American Indians

In both texts “The Indian Character” by Francis Parkman and “Among the Osage Indians in 1832” by Washington Irvang, the American Indian’s characteristics and the way that white men judge them are demonstrated.

Even thought Parkman and Irvang adhered that Indians are civilized and learnt how adapt themselves with the new style of life but they have their own point of view about them.

Francis Parkman was clearly against Indians which is recognizable via the tone of his text. Where the white settler that had lost one of his horses, he blamed Indians for missing his horse. He was in a towering passion. The white settler claimed carrying horses off was common practice among the Indians to claiming a reward. Furthermore, doubt that there was about the young Indian among the travelers.

Among Irvang perspective, I can say that he had different point of view from Parkman. Irvang believed that if we want to consider Indians, we must consider them first of all as a human as we treat the whites. In this perspective, he did not look at them as uncivilized people. He believed that every race have their rights to live freely and have their own attitudes, accustoms and so on according to their culture. As he said in the text that Indians make merit of both grief and mirth. Actually they are not at all like what they became known as taciturn, unbending without a tear or a smile.

There are good points that Irvang was expressed in his text. First, however Indians are taciturn when they are in company with white men but it can be the same situation for white men who are in company with Indians that they don’t know their culture, language…. The next point is Indians are satisfied by being with white men and learn new aspects of their style of life and have their own traditions. Evidences for claim are were Irvang said Indians seated by their fire; they tasted their foods; relished coffee; they were impressed with profound respect for the withes’ dignity and grandeur. They saw everything with keen and watchful eye curiously. Beside they chant about whimsical stories, their adventures in war and hunting.

I, myself, think like Irvang and have agreement with him about this issue. The only way that we can judge people fairly is to see them as human far from their color, race… and in the same circumstances. The other pint that I want to raise is that we must respect others’ culture and underestimate other cultures and traditions. I believe that in every culture there are a lot of facts that are priceless and noticeable. At least we must become acquaintance with them and then judge them.

Bahareh Changizi

May 29, 2008

A Portrait of my Sister

I think I know my sister intimately and thoroughly, if I want to describe her character I would say that she is clever, active and lovely.

About her cleverness I can say that she has a powerful and critical mind over the situations. She sees every thing in details and her powerful mind have solution for every issue. She sees problems from different point of views; she is a good patron for me in my life.

Being active is one of the best and noticeable characteristics that my sister has. She is always full of energy and noting can stop her to achieve her goals. Also she is hard worker and accurate in the activities. Furthermore she likes to try new things especially adventurous ones like rock climbing and strange type of dance.

She has a lovely face whit shining eyes that always have a flash of life. Her sweet smile never lost. She attracts everybody from the first visit. Also she is so kind and affectionate.

Bahareh Changizi

May 27, 2008

Bahareh Changizi AutoBiography

Bahareh Changizi

Born in Hamedam

March 11, 1981

MY FAMILY

I was born in March 11, 1981, in Hamedan, Iran. My parents were both born in Hamedan too. I should say I was born in a cultural family. My parents are both retired teachers. My father used to teach Persian literature and my mother was an art master. They always encourage us, my sister and I, to study and we are now educated persons. My sister is a PHD student of formal method in The Netherlands. I also am impressed by her in my all life. My family and I became inhabitant in Tehran when my sister accepted in Amir Kabir University in 2000.

MY INTERESTS

As a most important interest I should name Painting and drawing. Swimming, Bicycling, mountain climbing are my favorite sports that I really enjoy them. To be come cheer up I usually listen to music, and also dancing, go to window-shopping, visiting art exhibitions make me refresh. These are activities that I like and do in my leisure time: Watching movies, reading novels, studying Linguistics (Semiotics is the topic that recently attracts my attention), Art, Psychology and so an.

MY EDUCATIONS

I spend my elementary and secondary school and 3 first years of my high school in Hamedan. I got my diploma in Mathematics in Tehran in 2001. The Next year, in 2002, I entered the university. Two years later I graduated in Computer ASc from Tehran Gharb University. In 2004 I started English in University of Tehran open center for Artistic and cultural Educations. In parallel of studying English I took academic courses in Fine Art (Painting), that was my main interest all my life, in that institute. In 2005 I went to university in BSc Computer sciences But I did not continued it after Three semesters any more because it was basically pure Mathematics and I was not satisfied in that and I preferred to gave it up. In 2007 I gave myself another chance to study English Literature in Alzahra University that was so near to my soul and interests both in major and university which I always like to study there. Also I am learning French in a private institute.

MY SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

In 2002-2004 I was one of active members of Islamic Association of Iranian Students of my university. I had partnership in cultural and scientific fields; I was caricaturist and scientific author of internal publication of Association. My friends and I established the “ROBOCUP GROUP” which three years after that our group won the competition of Iran students of Azad Islamic universities. In 2003 I in company with some of my friends held and painting exhibition and also I participated in art workshop of Tehran University open center for two years successively. Now I am a member of Film Society of Tehran University and Mountain Climbing Group of artists.

MY PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

I started working from 2003 till 2007 as a web developer that was my interest in computer field. I worked in some companies such as, Namavaran Raianeh Company, Gas and Oil Ministry, Hiberd E-Commerce Company. Now I am a freelance programmer and also I teach computer software.

MY GOALS

The most important goal of my life are be coming a great painter and I also I like to get PHD in Linguistics (Semiotics) and become a good researcher and a professor of university.

Bahareh Changizi

May 25, 2008

The End

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was not only one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading writer, publisher, inventor, diplomat, scientist, and philosopher. He is well-known for his experiments with electricity and lightning, and for publishing "Poor Richard's Almanac" and the Pennsylvania Gazette. He served as Postmaster General under the Continental Congress, and later became a prominent abolitionist. He is credited with inventing the lightning rod, the Franklin Stove, and bifocals. A year after Benjamin Franklin's death, his autobiography, entitled "Memoires De La Vie Privee," was published in Paris in March of 1791. The first English translation, "The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. Originally Written By Himself, And Now Translated From The French," was published in London in 1793.

Known today as "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin," this classic piece of Americana was originally written for Franklin's son William, then the Governor of New Jersey.

The work portrays a fascinating picture of life in Philadelphia, as well as Franklin's shrewd observations on the literature, philosophy and religion of America's Colonial and Revolutionary periods. Franklin wrote the first five chapters of his autobiography in England in 1771, resumed again thirteen years later (1784-85) in Paris and later in 1788 when he returned to the United States. Franklin ends the account of his life in 1757 when he was 51 years old.

Considered to be the greatest autobiography produced in Colonial America, Franklin's Autobiography is published here in 14 chapters.

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What is biography?

In favor

Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.
-- José Ortega Y Gasset
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Biographers, like actors, have to think their way into other people’s
minds and allow their own to be partially invaded by their subject’s.
-- Roger Berthoud

Then you take it all -- the chronology, the letters, the interviews, your
own knowledge, the newspaper cuttings, the history books, the diary,
the thousand hours of contemplation, and you try to make a whole of it,
not a chronicle but a drama, with a beginning and an end, the whole
being given form and integrity because a man moves through it from
birth to death, through all the beauty and terror of human life.
-- Alan Paton, on completing a biography.

The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent
and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn’t
discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life
that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless
happenings and gossip.
-- Leon Edel

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more
than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative
fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
-- Virginia Woolf

[The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out
embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient
Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.
-- Paul Murray Kendall

Against

[Biography is] voyeurism embellished with footnotes.
-- Robert Skidelsky

Lincoln isn’t a man with ingrown toenails, he’s an idea.
-- Mario Cuomo, on a biography of Lincoln.

It is in this impossibility of attaining to a synthesis of the inner life
and the outward that the inferiority of the biographer to the novelist
lies. The biographer quite clearly sees Peel, say, seated on his bench
while his opponents overwhelm him with perhaps undeserved
censure. He sees him motionless, miserable, his head bent on his
breast. He asks himself: 'What is he thinking?' and he knows nothing.
-- Andre Maurois

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history,
on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by
tedium.
-- Philip Guedalla

Let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been
truly great; that it lies within human ability to overcome temptations
and trials; that it is sublime to suffer and be strong. Petty biographers
with inferior souls and jealous hearts would rob us of these happy privileges.
Sensationalism is alright for yellow journalism, but in biography we wish
to see our famous men and women as they were and feel the power of the
strength and beauty of their lives. Down with the debunking biographers.
-- Lyndon Johnson

The best part of a writer’s biography is not the record of his adventures
but the story of his style.
-- Vladimir Nabokov

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes
painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business.
The greater the genius of the personage, the greater the profit.
--George Grosz

Resource: http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/biography/index.htm

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