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    woman is the accepted woman which leads to the woman who aren’t virgins anymore to consider embroidery. Satrapi vividly retells a secret about her grandmother’s friend‚ Nahid. Nahid’s parents chose a husband for her when she was barely 18. In the Iranian culture‚ this was how marriages were set in the past‚ they were arranged. The problem was that Nahid loved someone else. Nahid cries to Satripi’s grandmother saying her life is over because she has lost her virginity. Nahid said‚ I’m going to be married

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    I. INTRODUCTION The Manila hostage crisis‚ officially known as the Rizal Park hostage-taking incident‚ occurred when a dismissed Philippine National Police officer took over a tourist bus in Rizal Park‚ Manila‚ Philippines on August 23‚ 2010. Disgruntled former senior inspector Rolando Mendoza of the Manila Police District (MPD) hijacked a tourist bus carrying 25 people (20 tourists and a tour guide from Hong Kong‚ and four Filipinos) in an attempt to get his job back. He said that he had been

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    DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE Gilbert Ndahayo PhD French/Francophone Studies Northwestern University Evanston‚ Illinois‚ USA Gilbert Ndahayo PhD Candidate Department of French and Italian Northwestern University Phone: +1-917-275-4648 Email: gilbertndahayo2020@u.northwestern.edu www.imdb.com/name/nm3107554 http://www.frenchanditalian.northwestern.edu/people/graduate-students/gilbert- ndahayo.html The documentary film “Divorce Iranian Style”‚ implicitly indicts viewers into Iran during the period of Islamic

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    On the hunt for some ceramic art‚ one artist that really got my attention is Richard Notkin. His “Heart Teapot: Hostage Metamorphosis II” is my favorite. This piece took what I thought a teapot could be to a new level. I would really like to have this piece in my house‚ but I don’t think I would use it. To me this piece doesn’t look like it would work as a functional tea pot. This piece has many different elements like a heart‚ brain‚ and metal. The heart is the base of the shape‚ he uses

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    CRISIS AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT The study of crisis and crisis management is a very vibrant field within public relations. There is a strong imperative for understanding crises and crisis management. All organizations should realize they are vulnerable to crises so they must prepare for the eventuality. Once management realizes crises are possible‚ it must grapple with what a crisis is and what constitutes crisis management. A crisis can be defined as "an unpredictable‚ major threat that can have

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    The Iranian Revolution "The very concept of history asserts that human development is not predetermined – not by nature‚ nor by God‚ nor by the totality of history itself" (Buck-Morss‚ Susan). However‚ there is always a combination of a willful action of knowledgeable groups within constraints and possibilities supplied by pre-existing structures. This is to suggest that there is a myriad of possibilities for people to make choices within given limits. Thus‚ an exploration of the Islamic Revolution

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    Unit 5 Scenario Analysis CJ407: Crisis Negotiation Kaplan University March 27‚ 2014 The scene is set‚ the information at this time is incomplete. However‚ with the little information that has been received we can identify that this situation at the present time is a hostage situation. A hostage situation defined as “involves the taking of a person captive for instrumental or tangible reasons; the suspect needs the police or other authorities to meet specific

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    meaning given to the term ’crisis.’ It has to be put in some context. If by crisis one means that the prison system is teetering on the brink of collapse then the evidence available would suggest that there is no crisis at all. However the more likely interpretation is that there are actually very serious problems that either cannot or will not be alleviated. now when you look at evidence under this guise‚ one could strongly argue that our prison system is in a state of crisis. Presenting such an argument

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    Stability in the region with Iranian Nuclear Power The highly praised neo-realist thinker Kenneth Waltz is of the opinion that Iran should go nuclear (Waltz‚ 2012). He considers that a nuclear Iran will bring nuclear stability in the area of the Middle East. There have been past antagonism and unsympathetic liaison between Iran and the US and her supporter Israel. The anxiety has lately been intensify by Iran’s nuclear ambition (Wege‚ 2013). At the same time Matthew Kroenig and Colin Kahl are

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    In 1979‚ the American embassy in Iran was invaded by Iranian revolutionaries and several Americans were taken hostage. However‚ six managed to escape to the official residence of the Canadian Ambassador and the CIA was eventually ordered to get them out of the country. With few options‚ exfiltration expert Tony Mendez devised a daring plan: to create a phony Canadian film project looking to shoot in Iran and smuggle the Americans out as its production crew. With the help of some trusted Hollywood

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