today‚ such as Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Gandhi‚ Abraham Lincoln and so on. She is a young Pashtun girl from Pakistan who is suppressed by the Taliban from getting an education because she is a girl. Like most all women in Pakistan‚ they are not given the basic freedoms that men have. Thus‚ when Malala was speaking out about her right to attend school‚ a Taliban fighter went onto her school bus and shot her point blank. Miraculously‚ she survived‚ and was taken to the U.K. Once recovered‚ she still fought
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bravely since many groups targeted her due to them wanting to preserve their culture in which women are superior. The Taliban ‚an Islamic fundamentalist organization‚ was one of those groups who targeted her. They gave her death threats because of her movement that wanted a world where women could get an education which would be considered disgraceful to the Taliban. The Taliban ended up shooting her but only wounded her in the facial region. She overcame that obstacle and now she told her story
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After the decades of war and the end of the Taliban regime they had a new election of parliament and government in 2002‚ then the health care services were also continued to be provided to everyone by NGOs. The network was very weak of public facilities‚ most qualified health professionals left the
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. Themes 1) Justice and Penance Although it is not directly apparent‚ one of the strongest underlying themes of the novel is the idea of justice and penance. As the characters lives are inevitably altered by the chaos around them‚ they look to themselves as to why they are being punished. They believe that what occurs is penance for the sins they have committed. The theme is introduced to us by Nana‚ Mariam’s mother‚ when she explains why she built the kolba by herself‚ "Jalil could have hired
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(AGG) As they say‚ “You come back a different person after the war”‚ Najmah goes on a journey throughout Afghanistan and Pakistan to find her kidnapped brother from the Taliban‚ and changes mentally and physically along the way. (BS-1) The Kidnapping of Nur and Baba-jan and the loss of Habib and Mada-jan has crushed her.(BS-2)The absence of her family members have striven her to get
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father’s young Hazara servant. The story is set against a backdrop of turbulent events‚ from the fall of Afghanistan’s monarchy through the Soviet military intervention‚ the exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States‚ and the rise of the Taliban regime. KHALED HOSSEINI- BIOGRAPHY: Khaled Hosseini was born on March 4‚ 1965. He is the oldest of five children. His father worked for the Afghan Foreign Consul and his mother taught Farsi and history at a girls’ high school in Kabul. Kabul‚
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There have been many disputes over whether or not Afghan women have been liberated from oppression. After the Taliban regime fell‚ President Karzai signed the Declaration of Essential Rights of Afghan Women. This stated that women must receive equal protection under the law. This brought about signs of hope and lessened the oppression of women however the Taliban are resurgent and people do not feel safe. Still‚ in some villages there is violence against women‚ arranged marriages and high maternal
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to be harmed‚ possibly even killed. The idea of what it means to "act like a mother" becomes evident when Mariam attacks Rasheed. Her killing of Rasheed is a response to injustice. The lack of justice that women experience at the hands of the Taliban‚ as well as the absence of righteousness in the way that Rasheed has treated women‚ in general‚ is what motivates Mariam to take action. Mariam understands that the only way for justice to be evident is for action to be taken. She takes this action
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and women shouldn’t be placed behind a male rather beside a male. Mariam was abused the most in this novel. She was physically beaten with belt‚ forced to eat rocks‚ and slapped. Rasheed controlled her physically but could not control her soul. “Taliban confiscated stuff‚ gave a kick to
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everyone’s voice to be heard. Malala Yousafzai’s “Speech on Education United Nations NY‚ July 12‚ 2013” is a speech on how she wants to achieve goals of peace‚ education‚ and equality. Also‚ that this is the legacy of change. On October 9th‚ 2012‚ the Taliban shot young
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