THE DANGERS OF REVOLUTION: EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF THE 2011 MIDDLE EAST UPRISINGS ON REGIONAL STABILITY Joseph W. Mulcahy NSEC 613 Current and Emerging Threats to National Security American Public University Summer 2011 1 Introduction In the waning weeks of 2010‚ a twenty-six year old Tunisian street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi “opted not to pay off yet another official—and instead set himself on fire at the governor’s office in Sidi Bouzid.”1 The fatal act of civil disobedience
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Marjane Satrapi says in multiple interviews that she does not subscribe to feminism; instead‚ she describes herself as a humanist. However‚ her graphic novel memoir‚ Persepolis‚ has several themes at its core that convey feminist ideals. Throughout the novel‚ Marjane constantly expresses frustration with Iran’s strict regulations on women. She also grows up with strong female relationships in her family; these women help shape Marjane into the woman she is today‚ a woman who won’t stand for inequality
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Persepolis is a story about a teenager named Marji. Marji is living in Iran during the fall of the Shah and the beginning of the new regime. Marji is in a wealthier class than others. She lives in a nice house with her parents. Marji is close to her family and stays connected with her grandma. When the new regime makes Marji and other girls change their lifestyles‚ all of the girls think it is a joke. This gets them in trouble and in the face of death. Marji develops differently than most children
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they have a Solidarity Service in a church and they religiously sit as a group and all take soma and chant songs as a group. I think they do this because they are all forced to try to feel as one and not be different then each other. The countries Iran‚ Pakistan‚ Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia all have a strong religious demographic. A lot of people say that they take religion to the extreme. I think this is because the government in these countries are all communist and are ultra right wing. it seems
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growing up in the time of a war. Based on her own personal experience of the Islamic Revolution in Iran‚ Marjane Satrapi introduces us to the effects of cultural change through the eyes of a child. Persepolis‚ is a political‚ historical‚ and extremely personal account of a girl’s growth into maturity. Imperialism is a huge theme in this book as it is the reason why Marjane and the community of Iran suffered. After the Shah essentially sold his country’s resources to the western influences for selfishness
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established by Cyprus the great. 550-479 BCE and the Arabian Peninsula 1000 B.C. first century A.D. The Persian empire was greater than Assyrian and stretched from Egypt to Arabia across Mesopotamia and the Indus river. Persia today the nation of Iran and when Cyprus was conquering the nearing regions. During 539 B.C.E.‚ King Cyrus chose to grow the limits of Persia. He started by vanquishing Babylon. Cyrus was different from other conquerors who ruled and dictated people but Cyrus was known for
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The memoir Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is written from a child’s point of view. The author relives the moments she lived in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. She does this by not only telling us but by also showing us through comic strip images. This allows the reader to get a better sense of what she lived through and what she witnessed throughout her childhood. Satrapi’s purpose for writing this book was to depict the truth and to honor those who lost their lives during the war. To do this
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is now mostly present in India. (Molloy 438) B. Some see possible influence on the development of Essenes‚ early Christianity‚ and Islam. (Molloy 438) II. The prophet Zoroaster‚ the founder of the religion‚ was born about 650 BCE in what is now Iran. (Molloy 438) A. He was surrounded by the worship of nature gods‚ common to his area of upbringing. (Molloy 438) i. He did not believe in his religions practices of the sacrifice of animals at the fire altars and the power of the priests. (Molloy
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in different countries and these differences are related by several reasons such as the history of the country‚ the culture and the people’s beliefs and religions. Iranian families are similar to Japanese families in many aspects. Family members in Iran try to get together as much as possible and they like to spend all of their time with each other. In the past decade or so‚ privacy made no sense to Iranians at all. In a Japanese family as mentioned on page 189 "most striking feature of the Japanese
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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and its use to justify the subsequent invasion in 2003. The Iran nuclear deal that is currently being negotiated has provided us a glimpse of this oversight in action. A few weeks ago‚ House intelligence chairman Congressman Devin Nunes sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper requesting an “out of the box” assessment on a number of issues relating to Iran as well as an analysis of Iran’s nuclear intent. Additionally‚ Nunes requested information
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