Train to Pakistan

(AGG) Najmah is this young girl who got most of her family taken away from her, and she has learned to live with what she has, but what would you do if you had a life like hers? (BS-1) Najmah's shape changes from being a innocent child to being a mature child that has grown up before she was supposed to. After Baba-Jan and Nur leave with the Taliban, Najmah grows up to think and act like a adult. (BS-2) Najmah’s shape after becoming a boy and striving her way to her goal, which is that she has…

his home country and it was way too dangerous for him to stay. He was only four years old he didn't really understand how difficult it was for him to survive there. His parents decided to move out of the country so they went to a refugee camp in Pakistan. In the camp they were safe but it wasn't much of a struggle because life back in Afghanistan was already hard coming from a poor family. He stayed at the camp for 15 years, grew up there and also studied at the camp. He would have times when he…

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” - Martin Luther King Jr. From the beginning of time, people have stood tall for what they believe in, and proved that one voice can have a big change all over the world. Malala Yousafzai is just one example of this. She fights for what she believes in, she doesn’t back down when faced with a challenge and she always believes that there is more that we can do to help. For all these reasons and many more, I believe that…

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fight through it all, doing the right thing even though it is so much harder. “Yousafzai attended a school that her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, had founded. After the Taliban began attacking girls' schools in Swat, Malala gave a speech in Peshawar, Pakistan, in September 2008. The title of her talk was, "How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?" (Source B). Malala knew the Taliban were after her and still decided to stand up for her rights. She gave a public speech and…

“Citizen Khan” written by Kathryn Schulz describes the struggle of immigration in the early 1900’s and attempts to decipher what it truly means to be American by turning the spotlight on a popular Afghan immigrant turned Mexican food vendor, Zarif Khan. The article begins with the initial shock of Khans death in 1964. Even though he was based in Wyoming, the news broke out in many different places such as South Dakota, California, and Colorado. In the papers however, Khans real name was barely…

The the taliban ban was the ban of women basically have no rights at all. Woman couldn't go outside without a male with them, they couldn't go outside or even go to school anymore. Also, the setting was placed in Kabul Afghanistan in 1996. Parvana had a conflict with having to be a boy and all the challenges with it. The theme is that Sacrifices are a part of being a family. First, In the book The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis Mrs. Weera and Parvana's mother have different points of view on…

Annotated Bibliography Bagherpour, Amir. "The Iranian Diaspora in America: 30 Years in the Making." PBS. Web. 12 Sept. 2010. 15 Feb. 2016. . Thirty years after the notorious Islamic Revolution of 1979, the United States has become a haven to “the largest and most prosperous population of Iranians.” A constant amount of Iranians immigrated to the U.S. during the 1980s, but the number reached its climax in the 1990s. When Iranians migrated to the United States, they thought it would be a…

Founded by Maharaja Sri Gupta in 320 AD, the Gupta empire would last until about 550 AD, consuming most of Northern India before breaking apart. The Gupta Empire would be later coined The Golden age of India (Harle 5) for its brilliant developments in Indian art, sculpture, literature, and architecture. These advances were mostly a result of the wealth of the country during the time of the Guptas, and led to new styles in Buddhist art. As with artistic movements before the Gupta Empire Period,…

1. In the opening scenes of the documentary, Malala tells the story of a young girl who led her people to a great victory on the battlefield. She states that “It is better to live like a lion for one day than to live like a slave for a hundred years.” Explain the significance of this in context of the documentary. Can you identify at least one example where an individual or group has risked their live/lives for a particular cause? The film begins with an animation of a mythical famous Pashtun…