In my opinion Ranya only represents one in a thousand Muslims with such a liberal and open-minded opinion and viewpoint of Islam. In fact, I desperately wish that people would not use Islam to suppress women and use it as an excuse for horrible actions such as the 9/11 attacks. However, my experience and knowledge of Islam is not a positive one and therefore, I seceded from it at the early age of sixteen. In almost all Muslim families that I know women are being suppressed and treated unfairly by men. Women are considered second class citizens and have to serve their husbands and male children.
The assault on the status of women began immediately after the Taliban took power in Kabul. The Taliban closed the women’s university and forced nearly all women to quit their jobs. It restricted access to medical care for women, brutally enforced a restrictive dress code, and limited the ability of women to move about the city. The Taliban committed horrible acts of violence against women, including rape, abduction, and forced marriage. Some families resorted to sending their daughters to Pakistan or Iran to protect them.
This is proof of repression and oppression in the Iranian culture. The veil has a strong connection not only with Marjane’s life but every woman in Iran.Marjane went the first couple of years in her life not wearing a veil to be forced to wear one during the war. The veil expresses a negative change calling for action. The veil is a symbol brought throughout the whole novel, meaning it’s extremely important, because they didn’t want new cultures brought in by western people. It reveals how freedom was not a priority and that their main priority was to be loyal to Iran, its culture, and its people.
Diana Scutt English 090- College Writing Skills Dr. Schillig 29 November 2011 Argument Essay Mean Girls Bullying is an epidemic that our schools face; everyone has been bullied in some type of form at one point in their lives. Personally I feel as if females get it the worst. Females are bullied with words; while boys are bullied with fists. The media portrays these models as thin, beautiful girls; this ultimately makes other girls who aren’t as thin feel as if they aren’t pretty. They’re cases where females are bullied to the point where they resort to drugs and alcohol to make the pain go away, drop out of school because they can’t face their tormentors, causing some type of physical harm to their bodies, and or even resort to taking their own lives.
The Other Side of the Rainbow Sophie Johnson is the neighborhood’s head mom and chief bitch. My entire middle school staff is in the habit of disappearing whenever she has an appointment and I even had a secretary once who called in sick on the days of Sophie’s scheduled visits. When I fired her she unrepentantly informed me that her job description didn’t include sucking up to a know-it-all, ex-Homecoming Queen with a Napoleon complex. Since I couldn’t argue with her logic, I wrote her a glowing recommendation but had to let her go just the same. Sophie has a furious tick in her left eye when she gets angry that slows down or speeds up to match the level of her outrage – it’s a dead giveaway.
Women were being laid off before men, so they went back to their old roles of being the “stay at home” wife. No one had money, so people stopped having fun and stopped buying things. The 1930s, was in a complete Depression and would only be lifted of this burden when the United States joined the fight in WWII. The 1920s, and the 1930s were so close in date, however, they couldn’t be any more
Pedagogy Project 2012 For this Pedagogy Project I watched a documentary called “Beneath the Veil” about Saira Shah who went to Afghanistan to discover her story and see whether women’s lives have improved since the fall of the Taliban. This Documentary correlates to issues of women and work all around the world because in no matter what part of the world you may be in you can see that women are perceived in a specific way, which most of the time is powerless. “Beneath the Veil” shows more emphasis on how women are truly believed to be nobody’s. Women have little to no power, they are not allowed to wear makeup, they have to be covered at all times unless in the privacy of their own home. This isn’t the case in all parts of the world where women are as powerless as they are shown in this documentary but the point is that compared to the men, women have more struggles in life then men ever will.
Feminist writes Betty Friedan “No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.” “...women who 'adjust' as housewives, who grow up wanting to be 'just a housewife,' are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps...they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.” “When one begins to think about it, America depends rather heavily on women's passive dependence, their femininity. Femininity, if one still wants to call it that, makes American women a target and a victim of the sexual sell.” “Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” Naomi Woolf “Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to
In 1996 the University of Kabul reportedly had several thousand women students while thousands of professional women worked in different capacities in the city. When the Taliban toke over, women were not allowed to attend school and others have been forced to leave their jobs. The Taliban had issued edicts forbidding women from working outside the home, except in limited circumstances in the medical field. Hardest hit were the 30,000 widows in Kabul and others elsewhere in the country, who are the sole providers of their family. Women and girls were not allowed to appear outside the home unless wearing a head to toe garment called the burqa.
The Taliban was also the cause for why women weren’t allowed to be educated thus leading to the Malala Yousafzai incident. Malala Yousafzai was a young schoolgirl who protested for female education, she wrote a blog explaining her life under the Taliban and wrote about her beliefs in having female education. Malala was negatively influence by religious fundamentalism when she was shot in the head on her school bus by the Taliban. Luckily enough she survived but