Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi is a thoughtful examination of the Iranian government’s corrupt regime against its own people. During the late 1970s‚ Iran experienced cultural upheaval as the citizens fought to remove the amoral Shah from power (Tedla and Dolan). Since the Shah’s removal‚ Iran has been subject to violence‚ terrorism‚ and extreme ideology. The context with which Persepolis was written helps give readers perspective and insight as to the reasoning that motivates
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Summer has ended in Bangladesh‚ but terrorism continues to heat up the country. On October 24‚ a Shia shrine in Dhaka was bombed on the day of Ashura‚ leaving one dead and over a hundred injured. A few weeks earlier‚ Kunio Hoshi‚ an elderly Japanese citizen‚ was gunned down in Rangpur district. His murder came a few days after Cesare Tavella’s‚ an Italian aid worker sprayed with bullets in Dhaka’s diplomatic neighborhood. Police sources reported that five homemade bombs were used to target the
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To What Extent were Muslims Affected by 9/11? On September 11‚ 2001‚ nineteen hijackers took control of four passenger jets departing from U.S. airports. Two of those planes collided with the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York‚ the third plane hit the Pentagon‚ and the remaining plane was redirected and crashed in an empty field. Altogether‚ nearly 3‚000 people died‚ and the blame was immediately placed upon the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda. (http://timeline.national911memorial
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Small Class Teaching or Class Reduction As Hong Kong’s population shrinks‚ school enrolment also drops. There is now a heated debate over the government’s implementation of small-class teaching or class reduction in schools. Schools believe that small-class teaching is the best solution because by reducing the teacher-student ratio‚ there can be more interaction between teachers and students. However‚ the government maintains that this applies only to primary levels. For secondary schools‚
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eroded by liberal thinking. The fundamentals included the following beliefs; the divinity of Jesus; meaning he was fully God‚ that God’s ultimate judgement and the existence of heaven and hell and the physical resurrection of Jesus‚ among others. Fundamentalists believed in the doctrine of plenary verbal inspiration‚ this is the understanding that‚ the Bible is the actual word of God to the extent that it was dictated by God‚ word for word‚ to the people who wrote it down. To the fundamentals‚ the Bible
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When I was only 4 years old‚ my mom died from leukemia. At that time‚ my dad still lived with us. He raised me until I was 6 years old‚ then got re-married and decided he didn’t want to take care of me anymore. His wife never liked me‚ which might be the reason why he left me after he got re-married. He sent me to an orphanage and I’ve never seen him again. I’m fine‚ I don’t need him. What I need is a new family. A family who will love me and never leave me. But I’ve been here for 5 years now‚ how
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Anthony Brandt‚ an expert editor‚ once said‚ “Other things may change us‚ but we start and end with the family.” Although all people are separate from each other in multiple ways‚ one thing is true: family shapes who you are and will become. Because of this‚ one can never truly “run away” from family‚ as they remain a part of whom one has become. The two passages The Rich Brother by Tobias Wolff and Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin tell a story of two different brothers who have grown to be seemingly
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thought I was so cool because my shoes looked really cute. But in reality most of the girls had those shoes. I looked at the tag and saw boys. I wasn’t a boy and I was so confused on why my shoe tag said boys so I asked my coach. Her name was Coach Erica. She explained to me about how it was okay for me to wear boys basketball shoes. After she gave me that talk my whole mood changed. I started to like basketball. We learned what basketball was and worked on dribbling. A few weeks later we had
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understanding of Islamic history‚ has identified a new enemy‚ "a new demon that has replaced the Red menace of the Cold war‚ i.e.‚ radical Islam" (Agha 6). This "radical Islam"‚ a stereotype common to Western thought‚ portrays Muslims as fundamentalists or potential terrorists. Some of these ideas that the Western people have about Islam are due to the mass media of the West. Reporters who cover the Muslim world often know very little details about it. The media then develops a distorted
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Introduction On December 12 1999 the Maltese oil tanker Erica sunk in the Bay of Biscay outside the French coast of Brittany. The vessel had broken in two spilling an amount close to 19800 tones of heavy fuel oil. Additionally 6400 tones remained in the bow section of the sunken vessel and approximately 4800 tones in the stern section. Even though all crew members were rescued‚ this event would inevitably turn out to a huge disaster. Most of all because of the environmental consequences of the
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