Week Eleven Reflections

[Becky Walker]

My favorite part of the week was spent researching for my cultural project about the Iranian Youth. I am focused my research on unemployment, marriage, university enrollment rates, and the relationship between the youth and state/religion dynamic. Though I did not touch upon divorce rates in Iran in my presentation, I have since done some investigating as to the rates and reasons of divorce. A very liberal media site said that one of the reasons that Iranian women are divorcing their husbands is due to sexual dissatisfaction. This is interesting for a variety of reasons. The first being that women are initiating these divorces. The second being that they are allowed to divorce on the grounds of sexual dissatisfaction--when traditionally sex was reserved exclusively for procreation. It was not until 2002 that women were even allowed to divorce their husbands without their spouse's written permission. I have yet to come across what I would consider an accurate statistic for the divorce rate, but when I find it, I will be sure to include it in one of my posts.Otherwise, this past week was spent piecing a lot of things together. I built upon my knowledge of the verbs I already know, using them in new tenses, and new ways. Additionally, I am working on constructing more complex sentences, with direct and indirect objects, which is creating a variety of questions that I am continually on a quest for answering.