Girl Who Escaped Isis

Shyima Hall is an Egyptian woman who was a victim of human trafficking. She was sold as a slave when she was only eight years old. She now lives (legally) in the United States and has written a book about her story. Shyima Hall uses two different rhetorical devices in Hidden Girl to achieve her goal of spreading awareness of child slavery in today’s world.

The story is told from the point of view of Latifa, a girl oppressed by the Taliban. When the Taliban storm her home city of Kabul in Afghanistan, Latifa and her family (particularly her female relatives and family) become

This attack on both people will forever have an impact on their lives. Leaving past scars forever in their thoughts. When Mariatu and Ishmael became victims the rebels had very different roles in their minds for these two. With Mariatu being a female and Ishmael being a male, it was the reason to put these two through what they have been through. Even though they were both young victims, they both came to do different tasks.

Isis commits horrible acts of violence and gore and then to make it worse, they video tape it and send it to various countries demanding a slew of ransoms. They work on people’s sense of fear to accomplish their end goal. Gilgamesh was known for killing and raping trying to gain immortality after he experienced his best friend’s death, Enkidu.

They loosed a dog on him that went for his genitals.” Khalifeh deftly includes this grotesque imagery to open our eyes to the common brutality they now endure in Palestine under the Israeli’s and make us aware of the barbarity of the situation. It evokes not only a sense of poignancy in us, but outrage as well because his human decency has been violated with such nonchalance. As the audience, we grow to sympathize with the conquered Palestinians and support Usama in his quest to reclaim freedom for Palestine.

In the novel The Other Side of the Sky by Farah Ahmedi, Farah is in second grade when she steps on a landmine, and must be taken to Germany for medical treatment. Nearly 2 years later, at age 9 she returns home, with one prosthetic leg, and her other with permanent damage. Not too long after she returns home, her house is bombed leaving a majority of her family dead. Alone and scared, Farah and her mother try to find a way to America for a better and safer life. Months later, they are finally able to enter America legally and start over. Once they arrive, they begin to realize they are both scared to be in a new place that is so different from their homeland. Both Farah and her mother struggle to fit into this new world, as time goes, while

"Drenched in Light" is a story centered on a young girl named Isis Watts. Isis is faced with the

For the first time, Kayla Mueller’s fellow captives spoke publicly about their time in ISIS captivity for “The Girl Left Behind” of ABC News. They shared how the 25-year-old humanitarian aid worker’s courage and selflessness inspired them.

Rasheed loves his son and buys him everything he needs which didn’t happen for Aziza so Mariam instead had to sew clothes for her when she was born. The women in Afghanistan are trapped because they can’t travel anywhere without a man. Laila and Mariam make plans to escape the country and Rasheed but as soon as they get to the train station they are found without a man and are put under immediate investigation. The officer finds out that they aren’t with a man and proceeds to send them home where he knows they will receive a grave punishment because, “there is no saying what Rasheed will do to [them],”(Hosseini 226). Cheryl Reed acknowledges this trap that the women are in when she says, “ Thirty years of war have succeeded in eliminating all rights for women, forcing them out of jobs and into burqas, closing schools for girls and making them dependent on the mercy of men for survival,” (Reed 2007). The women are treated as second-class citizens not only in everyday society but also by the justice system. During Mariam’s trail some insight can be gathered on how women are viewed in the society when the judge says, “God has made us definitely, you women and us

The author’s perspective of “Losing in battle, ISIS gains by attacking the gray zone’ of the west”, Kari Vick, has also used various opinions and facts that he has exposed to the reader as he explains what the “gray zone” is to the readers. The author was very thorough with information as he explained the situation and other events that have occurred with ISIS such as proving how ISIS sees the world in black and white and how they abhor the middle-ground where day life lives. Kari also explained the life of a French journalist when he was a hostage for ten whole years, wrote also when Germany opened its own doors to the Syrian refugees, the jihadist was flummoxed with their response recorded on a videotape.

These children have been forced to see things no child should have to. In a magazine, the author informs us, “Girls are often pressed into duty as cooks or messengers. Many are subjected to sexual abuse, including rape (Gettleman 6).” Child soldiers should not be punished, because most of them were forced against their own will. In a summative essay on child soldiers, the author states, “... and over ten million children have been diagnosed with a psychological trauma (“Child Soldiers -- Summative Essay”).” This is over the last ten years, which means that one million are diagnosed every year. In an article, the author met doctors who worked with the traumatized patients. “One doctor described treating a boy between ten and twelve years old whose job it was to whip prisoners held in an ISIS detention facility, according to the adult fighter who brought him (Ashawi).” No child should have to witness anything like that, much less be a part of it. Mr. Beah again explains, “...people think as healing from this kind of thing as forgetting, I will never be able to forget anything that happened to me…(Stroumboulopoulos). ” Most people do not realize from this kind of trauma, the patients do not usually fully

Imagine as a twelve-year-old what life is like, all the fun to have and the carelessness with little to no responsibilities. Now imagine, being twelve and being manipulated into fighting wars that can never truly be escaped. Ishmael Beah in A Long Way Gone is one of these kids. He is manipulated into hating the Rebels by the Sierra Leone army and brainwashed to kill all of them. A man named Umar Haque is doing a similar thing to kids, in which he is radicalizing them to commit terrorist attacks for ISIS. Beah’s portrayal of how he is manipulated into war by the Lieutenant helps shed light on what the school children, Umar Haque attempts to radicalize, are enduring because both Beah and the schoolboys are manipulated into becoming child soldiers.

In both Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical Persepolis, escape is a recurring theme. Both Joe Kavalier in Chabon’s novel and Marjane in her own autobiography flee their countries in hope of finding a safer life and better opportunities away from the wars that plague their home. What both characters learn after leaving is that their new homes and lives are not completely without fear, disappointment, sadness, and anxiety. While their individual identities, Joe a European Jew and Marjane an Iranian Muslim, make their experiences distinct, they both share the same pain of living in a country where they are considered outsiders while never knowing the safety of their family or when they

Zeinat, a 16 year old Yazidi woman, was captured by ISIS and taken into slavery. She was handpicked to “work” for the boss Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. She was held at the same place that American hostage Kayla Mueller was after she was taken in 2013. According the article, Zienat described a video where, “There was a journalist, an American journalist, and there was a man dressed all in black. He killed the journalist. He beheaded them.” She explained that Al-Baghdadi gave them to choices after watching the video of, “Convert to Islam. Or die like this.” Once, the girls were able to escape and get to a nearby house where the woman of the house said she would help, but called Al-Baghdadi instead, resulting in them being beat with everything from a

The initial betrayal that Ahmed feels stemmed from when she went to hear a talk “by the Lebanese novelist Hanan al-Shaykh (Ahmed 252). The talk promoted the idea of Arab culture and community, which completely contradicts the ideals that she was raised to believe were wrong. However, Ahmed starts to “think enviously that this was what I would like to be writing, something that would affirm my community in exile… What a fine thing… to be Arab” (Ahmed 253). She finds herself wanting to be included in being from this enriching “heritage” that created this “wealth of Arabic literature” (Ahmed 253).