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C.M Dr. Cobos ELA 10.29.17 Now that you have completed an interview, what would you do differently next time you need to do an interview?     I actually wasn’t at my groups interview, I did make up for it by transcribing more of the interview and writing and editing body paragraphs for our final project. So even though I missed the actual interview, I interacted with it more than many. The thing that bugged me the most that I would certainly change in a future interview interview was the fact that we didn’t get all the names of family members that our interviewee talked about. This made it really hard to make body paragraphs for our final projects. In my next interview, I would definitely make sure I have names of all the people our interviewee talks about and I have permission to use those names.     Another thing I would change in a future interview, or in this case Oral History Project, is how we used the recordings of our interview. In this...

C.M Dr. Cobos ELA 10.27.17 In what ways did Marjane find it difficult to fit back into Iranian society?     One of the ways Marjane is finding it difficult to fit back into Iranian society is understanding why one in every street is named after a martyr. Marjane's father explains that the reason so many streets are named after martyrs is because the entire war between Iran and Iraq was just a setup to destroy both armies by the west, who sold weapons to both sides. While the parents of these martyrs are overjoyed that their kids are dead, Marjane can’t understand the absurdity of this situation (Page 253). Another way in which Marjane is seeing different from Iranian society is in terms of hope for the future. While many Iranians, including her own parents, are hopeful for the future and putting the terrors of war behind them, Marjane isn’t feeling motivated to move forward, and she thinks that her parents secretly aren't motivated as well (Page 257). In the ...