As Amir tells us about his father‚ a portrait of an immensely likable‚ dominant‚ and moral man emerges. To Amir‚ Baba is both larger-than-life and principled. The combination of these two qualities magnifies Amir’s shame when he abandons Hassan in the alleyway. How could you ever tell a man who supposedly wrestled a bear that you broke one of his principles? That you allowed Assef to steal Hassan’s innocence and childhood? Of course‚ all this is complicated by the fact that Baba – before Amir was
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Amir is raised in a traditional culture with clearly defined rules; highly patriarchal‚ gender roles are strictly followed and constrain much of family life. Similarly‚ racial hierarchy is so ingrained as to be something of a caste system. In Kabul‚ it is common for people to believe that Hazaras are lesser than Pashtuns. This belief system can be seen when Amir describes his relationship with Hassan‚ “I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara. . . and nothing was ever going to change that” (Hosseini
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Author: Liz Lofthouse Illustrator: Robert Ingpen US Publisher: Kane/Miller Age group: Elementary aged children to adults Setting and story: Ziba Came on a Boat is a stunning picture book with a story‚ illustrations and backdrop like no other - people escaping war and violence in search of a new land. And with it‚ they hope for freedom. The setting in the story is a boat somewhere in the middle of an "endless" ocean. Ziba‚ a little girl‚ rides it with her mother and a group of other people
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The Kite Runner‚ Khaled Hosseini Chapters 1-5 (PP. 1-47) Reading Questions 1. The novel begins with a flashback. What do you think is its purpose? What do you learn about the narrator? The purpose of the book in my opinion is to set up the setting of the main idea of the book and to give the readers Amir’s opinion on his fellow characters‚ so they can see the main idea. You learn about Amir’s life and how this event has affected him. 2. Who is Hassan? Describe him physically. What
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1) Throughout the border state of Punjab‚ whether in villages or cities‚ drugs have become a scourge. Opium is prevalent‚ refined as heroin or other illegal substances. Schoolboys sometimes eat small black balls of opium paste‚ with tea‚ before classes. Synthetic drugs are popular among those too poor to afford heroin. 2) The scale of the problem‚ if impossible to quantify precisely‚ is undeniably immense and worrisome. India has one of the world’s youngest populations‚ a factor that is
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particular for them to stop what they were doing. One of the leaders of the Taliban‚ Noorullah Noori. Noorullah and Malala both came from the same place but are different in nature. One of the Taliban’s soldiers said that Noorullah wanted to go to Afghanistan just to kill Americans. While Malala wants to save people’s lives and education. One day she might save everyone’s education and life one
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INFLECTION OF PAKISTAN INTRODUCTION : Assuming my definition does not define inflections found in one particular language‚ and instead be defined in general terms (associated within all languages affected)‚ the word inflection in linguistics is an adjustment made to stem (in the form of a prefix‚ suffix‚ infix‚ etc.) to clarify: how many‚ to which gender an object belongs‚ when an event has taken place‚ in which tense the 3rd person (singular) has acted‚ mood‚ voice‚ and also in the comparative
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From the beginning‚ Asia has always had a huge impact on the history of the world. Without contributions from caliphs like Ibn Fadlan‚ traders like Abraham bin Yuji‚ and nobles such as Ibn Battuta‚ our world would be very different today. Xuanzang‚ a Buddhist monk‚ fled his Chinese monastery illegally to travel to India‚ and retuned after 17 years‚ around the same time the Tang dynasty began‚ where he later reunited with his brother‚ and remained a buddhist monk. Ibn Fadlan‚ a noble who traveled
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READER RESPONSE Section 1: Summary In this chapter we are going to see that after the rape‚ Amir and Hassan spend less time together. Baba and Amir take a trip to Jalalabad and they stay at the house of Baba’s cousin. When they finally arrived to BABA’s cousin they got an Afghan tradition dinner and Baba stared talking about the tournament that his son won but Amir wasn’t feel comfortable with that. After dinner‚ they all lie down to bed in the same room‚ but Amir couldn’t sleep. He said
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INTRODUCTION Recent political and economic developments at the global and regional levels have resulted in a more conducive development environment in the Asian and Pacific region and the opening-up of opportunities for international trade and tourism development for the developing countries of the region‚ including those which are landlocked. Nevertheless‚ the lack of unhindered access to the sea adds transport costs and time to international trade transactions. In addition‚ landlocked countries
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