just like everyone else. “We remember the kindness more than ever‚ knowing that our relatives who immigrated to this country after the Iranian Revolution did not encounter the same America.” (Dumas‚92) This quote has so much meaning. Dumas and her family moved back to their real home from The United States‚ during the Iranian Revolution. After the Iranian Revolution‚ They moved back to the United States
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be only a graphic novel of black and white comic strips with little literary value but it is much more. A graphic novel written from the perspective of a young girl in Iran‚ Persepolis offers a large amount of valuable information on the Islamic Revolution. The Ithacan Newspaper claims that Persepolis is only a little more then an advanced comic book‚ but it offers way more then a comic book. Persepolis gives students an insight to the turmoil in Iran during the nineteen hundreds. College students
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There are many different themes and topics discussed in the book‚ Persepolis. Throughout the story‚ the main character‚ Marjane‚ gets older and begins to accept and be aware of the impacts of religion and social classes as she begins to lose her innocence and realize the world isn’t as peaceful as she thought it was. This image represents Marjane’s religion; she is islamic. Although Marjane’s family is not very religious‚ Marjane believes she is a prophet. There are times in the story where she
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country from the point of view of a child/young person. Dear Kaveh: I hope you are doing well but the reason for my letter is to tell you everything that has been going on around here. There have been major changes. Something called the Islamic Revolution has taken place. Everything is different. Our school has been separated between boys and girls‚ we can no longer be mixed up in classes. But the worst part is that the U.S. Embassy was closed today and I won´t be able to come and see you to the
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Rebellion Annotated Bibliography “Middle East | Iran Student Protests: Five Years On.” BBC News‚ BBC‚ 9 July 2004‚ news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle east/3879535.stm. The author of the source is an organization which is BBC News is an online website for a news station. The information does relate to my topic because it talks about the effects on what happen after the protests was over. The information is polished and professional because they have interviews with witness of the protests and the paragraphs
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Dan Hogarth Aaron Vigar ENG 3U May 30th‚ 2014 Perseption The author Marjane Satrapi adds many different graphic elements such as colour and design to provide more depth and provide the reader with an image that otherwise they may not be able to perceive or get from her perspective. On multiple occasions‚ she takes what she is told about and illustrates it in a child’s perspective. Frequently throughout the novel the author demonstrates certain illustrations in a way that may not be the
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The Iranian revolution that toppled the monarchical shah system is the worst a revolution in the past century. The revolution created a hostile regime to the countries in the region‚ it lacks of dialogue language and good neighborliness. The Pahlavi dynasty was ruling Iran in the modern era‚ the last kings is Mohammad Reza (Shah)‚ who took the throne after the dismissal of his father by the British and Soviet forces‚ it has been known for Mohammad Reza tendency to the Western Camp on the Eastern
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buy her Americanized clothing and wore them in defiance of the ban. She poked fun at the propaganda attempts in school mocking martyrdom and outrageously leading her friends in using toilet paper to decorate the classroom on the anniversary of the revolution. She argued with anyone who tried to restrain her and even hit the principal of her school‚ getting herself expelled. Marji declared herself “grown-up‚” a testament to the complications involved in coming of
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A Childhood by Marjane Satrapi. Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood is a story of a young girl’s life in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. After many organized and fatal protests The Shah is finally overthrown and a new Islamic Regime takes control and just like that the peoples’ lives were turned upside down. Unfortunately‚ everyone who supported the revolution was now a sworn enemy of the Regime. The people now came to realize the Islamic Regime is a new form of totalitarianism and is no better
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The Abbasid Dynasty had taken over the Umayyad Dynasty the effect of this influence the fundamental revolution in Muslim history. The Abbasid’s did change the way that the Umayyad was run and it had taken it over with the help of the people who were fed up with the way that the caliphate was of hereditary and not chosen or a member of Muhammad. “The way that the Umayyad had favored the Syrian Arabs so the Malawi they joined the Abbasids in bringing them down” (Saylor). The Abbasid were heavily influenced
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