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    The film is about an American family who starts out by vacationing in Iran but ends up living there. The father is Iranian while both the mother and the child are American citizens. When they first landed on Iranian soil‚ they were greeted with a lot of new things – things that were different from what they have been accustomed to back in America. First‚ there was a difference in the way they dress. In America‚ they were very radical – they can wear whatever they want but in Iran‚ they have to wear

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    threatening. Not without My Daughter is a book written by Betty Mahmoody; it tells the story of an American woman (Betty herself)‚ who married a man with Iranian origins. After few years of marriage‚ he decided to go to Iran on a two-week vacation with his wife and daughter; there‚ she found herself and Mahtob prisoners in Iran‚ a land where Americans are despised and women are inferior in society. Her only hope is to risk her life and escape this living hell‚ with Mahtob‚ her daughter. Is the behavior

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    Lighting‚ framing‚ camera angles‚ and music are two elements of film that can evoke strong emotional responses called textual features of film. Many of these features are prevalent in the film Not Without My Daughter. This film is set in the 1980’s during the Iranian Revolution. The Mahmoody family consists of husband and wife‚ Moody and Betty‚ and their daughter‚ Mahtob‚ who decide to visit Iran. In Iran‚ Moody decides to keep his family but Betty does not want to stay. Betty tries to escape multiple

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    “Not Without My Daughter” Perspectives Essay In the Movie Not Without My Daughter‚ there are many sociological perspectives that can be used to analyze the events of the movie. Some may agree with what was done and say that this is the way of life there‚ while others may strongly disagree and simply be disgusted by the whole concept based on the fact that they grew in a different society. Overall the movie presents a multicultural couple with a girl‚ the husband Iranian and the wife is an American

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    based on the book with the same title that was written by the woman who actually lived through this ordeal. If you read the book‚ you will see that over and over again‚ Betty states that not all Iranians are bad. In fact‚ she frequently mentions that without the help of many friendly Iranians‚ she would never have gotten out of Iran alive. One man in particular is the owner of a men’s clothing store‚ who repeatedly lets her use his telephone to call her family back in the U.S. Betty‚ also‚ describes

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    Persepolis & Not Without My Daughter The Iranian revolution of 1979 refers to the overthrowing of the last king of Iran. It was an Islamic revolution which attempted to replace Mohammed Reza Shah‚ with an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini‚ the leader of the revolution. Strong opposition against the Shah showed that the people wanted a religious ruler rather than someone they saw as an American puppet. Many Iranian people would think that the Shah was a ‘capitalist pig’ who

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    texts Not Without My Daughter and The Pianist use their protagonists to explore a response to violent social change? A response to violent social change is explored within the two texts‚ Not Without My Daughter written by Betty Mahmoody‚ with William Hoffer and the film The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski. In these texts the authors use their protagonist to explore the idea and impact of the violent social change that these characters must survive. Protagonists‚ Betty in Not Without My Daughter

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    Sharmaine A. Novelles. Prof. Fajardo BSA 3-B LIT 101 Not Without My Daughter Not Without My Daughter is a plain but complicated story that is based on a true to life narrative about the effort and struggle that an American woman did in order to escape from Iran to America with her daughter parting. The story starts when an American woman‚ Betty Mahmoody goes to Iran with her Iranian husband and their daughter for a two-week jaunt. He has guaranteed her that they would return to United

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    In Weldon Kees’ poem‚ For My Daughter‚ the narrator speaks of the bleak‚ dismal‚ and pessimistic future they envision for their daughter Kees conveys the tone and message of the poem through the usage of rhyme‚ cacophony‚ alliteration and synecdoche. Kees uses end rhymes throughout their poem to compare ideas and place emphasis on those particular words. While all of the lines rhyme with at least one other‚ a specific example of end rhyme is found in lines nine and ten: “Death in certain war‚ the

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    Lexi Marie Latasha Gordon ENG 121 Brandi Henderson April 8‚ 2013 I chose to write about a person that has special meaning in my life. This person not only has special meaning‚ she has my whole heart. Her name is Lexi Marie. She is three years old. She was born September 21st‚ 2009. She weighed 6 pounds 10 ounces and was 19 ½ inches long. She had blue eyes and a head full of hair. I was a very proud momma. I still am. Before we left the hospital I was informed that she was born with Bilateral

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