Five of classmates review:


Mohammed Alamer's book is about West Africa Today. The book does not have an author, but it has editor by Nancy L. Hoeple. the book printed in United states of America by International Standard Book.

 

 

Yipeng Liu got a book about Culture Shock. It made him interasted because he wants people to have enough knowledge about Chains Culture. This book is published by special arrangement with Times Editions Pte Ltd. The book is born in 1990, and in 1999 they rewrite it.

 

Valerie Mattson had a book about The Birth of Christianity. She is interested on that book because she is Christian and she wants to have more knowledge about her faith. The book published in 1953, and the author is Maurice Goguel. It was printed in London

 

Yu Fan picked a book about Chinese-Japanese War, 1937. He is interested on that book because he wants to have more information about history and camper the information with what he had studied. This book printed in New York on 1938. The book printed on The H.W.WILSON Company, and it was distributed in the US.

Answer qeustion about the book:-

1- Why did you select the book you brought to class?

Because lass week I did research for communication study class which is about African American culture. So, the book has some information and facts about African culture.

2- How many authors does it have? Some books have none: they have an editor.

It does not author, but it has editor.

The name of the editor is Barbara Cervone.

3-What is the title?

The title of the book is In Our Village.

4-. Who printed the book? Re-printed? Distributed in the US?

It disributed in National Book Network, Lanham, Maryland.

5- Which city was it printed in, and when? You may find that certain books were printed again and several years are printed when editions came to market. Choose the last year and tell which edition it was. If a book was printed in 1940, 1968, 1982, you pick 1982 and count to three: 3rd edition 1982

It Printed in Hong Kong, 2006

I found a book about interesting topic which called In Our Village. In fact, I did research about African people for Communication Study class. So, the book is talking about the same idea as my research.  Actually, the book does not have author, but it has editor her name is Barbara Cervone. The book has distributed in National Book Network, Lanham, Maryland. Moreover, it has printed in Hong Kong In 2006.

Research Tips and Tutorials

Topic:

Research Tips and Tutorials...,

Research and Tips and Tutorials is let anyone to find many things such as hot topic, information cyclec, MN history, and primary sources.  So, that chance gives student a hand for help. In addition, that link make student finding resources. So, finding resources has locating scholarly articles, scholarly journal V. popular magazine article, and internet search tolls.  Moreover, evaluating information has many steps such as assessing the credibility of online success from SCSU’s project LEO, how to evaluate web site, and how to evaluate books.

Group Chapter One Summary and Analysis

Chapter One:
Valerie Mattson,
Almoutasem Aljahdli,
mohammed asiri
abdulhakeem alabbad

• Orphanage
• Food
• Hospital
• Child trafficker, Golkka

Summary:

The entire reason Conor Grennan begins his volunteering adventure in Nepal at an orphanage is to impress friends, family, and women in bars. He does not realize there actually is a war going on because he assumes the brochure, from which he learns of this opportunity, is exaggerating. He had previously worked in Prague for eight years but wanted to do something both challenging and impressive as an excuse to travel the world. The first place he goes to in Nepal is Thamel, which is a tourist region. The first night is spent with a host family. The little daughter, Susmita, teaches Conor a little bit of Nepali. He spends his first night outside gazing at the stars. This is the moment he realizes Nepal is going to be a completely different experience from anything he had ever encountered. He then travels to the Little Princes home in Godawari, which was founded by Sandra. By spending time with these children, he gains new insight into Nepali culture.

He learns how once a person has touched his or her food, it is considered “juto”, or unclean. Also, trash and environmental concerns are difficult topics to understand and consider in third world countries because they are primarily concerned with the welfare of the people themselves. He learns it is a custom to call older males “brother” as a sign of respect. He also discovers the people of Nepal consider time differently than citizens of the United States do. This is because no one punches in a clock for work, nor do they attempt to impress others by working through lunch.

One day, as Conor is trying to help the children get ready for school, the Maoists instigate a strike, which is known as a “bandha”. During this time, everything, even school, closes. There are people desperate enough for money they drive taxis anyway, even though they could be physically assaulted for not respecting the “bandha”. As a result of production being forced to stop, there are food and kerosene shortages, which is dangerous for an already impoverished nation. In Nepal, children actually enjoy school; however, teachers are not paid a lot by the government, so it is common for them not to come to work, which results in school often being closed. Conor realizes the school system is flawed when he sees the answers to Anish’s homework is wrong, but the teacher does not mention it as being incorrect. Education is not the only flawed system.

When he takes Santosh to the hospital, he realizes how unsanitary all of the beds and medical equipment are. After this event, he meets Golkka, who is a child trafficker from the poor region of Humla. Humla is also the home of the children of Little Princes. Golkka commits this terrible act because he is able to receive a cheap source of labor from these children, which is otherwise difficult to accomplish in the poverty struck nation of Nepal. As Conor rides a bus through Nepal, he notices a dark-skinned man on the side of the road. This man lives in horrible conditions because he is at the end of the economic scale. In Nepal, they consider the Caste System to be in control of economic affairs; therefore, if people are dark skinned, they are considered to be at the bottom and are untouchable. They are often born into this judgment. When Conor returns, Sandra decides to go on a hike. She is captured by Maoists and forced to return, which makes her realize how powerful these rebels are. Before leaving Little Princes, Conor Grennan tells all of the children he will return in one year.

Analysis:

Conor Grennan begins his journey to Nepal because he feels he needs to do something challenging to impress all to whom he speaks. Initially, he does not want to go to Nepal to actually help these children. He just wanted to do something adventurous because he feels his routine has become boring. Volunteering at an orphanage does not sound selfish and is the perfect excuse to travel the world and use his money in less responsible ways than he could be. He does not realize how much this journey would impact him. Right away, he realizes Nepal is a completely different country than the United States. This impacts him because he has never realized how wasteful he is. When the volunteers at the orphanage take the children out to bathe, Conor accidentally gives a child too much shampoo. In the United States, this is about the amount most people use every day. The child acts crazily with hysteria and excitement because he has received a lot more than he normally does. After this moment, Conor realizes how resourceful the children are because they are able to do a lot with just a little amount.

When they are eating dinner, Conor becomes full and does not want to finish all of the food that is on his plate. He is unable to give it to the children, however, because he knows how once food is touched by someone, it is considered untouchable. He begins to think about all of the times he threw away trays of food back in the United States. The more he spends time with these children, the more he realizes how wasteful and ungrateful his and other people’s behavior in the United States. Although a lot of the behavior is flawed in the United States, there is a custom in Nepal that Conor finds disturbing. This is the caste system. Conor finds it disgusting how a person can be born into a never-ending cycle of poverty and cannot do anything about it. This is something about Nepal he has never been able to forget.

At one point during his time spent at Little Princes, he tries to commit a kind and charitable deed by purchasing toys for the children; however, the toys brake, and the children continue playing with toys Conor did not consider to be in good condition, but the children love them because these toys are considered to be their personal possessions.

These children teach Conor to become a better person, and he develops a loving relationship with them which then results with him promising to return to Nepal. The ultimate meaning behind all of this is Conor realizes how American culture is more wasteful; however, there are many problems with a poorer culture, such as trash. Ultimately, Conor will learn more about himself and become a better person through this experience with the children at Little Princes.

Little princes Summary:-

The Little Princes book is not story, but it makes you think that “is there person still care about another person?” The author of the book is not trying to be hero or showing up in front of people because he helped Nepal’s children, but he is giving you knowledge about “how it can be dangerous for children.” Nepal in 2004 had war civil war and there were people did not have electricity, water, and money because of the war. He makes his self responsible to make the children proud of their selves. However, he was surprising when he heard that children are not really orphans, but they are a game victim between their families and people who bought them. So, he could not make his self as blind person and does not trying to do something that can help children. He was thinking what the reason that makes their families do that. So, when he found the answer to the question he promises his self to bring the children back to their families. Additionally, he wants to tell children’s families how it can be dangerous for their children if they continue doing that. Some families who already adopted children return them back because of many issues one of them is money. Before he leave the Nepal he told Nepal’s children he will came back again to Nepal after one year. After he finished his plan which is traveling around the world, he came back to Nepal because he decided to help children to return to their family. By the way, not many volunteers go back to their, but he decided to spend his time and money to help children.  He is not only helped children but also he wants to make children who were not born yet to enjoy their life whit their families. So, I believe that children business is huge risk for any society around the world because that may killed the next children generation for any country. I really enjoy reading the book and I will tell my friend to read it because it is talking about humanity. 

Conor Grennan stared his plan which is traveling around the world. He started his plan by going to Nepal
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at  the Little Princes Orphanage. He already known that the Little Princes Orphanage could be dangerous step for him, but he believed that this experience was not bad for him. Also, he wanted to keep up on his vacation and visit the world.

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He went to Nepal first time because he want to show up in the front of people. Also, he thought that there will not be any relationship between him and children in the Little Princes Orphanage. However, when he came back to Nepal second time he found that he is so close from children and i do not want go away from them. Because he felt that he has build family in the Little Princes Orphanage, he decided to do not go away from them.

comparison of pages:-
after he finishing from traveling around the word he decided to go back to Nepal for children because he believed children need him more than anything.

















after he finishing from traveling around the word he decided to go back to Nepal for chlidren because he believed children need him more than anything.

Pree review:-

The best three scores are for Sainju, Jasmin (9) , Block, Adam M (9) ,and Alamer, Mohammed Saud M (8.5)

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I believe all three writers have a gread post without many errors. I enjoyed reading them.

Who am I..?

This is Mohammed Asiri, I'm student at United State Of America. Actually, I'm from Saudi Arabia, but i have been In U.S for 2 years. Many things have been changed when I came to U.S. Many Students find that international student is hard position for them because they feel like they are far away from the rest area. Some of them are alone in U.S without their families or friends. So, I'm one of them how has the same feeling. I learned and I'm still learning how to be a good person and communicate with people. However, culture is hard step for any international student because he/she may act in the new country as he/she used to act in her/his country.  For example, when I came to U.S I was so hungry and I thought U.S has Arabic food, but the Surprising story was there was only fast food restraint in the airport. First year in U.S, I was kind of good with English language because I used to be in Australia. The first driver taxi who picked me up from airport to hotel was African American. So, his accent was so hard for me and he told me story but the funny thing is I do not what he was talking about, But I told him three words when he told me the story which are “Yes, Wow, and really”. So, culture is the hardest step for international students. Now, I majoring Finance because I used to work with my father on his business. Finally I hope the time in U.S will be helpful and wonderful for me in the future.