Islamic fundamentalism‚ disastrous war between Iran and Iraq‚ nuclear weapons tests… However‚ they don’t know what it is like to grow up and live in Iran. Graphic novelist‚ Marjane Satrapi‚ in her autobiographical comic book Persepolis that was published in French‚ recounts her childhood life in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. Satrapi’s purpose is to show French people what it is like to live in Iran at that particular time in a comic form. She described her experience through little
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As opposed to the 20th century‚ men and women in today’s Western world are given equal opportunities and human rights and are recognized as equivalent contributors to the well-being of society. There is a kind of freedom in North America that many foreigners are not granted in their homeland‚ usually due to imprisoning boundaries forced upon them by their government. In her autobiographical comic Persepolis‚ Marjane Satrapi describes her experiences of growing up as a young woman in revolutionary
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Persepolis Project Persepolis is a graphic novel written by Marjane Satrapi. The book is written in a first person point of view‚ portraying Marjane’s interpretations of key aspects of her child hood and what she had to go through growing up in Iran. Unfortunately for Marjane she grew up in a very troublesome time‚ the Islamic revolution of 1979 and the continuous revolts that occurred after the revolution. And we see over the course of the book how this greatly affects her life and the decisions
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Charlene Ricker Alyssa Surges English 102 5 February 2012 Persepolis Notes Overall Persepolis was a very interesting read. I sat down and read it over the course of four to five hours and did not find myself begging for the book to be over. The plot was interesting‚ and the character almost reminded me of the main character from the book Dear God‚ it’s me Margaret‚ Are you There? This was comparable in multiple ways. Throughout the book the main character experiments with different genres‚
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Persepolis is a graphic autobiography by Marjane Satrapi that characterize her childhood up to her early adult years in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution. The title is a reference to the ancient capital of the Persian Empire‚ Persepolis. During the 1980s when this book is set‚ Iran was having the largest revolution in the country’s history. We are going to see Marg’s evolution threw out five major themes: religion‚ family‚ friends‚ society and authority. We are going to peruse the pros
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document suggests that women play a big role. Other minority groups also played a role in the war. The women help the soldiers in many different ways. French had also helped in the war. The document was showing that almost everyone was helping if they could‚ and that helped the country beat the British army. The document suggests that the women wanted to help the souldiers that were fighting for their country. The women that helped had contributed to the country that was going to become America
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Persepolis is a postmodern work because of the style in which Marjane Satrapi presents her memoir‚ in the form of a graphic novel. Rather that retell factual stories with certainty‚ she is able to convey her childhood by giving her own experiences that encapture what her emotions and recollection of what the events meant‚ through images and dialogue. Satrapi makes a cohesive and moving memoir through her alternate style of the novel. The style of it makes the retelling of the story much more abstract
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agree on what a democracy means. A democracy’s most salient and universally agreed upon component is a voting system. Athens was not truly democratic because they had slaves‚ no woman rights‚ and no equal rights. The first reason Athens wasn’t truly democratic is that they had slaves. Slaves were viewed as insignificant‚ vapid people‚ for this reason they did not get to vote. Since they were classified as slaves‚ they didn’t have the privilege to participate in anything‚ similar to women.
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history‚ women were expected to be conservative‚ ladylike‚ and conform to society. However‚ during the 1900’s‚ the role of women began to change. Women wore short their hair short in a hairstyle‚ known as a bob‚ and broke out of their traditional attire. The novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ demonstrates how women tried to break out of the social norms by becoming flappers‚ but ultimately were held back due to the stereotypes placed upon them by men. Although the role of women
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What was Hitler’s Role in the Holocaust? If one were to frame the Holocaust as beginning with the systematised‚ state-sanctioned persecution‚ alienation and subsequent dehumanisation of the Jewish population as initiated by Adolf Hitler’s accession to the post of Reichskanzler on the 30 January 1933 and culminating in the liberation of the last of the death camps‚ Belsen on the 12 April 1945‚ Hitler must be said to have played a crucial role in the regime’s development. He instigated the Holocaust
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