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    Animals should not be kept in captivity at zoos Many of us have been to a zoo at least once in our lives before. Zoos are premises for the captivity of animals‚ where they are studied and displayed for the public to see. Have you ever stopped to think of the trauma that the animal went through while being taken from its family and its home‚ to be locked behind a cage for the rest of his life? Do you remember leaving the zoo that day knowing a whole lot more about animals than you did before? Although

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    superior lives in captivity as opposed to in the wild? Intro Captivity is the process of keeping animals in human care. An unsustainable industry‚ there is severe imbalance between the number of cetaceans born in captivity and the number which die in captivity. The majority of the thousands of cetaceans in captivity are captured from the wild to supply the increasing number of aquaria throughout the world in what has become a market for their freedom. [1] Cetaceans are born into captivity through an

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    of a woman who endured traumatic experiences by being taken captive by hostile Indians. Mary Rowlandson made history by writing a testament of her unfortunate events that took place during her eighty three days of captivity. This literary piece is known as “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson”. This story was a personal recollection of Rowlandson’s life as a prisoner of war‚ taken captive by the Algonquians during King Phillip’s war in 1675 (Rosenmeier 255). This

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    Massachusetts‚ in the colony called New England. The book entitled A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (1682) reports her captivity – with her children – by Indians during King Philip’s War in 1676. She was captive eleven weeks that ended with her release after undergo extreme conditions in wilderness‚ even the death of her youngest child in Mary’s arms the first week of the captivity‚ and only with the companion of a bible.

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    Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel‚ Persepolis‚ is an autobiography about her life during the Iranian Revolution and war. The film version of Persepolis is quite similar‚ however‚ the intention of the film is slightly different than the book. The book has many detailed panels that tell more of a dramatic story of Marjane’s life‚ while the film is less dramatic and detailed. The graphic narrative Persepolis uses black and white comics to tell the story of Marjane’s life. The drawings in the pictures

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    citizens experience‚ and taunts their once freeing rights‚ such as the prerogative to explore sexuality. Gilead’s only freedom‚ is freedom from all other liberties‚ or as Aunt Lydia would describe‚ freedom from the anarchy that unveiled in the first society. The novel’s protagonist‚ Offred‚ uses two sets of images to recount the vast difference between a “freedom to” society‚ and a “freedom from” society. She recalls to the reader a photographic clarity of her previous life as an American woman with liberties

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    Iranian Social Classes In Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis‚ it is explained that life before the Iranian Revolution was not perfect‚ social classes did still exist. These social classes affect Iranian citizens lives in many different ways. Iran’s leader‚ the Shah‚ comes into power and changes the country’s policies. This affects the Iranian people’s lives in many different ways. Throughout the graphic novel‚ Persepolis‚ Satrapi tells her story of how she and her family are affected by these new rules

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    Persepolis The memoir of Marjane Satrapi growing up in Iran is written as a very personal account in the comic book Persepolis. This is a story that describes her life during the Islamic Revolution which includes her moral‚ physical‚ religious‚ and psychological struggles she endured. Being the setting of a bloody war with Iraq‚ Iran was not the ideal environment Marjane’s parents wanted her to grow up in. Persepolis represents a unique life of a child in Tehran‚ Iran and the actions she took

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    The Islamic Revolution and second Iran and Iraq war occurred in 1979 and changed many lives. During this time‚ families and communities were torn apart. Their lives were never the same again. Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis tells readers her childhood through comics. She demonstrates to readers how the revolution and war dramatically changed the lives of her friends‚ family and herself. Even though the Islamic Revolution was to defend and free their country‚ the consequences of the war destroyed the

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    A person can be anywhere in the world‚ yet remain in the same place—inside a head. In The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway‚ this sense of captivity is the source of many behaviors that prove to be problematic. Discontent sets in at every new location‚ and it is rarely considered by the characters that their lack of contentment is rooted inside themselves as opposed to their current environment. Running from one café to some bar‚ then to another country and city‚ sleeping in a drunken string of

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