1. Lives on Twitter are mostly influenced by stellar time. The heavy rain and our online homework are the biggest examples for this weekend. We had our own scenarios of fighting with the wind, umbrellas breaking, and complaining on the Internet. And also, some classmates raised and discussed their concerns of the “100 Nights” homework. One finished the work earlier when another classmate questioned on the deadline. Eventually, they found out that the due day is going to be on Wednesday, while a student dedicated a whole day, which she should have spent it on her accounting test tomorrow, on this homework. Scenarios of our lives were and are affecting each other, maybe present, maybe in the future. Furthermore, we also have some comments are in teleological time order. For instance, “my internet is down just because of the rain!!!!!!” and “expecting someone to call me for not going to work tonight...”
2. I would say all the three types of time theory are presented in 1001. For example, in “the Fisherman and the Jinni,” if the fisherman doesn’t cast a jar of yellow copper, he won’t have an intelligence fight against the Ifrit, the fisherman won’t catch the colored fish and turn over to the king, and the king won’t save Ensorcelled, and the fisherman won’t become the richest person. This is a cause – effect relationship, so it fulfills the teleological time theory. And also, the “1001 Nights” story itself is in chronological order. Second, the fisherman story also shows the entropic time theory. “The Tale of the Wazir and the Sage Duban,” “King Sindibad and his Falcon,” “The Tale of the Husband and the Parrot,” and “The Tale of the Prince and the Ogress,” are, I believe, parallel stories, which have no necessary relationship with either the cause (the fisherman story) and effect (the king and prince story) or these stories themselves. They are randomly picked by the narrator to extend her life. Third, overall this group of stories presents stellar time theory. Although the interaction between the fisherman and the Ifrit doesn’t result the saving of Prince Ensorcelled directly, without the fisherman and Ifrit, the King would not get the colored fish and therefore meet the prince and save him. And also, if the prince’s wife doesn’t turn his lower half body into stone and turn their people into colored fish, there won’t be that saving story.
3. I would like to focus on the role of women in today’s Islamic countries. First of all, women have a negative image in “1001 nights.” In “the Tale of the Ensorcelled Prince,” the prince’s wife betrays, stones, and tortures him. In “the Tale of the Husband and the Parrot,” the wife cheats with a Turkish man when her husband is away. Even the beginning story of King Shahryar and his brother, both their harems cheat on them when they leave. In traditional Arabic culture, women are considered as inferior to men. Today, this gap still exists. An article on New York Times Blog reports that women in Saudi are legally not allowed to drive on highways (http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/saudi-woman-drives-for-youtube-protest/?scp=2&sq=islamic%20women&st=cse). Even though a reader points out that it is a “social taboo” rather than stated by law, we still feel the social, cultural gap between men and women. However, situations do change over time. Women now are educated and some are trying to fight for their rights. According to another report on New York Time about a year ago (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/world/asia/16afghan.html?scp=7&sq=islamic%20women&st=cse), Afghan women have a sense to seek for equality, and the same rights to men.
2 comments:
I agree with you about the stellar time as it is the cause to our independent behavior later today or maybe someday in the future. However, I look at the basic of all that all the posts were coming from the events of each individuals in everyday lives, so it should be accounted as chaotic time. IN the 1001 nights, i agree that stellar time from the reading provides us the lessons of what is a good behaviors and what are not. Nevertheless, the view of entropic time does not really reflect all about cause and effect relationship that it has in the readings. It is the relationship between God as cause and effect is each characters gradually realizing the notion of God’s doing. I positively agree with the fact that those stories are inequality toward women, and the Islamic view toward more the culture where the possibility women and men are equal in education, jobs, and others( but for all not saying that it is not simple to put democrat system to change Arabic thousand years of culture)
i got the same opinion on Twitter, it provides a stellar time. There are many people participate on Twitter, such as people can communicate on Twitter as you mention in your response, students as the question as "1001 Night". People can share their information on Twitter. such as you post your Vita tax program online and provide your schedule for Vita. People also can express their feeling on Twitter. such as I post my feeling about my Management exam. As the meaning of stellar time, there are some much little thing happen, when you connect them together, it is our daily lives.
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