Mirza Ghalib

There seems to be a friendship between this man and woman because he is comfortable telling her about his love life. She gives the impression that they have these conversations often with her statement, “When you rehearse your list of loves to me” (5). She is puzzled and wonders if he believes that his stories amuse or makes her happy, which she expresses by thinking, “Thus do you want me—marveling, gay, and true—” (19). He obviously believes that she is enjoying the stories because of her actions. She laughs at the stories and even realizes that this man cannot see how she truly feels through her actions, but she continues to try to show her feeling through nonverbal cues. If she would just verbally express how she feels about this man, she could save herself some heartache.

Both of my parents are from Afghanistan, a country where education is restricted. Extremists raiding the country forcing young girls to stay home and maintain an honorable reputation. In a country such as Afghanistan—young girls are attacked with acid for simply wanting an education. The thought of strong educated women seems to threaten the ego of these men. When people around me ask me where my family is from, I am silenced, ashamed even. How can I relate myself to a country where women are treated as less of a human being?

At the end of his speech, Gandhi says “Send us to prison and we will live there as in a paradise. Ask us to mount the scaffold and we will do so laughing. Shower what suffering you like upon us; we will calmly endure all and not hurt a hair of your body.” Gandhi emphasized the fact that he and his followers were not afraid of any possible punishment that the government could inflict upon them. His words are also a reminder to his followers to stay strong even in the face of such cruel actions against them.

Guy Gruters, a United States Air Force F-4 pilot, was shot down over Vietnam on December 21, 1967, and when he would not answer his captors’ questions, was beaten severely. After this his interrogators gave him the “rope torture”.

Contrary to the article’s title, Netflix is not the cause of the cultural echo chamber. It is hardly even a symptom. Our proclivity for personalized selection on Netflix is moreso indicative of egocentrism and the simple fact that people have different interests. What Farhad Manjoo suggests in this article is that the digital age has isolated us in our thought processes, but that is not the case. We have chosen to isolate ourselves.

“When my suffering becomes too great, I can say to all those I love, "I love you; come be by my side, and come say goodbye as I pass into whatever's next." I will die upstairs in my bedroom with my husband, mother, stepfather and best friend by my side and pass peacefully. I can't imagine trying to rob anyone else of that choice.”

of lives, and torture will be the only way to save them....." to let reader make a critical

“A Hanging” by George Orwell is an influential, autobiographical essay, in which the subject of capital punishment is powerfully examined. The essay is based on a prisoner’s execution in a Prisoner of War camp in Burma during the Second World War. In the essay, Orwell is a prison guard for the camp and carefully illustrates his views on capital punishment. The structure of the essay is of three distinct sections. These sections provide the reader with contrast and repetition, and are grounded in reality but with emphasis on the creative,

After earning his bachelor of science in animal physiology and neuroscience from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Ashkan Khabazian matriculated at the University of Michigan to pursue his doctor of pharmacy. He graduated from UCSD in 2003 and subsequently completed a general practice pharmacy residency at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, California. Over the course of his career, Ashkan Khabazian has held pharmacy appointments with multiple healthcare centers and medical organizations in the greater San Diego area. He has also instructed students at a number of teaching hospitals and institutions of higher learning.

Fazlullah was the leader of the Taliban and the first thing he did to gain power over the people was get them to like him and believe in him. He told people that he was an Islamic reformer and an interpreter of Quran. He created a radio station for the people to listen to. On this radio station he would cry about his love for the country and would talk about the “good habits” he wanted the people to adopt. He would also use the radio station to persuade the people to abandon their practices because he claimed they were bad for the country. A man named Shah Douran would also come on to the station and tell the people to stop listening to music, watching movies and dancing because those things were all “sinful acts” and those acts are what caused

. . . The inexorable facts closed in on him like prison-warders handcuffing a convict. There was no way out—none” (134).

The moral of The Prisoner is a person must realize that God is the only one who can free them from the sorrow and feeling of imprisonment which will cause them to, “become completely powerless.” (The Norton Anthology World Literature, pg. 120, 23-24) A person can only serve one Master; God or the world. In order to become free, all practices that enslave a person whether, “…past deeds and present actions,” (The Norton Anthology World Literature, pg. 119, 9-10) must be turned over to God which will allow Him to remove these burdens from one’s life and replace the burdens with His love, strength, and forgiveness.

Kamla Khan is an interesting character that the new generation of comic readers can easily relate to regardless of their introduction to the world of comics. She offers a familiar situation and follows a dream that many fans have had. With a quirky personality and new take on representing diversity, Kamla Khan is a hero readers will want to find relatable. This character relatability, as well as the potential for growth, are the two main strengths of this series as they draw in the reader. This series also has inherent weakness such as unresolved plot points, repetitive plot lines, and a yet to be a fully realized hero that that could make future issues dull. Overall Wilson and Alphona have created a strong hero with a visually stimulating plot that has room for improvement and growth.

“For the love of a son” is the story of Maryam Khail, a beautiful Afghan woman born into one of the most influential families in Afghanistan, a family of with huge amount of wealth and power. From the time Maryam was a little girl she rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman. She had witnessed the miserable fate of her grandmother and three aunt, and wished that she had been born a boy.Maryam wanted to become a boy, her family even played long. But obviously as she grew up, she could not pretend to be a boy. As a growing teenager in Kabul, Maryam was outraged when the Russians invaded her country. She had to flee the country to save her life. She was experiencing a new life of freedom but

and includes some of the finest idyllic poetry in the language. He is one of