CHARACTERS MARIAM: She is the main character of the story. She was born illegitimately to a wealthy man of Herat and one of his housekeepers. She tries to force her father to acknowledge her as his daughter‚ but it leads to the heartache of her mother’s suicide and her own arranged marriage to Rasheed. She lives with him many years as an abused wife until Laila becomes his second wife. They establish a fast friendship and Mariam eventually kills Rasheed as he is choking Laila to death. She is
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[ANALYSIS]. [BACKGROUND INFO]. “Women in Afghanistan were educated and employed before the Taliban control‚ especially in the capital city Kabul. For example‚ 50% of the students and 60% of the teachers at Kabul University were women. Also‚ 70% of school teachers‚ 50% of civilian government workers‚ and 40% of doctors in Kabul were women” (Campaign for Afghan Women & Girls 4).” [ANALYSIS]. [BACKGROUND
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Environmental issues in Afghanistan Kapisa province Environmental issues in Afghanistan predate the political turmoil of the past few decades. Forests and wetlands have been depleted by centuries of grazing and farming‚ practices which have only increased with modern population growth. In Afghanistan‚ environmental conservation and economic concerns are not at odds; with 80% of the population dependent on herding or farming‚ the welfare of the environment is critical to the economic welfare of
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Dunya Institute for Higher Education The Essence‚ Effect and Impact of Modern Systems of Higher Education for Socio-economic Development – a Descriptive‚ Causal and Narrative Study done in 3 Organizations in Kabul By: Shaima Hussaini F/Name: Mohammad Salam ID number: 40814 Class: BBA‚ E2‚ Morning January 2012 Introduction Education as overall has direct impact on promoting the socio-economic development of any country. The Modern Systems of Higher Education came in Afghanistan since
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In the book The Kite Runner Hosseini uses characterization to characters the changes in Amir though out the text. In The Kite Runner the story is told by the protagonist Amir‚ Amir In the text Amir changes when he’s finds out that his father Baba is diagnosed with Lung Cancer. This changes everything because Amir allows depend on Baba since he was a child. I know this because the author states‚ “ What about me‚ Baba? What am I supposed to do?........You’re twenty-two
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Plot: - Amir‚ the protagonist‚ is an adult living in the United States and recalling on his childhood in Kabul‚ Afghanistan. He used to live in a fairly luxurious residence with his father‚ whom he called Baba‚ and their servants‚ Ali and Hassan. - Ali and Hassan were Hazaras‚ an ethnic minority‚ which means they do not have the same status as Amir and Baba. - Both Hassan and Amir have lost their mothers. They have only their fathers and each other. Amir’s mother died giving birth to him‚ and
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At the time of my writing‚ the NATO war in Afghanistan has just become the longest war in U.S. history‚ a status it seems likely to retain for some time. It has been‚ and remains‚ a very strange war‚ all the stranger now that General Stanley McChrystal has been fired as commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan following the lamest Douglas MacArthur impression on record. He has been replaced by General David Petraeus‚ the father and executor of the doctrine that lay behind the eventual U.S. military
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Afghanistan for Pashtuns‚ I say. That’s my vision.’” This quote reflects the hatred some people had for the Hazaras‚ or “Flat-Noses‚” in Afghanistan. The Hazaras were the lower class‚ while the Pashtuns were the wealthy class. If there was a Hazara in Kabul‚ the bet was that he was “a beggar or a servant or both.” This severe social divide was not just economical. Only the Pashtuns were able to attend public school‚ and barely any‚ if any‚ Hazaras were literate. However‚ Amir grew up with Hassan‚ his
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before Amir arrives in America. Amir grows up in Kabul with his prosperous father‚ Baba‚ who has two servants‚ Ali‚ and his son‚ Hassan. Amir and Hassan are best friends until Hassan is raped‚ and Amir doesn’t help him. Amir can’t get over his guilt‚ so he takes it out on Hassan and treats him very badly. Thus‚ Hassan and Ali leave Baba’s house. During the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan Baba and Amir flee to America. Many years later‚ Amir goes back to Kabul and rescues Sorhab‚ Hassan’s son‚ who is being
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rooted in real political and historical events ranging from the last days of the Afghan monarchy in the 1970s to the post-Taliban near present-day. Hosseini also pulls from his own memories and experiences growing up in the Wazir Akbar Khan section of Kabul and his adaptation to life in California. Khaled Hosseini’s aim was to not only call attention to the devastation in Afghanistan; he set out to remind the world that before he last few decades under the world’s scrutinizing eye highlighting the negativity
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