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bad the conditions were in Afghanistan. But before she got shot, Malala Yousafzai was only a regular 15 year old girl. Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997 in Mingora, which is a town that is in the Swat district in the north-west area of Pakistan. She was named Malala because her dad, Ziauddin Yousafzai, based her name off of the girl Malalai who was in a Pashtun folk story. She grew up in the valley of Swat, and her father had made a school right behind their home. The area in which…

During Writing 100 courses we watch numerous movies that were related to the topic of our discussion. Some of the movies we watch were Bhutto and America Revolutionary. The main protagonists in these movies were Benazir Bhutto and Grace Lee Boggs, these two incredible individuals shared many similarities and differences. For starters, they were both female’s that fought against the inequality happening in their country through peaceful protest, well for the most part. Grace Lee life consisted of…

The Negative Impacts of the War on Afghanistan Many people have different ideas about the war in Afghanistan. Some people oppose the war while others propose it. “September 11 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group Al-Queda hijacked four airlines and carried out suicide attacks against the United States targets” (“9/11 Death Statistic”). The war on Afghanistan started after these attacks on 9/11. The Afghanistan war has been going on for 12 years now and is currently…

Modern day Afghanistan is a difficult subject to discuss, and most people know very little about it. The once noble country has fallen into disarray after the infamous rise of the Taliban in the late 20th century. The extreme islamic fundamentalists have turned entire soccer stadiums into execution centers, and struck terror into the hearts of all Afghans. They also have forbidden women to work, and since most of their husbands were murdered by the Taliban the women and their children starve.The…

The Kite Runner is an honest, and touching novel written by Khaled Hosseini that takes place primarily in Kabul, Afghanistan. It is a story of two childhood friends; Amir and Hassan who are separated by the Soviet Invasion of 1979. During the invasion, Amir escapes to California where he becomes a successful writer. Fifteen years after his marriage, he receives a call to return to Kabul where he sets out on the quest to rescue Hassan’s son, Sohrab. Throughout the novel, real life events are…

falling off, also at times the carcass is also filled with sand in order to give some extra weight. The second most popular sport in Afghanistan is soccer and is followed by cricket. Cricket was brought over by the Afghan refugees who had lived in Pakistan which is where cricket is a very popular sport. Once cricket was brought over to Afghanistan in 2002 it quickly flourished and Afghanistan went on to sharing the Asian Cricket Council with Oman. Afghanistan defeated Nepal in 2010 and won the…

periodicals to reinforce the idea why Afghan refugees should be granted with a Pakistani citizenship based on the reliability of each source, and if this information are enough to compare and contrast the articles. The reason behind this topic is since Pakistan has decided to send back its Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan. Given that it is a country which has been torn apart due to war, sending back these refugees to a country where they ran away from to save their life and for a better…

The author of The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif, Narja Mazari escaped from the Taliban to Australia to only be treated like a prisoner in a detention centre in Woomera. The camp of Woomera is in the southern states of Australia. Mazari then met with Robert Hillman who helped him write up Mazari’s autobiography. The reader can tell that the author is in a “prison-like” centre by the way he describes the setting. The use of language informs the reader about the author about Mazari’s attitudes and…

Throughout the book, family and friends did many sacrifices and jeopardized their lives for each other. An example is when Paravana ran away from the taliban. She showed courage because if the taliban caught up to her she could have faced twice the consequences or worse. Another example is when Mrs.Weera decided to walk home with Parvana because if the taliban would have noticed them both of them would have gotten punished because Parvana wasn't covered completely. Also when Parvana found Homa…

you are nothing but garbage. This is what it was like to live in Pakistan and Afghanistan when the Taliban came to power. In reality, they were very controlling and cruel and this was portrayed very accurately in the novel Under the Persimmon Tree, by Suzanne Fisher Staples. Najmah and her family, as well as Nusrat, are treated unfairly and are largely affected by the Taliban in the story. People in the real world who lived in Pakistan and Afghanistan during the Taliban’s reign were also treated…