CELTA – Assignment 3 Learner Profile I interviewed ******** an Iranian 31 year old female student in the Level I class. ****’s native language is Persian (Farsi). **** came to England a year ago to join her Iranian husband who has been living and working in England for the past 5 years. At present they have no children. She has only been attending class at college for a few weeks where she is also taking a class in mathematics in order to learn the correct English terminology. **** is an
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attending the school‚ wore their veils‚ while the guardians of the revolution’s role were to arrest females that were improperly veiled. The younger Marji’s role was to show us how the Iranian Revolution/ the mandatory wearing of the veil affected her life‚ while the older Marji’s role was to show us how Iranian cultural expectations of gender differ from Western cultural expectations of gender. These women were forced into these prescribed roles and some managed to rebel against them. Two example
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portrays radical Islamic men oppressing their female counterparts. Many American citizens have narrow opinions on Iranian women‚ most of them dealing with the infamous veil that Islamic girls wear females. Marjane Satrapi in her biographical novel Persepolis examines Iranian women’s roles in the Islamic Revolution‚ breaks the myth of the oppressing veil‚ and demonstrates how Iranian boys and girls are socially constructed. Satrapi does all of this with a nontraditional writing style as she challenges
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people of Iran. First of all‚ Iran throughout history has had issues with intervention from other countries‚ especially in regards to religion. When Arabs took control over Iran‚ they infused the Islamic faith into Iranian society. Zoroastrianism was the primary faith at the time and Iranians found a way assimilate and to merge previously held ideas with Islam‚ creating what is now known as Shiite. Iran with its strong heritage wanted to keep their democratic ideals such as having social justice and
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spring and the beginning of the Iranian year. “Norouz”‚ means new day. Norouz is celebrated by some communities on March 21st and by others on the first day of the start of spring which may occur on March 20th‚ 21st‚ or 22nd. The Persian New Year has been celebrated for at least three thousand years and is deeply rooted in the traditions of the Zoroastrian religion. In Iran‚ preparations for the New Year’s celebration begin in the last month of winter. The Iranians prepare with spring cleaning in
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by the Iranians. During his stay‚ he easily spots out many forms of anti-American propaganda‚ but those contrast greatly with his own findings when communicating with the Iranian locals. Many Iranians are intrigued by Rick‚ asking him about his nationality. When Rick tells the Iranians that he’s American‚ the Iranians take it surprisingly well. Rick recalls that some told him “Welcome!” and some even said “I love America!” This shocked me a little bit when I was reading it‚ since the Iranians have
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The book Persepolis‚ by Marjane Satrapi‚ is a graphic novel. This eye-opening book gives insight on the Iranian revolution thought Marjane Satrapi’s perspective. The government’s small group of leaders are trying to recruit more male kids and lower class families to come and fight in the military by portraying it as the gateway to paradise. This illustrates how in the time of need‚ innocent minds have the ability to trust blindly‚ making them susceptible targets for governments and leaders. The
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of Tehran. In this novel divisiveness directly affects some characters‚ like Doctor. His rebellion gets him into trouble with the secret police force called the SAVAK. In contrast‚ Doctor’s fiancee‚ Zari‚whose parents raised her in a traditional Iranian middle class household‚ remains unchanged by
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The Complete Persepolis‚ is highly important for one to get an awareness of the settings in which the protagonist‚ Marjane ‘Marji’ Satrapi lives during this middle-eastern conflict of the 1979 Iranian revolution. The Complete Persepolis shows the major influences that the Shah’s government had on Iranians from September 16th‚ 1941 until February 11th‚ 1979‚ by way of religious restrictions on women. Marjane’s feminism leads to in-between identities of east/west‚ black/white‚ male/female‚ equality/inequality
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Erick Mejia M.A. Suzanne Abad ENC 3310 30 June 2013 ARGO Argument Argo is based on a true story happened in 1979‚ when a group of Iranians stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran‚ kidnapping some embassy employees and fleeing six diplomats at the Embassy of Canada. Becoming it in the shelter where they would be extracted by an agent of the CIA and taken back to their country. This crisis brought diplomatic headlines of the international press who followed this stress daily enntre the administration
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