People around the world responded to global events, innovations, and issues differently depending on the particular issue in the 20th century. The 20th Century is the time between january 1st 1901 through December 31st 2000. As stated in the syllabus, artists, writers, philosophers, and regular people all over the world responded to the events of the 20th century, based on their values and expectations. We see this through visual arts, our literatures, our philosophy, laws, and social expectations. All around the world people faced different events and issues. By varying cultures, beliefs and values, is what bases how people respond to these events. Through the study of how people experience and document themselves in the 20th century, we …show more content…
When talking about this book in class it was mentioned that since it was comic it was not taken seriously as a piece of literature. Not only that, but she is a female, which I believe made things way more difficult to be able to publish. This book is written in the perspective of the young girl, and her experiences during the Iran revolution. Throughout the book, as the governmental power is becoming more strict , they are taking away more freedom from the people. In hopes to not be western, the people of that country are rebelling. For example they respond by rebelling as well as demonstrating alongside their neighbors and fellow citizens. Although that causes some to be arrested, sent to jail , prison, and sometimes they are shot to death. The narrator Marjane, herself, even rebels in her own ways. She responds by rebelling, not wearing a veil, wearing a jean jacket with pins, what is considered “western”, as well as towards the end of the book she rebels by wearing a bracelet who used to be her best friends, who died in a bombing in her neighborhood. Overall, this book was a documentation of how these people experienced their lives in the 20th …show more content…
Throughout this paragraph I will be referring back to the video we were required to watch in class Beyond Borders: Arab Feminists Talk about Their Lives. This documentary in itself is the experiences of the people of that country, their lives, and feelings. In the documentary it is stated “For many Middle Eastern and North African Arab women in the nationalist movements, it was a time of optimism. Today, in Algeria in a brutal war between the government and Muslim fundamentalists, women are being killed for not wearing the veil and for taking part in public life. As well as basic fundamentalist rights were being taken away.” These women responded to the brutality they faced by contributing to make this documentary to share and spread awareness. To hopefully reach someone or anyone to make a difference where they are today, to avoid these kind of mistakes in the future. So there will not be fear of “history always repeating itself” and they will live in peace and
Taking a gender woman study class gave me the opportunity to discover how woman do not only fight for their rights but for everyones right as well. In Mary Pardo’s Mexican American Women and Grassroots Community Activists: Mothers of East Los Angeles, I was able to learn how woman fight for their communities rights and try their hardest to protect everyone and not just themselves. Michelle Jacob’s article Claiming Health and Culture as a Human Rights: Yakama Feminism in Daily Practice also shows how woman become agents of change to bring change into the community. As I kept reading various articles, I also discovered Lila Abu-Lughod. “The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power Through Bedouin Women.” which focused on working towards woman rights. The last article I will talk
If the author wanted to learn more about Muslim women, she should have sought them out and spent time with them — those who wear hijabs as well as those who don’t. Then, instead of speaking on behalf of Muslim women’s “unheard voice” by talking about her own hijab experiment (“My hijab silenced, but simultaneously, my hijab brought unforgettable words”), she should have asked them to share their own experiences as Muslim women. Then they would have a voice.
Sheriff Raids House to Find Online Critic. This is about investigators seizing computers and cellphones from Wayne Anderson’s house. They say he is a blogger who is defaming insurance agent Tony Alford in several blog posts. Anderson’s attorney, "I don't want to have to worry about getting falsely arrested or having a bogus search warrant executed on me or anyone else, just because we exercised our constitutional rights,"That's not the society we're supposed to be living in."
The culture change in the 1920s are the census revealed that for the first time more Americans lived in cities than in rural areas. The popularity of the consumer culture also assaulted traditional virtues such as frugality, prudence, and religiosity. It was a time of new ideas, freedom, great social change, and overall just one big party. This current lives are important because the women playing a big part in their life to help in WWI witht the right to vote. Many women's style then changed into what was the modern woman of that time.
Unlike the classic memoir of Anne Frank, Marjane Satrapi portrays her childhood through an ironic black and white graphic novel. The struggles of her early life were in result of the Islamic Revolution. Satrapi’s goal of the novel was to enlighten the audience that not all the people of Iran were terrorist and fundamentalist. Not only did she excel in these aspects she highlighted the concept of social class. During the Islamic Revolution, one of the major objectives was to completely eliminate the divisions of social hierarchy.
Iran. This novel is a graphic novel so you get to see what her reactions were to different things, which really helped create a sense of her personality. In this book there are many themes that are expressed throughout the whole storyline. Throughout the whole book she becomes older and older and watch how her life developed. One main theme that is clearly prevailed is memory and development. Marji's whole book is about her memories as a young girl and how she matures into the person she is today, so right away that theme can be pulled from the text. Another theme that is presented is equality. In the country of Iran, many people are treated different. As a women in Iran, you don’t have a lot of freedom or rights compared to men. As you read the novel it is shown on how women get treated compared to men. Comparing this graphic novel to the novel called “I am Malala”, many similarities are presented in their themes.
When you’re watching the College Football Playoffs or March Madness, are you wondering if the players on the television should be considered slaves? It sounds like a ridiculous question, but there are some people out there who would say that is exactly what they are. In the past few years, the debate about whether or not student-athletes should be paid for the sports they play in college has grown insurmountable. This is an issue that sheds light on the fairness of college athletics and is important for not only student-athletes, but anyone who enjoys watching. I, personally, believe student-athletes should not be paid because they are already awarded generous compensation, there are far too many of them with no way to determine who should get paid what, and it would take away from the value of university academics.
Many artists uses experiences from their own lives to create their arts. This form of art which is called therapeutic or catharsis allows the artist to investigate their pain and create a path to healing their wounds. This practice was both used by artists Vincent van Gogh and Louise Bourgeois. Van Gogh who uses his artwork to (which are often seen in a colorful scene) expresses his emotional pain. During his lifetime, Van Gogh went through many love affairs and bouts of depression which he often cope with through his artwork. In comparison, Louise Bourgeois known as the founder of confessional art use the trauma of her early life experience to create abstract sculpture. This sculptures draws viewer to her parental issues and psychological
Another historical event that we see is the rise and effects of the Islamic regime in Marjane’s life. This event is arguably the central issue that affects Marjane during her upbringing in Iran. Marjane shows how the regime begins to control schools, and how this affects her life by separating her from her friends (4, 3-4). We also see how the regime decides to close universities as they “educate future imperialists.” (73, 1-3) This demonstrates the negative effects that the regime has on society, as they prioritize Islamic values over education. The Islamic leaders portrayal shows them as upset and bored, and are given much different facial expressions than those that Marjane sees as intellectual (such as Uncle Anoosh (54/3) or Marjane’s grandfather (23/8)). This imagery communicates the backwards-thinking of these leaders, and as such, also effectively communicate Marjane’s opinion of the leaders without needing to discuss it with text. Additionally, we see both of Marjane’s views: Marjane not understanding the veiling and separation (3/5) as well as Marjane’s depression over the closing of the universities (73/7). The text here illustrates her opinions on the situations that she experiences, and the imagery allows us to see a visual representation of her basic thoughts and emotions, which are well communicated. A final example of the regime’s changes is the difference between the fundamentalist and modern women
In the TED Talk “See Yemen Through My Eyes” a young women Nadia speaks about how outsiders look at Yemen as a country of war and dying, but in reality for her it is not. There are many good things happening to Yemen now. The women are starting to uncover themselves from the veil both hypothetical and literally. There are many groups of men who are also starting to help with the process as well. The women in Yemen are often thought of as not free to show who they are and must stay behind closed doors. This process is showing Yemen that the women can start to learn about first aid and being able to drive their own cars and get their own jobs. This is not the only thing though. Nadia says during her talk that a reporter had come to interview the people in Yemen about their uproars and the violence that is going on today. After the reporter was done with all of his research and interviews and videos he had come up with a whole new side to Yemen that most people do not see. The report was about the young Yemeni men and how they love
The fourth century saw a rapid cultural shift in Western Europe following an age of mathematical and philosophical thought to the spread of Christianity through the Roman Empire and the demise of Paganism and institutions of Greek learning. This quick shift of power might be symbolized by the murder of Hypatia, a mathematician and leader of the neo-Platonic school of philosophy who represented an era that was rapidly ending in Rome. While classic Greek learning was preserved by Byzantine copyists in the East, a new way of thinking about the world had taken
Abu Lugod argued that in order to move past this separation, we must: “First, we need to work against the reductive interpretation of veiling as the quintessential sign of women's unfreedom. Second, we must take care not to reduce the diverse situations and attitudes of millions of Muslim women to a single item of clothing.” (2002:786). As a result, creating a better understanding and better terminology of the “east” will allow feminists in these different social locations to communicate and to create a better strategy to move beyond the basic and into the complicated nature of feminism around the world.
When she sends Marjane away from Iran, she assures her: “I know how I brought you up. Above all, I trust your education” (147). Marjane’s mother doesn’t want her daughter to live in such an oppressive time. When the veils become mandatory, Marjane’s mother wishes to take her to an opposition demonstration: “She should start learning to defend her rights as a woman right now!” (76) In growing up with such strong female role models, Marjane learns to express her opinion and always stand by her beliefs. They taught her to stand up for herself as a woman, and in doing so, introduced her to a feminist perspective on life.
This week’s paper we were to research and identify three prevailing philosophical perspectives at work during the 20th Century. To begin I will research the history of a few new tendencies in contemporary philosophy. Then I will discuss the Tom Rockmore interpretation of such tendencies. Tom Rockmore is Professor of Philosophy and a McAnulty College Distinguished Professor, Dr. Rockmore's current research interests encompass all of modern philosophy, with special emphasis on selected problems as well as figures in German idealism (Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Marx) and recent continental philosophy (Heidegger, Habermas, Lukacs). He is continuing to explore the epistemology of German idealism as well as the relation between philosophy and
Identify and understand how the lives of minorities changed during the turn of the century