city is beautifully rendered from top to bottom and features meticulously crafted towers that reach for the sky‚ bustling market squares‚ and quiet corners where citizens converse and drunks lie in wait to accost you. As you wander the streets (and rooftops)‚ you’ll push your way through crowds of women carrying jars on their heads‚ hear orators shout political and religious wisdom‚ and watch town guards harass innocent victims. Altaïr has a profound effect on this world‚ but the cities are entities
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Through the graphic imagery‚ the poet as a mature adult nostalgically recalls his carefree childhood growing up in a village next to a mountain known as "Heydar Baba" near Tabriz‚ Iran. It was while Shahriyar was training as a medical student in Tehran University in the early 1940s that he became inþuenced by his mother to develop his colloquial Azeri idiom into a masterful literary language. Equal to Shahriyar’s best poetry in Farsi‚ "Heydar Baba‚ Salam" proved that he could write Azeri with equal
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ruling to the country’s religion of Islam. The illustrated memoir‚ “the Complete Persepolis” written by Marjane Satrapi follows the story of the authors childhood and growing up with her family in Tehran during the Islamic revolution. As well as her high school years in Vienna‚ Austria‚ to her return to Tehran. Including when Marjane chose to leave Iran for Strasbourg‚ France. The book begins when Marjane is ten. She was born with religion and believed that she was
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“The Sniper”‚ is written by Liam O’Flaherty. Through a realistic fiction story it takes place in Dublin‚ Ireland on a rooftop near O’Connell Bridge. The sniper is a Republican sniper and is fighting against Free staters. For the Republican‚ there is a Free stater watching him and this man is the sniper’s brother. Using (suspense and foreshadowing)‚ O’Flaherty’s story teaches the theme that violence is never the answer and causes the person to look at death differently. Violence is an action that
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many short stories in relation to the main topic that characterized his life; the participation in the war. This short story is about a civil war taking place in Dublin. As the title says‚ the Sniper is the main character‚ and is hiding on the rooftop of a building near to O’Connel Bridge. Through the narration‚ O’ Flaherty
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countries made Russia believe that the US was against them for being communist and increased suspicion of how loyal its American ally was. The Casablanca Conference was successful and set up how the rest of the war would go (Doc 2). Also in 1943‚ the Tehran Conference was yet another meeting by the Allied Powers. They met to discuss D-Day‚ which was the Eastern and Western fronts. The US and Great Britain wanted to secure Russian cooperation for the full time the war was going on. Russia had to pledge
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the calligraphic form of the word ‘design.’ The poster of the last exhibition in Geneva was also inspired by the same idea‚ although with a totally different approach. He had photographed the wild flower in the foot of a hill beside a graveyard near Tehran –where Morteza Momayez is now entombed. With a delicate and intelligent allusion‚ these posters reveal his idea on discovering Iranian graphic design; this wild
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after a long time of pressure‚ they are finally free of their oppressor. A less joyful part is when she is walking on the street alone‚ “Now that Tehran was under attack‚ many fled. The city was deserted. As for us‚ we stayed. Not just out of fatalism. If there was to be a future‚ in my parent ’s eyes‚ that future was linked to my French education. And Tehran was the only place I could get it.”(Satrapi 137) The words themselves don ’t have a lot of emotion to them‚ but the image that accompanies conveys
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purposes only. Wanting safety and security does not mean that you are necessarily giving up your privacy. Take for example‚ the Barbara Katende story in the New York Times. She noticed a camera stationed on a rooftop about 200 yards from her sixth-floor apartment window. This was a rooftop she had seen‚ but never considered or paid attention to‚ each time she walked near her window in undergarments or bare. Ms. Katende was in the safety and privacy of her own home. Does this mean that since she
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EXPLAINING THE IRAN – IRAQ WAR Hostilities and border clashes occurred between Iraqi and Iranian forces before the 22nd of September 1980;[1] however‚ this date marks the official start of an eight year war that has in many ways become the most destructive and the bloodiest conflict since World War Two.[2] On that date the Iraqi government initiated synchronised strikes against Iranian airfields located within the range of its bombers‚ while Iraqi ground forces advanced into the Iranian province
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