literature works with morally ambiguous characters such as The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. The Kite Runner was set in Kabul‚ Afghanistan‚ proceeds to United States during the Soviet Union invasion‚ and then the setting goes back to Kabul when the Taliban rises in power. In this novel‚ Amir‚ to whom the whole story of the book is centered around‚ is a morally ambiguous character. Amir is a Pashtun boy; he betrays his friendship with Hassan‚ a Hazara son of Amir’s father’s servant. Guilt haunts Amir
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Khaled Hosseini is one of the most admired Afghani authors of the 21st century. He is best know for works such as The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns that explore the hardships of living in Afghanistan during the Soviet Invasion and Taliban regime. This paper will discuss the life and work of Khaled Hosseini with special emphasis on the effect on women in Afghan society in the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini was born on March 4‚ 1965. He is the eldest of five children‚
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everything for you. In this book‚ Laila and Mariam both show the struggles it is to be a girl‚ and how much disrespect they get in Afghanistan. Both Mariam and Laila are married to the same man‚ and he is abusive to both of them. They also live under Taliban rule‚ and the rules that they set are very unfair for women. In Khaled Hosseni’s novel‚ he has many different themes but the most prevalent one is of woman inequality‚ and that is shown through multiple accounts of abuse‚ disrespect‚ and unfairness
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up to her father and her father would even look up to her because she would always impress him even with just her wellbeing and good spirit. But when Malala was on that bus with the other Pakistani girls and was shot three times in the head by a Taliban soldier that would change her life forever. She would eventually persevere and recover incredibly well after a year of treatment. Malala had definitely proved that education was worth dying for; she would always stand by her perspective that education
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The novel centers around the friendship between Mariam and Laila. It is split into four parts‚ with a focus on Mariam in the first part‚ continuing Laila in the second and fourth‚ and the relationship between the two women in the third part. Mariam lives in a kolba on the outskirts of Herat with her embittered mother. Jalil‚ her father‚ is a wealthy man who lives in town with three wives and nine children. Because Mariam is his illegitimate daughter‚ she cannot live with them‚ but Jalil visits her
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there was no reason women should cover if men didn’t” (111).but in 1992‚ all that changed. “Strict Islamic laws ordered women to cover‚ forbade travel without a male relative” (260). The complete opposite of what it originally was. And in 1996‚ the Taliban made many rules. Women must stay at home at all times‚ they were not to show their faces at any time‚ cosmetics‚ jewelry‚ and even laughing was forbidden. And absolutely no school. Eventually‚ in 2003‚ everything became alright for women again.
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War in Afghanistan Just War theory points out that there can be motives for going to war that do have a moral content‚ and just war theory claims that war can‚ under certain conditions‚ be morally justified. Proportionality is perhaps the most utilitarian of all Just War tenets. It calls upon leaders not to lose their head and engage in costly conflict if there are cheaper (e.g. economic‚ diplomatic) options available to them. There are three main opponents to the Just War theory: the decision to
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Shingo Yamane Religion and Terrorists I didn ’t know the word “terrorist” until September 11th in 2001. That day is the day when people all over the world couldn ’t believe their eyes. Who had ever seen the moment when two airplanes crashed into the towers? It was the very shocking moment. I just came home from school and turned on TV‚ and then all the channels were filled up with the emergency news of that unexpected incident. Even though I was only nine years old on that time‚ I was old enough
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school bus are shot by the Taliban. Realizing this‚ the bus driver rushes to the Swat Central Hospital. - In the hospital‚ many tests are preformed and it is determined that the bullet missed Malala’s brain‚ but the impact caused splinters of bone to lodge in her brain‚ causing shock. -A neurosurgeon named Colonel Junaid makes the decision to immediately conduct surgeries‚ rather than moving Malala to another hospital. This decision ultimately saves her life. -The Taliban immediately take responsibility
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These acts of violence and state of destruction lead to a very rapid mobilization of society‚ political structures‚ economic processes‚ and social classes. While in control the Taliban created a transit treaty between Pakistan and Afghanistan. This treaty established an illegal smuggling network. This illegal network created an artificial system that could never establish a stable national economy “the poor economic condition of
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