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After watching the film Persepolis I've learned a lot about Muslim and Iranian culture. Before watching the film I did not see Muslim and Iranian culture relating to the culture of Americans, but now I see that Iranians can be just like Americans but with much different beliefs. Iranians are Muslim which believe in Alah or God, like many Americans believe in Jesus or God. I also learned that not all Muslims believe in having multiple wifes in heaven. Before watching the movie I saw Iranian people like the Iranian goverment, which is completely incorrect.

Another movie like Persepolis is Sugar Cane Alley. Sugar Cane Alley was not one of my favorite films because the film was not in English. So you had to pay attention to every subtitle. It is hard to see the emotion of a person when the language is foreign to you. The movie did not emotionally appeal to me. The overall message to me was that one cannot complely rid their original culture from their current or future life. Also another theme I saw was that one should be proud of their background, your background does not always deem who you are as a person. These themes I also saw in Persepolis.

Persepolis and Sugar Cane Alley were a lot alike because they both had a historical background behind their story. The themes were very similar as well. I was shocked to have enjoyed Persepolis so much, usually I do not like animated films. Overall I enjoyed Persepolis more because I was more foreign of Muslim background before the movie rather than African American background.

An Inconvenient Truth

I was not fond of the documentary An Inconvenient Truth. One reason the documentary did not appeal to me was that I am not an advocate of Global Warming, likely because of my conservative tendencies.  I decided it was best if I actually had some background on Global Warming. So instead of deeming Global Warming a lie without any background knowledge, I sucked it up and watched the film. Surprisingly I was shocked by the amount of evidence behind Global Warming. The filmmakers use of evidence and lectures made me want to trust Al Gore.   Because the films use of evidence made me question my thoughts on Global Warming, I did some research.

My favorite line from the Wall Street Journal article is as follows, "Every candidate should support rational measures to protect and improve our environment, but it makes no sense at all to back expensive programs that divert resources from real needs and are based on alarming but untenable claims of "incontrovertible" evidence." After watching the film I am not completely against Global Warming. Evidence exists which proves the levels in C02 rising and it damaging our ecosystem, but I do see Global Warming as an overreaction. Where do we plan on getting the money to fund programs benefiting Global Warming? We have a huge national debt. If I was a taxpayer I would be much more concerned about the national debt compared to Global Warming.

Another reason I did not like the documentary An Inconvenient Truth was the fact it was a documentary. Documentary’s tend to bore me with facts upon facts. I did think the documentary had good information in it. The film was one of more interesting documentary’s I have watched, but still I was not amused.