Attack of Taliban on New Kabul Bank 1. Description of the case On Feb 19, 2011 Afghan soldiers and Afghan civilians became targets of Taliban. This incident happened when Afghan soldiers lined up in New Kabul Bank in Jalalabad province to get their monthly salaries. The attackers was outfitted explosive vests, then joined other Afghan soldiers and interred into the bank. Afghan police didn’t recognize them because they were dressed in Afghan National Army uniform…

Educating ourselves is a responsibility we have to others. Many of the skills and knowledge we have acquired to this day is through self education. This as a matter of fact, is going out and getting educated by one 's own efforts, especially without formal instruction. It’s important to go out and educate ourselves for the purpose of educating our peers that surround us. Without a more educated environment the world couldn’t move forward. The people and their education are the future of our world…

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…

Setting The novel is centered around the city of Kabul during the late 1900’s to the early 2000’s. During this period, the city was in a time of conflict. There were forces trying to seize control over Afghanistan. There were various social and economical classes throughout the cities. For example, Jalil Khan lives in a high class area where as, Rasheed lives in a low-to-middle class area. Prior to the Soviets control, there were multiple benefits for women in education and obtaining jobs. When the Taliban…

Educating Rita The play Educating Rita, only has two characters, Frank and Rita, Rita wants to learn literacy, and Frank is her tutor. The play is set in the 1970's, when there was not a lot of unemployment, and there was plenty of money. Although Rita has everything she needs, she is dis-satisfied with her life, she wants something more. Rita feels that there is no meaning to life, and she wants to find one. The characters Rita and Frank are two totally different people, Rita is uneducated…

Contemporary Perspectives Bookseller of Kabul March 1st, 2010 In this paper I will discuss family life in Afghanistan. After reading “The Bookseller of Kabul” and doing some research on other Afghan families I believe that the Khan family is almost the same as a typical Afghan family. Yes, there are some differences but in the end they act and live as most others in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is a country that has been divided by several ethnic groups, with the two most relevant being the…

Conextualizing Homebody/Kabul In the aftermath of the bombing of the Twin Towers on September 11 th, Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul has received remarkable acclaim from its opening in New York City in December of 2001. Written “before September 11th, before we began bombing,” Kushner’s play is a startling look into Kabul, Afghanistan, a world once ruled by sharia hudud and strangled by poverty, violence and the world’s apathy (Homebody/Kabul 144). It chronicles the story of one middle-aged British…

Educating Afghan Girls’ Education is one of the most important contributors to having a successful future. In developed countries such as North America boys and girls are fortunate enough to have access to an unbiased education system. Therefore, allowing children to have countless opportunities. However, in countries like Afghanistan girls are marginalized and neglected the right to learn. Afghanistan is a country of war, where women and girls are often the worst victims. In 2011, Afghanistan was…

In a male dominated society, the women of Afghanistan face many pressures and limits that are taught and ingrained in them at a very young age. Women and girls are seen as less than men and boys. They are viewed as being weak and unimportant. They are often pulled out of school and shunned to the house during their middle school years. Society sees no reason to educate girls when the whole point of girls is to serve as wives to their husbands and mothers to sons. They are taught that their entire…

I. Introduction: The British Cemetery Kabul, also known as the White Cemetery, was established in 1879 as a burial site for the dead of the second Anglo-Afghan war. It replaced an earlier graveyard for the first Anglo-Afghan war and bears some graves dating back to that 1842 defeat. Now, the cemetery is under the authority of the British Embassy in Kabul. It was one of the most interesting grave yards I had ever seen. Its oldest residents are the British soldiers from the Anglo-Afghan wars like…