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    In every culture and in every person there is a different duty for them to do. Based on how important the duty is to them. Every culture has made an influence on people's morals and values. In ancient Persian culture they follow their own morals and values unlike in ancient Indian culture, they follow and respect the duties of social groups. In American culture they each follow their own rules and duties according to their own morals and values. It is one's responsibility to follow their own morals and values even if it could affect them negatively in the long run. In Persian literature, there is a story about Rustam and Sohrab. What mainly goes on in this epic, is that Rustam and Sohrab fight to the death but Rustam doesn’t realize that…

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    Since the time of great antiquity, heroes emerge in both history and literature across the global arena. Historically, a hero will surface immediately to counteract disputes and clashes without any adjournment. In Persian and English medieval literature, too, the presence of heroes is inevitable. Heroes (e.g. Beowulf, Sir Gawain, Rostam, Sohrab, Sekander, etc.), both, historical and literary, share common features, such as selflessness and compassion for their people. Outsiders, however, are not…

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    The Painting on Ivory depicts King Khosrow and Queen Shirin in the Garden Court and was constructed by Persian Rovhani during the 20th century. The lively scene makes its presence known in that it is vivid in its use of color yet uniform all the same, the text is included around the images rather than the other way around, and the individual events are separated into discrete horizontal sections yet are woven together seamlessly into the fabric of the scene. In addition, the narrative of the…

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    Persian Poetry Analysis

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    order to bring harmony between Persian poetry and contemporary social and political issues. They argued that they could not use the old vehicles for carrying the new concepts. In this regard, according to Karimi-Hakkak, “[T]he new poetry is said to differ from the old in that it no longer follows the rigid formal rules and generic divisions of the classical poetry or of the contemporary practice modeled on it,” (Recasting Persian Poetry 3). Breaking from the formal rules of poetry began in the…

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    The character I would prefer to be is Penn Web For many Different reasons.First I would rather be Penn Web since throughout a massive portion of the story Crash always seeks to cause Penn Web misery and this type of behavior is something I detest."All last year we tormented Webb". This quote shows that Crash had no problem causing pain to Webb. The Second reason I would rather be Penn Web then Crash Coogan is that Penn Web shows some admirable traits for example like positivity. Even though…

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    citizens of the vast city of Los Angeles and yet manages to emphasize the key similarities all these characters have: their relationships with the individuals that surround them. One such relationship featured in this 2004 Drama film is that of a father and his daughter, to which Haggis offers two portrayals that speak volumes of the truth that though circumstances differentiate these characters ' lives, their relationship with his or her father or daughter unify them. Through these two…

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    Talattof pays attention to the ideas of the proponents of modern Persian literature who “[C]laimed to understand modernity and to know their readers’ tastes and expectations for social change” (Politics of Writings 23). Ahmad Shamlu—one of the important Iranian modernist poets—states that addressing the social issues, showing masses’ requests, and empowering ordinary people are the main duties of new poetry (Ibid…

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    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…

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    in Arabic, Balochi, and English, with training in Persian and Urdu, I studied descriptive linguistics at Leiden University to facilitate working with the endangered Kumzari language. Concurrently, I have published three books devoted to the sociopolitical landscape of the Persian Gulf region and the ethnic components that have shaped its modern outlook. I have also actively participated in the transnational circles of Baloch intellectual life, where Baloch literature, folklore, and philology…

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    There is at least one important thematic instance of Persian-Islamic painting that critics cannot employ phenomenology in order to link the formal traits of it to the transcendentality of the center of Islamic art; however, the layering aspects of it has been revealed through adopting historicism standpoint. Investigations on controversial subject matters such as the representation of eroticism in Islamic art and questioning the authority of religion are the results of following historicism…

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