Greco-Persian Wars

own land separated from the cruelty and that really the German’s are protecting them. This new normal is all part of Hitler’s plan to dehumanize the Jewish people. Hitler’s main goal in World War II is to erase the Jews entire existence. In the preface to the book, Weisler says that “It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices…

There are many ways how silence could be efficient or harmful. However, I believe that silence is dangerous in many ways possible. My reasons are that people wouldn’t be able to express their thoughts on important situation and serious topics with silence, as well as the tension of silence from the people. Also, people could have limited knowledge because of silence, and silence can be destructive to a person’s or the other’s personality. My first reason is that people wouldn’t be…

hero can be seen as the person who flies in and saves a town from a fire breathing dragon, a strong man who climbs a tall tower to save a damsel in distress, or even a little girl that helps the elderly woman down the street with her groceries. World War II was a gruesome battle between a multitude forces and in the midst of it many courageous men and women acted heroically, but there is one man in particular that went out of his way to do what was right and just, even when it put his own life…

viewed as that which demonstrates its willingness to address important social and political issues, classical poetry is not (Karimi-Hakkak 3). Confirming Karimi-Hakkak’s attitude, Kamran Talattof pays attention to the ideas of the proponents of modern Persian literature who “[C]laimed to understand modernity and to know their readers’ tastes and expectations for social change” (Politics of Writings 23). Ahmad Shamlu—one of the important Iranian modernist poets—states that addressing the social…

this movie I thought it was some weird story about a boy who wore pajamas. I was completely wrong and I am very glad I decided to watch it. It has one of the most suspenseful endings that I have ever seen in a movie. This movie is set during World War II and is seen through the eyes of an eight year old boy named Bruno. We learn about his innocence during a time where innocent people are treated like trash. In the beginning of the film we see Bruno running around playing freely with his…

understand and to be understood” (Lucius Annaeus Seneca). Beautiful friendship can only be received if there is understanding between each person. The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, is about two Jewish boys living in Brooklyn, New York, towards the end of World War II era. A disagreement between two contradicting viewpoints of the same religion about the Jewish homeland and tradition is what causes a stir of emotion that becomes the basis of the novel. Nonetheless, friendship arises from these very…

Marc Chagall was an artist who was not defined by his present surroundings, but one who drew directly from his rich cultural past. Chagall was an artist of Belarusian Jewish descent who spent his formative years in a small Hassidic community where he was directly inspired by the rural scenes so essential to his artistic identity. Chagall is hard to categorize into one style or movement, he borrows many visual elements of Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism, and Surrealism. He has his own personal,…

As a Fulbright fellow and masters’ student in social anthropology at Rutgers, I am actively conceptualizing the ethnographic project I wish to pursue at Harvard’s Ph.D. Program in Social Anthropology: the changing co-production of queer ethno-sexualities within the trans-cultural seascape extending across the Strait of Hormuz. As a queer man, atheist, and ethnic Baloch raised and based in a heteronormative Muslim Arab Gulf country (the UAE), coming from a family rooted in the Iranian Eastern…

dramatically. Items from India, China, and Iran passed easily across the Asian steppes, and these contacts culturally enriched Iran. For example, Iranians developed a new style of painting based on a unique fusion of solid, two-dimensional Mesopotamian painting with the feathery, light brush strokes and other motifs characteristic of China. After Ghazan's nephew, Abu Said, died in 1335, Iran again lapsed into petty dynasties the Salghurid, Muzaffarid, Inju, and Jalayirid, under Mongol…

One such community that have existed for thousands of years and still exist today are the Iranian Jews. Judaism has a rich and millennial history in Iran including the era 2,500 years ago when the first Persian ruler declared religious freedom. But during the Islamic Revolution, as the last Persian monarch left Iran 35 years ago, thousands fled to the United States in search of a new home. Fewer than 30,000 Jews live in Iran today, compared with more than 100,000 in the 1970s. Despite the exodus…