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Blog #2 - Goal Setting
A new challenge. 

Personally, I took on the IB diploma not because I knew I would be successful in the coerce, rather I wanted to experience the struggle, although to keep myself on track personally and professionally I want to set some goals for the next two years of my life. In something new, I want to do this year is to involve myself deep into academics but I want to be able to balance several ECA (extracurricular activities) through the school year and I also want to be more open-minded to international cultures.

The material I will cover in Language and literature will inspire me to become a more open-minded thinker in response to different cultures around the world. What is learned in class will be vital because I will be analyzing different ideas that come from different cultures time and background reasoning. All those are respectable by themselves, but learning the hidden meaning and uncovering the purpose of the need to write language will make me a more internationally minded person.

Today I know I will be learning over the next two years about the culture of writing and later into Ibo cultures when studying the novel ‘things fall apart.’ But early on I will learn about the theories of culture, which is necessary to understand cultural practices to understand why things happen like actions in history with a logical purpose.

For example, in class, we looked at a commercial for a permanent marker to Indian tradition of painting a red dot in the woman’s forehead when the husband dies the dot is removed. It is understood that through their culture we recognize that the dot Is linked to marital status and the husband’s lifeline, so once the husband dies the dot is removed.



Saed Abdulhadi

              (September 16th, 2017)

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  1. UnknownOctober 8, 2017 at 1:41 AM

    This is a very self-reflective piece of writing where you have carefully considered the implications, challenges and opportunities involved in taking on the diploma programme. Your thoughts are very mature and I look forward to seeing your progress throughout the study of DP Language and Literature.

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