Persepolis: The Story Of A Childhood

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During the course of the Iranian Revolution, there were many conflicts in the fight between individual freedoms and collective national obligations. Ideally, individual freedoms and collective national obligations should coincide, but they clearly did not coincide during the Iranian Revolution. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi and "Individualism and Freedom: Vital Pillars of True Communities" by Edward Younkins affect the readers' views on individual freedoms and collective national obligations by stating the importance of individual freedoms while undermining the strengths of collective national obligations. First of all, a source that convinces the reader of the importance of individual freedoms is Persepolis: The

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