is there to help them, to show the way to them by means of the OMENS…Omens are the language of the universe. Better to say language of God. By the time you decide to follow your dreams. You start learning this language of God….
So why not be happy people? Why not enjoy our lives? Why not follow the way God shows us? Why not going towards our lovely God and embrace him? Why nottttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt???????????????
And Why? Why always be afraid? Why always be suspicious of the right way? Why always lying to ourselves? Why letting us go with the fate? Why being weak? Why always be miserable while we can be happy? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy??????????????????????????
Every one of us has some dreams when we are a child and we are desperate to reach it, but when we get older we stupidly decide that it’s impossible to make our dreams come true and it’s a long way and then we give up…. And some of us tell the world’s biggest lie to ourselves and it is: Sometime in some point during our lives something happens that makes us give up. But we ourselves know that that forceful thing is our lazy mind and nothing else….
I have decided to follow my dreams and what I really want, because I want to be a happy person. I have decided to not tell myself lies and not to let me to the hands of fate but to go through the long but beautiful way of destiny to meet God. Moreover I will learn many things, as the way of destiny is a wonderful teacher. The least thing I will learn is the language of Omens, the language of the universe, the language of God… I want to follow The Secret…. Because as long as you know the secret and do nothing for that, It’s not no longer a secret….


Monday, December 10, 2007

THE LAW OF ATTRACTION

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The law of attraction at least happened to me many times.When i wanted to enter the university with all my single bit of my heart and my mind in English major .Although i was not accepted in first year,i kept trying and loving with the law of attraction and attention and finally i reached my goal.I am happy with it
THANKS GOD

thoughts power

i think i knew this law before ,when i was child my mother always said:"have good thoughts about others and yourself.she meant "(niyyat)."i felt its inner power .i had many experiences in my life that based on the secret law but i can't remember all of them.for examole when i wanted something i would gain itafter while.NOW i know what was that.it's my thoughts provide them for me not outer power in univers!!!!!!

there are lots of good things in the world that gives us good feeling. so why we think about the bad things that MIGHT happen. we can give to our selves positive thoughts by looking for good events in our life by looking into the full part of the glass.can enjoy any thing that happens if have a good feeling through it.

THE SECRET

the secret is a film that says"we can!" we can do every thing.it has lots of worthy words;the words i can easily hear but i think they are the things taking a lot of time for me to see them completely and correctly. i know all the things it says but the problem is here that i amnot the person who believes every thing very soon and that is because of the things have happened to me. i should work on this film and it`s words to improve myself.i have an experience from the sentence one said in the film that every thing we feel and think today happens to us.i didn`t believe in it but i always was thinking about seeing someone i like very much. i saw him oneday and i was very surprised and happy.little by little i am trying to make these things more powerful;but on the critical side all the things they say can`t happen completely.they talk just about the things that are related to the person,herself,not the things that are related to the others.

The Secret

The Secret tells me about the most powerfull law in the world, that is the effect of my feelings and emotions on my works.Every body can transform possitive or negative energy, whether to himself or to others. As we saw in the documantry the person who was worried about not being late, became really late.As for me whenever in cold weather I think with myself about not getting cold, I catch cold, really bad colds.But when we learn how to reveal this SECRET we will be very pleasant, the secret which is known by EVERY BODY.

Secret

it's very good to watch such psychological movies or books at the time u have patience to pay attention to them.as far as i'm concerned,they work for me for some days or week.but my idea is i have to believe those ideas and make them inner inorder to make them longlasting.I think the best point of life is having peace of mind.some have them in their inner self and some need to practice and use some tools to achieve this kind of peace.we can practice at the beginning of our way by these motivations(psychological movies and books)and then try to shape it ourself and also transfer it to other people.it's a very nice advice:Be Happy And Make Happy :)

A new day,A new experience

Every time you want to talk about the law of attraction there is sth to say about it because the experiences are infinite, non_stop events.As Mrs. Ghahremani told me it's a new day with new experiences.About two Years ago i attended a conference by Dr.Azmandian who is nowadays giving lectures to many people about technology of thought(the law of attraction).He told us the story of his life and how the law of attraction has helped him a lot to change his life.During that conference there was a vast and huge energy among the audience.But when people go out of these conferences you feel that the energy fades away.I want to say that this is just the atmosphere which affected them.After that there is no evidence of that energy during the conference.I've thought about it very much.The point is how to make it practical to see the consequences in your life.I think this is a big project and needs much effort with it.I can say that praying can help us a lot in this way.We can start from this moment.

the real experience of my own

Every time i wanna talk about the law of attraction,my real experiences come up.I have used it in my life many times.But the most important one was when i was suffering from a bad anxiety for about six years.Those horrrible days which were the worst days in my life can be never forgotten.I was battling with all my effort,my soul and my body.although it was a very very hard experience,it had a big lesson for me.I'm eager to see your experiences here.

Sunday, December 9, 2007

HARD TIMES by Chickens

The name Hard Times, I think is really suitable for this book of Charles Dickens who I prefer to call Chickens. My reason for that is my feeling towards the atmosphere of this book. I don’t know if you have ever felt Hard or not but if you put yourself in the place of the characters like Louisa, you will really feel Hard. The book was based on the idea of always using facts and never even to mention emotions. Of course this was the idea of the main character named Mr. Gradgrind. He, at the beginning of the novel was shown to teach his school children to make their lives upon facts, numbers and quantity. He always insisted that 2 times 2 is always 4 and nothing else…
Mr. Gradgrind brought up his children upon this idea, however, they wished to live in a different way. Of course the result was a girl as Louisa who had no art, no emotion and no other sign of femininity. She was made to marry an old man named Bounderby whose idea was similarly facts and facts…
It is really useful to sometimes use your hear, use your emotions during your life. Sometimes your heart will tell you something that your mind is not capable of telling. I have experienced it many many times in my life. I’ve referred to my heart while making decisions, I have treated people according to my heart, I’ve done many things according to my heart and the result was wonderful. The least important is that I’ve become happy and contented and this has motivated me and has given me energy….
Unfortunately there are always some people always who believe in facts and worse than that is their making others to follow their strict idea… This is what makes people unhappy, these kinds of people especially those who are forced to live like that are always miserable…It is really annoying to do what you want according to the facts while your heart and your emotions tell something exactly opposite and what THEY say is more appealing to you… So it was really a HARD TIME for those who were forced to live for facts…
I haven’t finished the novel yet, but as far as I read it, I really felt myself feeling Hard and annoyed, remembering the situations I have to follow the facts not what my heart wants.
This doesn’t mean that facts are always stupid, but it is actually stupid to ALWAYS follow the facts….

Thursday, December 6, 2007

The Hajars

The other week I read the book 'The Alchemist'... I like the way he writes....
I think he's very much in touch with his heart and specially with his God.He's very similar to Molana,I think.Both of these Hajars talk about the soul of the world,they talk about devine love,about the world beyond this world of us.
They make God and soul very perceptual..........
Anyway,I like what they write because I belive what they belive and I agree with what I think they wanna say....

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Think positively

In the Secret there were sentences which I had heard before a lot. In the past I didn't trust to these things but from the time I saw the person I like best, little by little I am thinking some of them are true; of course I believe that there should be lots of patience. In the film there was a sentence "thoughts become things" I touched an example of this. I know a person who someone had told him "you have an enemy who is a woman" this person had believed it and thought that the woman was doing bad and dangerous things to him. I was very surprised because I didn't see anything; but, because he thought so, he saw so.