------------------------------------------------- How Castro Held the World Hostage Listen Section: Editorial Desk Waterloo‚ Ontario ON Oct. 26-27‚ 1962‚ human civilization came close to being destroyed. Schoolchildren were ordered into shelters; supermarket shelves were emptied of soup cans and bottled water. It was the most perilous moment of the Cuban missile crisis‚ and of the cold war. But the danger of Armageddon did not begin‚ as legend has it‚ when the United States learned that
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Manila Hostage Crisis August 23‚ 2010 when Manila Hostage Crisis occurred at Rizal Park‚ Manila‚ it started when the gunman boarded a bus in Manila’s Tourist District Bus‚ he was recognized as Rolando Mendoza. He wore his old uniform and carried a riffle when he asked the tourist bus‚ Hong Thai Travel Bus‚ for a ride. It contains 22 tourist and 3 Filipinos. Rolando Mendoza was said to be discharged from the police force after 31 years of service because of his involvement in an extortion incident
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to gain a connectetion with the author because she actually kuved these events and we as readers get a sense of the true emotions. Persepolis creates a viewpoint like no other‚ it gives the reader a view from a child’s perspective during the 1979 Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq
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Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is a graphic novel that encompasses the struggles of a child coming to age. An autobiographical piece depicting the life of a girl who is living through the Iranian revolution. Throughout the novel‚ Marjane has personal conversations with an autonomous god. She shares everything with him‚ her expectations of the world and her purpose in life. However‚ the relationship between them evolves over time as she grows older. When Satrapi introduces god in the novel she explains
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In my reading of Persepolis thus far‚ I have first noticed that this story seems as if it will be a memoir that really shows just how a girl becomes an adult. In the woman warrior‚ it seemed as if the story was a bit more of an autobiographical account than Persepolis. The life that Marji had to deal with was filled with many tough times. Compared to the Woman Warrior‚ I believe that the situations Marji had to deal with helped her to be able to better describe just how she evolved emotionally.
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between her and her former neighbors. She did not live through all the same experiences they encountered and spent a long period of time in a new society. Unknowingly‚ she had changed during her attempts to join a European culture and lost parts of her Iranian identity. This identity crisis is what many face after being relocated leaving them stranded and asking‚ “where is
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On August 19‚ 1953‚ the Iranian military‚ supported by the United States government‚ overthrew Premier Mohammed Mosaddeq and reinstated the Shah of Iran‚ marking the first real instance of U.S covert action and regime change. While the CIA has only recently admitted to U.S involvement‚ the motivations for this coup d’état were quite clear. Mosaddeq came to power in 1951 and almost instantly made his nationalist ideologies publicly known by calling for the expropriation of Iran’s oil fields. This
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In the very first frame of the novel the veil is already shown. The Iranian women had to wear the veil‚ because of the religious oppression they experienced. “We really didn’t like to wear the veil‚ especially since we didn’t understand why we had to” (page 3). Marjane’s mother chooses not to wear the veil. When she was walking
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about their reasons for invading and intervening in Lebanon. Similarly‚ the Reagan administration was successful in hiding the truth of wanting to play a partisan role in Lebanon. To continue‚ the Carter administration invaded Iran in order to free hostages‚ but unfortunately‚ due to the
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Persepolis is a postmodern work because of the style in which Marjane Satrapi presents her memoir‚ in the form of a graphic novel. Rather that retell factual stories with certainty‚ she is able to convey her childhood by giving her own experiences that encapture what her emotions and recollection of what the events meant‚ through images and dialogue. Satrapi makes a cohesive and moving memoir through her alternate style of the novel. The style of it makes the retelling of the story much more abstract
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