proper education in her hometown of Swat‚ Pakistan. Since she was a child‚ Malala had always cherished her education and wanted to help other girls and women receive the same benefits that she had. For years she and her father had stood up to the Taliban and the Pakistani government by speaking at private meetings and traveling across the country delivering speeches; until one day Malala was shot in the head on her way home from school. In their novel‚ Yousafzai and Lamb use the
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women’s rights. The Taliban does not respect that Malala strives to be the best person she can be and have a proper education. Today‚ Malala still strives to do what is right‚ and assists children‚ especially girls‚ attend school. Malala even expresses about how she feels toward the Taliban‚ "’How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?’" Malala exemplifies extreme courage to stand up for education‚ even after barely surviving after being shot in the head from the Taliban. After Malala
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drought‚ 23 years of war and devastation and five years under the Taliban authorities‚ has been left as one of the poorest countries in the world” Afghanistan is populated mostly by a Muslim community with the economic‚ social‚ political‚ standard of living of men and women are very different in structure. In most of the families men are the sole bread winners and women do the house work and child rearing. As the country was under Taliban regime the women were not given equal opportunity in life under
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Whither Pakistan? A five-year forecast In international relations‚ peacetime is not only the absence of war or conflict‚ but also the presence of cultural and economic understanding. We often say things without really realizing what we are saying. It does not make sense to take moral umbrage at the expression of such opinions and label people with differing perceptions as traitors followed by the use of force to coerce them into staying together. That kind of a reaction can further strengthen the
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Understanding key concepts Plot- the main events of a play‚ novel‚ film‚ or similar work‚ devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence The book Parvana is about an 11-year-old girl living in Afghanistan‚ under the extreme Taliban regime. The Taliban ban women from going outside without a man and Afghan women are forced to wear the burqa at all times in public. Her family lost almost everything due to the bombings/wars in Afghanistan. Her father sells their remaining family items at
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Analysis of Khaled Hosseini & best selling novel “The Kite Runner “ The story of the Kite Runner is fictional‚ but it is 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;
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a family‚ who live in a war torn country. The family in focus consists of Parvana‚ Mrs Weera and Nooria. The members became distraught as their father was taken from their house by the Taliban‚ a violent religious military group. This meant that they had to change their ways to survive without him. First the Taliban had taken over their city‚ Kabul‚ then they took one of their parents and slowly the family was losing Mother as well. After Father was taken Mother became distressed and could no longer
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been a good place to live and tourists visited all the time. Malala herself described it as a paradise on Earth. In 2007‚ that would change forever. That is when the Taliban came to Swat Valley. The Taliban is a strong military group that wants to enforce their thinking about Islamic law in Muslim areas. In the beginning‚ the Taliban leaders seemed good. They gave the people better court systems and laws that were faster and more effective than they
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after the 2001 bombings Afghanistan Post War -On 20 September‚ President Bush‚ in an address to Congress‚ demanded the Taliban deliver Osama bin Laden and destroy bases of al Qaeda. - On 7 October 2001‚ airstrikes occurred in Kabul‚ electricity was stopped‚ at Kandahar‚ home of the Taliban ’s Leader‚ and in the city of Jalalabad‚ eliminating key infrastructure points -Taliban were responsible for 76% of civilian casualties in Afghanistan as of 2009 -A UN report in June 2011 stated that 2‚777
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terrorism. All these have made the poor of the northern areas unhappy with the government and other rich people. Because of this unhappiness‚ many poor people have become terrorists. Pakistan is with America against the Taliban. The effect of this is that the terrorists of Taliban have also started attacking Pakistan. As a result of terrorism‚ Pakistan has got a bad image and most of the foreigners have stopped visiting or have left this country. Therefore‚ in this terrible time we must have good
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