Iranian culture

The Islamic Revolution began in the year of 1979. The Revolution caused many of bad changes in Iran such as, no freedom, closing of bilingual schools, segregation by gender in schools, and women were expected to wear a veil. Persepolis is a graphic novel written by Marjane Satrapi. The novel gives readers an inside on her life as a child during the Islamic Revolution. In Persepolis, Marji is a ten year old and girl that is realizing how difficult life is when your country is going through a…

There were many different images that were portrayed in Persepolis, both written and in the pictures that she used in the story. Every image tells a different story, and when put together, they show the bigger picture. In Marjane Satrapi’s novel, she uses graphic images of the themes imperialism, social classes, and revolution to explain what happened in Iran during her childhood. Marjane Satrapi's use of graphic images within her entire book portrayed how imperialism has affected her life in…

Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi, is a graphic autobiography about growing up in Iran during the Islamic revolution in Tehran from age six to fourteen. This graphic novel contains several recurring visual symbols and icons. One of the most important of these symbols and icons in Persepolis is the symbol of God. God represents faith and Marji’s belief in what is said to her and how she perceives it. When God is present Marji is undoubtful that everything is alright. Marji's faith begins strong and…

In Virginia Bergin’s book, H2O (2014), she tells a story that informs readers about the character’s life in the time period when the killer rain took life away in the world. Bergin develops her ideas of the killer rain by having the character narrate in a candid and addicting way that brings the terrifying and wholly plausible story to life. Incorporating the language that teenagers speak today, Bergin writes in an informal way in order to hypnotize the readers into the book, making them think…

It was a cold wintery day in the midst of November in 1997. The excitement, the chaos, and the nervousness all because of me happened about eighteen years ago when my parents, Katie and Karl Margarida, brought me home to welcome me to a new household and new environment in a small town called Jasper, Indiana. Many things happened on November 17, 1997, including my birthday, 70 people died in an attack at the Egyptian Temple, and women and African Americans were freed in Iran. My parent’s names…

Argentine revolutionist Che Guevara once said “The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall” (“Ernesto Che Guevara”). To completely see how a revolution operates, one must know the meaning of it. “In eastern Europe, the concept of ‘revolution’ has been seen as constituting and being constitutive of the ‘downfall’ of totalitarian regimes and (re)birth of democracy” (Tileaga 360). Various nations have built up their own particular definition since no…

included economic, religious, and Western factors, that would eventually lead to a great historical revolution in Iran. These factors created great opposition parties towards the king of Iran, known as the Shah. As the ideologies in Iran developed, Iranians joined together while fighting for the ultimate removal of the Shah from Iran in 1979, during the Islamic Revolution. Through these factors, Islamic ideals and values would be placed in the highest position within the government, displaying a…

Student Followers of the Imam’s Line; these were 400 students who were outraged that the United States had allowed the Shah to enter the United States for cancer treatment. Here we see that the 1953 overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh is still plaguing the Iranian country as the students believed that they were planning another coup. As we see in the comic the takeover of the embassy put plans of people who wanted to leave Iran for the United States on the backburner as they could no longer get a…

Since the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001 the United States and indeed most of the western world has had something of parlous relationship with Islam. The imminent threat of Islamic extremism has placed the West on egg shells. The recent rise of Donald Trump and his nativist rhetoric has only added to the tension. A recent Brookings Institute poll revealed that 61 percent of Americans hold an unfavorable attitude towards Muslims. Ali Shariati, maintains that there are two types of…

this time period military and foreign policy in the United States were viewed as weak. The Carter administration humiliated America and conservatives wanted to change that. During Carters presidency the Iran hostage crisis took place, this was where Iranians took hostages from the U.S Embassy. Carter attempted to negotiate with Iran for the release of the hostages and it took almost all of his presidency to have them released. After…