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    Developments in Delhi and Agra disturbed the Mughals at Kalanaur. Many Mughal Generals advised Akbar to retreat to Kabul as Mughal forces may not face Hemu’s might and new awareness among Hindus to liberate their country‚ but Bairam Khan decided in favor of war. Akbar’s army marched towards Delhi. On November 5‚ both armies met at the historic battlefield of Panipat‚ where‚ thirty years earlier‚ Akbar’s grandfather Babur had defeated Ibrahim Lodi in what is now known as the First Battle of Panipat

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    fossilized; there is nothing much to it but death and decay. This isn’t a place any one would like to be. It makes me as a reader feel depressed and somber. On this land the soil is dead. As we reach the foot of the mountain we have reached the city of Kabul or as the writer describes ‘’what’s left of it: a city in

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    at the later stage‚ some of its western and eastern tributaries make it more huge and vast in volume and speed. Its eastern tributaries are Sutlaj‚ Bias‚ Ravi‚ Chenab‚ and Jhelum‚ while its western tributaries include rivers Swat‚ Kunar‚ Panjkora‚ Kabul‚ Kurram‚ Tochi‚ Gomal‚ Bolan‚ etc      All the plain areas of our country have existed by the Sediment brought by River Indus and its tributaries. The whole of the Indus Plain can be sub-divided into three parts for detailed study: * The Upper

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    Laila’s mother became depressed and spend all the time in her bed. Fariba didn’t pay much attention to Laila‚ and all she would talk about was how her sons would be good‚ educated people if they didn’t leave. Later in a story the war came even to Kabul‚ city they lived in‚ and after Laila’s good friend‚ Tariq‚ left their country‚ Laila and her parents decided to leave too. Unfortunately as they

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    The Kite Runner Chapter Review of Narrative Aspects Chapter 1; It is December 2001‚ and our narrator‚ recalls an event that occurred in 1975‚ when he was twelve years old and growing up in Afghanistan. He doesn’t say what happened‚ but says it made him who he is. He follows this recollection by telling us about a call he received last summer from a friend in Pakistan‚ Rahim Khan. Rahim Khan asks Amir‚ to come to Pakistan to see him. When Amir gets off the phone‚ he takes a walk through San Francisco

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    person’s emotion. This is easy to understand in the novels Angela’s Ashes and The Kite Runner. In these two stories a person will encounter with the feelings of abandonment and death. In the kite runner Amir was depressed that he and baba had to leave Kabul. He was wondering if he was going to forget his homeland along the line. He mentioned‚ “I only knew the memory lived in me a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past a brush stroke of color on the gray‚ barren canvas that our life had become ”

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    student‚ and soon to be registered nurse was when I was administering medication last week on a respiratory floor. I had given my patient the medication‚ and realized there was no water at the bedside. I quickly went to get my patient water for her to swallow the capsules more easily from the bathroom. When I arrived back‚ she stated that she had already taken them. I had informed my preceptor and she advised me to look on her bed or the floor to see if she had discarded them there. We had looked around

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    Tension is created by the many questions left unanswered in this chapter such as the event that happened in 1975 and why it is so influencial. Additionally the audience is left to wonder who the narrator and rest of the characters mentioned are‚ why Kabul and San Francisco are important and what kite-running is. This is an engaging start to the story as it raises questions yet answers none. In addition to this the phrases ’for you‚ a thousand times over’ and ’there is a way to be good again’ are written

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    matter how hard‚ how long it takes time will come that your dreams will come true. The 6&7 Chapter of the Kite Runner is all about Amir which is the main character of the story‚ who wants to win the kite-fighting tournament in their district in Kabul that yearly held every winter to make his father proud which is Baba‚ with the help of his best friend Hassan which is a very loyal friend to Amir

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    described‚ creating a shocking effect to the reader which again lures the reader to read on and find out more‚ the use of decriptive words that are used in such small sentences create a dramatic effect. "...bare of breath of raging battles‚ rises kabul‚ or rather whats left of it" this shows a completely different side to Afghanistan to what we was hereing before. Grabbing the readers attention with detailed description of the way the surroundings look‚ "Nothing will ever be the same again" this

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