Demography of Afghanistan

Blogger and Pakistani-American mother Scarf Ace , in her post Miss or Diss?, describes her hardships of wearing the hijab in America. Ace's purpose is to illustrate her view of how wearing the hijab is like to her, and the common struggles muslim women face every day. She adopts a introspective tone in order to appeal to similar feelings and experiences in her fellow muslim readers. Ace writes with a colloquial style in this post. Ace begins her post with discussing her reasons for…

The term civil disobedience means “refusal to obey civil laws in an effort to induce change in governmental policy or legislation, characterized by nonviolent means.”( The Free Dictionary) Theories on this term have been around for a long time. For instance, people like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. took up and preached their own theories on civil disobedience. While Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi's theories are still relevant, they are fifty plus years old and seem to lose the…

What is a teen activist? Well a teen activist is someone who sees the need for change and they try to take care of the problem that is going on. Anyone can be a teen activist , but you need to have determination. If something goes wrong in the beginning you just need to keep on trying pushing harder through the tough times. Malala yousafzai, Alex Lin, and Craig kielburger are all teen activists that have changed the world. To begin with, According to Timeforkids.com Malala stands up for girls…

Taliban failed to hold accountable power over the people of Afghanistan. This let the Afghanis down by the people not being able to have any power over their country anymore and to leave the country unstable. The instability was not short lived, this concern is still going on today in Afghanistan. Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, used to be a beautiful home to Amir as he was growing up. Kabul was not the only stunning city in Afghanistan, but there were many…

Persian flourished as a language of prestige and elitism throughout Europe and Asia for centuries, but its importance began to diminish around the eighteenth century. In 1722, the fall of the Safavid Empire occurred and under the rule of Sultan Husayn, the Persian state suffered long term economic deterioration. It wasn’t until Nadir Shah of the Afsharid dynasty took power that political unity was restored, and for the first last time Persia’s borders were extended. However soon after this…

September 27, 1996. This date signifies the day that the Taliban conquered Kabul, one of the most important cities in all of Afghanistan. The conquering of Kabul marked the beginning of a five-year reign of terror which lasted until 2001. Drastic changes were set upon the country and ostracized Afghanistan from the rest of the world. The Taliban’s policies on the role of women in their society rendered them useless. Women were no longer free as they had once been and were now just a shadow of…

of soldiers from many nations occupied Afghanistan in an effort to stabilise the country. The ISAF served to train the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), rebuild government institutions and remove Taliban, Al-Qaeda and other factional warlords from the areas surrounding Kabul. One of these the Forward Operation Bases was known as Armadillo. Armadillo, is a Danish documentary about a group of young Royal Danish Army soldiers who are deployed to Afghanistan on their first ISAF mission. The…

Heroes of Humanity Malala Yousafzai, Iqbal Masih, and Alex Lin have spread inspiration from being persistent, ambitious, and considerate, and that has helped out our world. If anything is wrong and everybody is too self-centered to help, teen activists will stand up, like Malala, Iqbal, and Alex have. Teen activists help our world because children can make a difference and these activists are proof, by just using time, courage, and a little help to help the environment that they live in.…

According to Andrew Lang, in a town named, Persia there are two brothers, Ali and Cassim. Cassim is married to a wealthy wife, whereas his brother, Ali Baba has to work hard in order to support his family. One day Ali Baba was working in the forest when the bandits suddenly came down the road. Ali Baba quickly went into hiding and discovered the thieves opening a boulder. While Ali Baba was watching them, he was curious to determine what’s inside the boulder. After the robbers had left, Ali Baba…

Malala believes that what happened to her, actually turned out to be a good thing. She said, "I think they may be regretting that they shot Malala, now [I am] heard in every corner of the world." This is because she values equality between people and having the right to education and freedom. People in developing countries are often oppressed by terrorist organisations, stopping them from improving their lives, particularly in education. Having an education means that people will be able to…