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    Women In The Kite Runner

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    The world that we live in today is a horrible place. The whole western side of our little world is being overrun by the Taliban forces even Afghanistan. All we can do is sit back and watch as they take away women’s rights one by one. The Taliban have taken many of the Pashtun women’s rights, like their right to get an education or a job, and they have also become a easy target for the Taliban men to torture and abuse against their will. In the novel The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseni gives many…

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    How Did Najmah Change

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    (AGG) Najmah has gone through many as you have seen, but which ones have changed her and how, that is exactly why this essay was written.(BS-1) First I talk about her taliban experience and how that influences her and motivates her to mature and take up responsibility.(BS-2) After this I talk about how the bombing destroyed her perseverant spirit and it changed to a hopeless spirit.(BS-3) Last but not least, I talked about the effect of PTSD and how Nusrat helps her out of this.(TS) This is all…

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    always be brave, and they will always have obstacles and challenges to overcome. Teen Activist’s such as Malala Yousafzai and Iqbal Masih have to be brave in order to make a difference in the world. Malala, a teenager from a village called Swat in Pakistan, had to be brave in all the time in order for her to get her passion for girls education around the world. From the interview with Jon Stewart, Malala’s friend told her that she was getting targeted by a group of terrorist called the Taliban…

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    you are a teenaged girl who has had school banned, who has been shot in the head, and who has been tragically separated from her home, friends ,and family. This scenario sounds terrible. What if I told you that this actually happened to a girl in Pakistan? Malala is now 19 and has endured all of that and more. The Taliban had come and told people that girls should not be allowed to go to school, so it was banned. Malala loved school so she got her dad who was running the girls school keep it…

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    Najmah's Loss Of Hope

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    Many times war can make people have an emotional change.The characters become more aware and grateful for what they had, and realize the true things that really valuable."Sometimes I listen to her and she infect me with hope, listen to me as if hope we're a disease! Sometimes I want to shake her and say, 'Ma He's dead! You can't go on pretending! " (236). This was said by Faiz's sister about how his mother is in denial that he will come back after not responding for such a long period of time.…

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    Amir spent his whole childhood in Afghanistan with his wealthy father and best friend Hassan, son of their servant, who Amir witnessed being raped in an ally, and did nothing about. Soon after, they were forced to leave Afghanistan because it was becoming war torn. Amir continued to live his life in America, where he married the love of his life and his father died. Later in his life, Amir went to Afghanistan and retrieved Hassan’s son, who was his nephew, out of trouble with the Taliban. The…

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    In her autobiography, I am Malala, Malala Yousafzai tells the world of her courageous fight for women’s education in Pakistan, which is overwhelmingly controlled by the Taliban. She talks about the violence, injustice, and struggles she witnesses in her city everyday, including an earthquake that devastated Swat, the valley she lives in. Writing her account of the earthquake, Malala uses a variety of rhetorical strategies to bring the effects it had on her and her people into perspective for…

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    1. How do you interpret the following quote: “You can’t truly be Afghan if you don’t know someone who’s been in prison.” “I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.” This quote was once said by William Tecumseh Sherman, an American soldier who fought during the American Civil War. The American Civil War is known for being…

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    in the future. Despite the fact that Malala grew up in a society that prized sons, she had been treasured and taught to stand up for what she believed in for her entire life. Malala was born into a lower middle class family in the Swat Valley of Pakistan. Her parents provided her with a wealth of support and cherished her while living in a society where women are not equal…

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    Once upon a time in a world a lot like our own. This is Firefight island it snows 9 months a year and hails the other three. Except for two things. One is the people are all Vikings. The other are the pest. While some have rats or termites. We have, DRAGONS! Most people would leave, not us were Vikings, we have occupational hazards. Hi, I’m known as Dagur the Deranged. People call me this because it’s deranged to think like a little guy like me can kill a dragon. I will be your guild while…

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