The text Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi explores many lenses‚ but the most prominent are gender and culture. Marjane reveals how gender affects the daily lives of people in Iran‚ she also shows how her life and many other lives were affected due to the cultural changes in Iran. Marji also explains how difficult it can be growing up in Iran for children and how it affects them. The chapter The veil explores gender inequality caused by the Islamic revolution and how it affected women and children in
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Persepolis runs deeper than the historic background or Iranian culture Marjane Satrapi experienced throughout her childhood. Satrapi’s story exploits the idea of feminism and empowerment of women‚ while also touching on the topics of family‚ religion‚ drugs and alcohol‚ all ways of life that are experienced all too well by the average person. Although many people you ask on the street might say they have not had to endure to warfare‚ perhaps you have met someone who has served for your country‚ or
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Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis resonates with themes of resistance throughout her literary composition. From repudiation of the veil‚ to mockery‚ lying‚ demonstrations‚ smoking‚ consumption of alcohol‚ and subversion‚ her work incorporated each mode in various forms creating tensions that spanned her childhood through her teenage years. In a period in which her country suffered constant upheavals‚ the conditions spawned a fertile breeding ground for the types of resistance that proliferated. As a young
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Education and My Future As John F Kennedy said‚ “A child miseducated is a child lost.” (Worldofquotes.com). Education plays a very important role in my future; I will use it for my entire life. My education will affect me personally‚ professionally and it will affect my society. My education will affect me professionally because I can get a better‚ higher paying job that allows me to support myself by buying my own house and other things. My education will help on a personal level because
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The Importance of Education The importance of learning and grasping a quality education enables the individual to put his or her potentials to optimal use are clear. Without education‚ the human mind is incomplete. No individual is a human being in the working world has been able to succeed without some proper source of some kind of education. Now I ’m not saying you ’re not a human without an education; the mind was made to be trained and without education‚ a person is incomplete in that sense
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social life. It all seems paved out for us‚ it seems simple. But do we really want to go down that road that is built for us? Education systems are seemingly making it difficult to decide on very important life decisions. How great is our education system really? They are making a stressful enviornment in what is supposed to be considered the best times of our lives. The education system asks young adults to make future decisions that will impact them forever‚ without teaching the necessary life skills
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References: Aveling‚ N. (1998)‚ ‘Aboriginal Studies: for whom‚ and to what ends?’‚ Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education‚ 19 (3)‚ pp. 301-314. Bartlett‚ Anne. (2002)‚ ‘The Aboriginal Peoples of Australia’‚ Minneapolis: Learner Publications‚ pp.4-45. Browett‚ JE‚ (2009)‚ ‘Critical Literacy and Visual Texts: Windows on Culture’‚ Impact‚ 11 (2)‚ pp. 24-29. Cavanagh‚ P
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Education is an active agent of social change. The instructive outlook in the present scenario has undergone most important revisions over the years‚ major in enhanced condition of education and healthier knowledge pursues. In 1944‚ the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) published a broad report called the Sergeant Report on the post-war educational development of the country. As per the report‚ necessities for the education of the differently abled were to shape a vital part of the national
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Education should be one of the highest priorities of a country. Education serves the interests both of the modern state and individual. It serves the state by creating citizens with a common understanding of their identity that manifests itself as nationalism as well as an appreciation of rights and responsibilities. Also it serves the interests of individuals because it enables them to participate in the production of the modern world’s economy‚ politics and society. But lack of high quality and
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Reading-to-writing: an Effective Approach to Improving Students’ EFL Writing Ability in Senior High Schools English Major LI Ze-feng Abstract: EFL (English as a foreign language) writing is one of the four basic skills of English learning. However‚ EFL writing‚ as a highly complex productive activity‚ has always been a big problem to students in senior high schools. Most of the students may feel perplexed when confronting EFL writing and always get half the result with twice the effort
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