Identify: a) Urdu: Urdu was a new language that was a mix of Hindu, Arabic, and Persian. This language evolved from the cultural blending that was occurring during that time period. b) Sikhism: Sikhism is a religion that is based off of Muslim monotheism as well as Hindu beliefs. Nank, the Indian holy man who created this religion, preached about the unity of God and brotherhood. The text states that Sikhs later clashed with rulers of India by forming military forces. c) Babur:…
(AGG) Change, change is a part of everyone's life like it or not. It will happen. Sometimes for better or for worse, but it's one part of life that will affect you for the rest of time. (BS-1 )Najmah has to become the leader of her family as a result of Najmah's father and brother being taken by the taliban. She and her family's lives are changed and Najmah has to step up and help where her mother can't to keep her family alive. (BS-2)The death of her mother and baby brother leave Najmah in…
The government is on her side because they realized that she was truly brave and worthy of their help. Some evidence to support this idea is “I even met president Barack Obama and his family... I told him that I did not like his drone strikes on Pakistan, and when they killed one bad person, innocent people are killed too, and terrorism spread more.” TE (190). Malala believed strongly in her cause, and people including her government and the US president help her, and in the US’s case, give her…
that make her readers appeal to what she is showing them, the truth. She incorporates emotionally-charged words that create a sympathetic image to the audience. Yousafzai wants her audience to feel sympathetic about how miserable everything was in Pakistan. Malala initially describes the moment her mother saw her for the first time after she had been shot, “My mother was in a state of shock and could not understand..’My brave daughter my beautiful daughter’, she cried” (Yousafzai, pg. 153). By…
Finding the True Meaning of Choices(leaving or staying) Every day one makes choices. The choice to get out of bed, to go to school, to dance, to sing, to laugh, to cry, to hurt, or to forgive. In The Other Side of the Sky, Farah leaves Afghanistan and travels a heartbreaking journey through sweat, tears, laughter, cruelty and love, to come to America and start a better life. But, through her journey other’s choices affect her in many ways. These choices make the road longer and the…
As Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist for females, once said, “I raise up my voice - not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.” Malala is speaking for young females, giving them a voice that they may not have. She is showing how being a female should be empowering, and women should not be held back. In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros speaks of a similar idea. As Malala says, Cisneros also shows how being a…
the right to go to school. She even started a fund in 2013, to help girls have the right to go to school. Malala’s Life On July 12, 1997, Malala was born. Although a baby girl wouldn’t be celebrated in Pakistan, her father still gave her all of the opportunities that a boy would have. Ziauddin promised her that she would be able to go to school and be treated equally in his home. Malala absolutely loved learning and would make sure women were…
An Unsuccessful Pakistani When you are watching a play, watching a movie, or reading a book, have you ever give each character an original archetype based on their personal several traits? I bet you have! In the interest of self-entertaining, I have done that many times before. After reading “White Teeth”, I came up with several archetypes. Among all the characters in the book, I have chosen Samad, the unsuccessful Pakistani. In “White Teeth”, Samad Miah Iqbal is an unsuccessful Pakistani,…
Over the many of years Afghanistan women have rights and regulations they have to follow. The taliban have made many laws for women of Afghanistan and also have enforced women not to be able to have an education. In some cases women have been used as targets and just been killed for doing simple things. In the book the Kite Runner the major theme of the book is the rights of women in Afghnistan affected by lack of education, isalmic law and religion. The Taliban have taken over Afghanistan and…
Malala Yousafzai won the nobel prize for children's rights on december 10th 2014 ,and was the youngest to do so. She convinced people to help with children education for the children that aren’t in school. Malala wanted you to think about all those children that are deprived of education, and we need to convince the supreme leaders to help those 66 million girls plus all the boys that might be deprived of education.In the speech Malala states that “I am not a lone voice,I am many”.She also…