City descriptions: Uruk – Temples: Ishtar/Inanna‚ Goddesses of Love and War Capitol and largest city of Arkadia‚ located where the two major rivers meet. The palace was located in the center of the city with the temples to Ishtar and Inanna on either side of it. The temple of Ishtar was there before Gilgamesh took the throne but after he saved Inanna from the demon attack‚ Gilgamesh built a temple to honor her. Uruk was built from clay and is the main cultural city of Arkadia. They were the ones
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For my chosen reflective assignment‚ I decided to first reread my whole reflective assignment to find any obvious mistakes that stood out at first. I then found a few spelling errors‚ grammar mistakes and I just took out some small pieces that didn’t make sense and added new text. Overall‚ I chose this reflective assignment in Ms. Gary’s class since it was my favorite prompt and it was the one I thought I performed my best on. That is why in this piece of writing I didn’t have to make many corrections
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PERSEPOLIS: Unity in Diversity Submitted by: Akoijam Malemnganbi 13HEMA50 ‘If you prick us‚ do we not bleed? If you tickle us‚ do we not laugh? If you poison us‚ do we not die? And if you wrong us‚ shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest‚ we will resemble you in that.’ -an excerpt from The Merchant of Venice Introduction Inspired by Art Speigelman’s ‘Maus’ and his use of the medium of graphics combined with words in narrating a pensive horror story of the holocaust in
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Although they come from two different worlds‚ Marji and Tayo learn‚ experience‚ and grow to become the people they are at the end of their novels. To become who they are‚ Tayo and Marji change their outlooks and perspectives. In Iran‚ Marji’s school taught her that God chose the leader of the country. Consequentially‚ Marji believed this throughout most of her childhood. As a result‚ Marji tells her father‚ “As for me‚ I love the king‚ he was chosen by God” (Satrapi 19) Marji’s father tells her
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Persepolis Writing Assignment Chose one of the following essay prompts and write an essay based Persepolis. I am looking for two things here: 1) to get an overall impression of your writing skill and 2) to assess your comprehension of the graphic novel (this will be assigned a grade). Your grade will be determined by how you explain the relevance of your examples and how they illuminate an overall argument about Marjane’s life. 1. How has Marjane been educated through her experience by the
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reflect upon their attitudes towards the past. This interaction manifests in the examination of the conflicting strengths and limitations of history and memory throughout Mark Baker’s memoir The Fiftieth Gate and Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis as both texts place emphasis on the inherent bias of acts of inclusion‚ emphasis and omission. Consequent of the inability to objectively capture definitive truth‚ all modes of representations of the past are unassailably mediated by the author
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levels and being on the top affects the way she lives. By being on the top‚ Marjane does not have as hard of a life as others. She is able to go to a good school to get a good education and come to home a big house with food on the table. In the book Persepolis‚ social classes are represented because some of the kids are not able to go to school to get an education‚ while kids in the higher class‚ like Marjane‚ are. An example of this is‚ when Marjane is lying in bed and says “we were not in the same social
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(2007): Academic OneFile. Web. 16 Nov. 2012. "Modernity‚ sexuality‚ and ideology in Iran; the life and legacy of popular Iranian female artists." Reference & Research Book News‚ Dec. 2011. Academic OneFile. Web. 9 Nov. 2012. Satrapi‚ Marjane. Persepolis. New York: Pantheon‚ 2003. Print. Wright‚ Robin B..The last great revolution: turmoil and transformation in Iran. New York: A.A. Knopf‚ 2000. Print.
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Informational Literacy Assignment: Esther David Laylock Humanities 102: Biblical Revelations Dr. Meng Due: April 16‚ 2014 Intro Esther is about the girl who came to be the queen of Persia. It is a book that gives her story of how she became sovereign‚ starting out during a banquet that lasted one hundred and eighty days. This banquet was put on by the wealthy King Xerxes to show off to people the power and fortune that he held. The queen‚ at the time‚ denied to appear at this
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westernization of cultures. It has led to stereotyping created by people in relation to various communities. It is important for people to eliminate these negative stereotypes by embracing their culture. The two novels i.e. The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Persepolis were all written for the same purpose. They both highlight the culture conflict of Muslim people because of a Western culture that is affecting the dynamics of their lives in various ways that they cannot be able to comprehend. In the Reluctant
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