Exhibition Reflection

My exhibition night was good, I didn't picture exhibition night been like it was last night, I thought there was going to be less people. My group strengths were that we, explained our whole process to our project. Our group weaknesses were we froze when we saw many people gathering around us. The most challenging interaction we had was when we didn't know one of the questions they asked us, we handled the situation by explaining other things related to the question, and we finally explained the answer to the question. One thing we would do differently next time is we would practice with big groups, so we can get use to having many people around us.

Exhibition Refection

Story Synopsis

Michelle Wales

Karla Melo

It was a bright sunny day in South Africa in a small hospital. The cries of the new born had awakened others and there in the doctor’s hands lay young Dumaka Zina. Dumaka’s family was waiting anxiously for the arrival of the new baby, his soon to be older sister was crying to see the new born and the father was walking around in circles. As the baby was cleaned and put to rest there was some bad news for the rest of the family. The doctor walked to the family and calmed them down “your wife has passed away.” The family stood in shock the father was blank he didn’t listen any longer his mind was filling its self with his wife. The doctor continued “my nurses and I took some blood test and the results were she was HIV positive, this birth just made your wife weaker, and not only did your wife have this disease, but she just gave the new born this disease too.” The family to this point had cried their last tears, suddenly the dad runs to through the hospital door living his aroma behind. This was the last day the dad was ever see people said that he had moved far away others said that he had killed himself. No matter what the situation was the truth was that he had left his two children behind, he had left them alone struggling with life. Dumaka and sister Dalil had to face life alone.

character bio

Michelle Wales
Karla Melo

Character Bio

Dumaka Zina was born in 1990, on March 18 which makes him a Pisces. He was born with AIDS it has been in his family for generations. He is very sweet, gets mad very rarely. He is the youngest out of his older sister. His mother died giving birth to Dumaka. His father left the kids alone after knowing his wife had passed away. He doesn’t know his family back ground. Dumaka loves to help people in need he uses is talent of singing to comfort the sick. He doesn’t get paid very much for working in the clinics. His biggest struggle is his education, because he is not smart, but he would like to become doctor some day.

His favorite food is Geel Rys with a pineapple smoothie on the side. His favorite animals are cats and dogs, but he likes all of the animals. He is not really into clothing; he just puts on what ever he wants to wear. His favorite hobbies are helping those that are sick or in need and he also loves to hang-out with his older sister and his friends.

He loves romantic movies, books and most of all music, Dumaka love to listen to romantic music. His favorite possessions are pictures of his friends and of his sister, but he treasures his mother’s pictures the most. His favorite hang out spot are at the hospitals and at the clinics. Dumaka love to exercise his favorite is running, but the exercises are very hard for him like the sit-ups and push-ups.

The only reason he is really motivated for becoming a doctor is all the sick people that are in the hospital. His worst enemy is Senwe Siko, because ever since they were little kids they always hated each other the all was got into fights and they still don’t get along to this day. Senwe always gets him stress so Dumaka starts to punch and kick everything in his way.

Dalil Zina is Dumaka older sister; she is also his only sibling. She is the opposite from her bother and she was very lucky that she was not born with AIDS. She is only two years older than him she is afraid of getting AIDS like her brother, but deep inside she wants to help him get cured. Dumaka is healthier because of her. She puts in money to help her brother and she is slowly helping her brother as much as she can.

Senwe Siko is the same age as Dumaka, but he is Dumaka enemy. He steals his money and his food making Dumaka weaker of health. He has always hated Dumaka and Dumaka has always hated Senwe.

Persepolis Blog

This book talks about a girl named Marjane. This young girl is living in the time period in which the Islamic Revolution was took place. In this book she talks about how her life changed during the Islamic Revolution. The Islamic Revolution took place in the year 1979, it was a civil war.

Marjane was not sure what to think about the veil since she was religious, but she still had mix feelings about the veil. Marjane had always kept in mind that she was going to be the last prophet. When Marjane’s parents were called in by her teacher she acted decadent when she said that she wanted to be a prophet.

Marjane was tired of the revolution; she had to do something about it. She protested in her garden with a couple of her friends. While she protested in her garden her parents protested against the guards. Where all sorts of violence was seen. Rocks throw towards the guards, and bullets shot at the victims.

Therefore; the revolution went on and Marjane was about to receive a dream shattering news. They occupied the U.S embassy, which meant no more visas. Not having a visa meant not being able to travel; Marjane’s dream of going to the U.S.A had turned in to ashes. Then worst news arrived, they were going to close down universities, Marjane wouldn’t be able to study chemistry. Unlike others Marjane’s families were not martyr they were afraid of being forced to wear veils, and exchanged their car for a camel.

These were just the beginnings, of there troubles during the Revolutionary War. Their loved ones died. There food supply used to be reservoir, and now they didn’t even bother getting a cart. At one time they almost got bombed. But, the bomb hit their neighbors. Marjane and her family stuck together, and tried to over come these tragedies.

At the end of this book, Marjane and her family end up seaperating. Marjane is about to flee to Vienna. More questions come to your head. Marjane’s family and she stayed together though times. Would they be able to over come more tragedies on their way? Would they have to overcome problems on their own? Will this family ever reunite again? If I were to write the second book I would probably give Marjane and her family more time alone. I would do this because Marjane needs to get older and meet new people. I would reunite the family towards the ending of this book. As the war is coming to an end, this family had experienced many tragedies they should be able be together. It just makes you wonder what is going to happen next.