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    born in 570 ad in the Arabian peninsula. Bedouin tribes were locked in constant tribal wars. He was from Makkah but he was sent to live with the Bedouins in the desert because they felt that the Bedouins were the holders of the deeper cultural Arab values. Both of Muhammad’s parents died by the age of 6‚ his uncle (chief of his clan) took care of him. He was orphaned in a tribal society‚ he felt as an outsider as in tribal societies family is what makes you‚ whether its social status or success. Thus

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    punishment without even participating; the male members of their family symbolically represent their cases. Women are commoditized into instruments of executing ‘justice’ for violation of both the formal law and of culturally-rooted notions of morality. In tribal communities‚ a woman exercising her right to determine the course of her love life is viewed as anathema. And so‚ as long as women hand over the reins of their womanhood and sexuality to a male guardian and a broader community‚ no one gets killed

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    Pashtuns. The language spoken in valley is Pashto. It is part of the Federally Administrated Tribal Areas‚ considered to be separate of the country’s four core provinces. Waziristan comprises the area west and southwest of Peshawar‚ Khyber Pakhtunkhwa between the Tochi River to the north and the Gomal River to the south. Bannu‚ Khyber Pakhtunkhwa lies immediately to the east. The region was an independent tribal territory until 1893 and became part of Pakistan in 1947. Waziristan is divided into two

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    face and spits in Nate’s face. Once Jayden calms down‚ Grace takes her into a safe room with an inflatable dog. Grace notices the scars on Jayden’s hand and shows Jayden her own ankle with multiple scars on it. Grace explains how she received those scars. She opens up about how her mother passed away and she was forced to live with her father. Jayden gave herself the scars on her wrist while she was waiting for her father who never showed up. Once Grace reveals her past‚ Jayden is able to calm down

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    Violet The play "Violet" takes place in the mid-1960’s and focuses on a young woman in search for a miracle‚ and who bears a horrendous scar on her face from an accident when she was a child. The musical opens with Violet boarding a Greyhound bus that is traveling to Tulsa‚ Oklahoma‚ where she hopes to be physically healed by a famous TV preacher. On her journey of self-discovery‚ she meets several people‚ including two soldiers‚ who soon become her friends. As the young adults traveling advances

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    Maggie has for herself due to the scars that were caused by the house fire. “Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners‚ homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs‚ eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe” (69). For Maggie her scars hold no prejudice‚ she is even ashamed of them to her own sister‚ one she hasn’t seen in quite some time. A sister that she has known her entire life but the scars prevent her from building a bond

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    characteristics and qualities between each other? There are many differences with these two‚ but these both coincide with each other. The Lion King‚ directs the camera to Simba‚ a spirited lion cub that is anxious to become king. But his green Uncle Scar is plotting to take his “rightful place‚” to rule‚ and to force Simba from the African kingdom. Lonesome and free‚ Simba soon unites the jaunt of a comical meerkat Timon and his affectionate warthog buddy Pumbaa. Accepting both of their lighthearted

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    other challenges like keeping his hopes up because he was always treated differently. People didn’t always know how to talk to someone who had scars on their face‚ and a missing hand‚ they would either be disrespectful or just avoid him in general. Which when you come from a place where the scars on your face mean you’re a man‚ but here they’re just scars‚ would be hard to keep trying to fit in. Kek and Ganwar both faced many challenges‚ Kek faced more of the learning challenges while Ganwar faced

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    in a "snake like clasp.” As soon as the plane lands on the island‚ a huge scar is formed on the island‚ which was used by Golding to show both the effects of nuclear war and how man impacted the Earth right from when it began. The parched ground the scar has left is unlikely to ever grow back‚ and Golding used this as a metaphor to show how the world would never recover and re-grow from nuclear war. Golding also used the scar on the island to show that humans will never let something beautiful remain

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    the symbols. Golding uses the scar on the island as a part of the setting to relate to high school. No matter if the boys abscond from the island‚ the mark will still exist similar to a student’s reputation in high school.  The scar in the novel is the scene where the plane crash emerges. This is the characteristics of the scar after the crash: “The undergrowth of the side of the scar was shaken and a multitude of raindrops fell pattering” (7). A scar literally means leaving a mark on something

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