“Afghan’s womens movement officially began in 1921, when Kind Amanullah launched an emancipation program for women. The 1921 Family Code forebade child marriages, encouraged girls schools, and banned polygamy for government employees” (Morgan, 1984).…
12. By the time an individual reaches 18 years-old they will view ______ acts of television/movie violence.…
31. yes because everyone has the own opinion and that is what the us is made up of..…
Between the book, My Forbidden Face, written by Latifa, a young women who grew up under the Taliban’s control and the article Women in Afghanistan: Afghan Women’s Rights, written by PBS, have many similarities in how women were treated. They tell how before the Taliban arrived, they were a normal country, with equal rights for men and women, and how the women dominated most work forces, such as teaching, medical, and others. They even played a part in the government. However, when the Taliban arrived everything the women had known about life in Afghanistan was changed for the worse. The both discuss, in detail, the overwhelming circumstances women had to overcome to life their lives, and how they were crippled, both physically and mentally by the Taliban. These next few paragraphs will go in detail about some of these drastic changes made by the Taliban.…
36. Based on what you may have read in the media or seen on TV, what other…
8, one third of them have at least one major mental health disorder along with delayed developmental…
12. I agree with the disabled man who states, “ I don’t understand. We don’t make any trouble. We don’t steal things or kill people. We don’t take the good jobs. Why do you want to kill us?” because all the…
6. Based on this conclusion, do you have any concerns about the trustworthiness of media sources? If so, what?…
Afghanistan is a landlocked country, filled with many distinct, natural features. It is located in Central Asia. Some landforms are resourceful, but some are harmful. Afghanistan highly depend on livestock and farming for survival. It is divided into three regions: The Central Highlands, Northern Plains, and Southwestern Plateaus. Each with their own geography and climate.…
In Afghanistan, the leaders of the past Resistance turned Muslim Afghanistan into a strict theocratic state by incorporating religion into the state laws. This theocratic state, also known as the Islamic state of Afghanistan, along with the mujahideen, limited women’s rights in 1992 (Goodwin, 2003:78). Specifically, women are required to follow a strict dress code of wearing proper veils and are banned from watching television or listening to the radio. When a Muslim woman gets married, she becomes her in-law’s property. Women are also prohibited from working, wearing perfume, receiving an education, participating in political elections and showing any body part that can be considered erotically enticing. In addition, a Muslim woman cannot talk to men that are not related to her (Goodwin, 2003:78-79).…
12. I do not agree with what you are saying, but I am willing to fight for your right to say it. - voltaire…
This issue involves inequality because the Taliban is doing whatever possible to continue treating women like they did before they were kicked out of power. They are doing what they can to treat women as if they are not men’s equal. They are suppressing women’s rights that women have gained since 2002 with terror. They are taking away women’s personal freedom.…
One major recurring theme that is evident in both Stones into Schools and The Miseducation of Pakistan is the suppression of women. Both works discussed how women in the region had traditionally been discouraged from attending school or entering the workplace. The Taliban was especially opposed to women’s rights. When the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, one of the first things they did was close every girls’ school and university (Stones into Schools p.74). Over 100,000 elementary school girls and 8,000 female university students were forbidden from attending their schools. Women were only allowed to leave their homes if they were with a close male relative and they had to wear a blue burka. If a woman showed her ankles she could have been whipped. While Pakistan didn’t have some of the cruel laws imposed on women during the Taliban’s regime in Afghanistan, women were still viewed as lesser than men. Many girls were forced by their parents to stop attending school (The Miseducation of Pakistan). Both Stones into Schools and The Miseducation of Pakistan make note of this. Mortenson tells of how a woman was told by her own mother that “women should work instead of reading books” and that “books will poison your mind you will become a worthless wife and mother” (Stones into Schools p.4). Unfortunately, as a result of this mind set, extremists are still able to gather recruits to join jihads. Women’s literacy in these regions has been shown to decrease the number of people that follow the extremists (Stones into Schools p. 13).…
At the time of my writing, the NATO war in Afghanistan has just become the longest war in U.S. history, a status it seems likely to retain for some time. It has been, and remains, a very strange war, all the stranger now that General Stanley McChrystal has been fired as commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan following the lamest Douglas MacArthur impression on record. He has been replaced by General David Petraeus, the father and executor of the doctrine that lay behind the eventual U.S. military success in Iraq, a version of which is now being applied in Afghanistan. The notion that his appointment will lead to substantial changes in the Afghan mission is hence overblown, especially as up until a week ago he was the one telling McChrystal what to do in his role as the latter's boss.…
Growing up as a female in Afghanistan in the 1900’s was extremely and still was bad. Women are equivalent to slaves, they are denied education, and they are finically independent, were they can’t make money of their own.…