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When I was younger I tried to hide myself and identity as much as I could. I was embarrassed and hated myself. I was extremely tan with dark long hair, a mustache and thick eyebrows; I was the absolute stereotype of a Pakistani young girl. Growing up next to all these beautiful blonde haired girls and boys was actually the worst part of my life. It is unimaginable to some but it was my reality. Kids are mean. They are evil. I had never been so ashamed of myself until I started elementary school. I had always thought it was so cool that both of my parents were born outside of the United States. Apparently it is not cool to grade school kids. Surprisingly, the children actually knew where Pakistan was and loved to call me a terrorist. They would tease about Islam and that because my dad was Muslim we were going to blow up school. My throat suddenly gets tight and my eyes filled with water glossing over like two big crystal pools and my back radiates with heat causing me to sweat changing my entire body to stop sign red. My anger had built

37). This differs from his culture’s convention where familial relationships are traced through a patrilineal system where inheritance is bequeathed directly from father to son. Perhaps Battuta’s reaction originates from ethnocentrism—he compares other societies by his culture’s standards, resulting in Battuta’s biases. The majority of the Muslim world is a patriarchal; the males are the center of authority, whereas in Īwālātan there is an emphasis on the position of female influence. This concept is difficult for Battuta to accept. Despite these criticisms, Battuta contrasts his disapproval with the Massūfa by citing their devout Muslim qualities, such as the commitment of the Qur’an (the sacred Islamic text) to memory (Battuta, p. 37). However, the redemption is brief. Forthcoming contact between the sexes in Īwālātan serves to further offend Battuta.

Patriarchy is a social system where men dominate and govern most of the world’s economical, educational, familial, health, political, and religious systems. This political social system that insists that males are inherently dominating, superior females, has been taking it toll on different demographics. To maintain dominance, men exude their sensitive, inferior “masculinity” through various forms of psychological control, manipulation, violence, and terrorism. The subservient role-playing woman has to orchestrate to patriarchal chime by being nurturing, obedient, passive, and weak

In the exposition we meet our protagonist who is a young women of Islam who wears the traditional veil that muslim women are advised to wear under the law of the Quran were it says, “And tell the believing women to reduce some of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which necessarily

Did you experience any traumatizing in your childhood? My father giving up the reservation to the government and my father falling into alcoholism and getting weak, while my mom began to gain power over him.

On Aug. 25, during Khan’s first week of college, one of her teachers held her after class to request she not conceal her face. Khan refused, claiming such an ask violated her right to freely exercise her religious beliefs.

We lived in the ghettos for all of 2 weeks before we were taken to a camp. My family was split up so my mother, my sister, and I were together and my Father was alone. The work camps were terrible they forced us into hard labor my mother and I knew how to sew so we were put into a work group to sew up soldiers uniforms. I ber one day my mother pricked her finger and got blood on one of the uniforms she was beaten by an S.S officer and yelled at continually. If I ever made a mistake or did something wrong my mother would take the beating for me. I objected every time but she would never let anything happen to me. My older sister was not good at sewing but luckily was put near us she helped cook for everyone in the camp. I will always remember the day of the selection my mother was not chosen but I was my mother tried to talk me into believing that getting picked this time was good and that we needed to say goodbye because she was leaving. I knew the truth though. The next day an officer called out the names of the chosen people my name was called. We were told we were going to take a shower. When they stopped us we were in a big room I did not see any shower heads “Gas chamber” I heard someone mumble. I knew my last breath was going to be soon. All at once gaas entered the room coughing came from all around. I said my last goodbye and said a silent Kaddish for myself and the people I was with. I then took my final breath while many

On a Sunday morning of March 15 1998, we woke up super early to the phone ringing on the other side was my dad. My grandmother answered the phone her face paled as she heard the words “mom I shot myself.” After talking to him for a bit my grandmother rushed out of her room to get my uncle up and they rushed to the house to see him up walking around with a hole in his stomach. Ambulance came to get him then rushed him to meet life force. He flat lined once on the helicopter. They were able to bring him back and stabilized him, and kept him stabled till they got to the hospital. They rushed him immediately into the OR, it was around 15 to 20 minutes into surgery that he had passed away, they were unable to bring him back due to the major loss of blood. My mom soon remarried and I gained two annoying step brothers and a step dad. One step brother didn’t bother me to bad, the other one poked and picked on me trying to pick fights. My step dad had episodes where he was violent and threw things at me and my mom. I withdrew more and more until a few of my friends literally grabbed me by my arm and told me to wake up that they were not going to let me push them away

The original issue was that my aunt Darrett was spreading aunt Reds business all over country. Aunt Darrett already apologized to aunt Reds years ago so she felt like the situation was being dragged out. Now everyone is sitting together eating, dancing and catching up on old times. Aunt Darrett wanted the curry goat but, aunt Reds had it at the moment. My mother was next to her and took the curry goat and passed it to my aunt Darrett. Aunt Reds said “Why yuh haffi gi it to di dutty gyal?”. Then my aunt Darrett said “Who dutty yuh mussi chatting bout yuhself?” This is exactly when the fight started. They got up and went in eachothers face. All of the grandchildren and cousins, including me tried to calm them down. After a few hours both of them finally calmed down and started laughing about it. It’s sad that my family always has to go through a tragic moment at every family

This essay will argue that the likelihood of harm will increase if it were a male student requesting to be reassigned from his female partner because there are unlying negative connotations relating female gender that would be in some sense be supported by the professor if he/she was to accommodate this request. This may lead to the female student feeling that this decision was based on ideologies of gender that placed masculinity on a superior level than femininity. This claim may be highly contested by men’s rights activists who increasingly advocate against the demonization of the male gender ( Sundaram 2014). But while it is important to have equality between the male and female genders, it also important to acknowledge that differentiation of gender often relates to the objectification of women. Differences in gender cannot be understood solely based on biological terms. Patriarchal ideologies have become deeply rooted through historical structures and are further perpetuated through the everyday actions of individuals in society. Gender differences can be used to describe a binary relationship and can be a primary field within which or by means of which power is articulated. Therefore gender is not obsolete in the discussion of social relations. As a result, religious accommodation

I can not believe Jafar killed my father. I was just able to accept him for who he was. I could still hear his laughter. Jafar knocked on the door. I could not raise my head to tell him to go away. He walked over to my my bed and sat down next to me. I could not believe that he sat in my privates of places. I will have to wash them so many times and then burn them. He came and put his hand on my knee. My skin crawled under his touch. He told me my father needed to die. He did not care what went on out there, all he did was play with his toys. He said he was excited to marry me. I asked him why I would have to marry him . he said that a jennies power can only go so far. He said that there is traditions that he can not break so he has to marry

Girls, young women, and mature mothers. Society has consistently given women strict guidelines, rules and principles on how to be an appropriate member of a man’s society. These rules are set at a young age and enforced thoroughly into adulthood. When not followed accordingly, women often times too many face reprimanding through means of verbal abuse, physical abuse, or social exile. In the midst of all these strict guidelines and social etiquette for girls, a social rebellion started among girls and women and gender roles were broken, however the social rebellion did not and does not affect all girls and women. For instance, in less socially developed places, young girls on the brink of womanhood are still strongly persuaded to be a man’s idea of a “woman”.

One of the main disputes in the battle of Islamic women’s rights is the conflict over dress. According to a popular Islamic leader and Egyptian television personality, the sight of women is so alluring that it can be “intolerably distracting to men” and can “even

In today’s society women are given ample opportunity just as much as men. In some countries, such as middle-eastern nations that is not the case. Muslim women are often perceived to be submissive to Muslim men and unequal. Mohammed never taught for women to be treated as lower class citizens. Nonetheless, the blame is pointed towards the religion of Islam. The Islamic religion began as all monotheist religions representing a belief in one God and moral standards. In the following essay I will discuss and elaborate what Mohammed taught, how women lived in early Islamic society, and what it has become.

Ahmed, a product of society, is raised as a man and thus exhibits characteristics of a man. To receive the privileges granted to men, Ahmed conceals her feminine physique by binding her chest. Furthermore, her father trains her to be aggressive because society expects violence in men and weakness in women. “My father gave me a blow…and