Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 101 class (10:10-12 pm). The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get there) and 2) to practice our writing, reading, and thinking on a weekly basis in an informal setting.
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Proper Noun
The Proper Noun that I choose is Prince Faisal."Prince Faisal is the absolute ruler of Arabia" (Chapter 18, first line). This sentence tells me that Faisal is a very important person and he makes certain laws and rule because he is a prince. While doing my research on Wikipedia, I found out that Prince Faisal was king of the Arab Kingdom from 1921 to 1933. He was the third son of his father Hussein bin Ali(the Grand Sharif of Mecca). Faisal has four children (three princesses and one son). When Faisal was king, he tried to introduced diversity. He was open to new religion and ethnic groups. Prince Faisal wanted to create unity between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. These two groups of Muslims were different in their belief systems. Prince Faisal was apart of the Sunni Muslims and they chose Abu Bakr to be their prophet's adviser to lead the Muslim state, but Shiite Muslims favored Ali. Prince Faisal promoted pan-Arabism because his goal was to create an Arab state that would include Iraq. Even though, pan-Arabism was his goal and he believed in including many religions to create diversity; with achieving his goal he started to isolate religions.
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