FOR UNIT TEST – CHAPTERS 10-25 Assignment 4 Chapters 10-11 1. What is Karim’s job? He is a people smuggler. He gets people out of Afghanistan. 2. To what country do Amir and his father first seek for safety from Afghanistan? They head to Pakistan for safety. 3. What country has a presence in Afghanistan as Amir and his father leave? Russian soldiers are in Afghanistan during this time. 4. At the first checkpoint Amir’s father stands up and confronts the Russian soldiers‚ putting himself in danger
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In the world of Afghanistan‚ “ Women are made for homes or graves.”‚ some would say. Women are treated with unjustness and undergo hardship til this day. Statistics says that living as typical women in the course of Afghanistan is the most grueling place to be within. Living in the country includes being uneducated and illiterate‚ women’s lives are between life and death and escaping disciplinary. Besides that‚ showing the true identity of those behind hijabs‚ burkas‚ and niqabs doesn’t seem like
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Physical geography has a major influence to the story. The themes of geography that mainly pertain to the story are Place‚ Human/ Environmental Interactions‚ and Movement. Place can have physical and human characteristics. The physical geography of Afghanistan changed after the wars and the Taliban attacks. For example‚ before in the “old days the wind swept through the irrigated plains around Jalalabad where farmers grew sugar cane and the sweetness impregnated the air.” Now there were narrow road and
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was set up by Iran‚ Pakistan‚ and Turkey in 1985. Its purpose was to provide and promote economic‚ cultural‚ and technical cooperation throughout Member States. During 1992‚ the organization had been expanded to also include Islamic Republic of Afghanistan‚ Republic of Azerbaijan‚ Republic of Kazakhstan‚ Kyrgyz Republic‚ Republic of Tajikistan‚ Turkmenistan and Republic of Uzbekistan. The organization is funded by member donations and has been involved in several priority projects including trade
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Craig P. Beatty Tuesday‚ March 16‚ 2010 Holy War Inc. Book Review If you don ’t know the difference between al-Qaeda and the Taliban (and before September 11 ‛01‚ I sure did not) or if you ’re a little fuzzy about where Yemen is in relation to Afghanistan‚ this is an excellent book. Peter Bergen is CNN ’s terrorism analyst and an experienced reporter. He uses a wide range of sources including his own experience to describe the al-Qaeda terrorist organization. There ’s even a map of the Middle
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Pul-e-Charkhi Prison‚ Kabul‚ Afghanistan Afghanistan a landlocked mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest. The Pul-e-Charkhi Prison also known as Pul-i-Charkhi or Afghan National Detention Facility‚ is the largest prison in Afghanistan to the east of Kabul. 1970s was followed by a series of civil wars that devastated much of Afghanistan which began when the country became a socialist state under the influence of the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War. Construction of the
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The protagonist in the novel The Kite Runner goes by the name Amir‚ in addition to being the protagonist he’s also the main character in the book. The novel follows Amir and his experiences through his childhood in Afghanistan and into a good amount of his adult life as a refugee in the United States. The novel starts off in December 2001 when the unknown narrator who we come to find out is Amir‚ gets a phone call from an old family friend from Pakistan‚ after the phone call he finds himself reminiscing
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drug control problem and how they are not very well equipped to deal with this issue. This video addresses policy issues. These countries do not have the means to control their drug problem. One major factor is heroin coming from Afghanistan. Countries surrounding Afghanistan have a very high rate of heroin abuse. These abusers could be a productive part of society‚ but instead are doing drugs. The video talks about an agency that works in these countries to try to control the drug problem. They have
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Summary In Afghanistan‚ conflict is inevitable and expected and has always been like this. Afghanistan has historically been split by wars‚ being colonised and invaded and as a result the people of the country have learnt to become stronger by dealing with this constant conflict. Najaf Mazari writes about the hardships and conflict faced when he has to flee his country for his own safety to Australia and the trauma and stress he‚ and other people like himself‚ have to deal with once they arrive
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Taliban‚ who are hurting children‚ families‚ and communities by actively recruiting children on a daily basis (Child Soldiers International 2). In Afghanistan‚ the Taliban is increasing the number of child soldiers they use. Since the middle of 2015‚ there has been a dramatic increase in the number of child soldiers fighting for the Taliban (Afghanistan: Taliban Child Solider Recruitment Surges 1). Afghan child soldiers recently have been experiencing some of the
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