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How Do People Respond To The 20th Century

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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

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