Essay On Mazoon Al Smellehan

As a result, she lacked confidence in her education. She stated, “My early education did not partake of the abundant opportunities which the present day affords and which even our common schools now afford. I was never sent to any school; I was always sick.” Even though she did not attend a formal school it did not put her out of reach of a proper education (Peterson, 9).

At the beginning of her journey she had problems with the mobs outside of Central High School, yelling, threatening words and telling her to go home. “Two, four, six, eight, we ain’t gonna integrate! Over and over, the words rang out. The terrifying frenzy of the crowd was building like steam in an erupting volcano (36).” Melba

On September of 2015, the image of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi went viral. “The toddler’s lifeless body on a Turkish beach had reverberated across the globe” (Parkinson & George-Cosh, 2015). Aylan’s family had “fled the brutal civil war in their native Syria and only attempted the boat crossing after Canada denied their application of admission as refugees. The image led to an astonishing outpouring of support for Syrian refugees” (Hein & Niazi, 2016).

The high school on the reservation was so helpless that the books were as old as Junior’s parents! There were times when Junior’s breakfast was a gallon of orange flavor drink mix. The only Christmas gift he’d receive was a five dollar bill if he was even lucky. Living like this and to not give up like the rest made him a survivor. Junior’s sister had given up school, but once had a dream of writing romance novels. Along with Junior’s sister, Junior’s father and mother gave up way before she did. Everyone else on the reservation had given up since it was ultimately a death camp. Even the young teenagers had given up in school.

Ronita had returned to school, 2 years after Katrina, when she went into labor. The local schools, overwhelmed by thousands of children displaced from New Orleans did not welcome more students, especially with babies, and her help with her youngest brother was needed at home. She liked high school and had hoped to graduate, baby and all, but worried her mother and grandmother could not manage without her.

Ha’s life is turned inside out when the war is coming near her home, which leads to her family moving to America. The experience that Ha is going through is similar to what refugees have to go through. “Refugees are every day who are forced to flee their homes because they are afraid to stay in their home country” (Model Essay). Articles like, “Children of War,” and “Refugees: Who, Where, Why,” explain what refugee children have to go through when they are forced to leave their homes. Before Ha left her home, she was a playful, careless, easy-going girl, and selfish.

For the podcast, I interviewed Lina Abdulnoor, with the intention of exploring the intricacies of refugeehood by analyzing Lina’s refugee experience. Lina lived in Iraq with her family until they began receiving death threats due to their religious beliefs. Convinced that they needed to flee the country to survive, they left Iraq as refugees. After leaving Iraq, they settled in Jordan, where they waited two years until the U.N. to approve their request to move to the U.S. in 2012. Lina and her family initially settled in Virginia, where she experienced culture shock as she adapted to American culture and the English language. However, Lina did not feel accepted in Virginia; her experiences in the state led her to think that Americans treated her according to negative stereotypes of Iraqis. After living in Virginia for several months, Lina and her family chose to resettle in San Diego, California, which harbored a larger Iraqi population than Virginia did. Supported by San Diego’s Iraqi community and various refugee organizations, Lina flourished, and she currently studies at UCSD while holding a stable job.

Usama bin Laden, born in 1957, comes from a wealthy Saudi Arabian family that owns a multinational construction business. He used his inherited wealth to finance Afghan forces fighting the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980’s. After the 1991 Gulf War, he was distressed that Saudi Arabia allowed U.S. forces to remain in the Arabian Peninsula. To advance his agenda of expelling the U.S. from the Islamic world, he worked with other anti-Western fundamentalists to organize a secretive, highly compartmentalized terrorist network, known as al-Qaida. It is through his upbringing, education, culture, and wars in Islamic countries, that Usama bin Laden has sought to purge the

On the clear day of the 11th of September 2001, Americans and citizens from other nations suffered a trauma that will be remembered for generations to come (Halliday 5). On September 11th al Qaeda terrorist under the command of Osama bin Laden hijacked two American Airline (AA) flights and two United Airline (UA) flights that would never again land. All of the planes that day would not go down without a fight. Although there were many heroic people that day, 9/11 ended as the worst terrorist attack in American history because of 19 men hijacking four planes that lead to 2,996 people dead (Statistic Brain).

Under these circumstances school and education are taking a big part in refugees’ lives for example it says, “I know Pink Boy will get me, but right now I feel smart” (Lai 188). This statement from the book “Inside Out and Back Again” represents how Ha is feeling back home again. She gets to go to school and feels smart just like she did back home. Ha is now becoming happier and feels like she is getting her life back. In the same way schooling and education are making refugees feel back again in the article “Refugees: Who, Where, Why” when it says, “Schooling is provided for children” (Gevert). This statement shows how schooling is helping refugees all over feel like they are back home again. They can get educated from the refugee camps. They may be overcrowded, but it is helping many refugees get a chance for there lives back. It helps refugees feel like there is hope on the other side waiting for them. In addition schooling and education is helping refugees when it says, “Getting better because we can go to school… couldn’t… in Croatia because we are muslims” (Lai ). This statement comes from the book “Inside Out and Back Again“ and is representing how Ha is now able to go to school, and doesn’t have to worry about her race. She feels like she belongs where she is now, and nobody can take that away from her. Given these points,

Now, I know what you are thinking. Society, how does society have to do with this story? However, in the story, the author writes how it was not of her concern of what she wanted to be, but is was only the fact that she was finishing school and it was now the state’s concern on what to do with her. The state was only concerned that “I was finishing school, and next year I would go out into the real world, into the state.” This shows that the author is showing the reader that society needs more people. That is how society works, but that we have a choice, unlike in this case, when the author makes the character be forced to become a writer, even though she wants to “become a professor and excavate Mayan pyramids.” The author is trying to show that society wants people to do certain things, but people have a choice, and society is

Many People have all experienced something very tragic, but have we ever felt the pain of a Jew after Hitler brought them down? Then, eight years later the Babi Yar Massacre happened which killed millions of people (mostly Jews). That is A lot of jews that lost their lives for just being jews.

The quote revealed, that Hilly ‘kindly’ refused to give Yule Mae a loan. I am certain that devastation was upon Yule Mae and her husband as their intention was to send their sons to college, due to impoverishment, only one could attend college. Minny’s and Yule Mae’s hardships demonstrated that education is a privilege, a luxury to those that can afford. This book opens my eyes that some people are unappreciative of their education, whereas, many children out there are working instead of being at school and not by choice either. I strongly believe that education is a basic human right as every person deserves to learn. Nevertheless, Education assists to reach desired career as it opens opportunities and helps others become informed. Also, I feel blessed for having an exceptional education compared to others. Therefore, I always ensure my best not taking my schooling for granted as there are children like Sugar who would rather attend school instead of work.

No difficulties or limitations will keep this fearless freshman from her calling to Syrian refugees. After being born in Arizona, Abigail Yasmeen Roberts grew up travelling, having the opportunity to experience cultures all around the world while simultaneously serving Christ. From Cairo, Egypt to Amman, Jordan, Abigail has spent a majority of her life helping in ministering to the people of the Middle East. Today, as she branches off in college, she plans to pursue a career in journalism with the hope of one day becoming a foreign correspondent in the Levante region of the Middle East.

Surprising in one so young, a large focus of Allie’s life is on her responsibilities – to her job, but also a personal responsibility to “her families” – the refugees she chooses to help. Not many people would choose to dedicate as many years of their lives to advocacy as Allie, let alone those of their twenties.