Assignment I Identify what you think is the single most important factor—political‚ economic‚ cultural‚ or environmental--in the Middle East prior to 1948 that has influenced today’s world. Explain and discuss this factor and its influences today in the Middle East using detailed and specific examples to support your argument. Without equivocation oil in the Middle East has been the biggest factor to influence today’s world. With the exception of food‚ no commodity is more widely in demand
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where Baba and I grew up together. Although we did grow up together‚ Baba never referred to me as a friend. Similarly‚ for our ethnic and religious differences. At the same time ‚ I continue to refuse to give up my morals and my lifestyle in Afghanistan in contempt of my beliefs. Amir ‚ aside from your ethnic ‚culture and religious discrepancies between you and Hassan‚ Hassan looks beyond those differences‚ like Baba and I grew up. Baba is a courageous individual with a strong mind as well
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Pashtun‚ and Hassan‚ a Hazara‚ grew up together like brothers but always had the boundary of discrimination and tradition that Amir couldn’t seem to disregard like his own father had. Dealing with the life of being a Hazara can be deadly living in Afghanistan and for Amir to accept Hassan as a friend seemed unreal. Holding him back to protect his own friend over himself was never his own intentions‚ which lead him to live years in guilt. The conflict between the discrimination against Hazaras and Pashtuns
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requires Amir letting go of his childhood dependence on Baba making Amir become a man. At the end Amir marries Soraya and Baba dies proud of Amir. Another way Amir changes through out the text is when an old friends from Afghanistan name Rahim Khan calls and tells Amir to come to Pakistan. The call Amir receives from Rahim Khan at the beginning of Chapter 14 is the same one Amir refers to in the Chapter 1 foreshadowing. When Amir gets off the phone with Rahim Khan he remember
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country is a landlocked country where all its surrounding countries are landlocked. It was found that there are only two double landlocked countries in the world‚ Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein. Uzbekistan is surrounded by five landlocked countries‚ Afghanistan‚ Kazakhstan‚ Kyrgyzstan‚ Tajikistan and Turkmenistan; where Liechtenstein is surrounded by two landlocked countries‚ Austria and Switzerland ! It was challenging and interesting to understand the effect on such characteristic on the foreign trade
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There is a girl named Malala‚ she was named after Malalai of Maiwand‚ the woman Malala was named after was one of the greatest heroines of Afghanistan. She wanted girls to have an education‚ but the Taliban didn’t want women to attend school‚ only men. Malala was fourteen years old when she began speaking to the people of her town about how everyone should have an education. No one should be deprived of an education due to gender. On October 9‚ 2012 Malala was shot by the Taliban while she was
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Culture of Pakistan From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search [pic] The 17th century Badshahi Mosque built by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in Lahore The society and culture of Pakistan (Urdu: ثقافت پاکستان) comprises numerous diverse cultures and ethnic groups: the Punjabis‚ Kashmiris‚ Sindhis in east‚ Muhajirs‚ Makrani in the south; Baloch and Pashtun in the west; and the ancient Dardic‚ Wakhi‚ and Burusho communities in the north. These Pakistani cultures have been greatly
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resemblance to ours. Afghanistan has snow-dusted and jagged mountains. Some of the mountains have jagged edges‚ and some have dull edges and have a snow-dusted top. Afghanistan has extremely hot summers and very cold winters. climate is 90% F in summer and can get to 25 F in winter because of the climate‚ they don’t have very many animals that live around therefore they have to buy‚ sell‚ and grow vegetables and fruits for food. About 14.5 million people live in afghanistan. their population comes
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practice in Afghanistan‚ and according to Afghans who have studied bacha bazi or have even taken part in it‚ bacha bazi has continued to expand over the past decade. Bacha bazi also remains a poorly understood issue in Afghanistan because there are no sound statistics to express the full extent of the practice. In fact‚ Afghan government officials‚ law enforcement‚ and judicial officials have a limited understanding of human trafficking in general. Although bacha bazi is illegal in Afghanistan‚ it is
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How does Hosseini portray different aspects of Afghan Culture in chapters 1-6? Hosseini uses a variety of literary devices‚ syntax features and different feelings and attitudes to portray different aspects of afghan culture. Different characters seem to have different views towards cultures‚ such as Assef and the Hazara’s and Baba’s views of Muslim tradition and the Mullah Fatiullah Khan‚ with Hosseini using literary devices such as Foreshadowing to portray these views. Amir believes in a lot
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