communication from taking place. For example‚ in the children’s novel It Ain’t so Awful Falafel by Firoozeh Dumas‚ Cindy‚ a young Iranian immigrant living in America during the Iranian hostage crisis‚ is feared and shunned by other children at her school simply due to her ethnicity‚ however‚ the few children who took the time to learn about her and the Iranian hostage crisis were actually able to relate enough with Cindy to become her friend. By learning more about Cindy‚ these children were able
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In 1979‚ an Iranian government supported terrorist group overtook the US embassy. They captured 52 people. In an order to obtain the release of the American hostages being held in Lebanon‚ The Reagan Administration secretly began to sell weapons to Iran. This went against an American ban on arms sales to Iran‚ which had been in affect since the embassy had been seized. (Corrigan 40-41) These deals were arranged through Robert McFarlane‚ who was the head of the National Security Council. One
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000 sq mi. Iran ranks second in the world in natural gas and also second in oil reserve. It maintains the diplomatic relationship with almost every member of the United Nation‚ except Israel‚ which it does not recognize‚ and the United States after Iranian revolution. Iran is a diverse country consisting of people of many religions and ethnic background cemented by the Persian culture. The majority of the people speak Persian language‚ which is official language of the country. In the middle ages the
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During the late 1970’s a time of national trouble that stemmed from the Vietnam War‚ the American-Iranian Hostage crisis and domestic economically strife‚ undermined long-held American cultural principles embodied in heroines such as “superman” as a representation of masculinity‚ America as the “good guys” and the American Dream. As a result these Idealistic dreams of were torn out of American hearts and replaced by more practical‚ logical “modern” principles reflected in the 1980’s which embraced
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in other major cities around the world‚ including New York City (Mackey). Hundreds of thousands‚ if not millions of Iranians were protesting against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reelection‚ which was allegedly the result of electoral fraud. These allegations have been investigated by parties in and outside of Iran‚ including London’s Chatham House and the Institute of Iranian Studies‚ University of St. Andrews in Scotland‚ which co-published a report after the election. The report was written
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Chapter 39 The Stalemated Seventies Sources of Stagnation 1. Sudden slump in productivity was attributed to the increasing presence in the work force of women and teenagers who had fewer skills than adult males and were less likely to take full time‚ long-term jobs-some blamed it on new machinery but no one knows for sure. 2. During Nixon’s presidency‚ Americans experienced the first serious inflation since the immediate post World War II years. Nixon “Vietnamese” the War 1. He could be brittle
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Iran as a nation and major empire. Iran was ruled by a series of empires and dynasties‚ starting with The Achaemenid Empire which ruled from 550-330 BC all the way to Iran’s last dynasty‚ The Pahlavi Dynasty‚ which was in power from 1925-1941. The Iranian Revolution or the Islamic Revolution put an end to the dynasties in Iran after the shahs (kings) started incorporating Western ideals and philosophies into society. This deeply concerned religious people and they started viewing the Shahs as anti-Islamic
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At least three reasons for the rise of conservatism in the last part of the 20th century. In the 20th century some factor-increased conservatism‚ one of them was the Vietnam War. The war was costly‚ and it proved a difficult one for the Americans to handle. Moreover‚ the war drained the Americans and caused a huge deficit in the economy especially to the federal debt in the 1970s (Barnes & Bowles‚ 2014). During that period‚ many people questioned the involvement of the US in that war and possibility
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What do Argo and Zero Dark Thirty have in common‚ other than being Oscar nominees? They are both movies based on real life events and real life institutions‚ and they were both chosen as subjects of a case study designed to determine whether films have any influence on audience opinions about the government and the focal events. Participants in this study were undergraduates from a private Midwestern university who self-selected which of the two movies they would like to watch. They were then asked
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British Political History Margaret Thatcher Sahibzada Rabbani 24/03/2013 What made Margaret Thatcher one of the most influential Prime Ministers in the twentieth century? Was it the strength of her personality‚ length of time in office‚ her politics‚ or combination of all of these and more? INTRODUCTION Margaret Thatcher was the longest serving Prime Minister of U.K in the twentieth century (1979 to 1990). Lady Thatcher was born on 13 October 1925 in Grantham‚ Lincolnshire. The daughter
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