Reflect on the Process of the OHP

In ELA and IHSS, we just finished our oral history projects. What I found most interesting about this project was listening to to these people who have gone through these traumatic events and how they coped with these experiences. I especially enjoyed listening to how they plan to rebuild and become stronger, not just as individuals but as a family. These people only stopped helping when incapable or in direct danger themselves. They talked about how people Houston want to get to a place where they can help others. 

This is a trend I have seen through these interviews. 

I believe I handled of working in a group well for this particular project. Personally, I do not like working in groups for a couple reasons, one being that communication is difficult and finding time to work together face to face is even more difficult. But, for this project, working in the group made the heavy lifting easier because we could delegate work between group members for the actual interviews [video/audio, interviewer, notetaker]. Working in a group also made it easier and more efficient to do the multimedia work presentation. This is because we delegated the work pretty evenly. Granted, some people had harder jobs than others because of how much effort each task required, like making the website. Overall, the work we did as a group was well thought out and divided well which made working in a group easier. 

Blog 10/26/17

This week, we were asked to answer a question and this was: What led to Marjane's grandmother to yelling at her? Was the yelling justified? Why or why not? This scene occurred on page 291 in the Complete Persepolis book. Marjane's Grandma yells at Marjane because she tells her a story of how she got some random man arrested and finds this amusing. Marjane's Grandmother finds this offensive and insulting because her husband- who is Marjane's grandfather- spent a third of his life in prison defending the innocent, and Marjane's uncle Anoosh died in a prison. So, getting someone arrested for no apparent/real reason is insulting because of all the heartache that this family has gone through with the police. Therefore, Marjane's grandma's yelling was justified in my personal opinion, because Marjane had a lack of respect for her family's suffering. After Marjane's Grandma leaves Marjane feels really bad about how her grandma yelled at her and plans that this never happens again. One factor why I believe she took this so hard is because her grandma reminded her of all the pain and suffering her family went through mainly the death of her uncle on page 70.