Assigment 2

Q 1: I personally was never a big fan of Twitter; as a matter of fact I made a bet with my friends that I would never ever be on twitting. But even in my wildest dreams, I never thought that I would have to be active on Twitter for an assignment for school. So, yes I lost the bet..:(… I found Twitter sort of useless and boring. Some people take it way too seriously and update it like every other minute; every move they make and every breath they take, it’s ridiculous. I understand its peer pressure and people naturally just love talking about themselves and their life, in most cases bragging about what they are doing or complaining about their personal issues. I prefer not to share too much information on Twitter because you never know who may read it, so your privacy is pretty limited. Anyway, based on all he peoples updates that I read, it seems to me that there are three types of time that persist in our online lives and reality. Some of the things people wrote about relate to entropic time of their life. These people are very random and sometimes don’t make any sense at all or have too many things happening at once which makes their life chaotic. And then you have people stuck in stellar time, where they write about things that affect them the most that somehow influenced their physical and emotional state to be and respond in a certain way. Lastly, Teleological time; I saw people writing about something that happened and then describing why or how it happened. My life is based on teleological and stellar time but sometimes it’s also entropic/ chaotic.

Q2:

In the “Tale of the trader and the Jinni”, the time frame is probably stellar or chaotic. Chaotic because when Ifrit sort of jumped out with a knife threatening to kill the merchant, it was a very random and an unexpected event. It’s also Stellar time because it suggests that everything happens for a reason and we have to learn from our mistakes and hopefully warn or teach others. It’s because stellar time intermingles scenarios that affect our daily lives. And then like a similar story “The Fisher man and the Jenni” , also follows similar time frame.

Q:3

These works in 1001 Nights derive from Arabic cultures. In these stories, women are portrayed very badly. They were taken advantage of and accused of things such as cheating, lying, stealing, witchcraft and much more. Many years ago in Arabic cultures, women had absolutely no rights and were treated as property with no respect or appreciation for anything they did for men. They were looked down upon and made a fool of. Nowadays, more modernized societies in the Arabic culture treat women better and provide them with similar opportunities and advantages as men get. Women are freer to do what they please, to work, learn, and have a say in the way their life is being planned out. The “Quran” provides it’s believers with like a set of rules, religiously implanting knowledge into the brains of Islamic people, encouraging them to be more open minded about a woman’s ability and respect her enough to see her as an equal body and to love her and to provide for her and the family.

http://www.islamfortoday.com/ruqaiyyah09.htm