Kassim,+Ghali


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Ghali Kassim

EN1313

Iyenger

1-18-11

 //The Story of Stuff (do not italicize the title and the font size must be 12) 1/22/11//

The things we buy don’t fall from the sky, they are made from resources that come from this planet. These resources are going to vanish one day, only because we don’t know how

the stuff we buy are made or where they come from. The government calls it “The Material’s Economy” and this consists of extraction, production, distribution, consumption, and finally

disposal. However, the government only shows you the bigger picture, they don’t show you how extraction ruins most of the natural resources on planet earth and how production

pollutes the air. One example of the negative effects of production includes women who work in dangerous environments and breast feed. The harmful environments affect the

women and their health. Distribution has also bad effects because products are being sold cheaper than their worth and by ruining the lives of the hard working people making or

selling these products. As human beings we will always try to save money by buying the cheapest, but think about it for a second, buying cheap things means saving money, but not

in the long term. These materials will break down or a newer version, a better version will be released in no time, so you will have to dispose your older things by replacing them with

more “modern” ideals. It’s really just a well planned technique to make you buy and pay more by tricking you into thinking that they need these items. Disposal of these things is an

issue because people fail to dispose of them correctly and safely. One damaging method such as incineration, can cause the release of many toxic gases into the sky, causing global

warming.

Ghali M Kassim

EN 1313

Iynger

1/24/2011

Name Game (I tried to center manually, but it retracted to its place when I saved the same. We have to ask others in class about this.) 1/24/11

Shannon Marie Zorn, her parents met while her father was working on a boat calle d “Shannon Marie” and her mother liked the name, so she named her daughter Shannon Marie.

Her great grandfather moved from Sweden to the United States in the 1800s, his last name was Olsen, but he changed it to Zorn. The name is originally from Germany, which means

extreme anger; even though, her family are usually calm and not angry. Shannon is Irish and it means the little wise one. Her middle name, Marie, is Hebrew and it means a child that

is wished for, or bitter.

When she was younger she didn’t like her name, only because she felt it was weird and uncommon. She used to call her self Katherine, because she liked longer names. Now,

she loves her name and think it’s unique and doesn’t want to change it. This assignment is not due until next week, but I appreciate your enthusiasm. (1/24/11)

Ghali M Kassim EN 1313 Iyengar 2-15-11  My First Car Accident

Back in Saudi Ara`bia I had an amazing car. The exterior was black on black, and the interior was black leather seats with red “SS,” the name of the car, carved on each seat. The

acceleration on it was amazing, thus it was one of the fastest cars I have ever driven. It was a dream car, affordable and beautiful for any young male. If you focused on the details and

looked at the car, it was monstrous and amazingly nice. Until one day, my friend wrecked it.

It was early in the morning when my best friend called me, “Can you pick me up from the airport please?” Coming from London, my friend was exhausted and ready to live the

Saudi life once again. We went to a restaurant to get breakfast. After that, we went to drive around town. “Let’s go to the new cafe that opened next to the beach,” my friend demanded,

so we went.

The cafe was like a huge museum and there were two parts in the cafe where you could sit, outdoors next to the beach, or inside for the air-conditioning. My friend doesn’t own a

car in London, thus he asked me to drive mine. When it was time to leave, he asked if he could drive, because he didn’t own a car in London. Being a good, and “dumb” friend, I let

him drive because I was tired. However, I forgot to tell him that the traction system in the car at that time was off and that he needed to be extra careful. He started the car and it roared

to life, he then proceeded to drive towards his parent’s house. He was driving a little bit faster than normal and at the first curve he encountered the car spun twice, hit the side walk,

and went to the other side of the road. I was scared, not for my life nor my friend’s life, but my car’s life. “Please be a minor dent and not something big,” I frantically thought. I got out of

the car imagining the worst, thinking my car was gone.

My car was damaged, but only in the back area. One of the tail lights, the back bumper, the back right tire, and four parking sensors, were all ruined in the accident. I panicked and

did not know what to do. I was about to call my parents, however my friend said, “Don’t do that, you’ll only make them worry. Let’s take care of it ourselves.” We took the parts that fell

and went to look for a new bumper at a local car part shop. The bumper was so expensive that I thought the sales men were just raising the price because they knew I was worried

and would pay anything to fix my car. My friend calmly told me, “Are you crazy? You don’t have to pay for a new bumper, you can just fix this one.” Upset and not knowing what to do, I

asked, “Well, where would we find a shop that’ll fix it in no time?” He knew of a place and we drove to this unknown small hidden garage in the middle of nowhere. We pulled up

inside and the man working there greeted us, “Hello and sorry about the car, but don’t worry, it’ll look brand new after I’m done with it.” “Please just take good care of her” was all I was

thinking of. The man assured me, “Don’t worry I can fix all that in less than 10 hours.” “Finally, some good news,” I thought to myself. I called another friend to come and pick us up and

drop us back after the car was done. 10 hours later, I was driving my car like it was brand new and nothing happened. No one else knew about the accident, but my friends and I,

however, now you do, too.

Ghali M Kassim EN 1313 Iyengar 2\24\11 How Social Networking Work (Nicely dione!)

For the last decade, social networking has become the way people, from all around the world, communicate and keep in touch with each other. Social networking consists of a

number of websites, where a group of people interested in the same subject can meet, chat and conduct different activities. Each social network website has its own unique style and

motto that differs from the other websites, but all of them have the same idea; Making more people want to join their website, by persuading them through various advertisements.

One of the biggest social network websites is Facebook. It’s a free website that anyone older than thirteen years old can join. To join you have to go to the website by typing

[|__www.facebook.com__] in your address bar in the browser you use. It will open the Facebook sign in page. From there, you have to provide a first name, last name, birthdate, gender,

email and the desired password for your account. Pressing “Sign Up” will send a confirmation mail to the email you have provided. After confirming the account you can start social

networking. First step is to provide information about your self, so people can read it and know more about you. Some of the information that you can share includes; “The city you

were born in, the city you grew up in, the schools you went to, your religious views, your favorite quote and your favorite entertainment.” Next, you can upload a picture of your self, as

a display picture for your profile. You can always change your display picture by pressing “Change Picture” at the top right corner of your profile picture. Now that your profile is

complete and filled with information about yourself, you can start inviting friends and family to your “Friends’ List”. To do so, type in the name of the person you want to add, and press

on the correct profile of the person. It will take you to that person’s profile page, from there you can press the “Add as Friend” button. It will send a friend request to that person, that

he\she can accept or decline. You can always add people you don’t know and make new friendships, but you have to be careful and not to give personal information to strangers.

Every time you sign in to your Facebook account it will ask you “What’s on your mind?” You can update it with thoughts, emotions or just a phrase you want to share. The “News Feed”

page is the main page of your Facebook account. Which consists of the latest updates or uploads -photos, videos and articles- by your friends. From the “News Feed” page you can

navigate through the website by pressing the page you want to check. Such as, pressing the “Messages” page will take you to your Facebook inbox where friends can send you

personal messages and you can do the same.

Facebook is all about giving your opinion to a friend by commenting on their uploaded material. You can do so easily by typing what ever is on your mind in the comment section

below each topic. Other people can do so too to your profile, and when they do you will receive a notification shown in the upper left corner with a number stating how many

notifications you have since your last visit to your profile. Next to the notification button is the friends requests button, it will turn red if someone has requested to be a friend of yours.

Pressing the friends request button will navigate you to choose between either accepting the friend request or deny it.

Finally, when you are done with Facebook and want to sign out from your account, all you have to do is press the “Account” button located on the upper right corner of your page

and then press log out.

Ghali M Kassim EN 1313 Iyengar 3\23\11  Movies

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” That is true, but in 1878, moving pictures were introduced to the world by a man named Edward Muybridge. From that day on, movies have

been constantly improving and changing. It all started with different images of a horse running that are put together in a way that made them look like they were moving. Movies then

changed to video taping real-live actors, but in black and white. Throughout the years, the way movies were made have changed. Colors were added and now characters from the

movies can come out of the screen. Not true, it’s special effects called “3D,” but it looks real enough. Movies consist of different genres. Different people enjoy different genres. A

group of people who love to laugh and enjoy a good sense of humor would like comedy movies. Another group of people who might like gore and blood would enjoy horror movies.

Action movies are made for people who would like to see explosions and fighting scenes for the adrenaline rush. Finally, there are people who just want to watch a peaceful romantic

movie.

The best movie genre is comedy because, as simple as it gets, comedy equals fun. Every human being appreciates a good laugh and comedy movies are especially made for

that purpose. Comedy first started with the British comedian with his weird looking mustache, Charlie Chaplin.Today’s comedians have all contributed to the success of comedy and

the laughter of people. A good comedy movie needs more than just funny jokes. Pranks, funny awkward situations, sarcasm and even people getting themselves hurt can make a

good comedy movie. Comedy is good for anytime and everyone. One movie can entertain people from all age groups, however, there are exceptions such as, movies not suitable for

people under a certain age.

Action movies consist of a bank robbery in the middle of the night, a police chase, a helicopter explosion, gun fighting in an old warehouse leading to a fighting scene where the

good guy captures the bad guys. Action movies attract people who like the adrenaline rush, and watching explosions on TV might just give them that.

Horror movies aim to put fear and disgust into the viewer's mind. They take the audience's nightmares and worst fears and show them on TV. Horror movies consist of monsters

such as, zombies, demons, vampires, ghosts or a masked serial killer. All of them with one mission on their minds, kill everyone they encounter. Horror movies got better and scarier

throughout the years. The audience grew tired from the old ideas of monsters. Thus, the media added explicit gore and more jump-from-your-seat startle moments.

Even though many different genre movies have romance between the characters, romance movies’ main plots are the intimate relationship between the characters. Romance

movies often have happy endings, but the audience is always eager for more drama. Therefore, the media tries as hard is it can for sad endings. One of the most successful romance

movie is //The Titanic//. I think it is because they added the sad fictional story of Jack and Rose to a real historical tragedy.

Kim Summaries Chapter 1  The novel Kim  takes place British India in the 1880s. The first chapter introduces Kim, an Irish thirteen-year-old orphan boy. Kim was raised by an opium den keeper in Lahore, surrounded by all the different cultures. Kim met an old buddhist, lama, who came to India in search for a mysterious river that promises enlightenment to it’s believers. Kim offered to accompany the old man in his journey when he learned that the old man was traveling alone. Behind the lama’s back, Kim agreed on carrying a letter from Mahbub to an Englishman. Later on the same night, Kim caught two stranger searching his personal carriages for he letter. Chapter 2  The second chapter starts with Kim and the lama in a train station, and goes on inside the train. Where they meet with several different characters. Each character stands for different customs, languages and religions from all around India. After reaching Umballa, Kim starts looking for the Englishman’s house to deliver Mahbub’s letter. After he gave the Englishman the letter, Kim heard whispers of un upcoming war.

