Analysis: Kids Of Kabul

In response to the September 11 attacks, the United States should declare war on the responsible group. As a nation, we should do only the actions that bring about the best consequences, and the best consequences would occur by bringing the responsible group to justice. In this case, killing the Taliban and its supporters is the right action because it produces the greatest amount of good.

I wanted to reflect on this quote because it’s not your typical quote and it’s from the heart. Chris McCandless wrote this note on a torn page from a novel by Nikolay Gogol and it was found taped to his bus door. The note stated that he was injured and was in need of help. He stated that he was near death and practically too weak to hike to safety and was alone. In the note, he sounded very desperate and panicked. He seemed helpless, courageous and at the same time regretful. He seemed helpless because he stated that he was injured and in need of help. He seemed courageous because

This quote demonstrates the book’s theme of perseverance because of its powerful motivation to overcome the pain and give it your all.

In 2011, 24-year-old Joe DeNenno traveled to Afghanistan with the intent to change the lives of the children in the Zhari District. He teamed up with the local security forces and government officials to build new schools throughout the district to improve the education for local children. One billion dollars went towards the funding of schools and rise of education in Afghanistan. But nearly four years later, one would not be able to see a difference between the schools and a town that's been hit by a category 3 hurricane. From leaky roofs to cut up doors, the schools were no longer a place for education but rather a place for warlords to inhabit. Over 50 American funded schools were now battlefield provinces. These runned down schools were

The War in Afghanistan has been an all consuming conflict for the US government since we started to launch air strikes on October 7, 2001. This is a conflict that’s been brewing since before the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. This war has the continuation of past conflicts in it, conflicts that can be connected a good deal to the interference of other large powers, such as the USSR. From keeping an eye on the oil reserves, pressuring Iran, and keeping Pakistan stable, our interests and motives for occupying Afghanistan are undeniably laced with many ulterior motives, providing us with the issue of unfavorable opinion and our interests being the source of terrorist attacks. Afghanistan is a country that has been plagued with

In the book, "My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story," Latifa explains how her oppressed society made her take stand against them by reaching for freedom. When her society became oppressed, she was force to live her life as a prisoner, which included covering up her face with a hijab. In some Islamic countries, the hijab is forced on women due to religious beliefs and the state believes that women will be protected from sexual harassment and rape if they wear it. With that, if they do not wear it, the state believes that they will be subjected to being violated by men. "The civilization of the bulk of the people is very partial; nay, it may be made a question, whether they have acquired any virtues in exchange for innocence, equivalent to the misery produced by the vices that have been plastered over unsightly ignorance, and the freedom which has been bartered for splendid slavery." (A vindication of the rights of woman). However, Latifa overcame this society by teaching private classes to other women in her own home. This eventually led her and her family to escape to Europe where she was able to write her first book. Her oppressed society made her take a stand against it in order to follow her dreams of becoming a journalist/writer.

On April 13th, 2017 the United States military dropped the largest conventional bomb in it’s arsenal on an ISIS cave complex in Afghanistan. The bomb killed at least 94 ISIS fighters. The blast destroyed three underground tunnels as well as weapons and ammunition, but no civilians were hurt, Afghan and US officials said.

First of all, in chapter five, Atiq went to the mosque for the Isha Prayer. Then, he left and wandered around the city. Unknowingly, he arrived at the jailhouse. He decided to spend the night there. So, he lit up the lamp and lied down. Suddenly, he got scared to see Nazeesh behind him. As you can see, Atiq met Nazeesh a decade ago, when he was a mufti in Kabul. Then, Nazeesh told the sad story of his old father. He also told him that he wanted to die by walking into the ocean. He was describing the way of his coming death for a long time. Furthermore, after the discussion on his old father and his plan of death, he left that place. After that, Atiq also headed towards his home again. On the way, he started to think about his wife and

Islam and Women The synopsis of My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban by Latifa is that of a sixteen-year-old girl who calls herself Latifa, because the use of her actual name could get her and her family either beaten or punished severely, or even death, even today. The book talks about how Latifa and her family react to the Taliban invading Kabul, the city where she lives it also talks about how she survives and eventually escapes to France through Pakistan. They have to suffer while the Taliban ignores that a woman “‘has the same right as an Afghan man to exercise personal freedom, choose a career, and find a partner in marriage’”(Latifa 53). The Taliban ignores that law and thinks what they are doing to women is just, and that makes Latifa angry and upset that she cannot attend college like her sister and mother, nor can she do anything anymore.

As classes were concluding for the day on Wednesday, August 26th, there was an attack at Kabul’s American University of Afghanistan. There were 13 people killed and 30 injured in an attack that involved lots of gunfire and explosives. Due to the kidnapping on campus of two professors, one American and one Australian, earlier in the month. This allowed for training on what to do in a potential attack. Two of the attackers were killed by police after the shooting had been happening for a long period of time. Also, another attacker detonated a car that had been filled with explosives, outside the front wall to the university, causing the windows of classrooms to shatter. This added lots of fear and panic, causing students to attempt to flee, which

Expression is everything when it comes to art; it sets the mood and tone of the entire piece. Both Afghan Girl, a colored 20 by 24 inch cibachrome photograph by Steve McCurry, and The Roaring Lion, a black and white 10⅞ by 8½ inch photo by Yousuf Karsh, are iconic images that grabs the audience’s attention through glaring eyes. Although both photographers capture intense stares within their portraitures, they still have various differences regarding color, composition, and lighting to produce drama. It is said that the eyes are the window to the soul, which is clearly true in Steve McCurry’s colorized, 20 by 24 inch, close up, cibachrome photograph, Afghan Girl. The girl in the photo has her body turned towards the right, her head towards

Hello, my name is Cole Judickas and I am a student at Wayzata West middle school.

2 weeks ago 2 international troops were killed by gunmen in afghan uniforms. The two men opened fire Wednesday inside a military base in southern Afghanistan; killing two U.S soldiers before being shot dead themselves. Officials are calling this an attack on the U.S. The U.S. military bases are now a “force protection bravo”. This is defined by the pentagon as an “increased and predictable threat of terrorism.”

Hakim watched the American General writher around in a mask of pain. He looked away; he could not bear to watch this torment. Hakim knew he was not cut out to be a part of this merciless gang that everyone called the Taliban. But Hakim knew that the Taliban were not murderers. He was certain that what they did was only for the good of the people. They had never harmed anyone before. But all that changed with the humiliating and public death of the leader of the gang, his father.

A woman in a light-blue chadri abandons her infant in the backseat of a cab in the bustling streets of post-war Kabul.