Wednesday, April 18, 2007

The directions of winds

FAISAL / EAP1

There are four directions of winds, and each one has different
meanings. There are also some people who believe that and some not.
It also depends where you are and what is your culture because each
culture has different thoughts of them. the author whose name is
Reed , M explained in(1993/4,December/February)that many people
have believes of the Demons’ gates and gates devil’s doors.
There are different descriptions for each direction and each
one has negative things and positive things. To begin with, the
meaning of the north wind is it brings cold and wet weather and it
is gloomiest. One of its negative it effects European because it
evokes death, darkness, and sadness. There is also positive thing
such as the ancient Egyptians think of it “ Lord of the sweet
breeze, so it depends where you are. The meaning of the south wind
is usually related with summer and good harvests, it increases a
slowing of life's tempo. It is known as rain and has a gentle
reputation, however it has negative which is in a native amarican
folk tale, the south was said to interfere with hunting. In the
east, it is the most dislike, harms crops and causes shipwrechs.
There are many do not like it due to its bad reputation but, in
fact, it still has a good things which are connected with spiritual
matters and rebirth. The meaning of the west wind is the best time
for fishing, storms, and a good weather, but it has a bad thing,
which is related with death and the afterlife because the sun comes
down.
In my country we have believes of the wind directions, but,.
In this time we do not have believes of the meanings of them. The
south of saudi Arabia is very hot, wet, and dry, therefore, we know
it brings hot winds and bad weather but, we do not say for example,
it is for death or something bad or good . The north of Saudi is
very cold, rain, cold winds, and some times snow. The east of Saudi
is very warm,wet, and it usually raining because it is close to the
beach. The west of Saudi is nice weather but, it is always warm, it
does not have any cold. In fact, in my country we have two seasons
which are winter and summer which mean we only cold and hot.
In conclusion, it is traditional way to figure out where the
winds come from and what do they mean?. In these time, most people do not use it , but we still have some people use it.

Reference: Reed, M (1994/4, December/ January). Demon’s gates and
devil’s doors. Weatherwise,38-9.

Modern Technology in Daily life

FAISAL / EAP1


There are many different ways to use communications, transportations, and entertainment in my country because they depend where you are and what time you were in. In my country we have a big differences between this time and the past year for using Communication, transportations, and entertainment. In fact, what I have seen is communication is most important because everyone use it every day whether use computer or cell phone or anything else could be communication.

First of all, the communications are most important for every one who does not know how to use them because at this time the person who does not know them he is probably uneducated. For example. When you wake up at morning and you want to tell you teachers that you will not attend to school you absolutely will use email or cell phone but, if you look at the past year what people were doing if they want to talk to their family they send latter and it takes about 7 days and it might delivery it might not, we have new technology in out daily life so, it is a big different between this time and past years. If you notice that no one can live without communications because whatever you go you will need them.

Secondly, transportations are also important thing in our life. There are many kinds of transportations such as, cars ,airplane, train, and so many kinds so, most people in this time usually use them however, in the past years they were using horses and camels so, if they want to move or travel to another city it takes about 8 days or mare than 12 days but, in this time in my country we have a good transportations and we can go whatever we want by them. In fact, we still have some people who are from rural city use horses and camels. If you look at your daily life you will notice that you use the new technology every day.

Finally, we have many different kinds of entertainment
In my country such as, soccer, and cards play which is very
Famous. Every one needs entertainment in his life because a there are a lot of free times after you finish you work or you classes so, you need to spend your time anyway or you might get sad. There are also many studies that say if person does not use entertainment he may not live longer and gets older than he is, therefore, they are good and useful for us.

In conclusion, most of people in the world use them because they cannot live and they are nothing without technologies. If you look at how the world has become like this due to them. In fact, we have really good new modern technology, but we are still looking and trying to have newer technology.