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    and 7B. Today I will be talking about how gender can change your identity in a male dominated country such as Afghanistan and how education‚ or the rather‚ the lack of it can affect your identity. Identity means how you think of yourself‚ who you are‚ your personality and what others think of you. It is also how you act based on your identity. In the text Parvana‚ which is set in Afghanistan‚ the women are discriminated against. The taliban think of them as weak‚useless and not worthy to be seen‚ as

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    I remember the annual summer vacation trips my family had to Afghanistan when I was a child. I could recall holding my mom’s hand while I walked around the bazaars wondering why so many women had thrown blue bed sheets on themselves in this humid weather. I asked my mom and she just laughed and told me it was a fashion statement. When I was older‚ I learned it was a burka and these women wore it in order to prevent the arousal of men. They oppressed themselves in fear of a distortion of Islam. I

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    Women’s rights in Afghanistan continue to follow an unpredictable path‚ which raises women’s hopes for a better life and more opportunities‚ and then bitterly extinguishes them. When the brutal Taliban fell‚ and their unfair rules and regulations came to a holt‚ a new beginning for women flourished through almost every crack and cranny of the country. “I remember the mounting enthusiasm for women’s rights...It was a bright and hopeful time. The issue of women’s rights was still fresh‚ not only in

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    Bacha Bazi or “boy play” is a common practice that promotes child prostitution and sexual slavery in the various parts of Afghanistan. Najibullah Quraishi‚ an Afghan journalist and the director of the documentary The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan‚ has captured and documented the events that occur behind the illegal practice of Bacha Bazi. As shown in his documentary‚ young boys are sold off to powerful‚ wealthy men and are trained to become skilled dancers. Additionally‚ they are often sexually abused

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    Political Constraints: Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan are hostage to the legacy of historical discord on the‚ “Durand Line ” drawn in 1896 by the then British Government and was inherited by Pakistan as a border between the two countries. This had not been accepted as permanent border by many factions in Afghanistan and the issue has been inherited by Pakistan. The relations between the countries had been marred by distrust over the geographical divide. Pakistan had been apprehending

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    Afghanistan is a country of approximately 23 million which‚ after three years of severe 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.

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    Should Canada Get out of Afghanistan? Afghanistan is a country in Central Asia and is often included as a part of the Middle East. It is bordered by Iran in the west‚ Pakistan in the south and east‚ Turkmenistan‚ Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north‚ and China in the easternmost part of the country. It is among the poorest countries in the world. I believe that Canada should remove itself and get out of Afghanistan. There is no need for us to be fighting along side the U.S anymore‚ diplomacy

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    Afghanistan is one of the poorest and most troubled countries in the world. The land that occupies Afghanistan has a long history of domination by foreign conquerors and strife among internally warring factions. At the gateway between Asia and Europe‚ this land was conquered by Darius I of Babylonia circa 500 B.C.‚ and Alexander the Great of Macedonia in 329 B.C.‚ among others. In recent years‚ war and lawlessness had destroyed much of the country; millions of people went into exile and brought

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    world opinion of the United States. Al Qaeda is a terrorist group that caused the September 11th attacks. They were loosely organized‚ radical Islamic groups led by Osama bin Laden. It had bases in Afghanistan and in about 60 other countries. They fought with the Mujahedeen‚ wanting to rid Afghanistan of Russian communist influences. Anwar Sadat was the Egyptian president after Nasser’s death in 1970. He took steps to open Egypt to foreign investment and private business. In foreign affairs‚ he

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    QUESTION 3: Afghanistan is a developing country in the Southeast Asia. As a post conflict society it is in the pathway of development. Its development process as a post conflict society can be understood more clearly by implementing the concepts of standpoint theory‚ intersectionality‚ hegemonic masculinity‚ and discourse analysis. Standpoint theory refers that the marginalized group can give a max total picture on a particular topic as they experience the domination more acutely than the privileged

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