How Do People Respond To The 20th Century

If the author wanted to learn more about Muslim women, she should have sought them out and spent time with them — those who wear hijabs as well as those who don’t. Then, instead of speaking on behalf of Muslim women’s “unheard voice” by talking about her own hijab experiment (“My hijab silenced, but simultaneously, my hijab brought unforgettable words”), she should have asked them to share their own experiences as Muslim women. Then they would have a voice.

The historical background of Iran is the most important idea that influences Marjane 's novel. Mohammad Reza Shah was the leader of Iran from 1941 to 1979. During his reign, Iran was living a westernized life. He initiated a revolution called the White Revolution, which included permitting women to vote, the abolition of illiteracy, land rehabilitation and distribution of oil. Basically, everyone in Iran, including Marjane’s family, was living a westernized live during Shah’s regime. As Satrapi’s mentioned, she used to go to a non-religious French school, in which boys and girls were mixed. On the other side, there was a

Taking a gender woman study class gave me the opportunity to discover how woman do not only fight for their rights but for everyones right as well. In Mary Pardo’s Mexican American Women and Grassroots Community Activists: Mothers of East Los Angeles, I was able to learn how woman fight for their communities rights and try their hardest to protect everyone and not just themselves. Michelle Jacob’s article Claiming Health and Culture as a Human Rights: Yakama Feminism in Daily Practice also shows how woman become agents of change to bring change into the community. As I kept reading various articles, I also discovered Lila Abu-Lughod. “The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power Through Bedouin Women.” which focused on working towards woman rights. The last article I will talk

The beginning of the twentieth century brought with it relative peace and growth of economies throughout the world. New technological developments such as airplanes, radio, cinema, and automobiles were created during this time frame. Europe’s powerful countries consolidated in their colonial conquests from earlier decades that balanced their alliances. However, after only a few decades into the twentieth century multiple tensions between the great powers surfaced. These tensions caused the great powers to separate into different alliances and eventually lead to the Great War.

With this impression in mind, the theme for the picture above is religion; it shows “Women protesting forced hijab days after the Iranian Revolution, 1979” (online). All the demonstrations made by women, because of this exact same reason, show this theme; moreover, it is a big religious issue. Religious themes are, also, shown when Marjane tells her dad that the Shah was chosen by God, which is false; and, especially, with the Islamic regime. In fact, from the Deliverers of Divine Justice walking around, to school being

Abu Lugod argued that in order to move past this separation, we must: “First, we need to work against the reductive interpretation of veiling as the quintessential sign of women's unfreedom. Second, we must take care not to reduce the diverse situations and attitudes of millions of Muslim women to a single item of clothing.” (2002:786). As a result, creating a better understanding and better terminology of the “east” will allow feminists in these different social locations to communicate and to create a better strategy to move beyond the basic and into the complicated nature of feminism around the world.

Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is a vivid coming-of-age graphic memoir that chronicles the author’s varied experiences growing up during and after the nineteen seventy-nine Islamic revolution in Iran. In her introduction to Persepolis, Marjane explains her reasons for writing the novel, claiming that Iran was not only a country of “fundamentalism, fanaticism, and terrorism” (Satrapi, introduction) and she hoped that by sharing her personal stories of Iran she would humanize the country to her western audience and highlight the people’s struggles for freedom. In her desire to achieve this Satrapi focuses on the female characters of her graphic novel and addresses the issues of gender equality through the use of veils as symbols, allusions to western

In the TED Talk “See Yemen Through My Eyes” a young women Nadia speaks about how outsiders look at Yemen as a country of war and dying, but in reality for her it is not. There are many good things happening to Yemen now. The women are starting to uncover themselves from the veil both hypothetical and literally. There are many groups of men who are also starting to help with the process as well. The women in Yemen are often thought of as not free to show who they are and must stay behind closed doors. This process is showing Yemen that the women can start to learn about first aid and being able to drive their own cars and get their own jobs. This is not the only thing though. Nadia says during her talk that a reporter had come to interview the people in Yemen about their uproars and the violence that is going on today. After the reporter was done with all of his research and interviews and videos he had come up with a whole new side to Yemen that most people do not see. The report was about the young Yemeni men and how they love

Iran. This novel is a graphic novel so you get to see what her reactions were to different things, which really helped create a sense of her personality. In this book there are many themes that are expressed throughout the whole storyline. Throughout the whole book she becomes older and older and watch how her life developed. One main theme that is clearly prevailed is memory and development. Marji's whole book is about her memories as a young girl and how she matures into the person she is today, so right away that theme can be pulled from the text. Another theme that is presented is equality. In the country of Iran, many people are treated different. As a women in Iran, you don’t have a lot of freedom or rights compared to men. As you read the novel it is shown on how women get treated compared to men. Comparing this graphic novel to the novel called “I am Malala”, many similarities are presented in their themes.

When she sends Marjane away from Iran, she assures her: “I know how I brought you up. Above all, I trust your education” (147). Marjane’s mother doesn’t want her daughter to live in such an oppressive time. When the veils become mandatory, Marjane’s mother wishes to take her to an opposition demonstration: “She should start learning to defend her rights as a woman right now!” (76) In growing up with such strong female role models, Marjane learns to express her opinion and always stand by her beliefs. They taught her to stand up for herself as a woman, and in doing so, introduced her to a feminist perspective on life.

Another historical event that we see is the rise and effects of the Islamic regime in Marjane’s life. This event is arguably the central issue that affects Marjane during her upbringing in Iran. Marjane shows how the regime begins to control schools, and how this affects her life by separating her from her friends (4, 3-4). We also see how the regime decides to close universities as they “educate future imperialists.” (73, 1-3) This demonstrates the negative effects that the regime has on society, as they prioritize Islamic values over education. The Islamic leaders portrayal shows them as upset and bored, and are given much different facial expressions than those that Marjane sees as intellectual (such as Uncle Anoosh (54/3) or Marjane’s grandfather (23/8)). This imagery communicates the backwards-thinking of these leaders, and as such, also effectively communicate Marjane’s opinion of the leaders without needing to discuss it with text. Additionally, we see both of Marjane’s views: Marjane not understanding the veiling and separation (3/5) as well as Marjane’s depression over the closing of the universities (73/7). The text here illustrates her opinions on the situations that she experiences, and the imagery allows us to see a visual representation of her basic thoughts and emotions, which are well communicated. A final example of the regime’s changes is the difference between the fundamentalist and modern women

The fourth century saw a rapid cultural shift in Western Europe following an age of mathematical and philosophical thought to the spread of Christianity through the Roman Empire and the demise of Paganism and institutions of Greek learning. This quick shift of power might be symbolized by the murder of Hypatia, a mathematician and leader of the neo-Platonic school of philosophy who represented an era that was rapidly ending in Rome. While classic Greek learning was preserved by Byzantine copyists in the East, a new way of thinking about the world had taken

Unlike the classic memoir of Anne Frank, Marjane Satrapi portrays her childhood through an ironic black and white graphic novel. The struggles of her early life were in result of the Islamic Revolution. Satrapi’s goal of the novel was to enlighten the audience that not all the people of Iran were terrorist and fundamentalist. Not only did she excel in these aspects she highlighted the concept of social class. During the Islamic Revolution, one of the major objectives was to completely eliminate the divisions of social hierarchy.

This week’s paper we were to research and identify three prevailing philosophical perspectives at work during the 20th Century. To begin I will research the history of a few new tendencies in contemporary philosophy. Then I will discuss the Tom Rockmore interpretation of such tendencies. Tom Rockmore is Professor of Philosophy and a McAnulty College Distinguished Professor, Dr. Rockmore's current research interests encompass all of modern philosophy, with special emphasis on selected problems as well as figures in German idealism (Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Marx) and recent continental philosophy (Heidegger, Habermas, Lukacs). He is continuing to explore the epistemology of German idealism as well as the relation between philosophy and

Identify and understand how the lives of minorities changed during the turn of the century