Farkhunda Malikzada

“Women like us. We endure.” (Hosseini, 19). For the female protagonists Laila and Mariam in the novel A 1000 Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini and the two unnamed female protagonists of the movie Osama, oppression is something they face and endure everyday. Both stories take place in Afghanistan around the 1990’s and 2000’s. In A 1000 Splendid Suns, the two female protagonists, Laila and Mariam, are wives to Rasheed, an abusive Islamic shoe maker (220). In the movie Osama, there are three generations living in one small home: a grandmother, mother, and a daughter. They have lost all of their male relatives who have died from fighting various Afghan wars (Osama). Osama and A 1000 Splendid Suns both display how women are oppressed and how it

After earning his bachelor of science in animal physiology and neuroscience from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Ashkan Khabazian matriculated at the University of Michigan to pursue his doctor of pharmacy. He graduated from UCSD in 2003 and subsequently completed a general practice pharmacy residency at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, California. Over the course of his career, Ashkan Khabazian has held pharmacy appointments with multiple healthcare centers and medical organizations in the greater San Diego area. He has also instructed students at a number of teaching hospitals and institutions of higher learning.

Farah Ahmedi undertook the mission of crossing the Afghanistan border to get to Pakistan in search of a better life. LeBron James persevered though fans full of hatred after he left his home team and joined a new team. Finally, Aengus tackled the expedition of trying to find true love he wanted but never found it. However, two characters had tons of persistence and determination in order to push through a hard time and all of them had the perseverance to try to succeed in their goal.

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After the Brussels massacre that took place on March 22nd, a question of faith rose surrounding the sanctity of the Islamic faith. In an article meant to expose answers to this very question John Kasich brings up a point that when people claim France is at war with Islam, they actually should be referring to radical Islam. This point pulled further controversy as those who were not Islamic began to wonder if the faith condoned suicide bombings in the name of expelling infidels and bringing the coming of the Caliphate. Another case mentioned in the same article details the prosecution of the Blind Sheikh, whose terrorist group attempted to bring down the World Trade Center back in 1993. While the U.S. government had attempted to paint

Contrary to the article’s title, Netflix is not the cause of the cultural echo chamber. It is hardly even a symptom. Our proclivity for personalized selection on Netflix is moreso indicative of egocentrism and the simple fact that people have different interests. What Farhad Manjoo suggests in this article is that the digital age has isolated us in our thought processes, but that is not the case. We have chosen to isolate ourselves.

A mid-October surprise greeted print media with the announcement that Playboy magazine would no longer feature nude women. CEO Scott Flanders noted “"You 're now one click away from every sex act imaginable for free. And so it 's just passé at this juncture.” The magazine will continue to picture women in provocative poses; the running joke that men read Playboy “for the articles” will now carry more credence as the magazine attempts to compete with the likes of Vice. Playboy is struggling. Distribution is down from a high of 5.6 million to 800,000 copies today. Despite the decline of America’s foremost men’s magazine, the cultural impact of Playboy is extensive. Best known for nude pictorials, Playboy created an idealization of straight masculinity, through consumerism, that hoped to change American views on feminism, monogamy and romance. Let’s examine how.

In ‘How Netflix is Deepening our Cultural Echo Chambers’, Farhad Manjoo uses the remake of “One Day at a Time” to emphasize the imperative shift of an era focused on streaming that entails a narrow set of refined references. By first exhibiting a remade show on a platform such as Netflix, the re-examination of reality is displayed to be evolving the mainstream identity of millions. From broadcasting, cable then to streaming the secular depiction of being a “vast wasteland” emerges into the view of a “bubbling sea of creativity” that allows for collective groups of individuals to be recognized. Manjoo insinuates that through the shared references viewers attained through television, nothing thereafter will have the direct mass impact of a singular movement of culture that the medium television had at its peak. Although seemingly

After watching The Mask You Live In, I thought it was interesting to see how the notion of oppression of women across many cultures. So I grew up in an Asian family and that has impacted me greatly. In East Asia, the majority of the population view women as inferior to men. As a matter of fact, women are often viewed as objects simply to reproduce and help extend the family.

Since September 11, 2001 the Muslim religion has been assaulted verbally and physically. People of the religion had to fear from physical threats, their religious gathering places vandalized, and hate speech is readily heard. 16 years later, this behavior is still in existence but has gone further by demonizing their beliefs through the media. Hate groups such as ISIS and the Taliban support the demonize being made and causing the non-extremist to feel the wrath of intolerance. Social intolerance of this religion has caused conflict for women wearing Hijab. They are being subject to having to remove such item to participate in events of daily

Women from America have equal rights but sometimes are treated unfairly so one can only imagine the struggle of how Afghan women are treated when the come to America. Although women from Afghanistan who come to America may not be treated fairly or equally all of the time, they are still better off in America than Afghanistan, even before the Taliban seized power. In Afghanistan, married women are often seen as property and can be treated as property by their husbands as well; this also means that they have no voice or freedom to be themselves. While this unfortunately happens in America, sometimes Afghan women who come to America have more freedom and have the ability to be independent and make their own choices. The noticeable absence of women

The university group of students wanted to add to the volatile situation, by calling for a demonstration that would take place at the mosque. A local lawyer had come into place to file a statement to light Section 295 of the Criminal Code. The lawyer was of Bangladesh decent and also an Islamist sought to accuse four people within Footwear Shoe Company, all of which were non-Bangladesh born. The statement was filed on the same exact day as the article was written, was written to accuse them of deliberately wanting to outrage the religion of Muslims by engraving the calligraphy of “Allah”. This was said to offend the religious feelings of the millions of Muslims, and were supposed to do whatever it takes to protect the sanctity of “Allah.

Forough Farrokhzad was an Iranian poet who experienced ups and downs of life and grew up with her poems. She was born in 1935 in Tehran. She was really into Persian literature, so she began writing ghazals as she was a high school student. She got married after finishing High School and published her first verse, called The Captive in 1955. After that, Forough got divorced and a year later her second collection of poems, the wall, which was dedicated to her ex-husband was public. By the time she was 21, she traveled to Europe for the first time. There she saw the world from another point of view and found her true self. Her next collection of poems was published the following year in the name of Rebellion. Shortly, she met Ebrahim Golestan.

Sadly, many countries and/or communities still have that macho way of thinking, believing that a woman only has two jobs in life, serve her family and bear children. Unfortunately, in many cases, these women are being mistreated, beaten and/or shut down. We can see examples of these situations in some countries of the Middle East.

Although they have been given more rights and equality, women still lack fairness in areas such as education, domestic abuse, crime, and lower class value. Cassandra Clifford states in her article “Are Girls still marginalized? Discrimination and Gender Inequality in Today’s Society”, “Woman and girls are abused by their husbands and fathers, young girls are exploited by sex tourism and trafficking, girls in many countries are forced into arranged marriages at early ages. Twice as many women are illiterate as men, due to the large gap in education, and girls are still less likely to get jobs and excel in the work place than boys.” She describes some of the issues that women face today around the world. These issues are what keep society from coming together to form a better world.