Stantasuwan,+Suchaya

Suchaya Stanyasuwan SE 1321 Iyengar May 4, 2011 Summary of My Name is Khan The summary of //My Name is Khan// which is an Indian movie. Khan was born in India with mental challenges. He has one younger brother, and they were raised by their mother. Among unlucky life of him, he has a special ability which is repairing electronic things. Because of his special challenges make Khan doesn’t get along with his brother. Later on, his brother left the family going to the United States. Khan lives in India until his mother passed away. He came to the United States and met his brother again in San Francisco. Since then, their relationship went well. His sister-in-law is psychologist who helps him to find out what kind of his mental challenge is. Finally, she found out that Khan gets scared noise and yellow. While he adjusts himself in new environment, he meets Kajol whom he loves at salon. Then he goes there every day and tries to make a good relationship with her. One day, her son named Sam wants to hang out, but she doesn’t have time to take him. She tells Khan to bring her son. After they spent time together, they became best friend. Khan decides to propose her, but she said no. Khan never gives up until waiting day comes around. In early morning, he brought her to the top of the mountain, and she saw the gorgeous landscape of the city. Kajol asks khan to marry her. Afterward, they prepare the wedding with happiness. In contrast, his brother disagrees because she is Hindu not Muslim like Khan. However, Khan insists to marry her, they make their own family with a new business as salon. They have nice neighbors who have a son same age as Sam. Their life goes through beautiful things. Unfortunately, the tragedy called 9/11 happened in the United State. Everyone responds this situation by banning Muslim, and it affects Khan’s family so much. Nobody comes to their salon, and Sam’s friends ignore him except Sam best friend. They face to bad situation that they don’t even know anything about it. This becomes worse when father of Sam best friend was sent to Afghanistan and was killed over there. Sam best friend doesn’t want to be his friend anymore. Sam is very sad from that. One day at school, Sam and his best friend are arguing. Some guys come to them and beat Sam up until he dies. Kajol suffers from Sam death. Khan tries to cheer her up, but she is furious. Kajol tells him to go away and don’t come back until he can meet the president and say, “My name is Khan I’m not a terrorist.” Khan decides to see the president. On his journey, he meet good friend and mean people. On that day, when he shouts those words standing to see the president, the reporters record him in video. Misunderstanding, people hear just terrorist that make Khan get arrested. During, he stay in prison and get treated not nice, the reporters help him by searching his profile and interviewing Khan brother about him. The reporters send the video to the man who can show the video to the public. After judges investigate, the result is that Khan is innocent. Kajol saw him on television, she goes to see him. Not longer, the president wants to meet Khan and Kajol. Finally, they both are invited to see the president. On that day, they speech in public about Sam case to make people realize how they suffer from 9/11 and how people react them.

Suchaya Stanyasuwan SE 1321 Iyengar May 4, 2011 Reaction of My Name is Khan The reaction of //My Name is Khan// which is an Indian movie. This movie is a 2001 Bollywood film directed by Karan Johar. Khan is a special challenge who is the main character. His story begins in India and continues in the United States where he decided to settle in. Khan’s life went through attempt, enthusiasm, love, happiness, and sadness. After I watched My Name is Khan, I realized that the person who was born with mental challenges can do a lot of good things. Moreover, we should not discriminate people just from their looks. In childhood, Khan was pity because he looks different from others and doesn’t have social skills. His friends teased him until his mother brought him to learn with special tutor. From the sense, I think social skills are important to connect with people. If you have good social skills, you can communicate with people and are accepted in society. It is helpful to make friends and have a good relationship with others. In this movie, I don’t blame the children who are bully, because children are innocent and have weak experiences. But their parents should teach them what good ways to treat people like Khan are. Another aspect of mother, Khan’s mother never treat him like other people do, but she fill him with her love and care. She taught him very well. She was patient to raise him. She also understood how he is. I feel love of mother is so powerful. One woman who raised her sons by herself and they became good people and succeed in their life. Not only love from his mother, but also love from a woman whom Khan loves that make him lively. He tries to be a romantic man to make a good relationship with her. The power of love creates everything such as a perfect family. Love is such a beautiful thing in the world. Love also leads Khan to do the brave thing. He decided to go to see the president because of his wife. He isn’t afraid of anything and doesn’t hesitate to do it. I believe in love that can encourage people to do everything. Life isn’t easy and isn’t always beautiful. The tragedy causes people split up. After 9/11 attack, Khan’s family faces with sadness. Khan and his wife suffer from Sam death. Muslim became delinquent in Americans’ eyes. Most of American people ignore Muslim. They also treat Muslim like all Muslim people are a part of 9/11 attack. I understand if you anger those people who made 9/11 attack, but you shouldn’t be aggressive with all Muslim people. You should distinguish people who are innocent. In my opinion, this movie gives me several morals and good messages. First, love is an important thing can bring people to a good way. Therefore, people should think before doing anything, because consequences might directly affect their life. People never recognize it until it happens to them. I also realized that people who have mental disorders can live same as others. Sometimes, they are better than people who are normal. Thus, we shouldn’t judge people based on their looks.

Social Skills (My name is Khan)



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Misconception

From the article, American people often misunderstand about Africa. Not only Africa but it can also be every where. Actually, Misconception about countries often happen with every country because people usually get information from newspaper TV, and storytelling. Stories or rumors that the media present might be just one aspect of the countries. Moreover, people don't have a chance to see the truth by themselves. Thus, misconception can be occurred around the world even the United States which is well known country.

Misconception about Thailand
 * Most of people think Thailand is Taiwan.
 * Thai people ride elephants.
 * Thailand is under developing country.
 * All Thai food is spicy.

Here is video about Thailand

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Talking Up Close (Text book)



CHILD LABOR (Social justice)



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Talking Up Close The summary of //Talking Up Close// by Deborah Tannen. The author mentions about using conversations to connect other people in many styles. She also uses several examples to define and explain her ideas. From the article, American men and women have different speaking. Men like to argue when they confront, but women stay away from disagreement by supporting. Moreover, men fight by physical body for fun and friendship. Some men bond each other because they have been in the same situation like in the war. While, women fight without physical body but they pick on a low status for banning. In many cultures, people use argument to make relationship such as German speakers like to talk about belligerent topics like politics and religion to show their friendliness. From Tannen experiences, another culture is Greek people who like to argue to keep conversation going, even though they actually agree. The communication of argument is shown that people cannot judge what the right way of speaking is. Because of people can speak in many ways to describe the same meaning. Sometimes, the effect of speaking is totally different from what they intent to. Therefore, status and connection can make conversation has many meanings. The author suggests, “Understanding this make it easier to understand the logic behind others’ apparently willful misinterpretations and makes the earth feel a little more firm beneath our feet.”

Mariya's question

It might be true that global warning is hoax but I would still realize about global warning. There are a lot of advantages that we think of our world and help to keep it better. Nothing is wrong if we will heal our world. I mean do not be panic. Just do little things by your own such as save electricity and recycle garbage. In stead of thinking it is deception and ignore the problems that we are facing.

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I come from Thailand and I was born in Bangkok which is the capital city of Thailand. When I think about my childhood, the picture that pops up in mind is "I'm riding the bicycle".



My family has five members. A house is a place that we spend a lot of our time together. Especially, on the dinner time that we come to eat and talk together. It is a good thing to make our relationship stronger and get closer .

I graduated with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Now I am a graduate student. My major is Computer Informatiom System.

My hobbies are shopping, watching movies, hanging out with friends, and traveling. I like to travel because I can relax myself and learn new things from different places, different people, and different cultures.

I would like to be successful in my life such as having a good job and a good family. I hope I can help to develop my country as much as I can.



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