No Good Men Among The Living Analysis

The Rugmaker of Mazar-E-Sharif Conflict by Najaf Mazari and Robert Tillman is a novel about Najaf's memoir of having to live with conflict and of enduring its in-depth consequences. Melbourne-based fiction writer and biographer Robert Hillman helps Najaf tell his story and also the representation of the author in the novel. Hillman's collaboration with Najaf on The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif continues Zar-e-Sharif his literary preoccupation with the hardships and triumphs of ordinary people caught up in war and political unrest. The background of the book depicts Najaf's homeland that has a long history of violent and bitter armed conflict that spans centuries. This is partly due to the region's geography. As Najaf says, 'just look at the location of Afghanistan on a map of Asia and the Middle East, with neighbors' and near-neighbors' like Russia, Pakistan and Iran' (p.34). The area has enormous geographical and strategic significance. Foreign powers, from the ancient Macedonians through to the colonial British and communist Russians, have striven to secure territory or allies there, with little regard for the desires of the local people. This essay will give us an analysis of The Rugmaker of Mazar-E-Sharif's characters Najaf Mazari, and Gorg Aliant plus the plot of the book. The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif traces an Afghani refugee's extraordinary journey from his early life as a shepherd boy in the mountains of Northern

In Afghanistan, there is a divide between the Pashtuns and the Hazaras; the Pashtuns are upper class citizens who are treated with respect while the Hazaras are lower class, minority citizens who are treated poorly. Because of the contrasting history of the two groups, their responses to the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul were complete opposites. The Pashtuns “danced on [the] street,” (Hosseini 200) while the Hazaras cried “God help the Hazaras now” (Hosseini 213). The conflict between the Pashtuns and Hazaras in “The Kite Runner” directly reflects the real life issues in Afghanistan starting in the late 70’s and continuing on past 2001.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran, is a Washington Post reporter and editor. He has spent three years in Afghanistan and reported extensively about the operations conducted by the ISAF and NATO forces in the post troop’s surge period. He is also the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City: inside Iraq’s Green Zone, one of the New York Times’s 10 best books of year 2007. Interestingly the author was a guest speaker at the USAWC and presented his thoughts to the students of class of AY 14. His talk at the USAWC and relevance of situation in Afghanistan to Pakistan prompted me to select his book “Little America” for writing the critical book report.

Theoretically, it holds that the United States (US) invaded Afghanistan as a self-defense strategy following the 9/11 attacks. Practically, however, as US foreign policy is about conquest, self-protection and resource-extraction, it seeks strategic dominance of geographical space to sustain its global relevance. The rationality of the US suggests the need to continuously accumulate capital, resources and military proficiency to ensure autonomy. Therefore, a pragmatic reading into the motivation behind the invasion of Afghanistan negates the self-defense theory. Rather, the shifting coordinates of power within central and southern Asia crafted the perfect criteria for US intervention. This work explores the motivations and systemic cover-ups designed by the Bush administration in ordering military troops into Afghanistan in 2001. It will hold that this invasion was not just a War on Terror, but rather a tactic to ensure US prevalence within the region, and henceforth, the rest of the world. Thus, why did the US invade Afghanistan?

For over 2 centuries, Afghanistan has known virtually no time without war. Beginning around 326 B.C. with the conquests of Alexander the Great, to the Persians, British, Russians and most recently, America and our NATO allies, Afghanistan has been cultivated into the country that it is today through a trial by fire. Regardless of this relentless onslaught of foreign military power, the Afghan people have tirelessly defended their homeland with no outside power ever being able to subdue them completely. Following the withdrawal of the Soviet Union in 1989, the country fell into civil war, torn even further apart by fiercely dedicated tribal warlords. This power vacuum led to the rise of a group called the Taliban. Led by a one eyed man

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini is a story about an individual by the name of Amir who has experienced many changes within his home state of Afghanistan. The experiences forever changing him, and the story reflects on that. One of the underlying issues the author demonstrates within this novel is the treatment and view of the ethnic minority within Afghanistan and Pakistan. The second issue that sets the background of the novel is the ever-changing system Afghanistan is challenged with, transitioning from various systems and facing de-stabilization as of result, starting from the coup and then to the Soviet incursion. Due to the large amount of information, stemming from the transitions Afghanistan has gone through.

Afghanistan was once a place of beauty and enjoyment however since the Taliban new laws have been enforced, the country is slowly degrading. Using the codes and convention for non-print, print, non-fiction and fiction; to analysis how different texts manipulate similar issues to produce a similar message. All three of these texts, The Kite Runner by khaled Hosseini, Beneath the Veil by Saira Shah and “Execution of a teenage girl” from 4 Corners, all explore the main ideas of an Afghanistan life from different perspectives. Undoubtedly, these texts manipulate the specific aspects of their own genres in order to influence the audience response.

Afghanistan is the largest, though arguably the poorest, state in Central Asia, and while it does not provide much interest to the global markets, it has long been of strategic interest to foreign powers. Indeed, Afghanistan has been invaded repeatedly for the past 2,000 years by forces commanded by Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan as well as contemporary armies like the British, Soviet, and American forces. Throughout this period, Afghanistan has remained somewhat unconquerable, suffering heavy losses but ultimately sending invaders packing. The following essay compares and contrasts the Anglo-Afghan Wars, the Soviet-Afghan Wars, and the American war in Afghanistan to understand that what unites these conflicts is not necessarily imperialism or their failure but their approach to conquering a land that has resisted occupiers throughout time.

“And that, young friends, is the story of our country, one invader after another... But we’re like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing looks pretty to look at, but still standing (2.21.10).” Khlaed Hosseini in A Thousand Splendid Suns emphasizes the fact that he would like his readers to learn the sense of empathy for the people of Afghanistan, and especially for the women in Aghaniatan. The question the author asks us is, do we acknowledge the difficult lives of people not only in Afghanistan, but in all countries and do we try to make those lives easier after learning this information.

The Afghani film Osama exists as a powerful statement on Islamic culture in south-central Asia, explicitly within the confines of a repressive regime comprised of a non-state actor such as the Taliban. Even though Afghanistan has experienced a long and tumultuous history of conquest and being largely derelict, the tenebrous environs of the nation still harbors a resilient people, as evinced by this film.

The main theme in the book Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman’s Journey Through Afghanistan the author discusses how, Opium Nation' joins the individual and the political with the characters of people and the personalities of countries utilizing journal and profoundly looked into reporting in a story that hopscotches around the globe to spare a kid in the present as it follows Nawa's youth and her outings to her country in the present day. Her own particular story is sufficiently frightening. As a young lady in a working class family in Afghanistan, she saw one of her colleagues slaughtered by a Soviet bomb. Her grandma evaded being shot by insignificant inches, and in the 1980's, the family fled conveying what they could on two jackasses over the Iranian fringe.

Violence, war, discrimination, and poverty: these issues have long been a part of Afghanistan’s history. Even though things in Afghanistan are getting better, war fills the country, and women and children have to learn to endure abuse, caused by men and the Taliban; they also learn to endure poverty. Considering this, it is no wonder why Afghanistan is in the terrible position it is in now. Many Afghan cities like Kabul are filled with things like violence and discrimination, and the book A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini takes place in Kabul. This book follows the lives of two Afghani women, Mariam and Laila, as they suffer pain and discrimination received from the Taliban and their

The country of Afghanistan was one of the main settings of the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Throughout history Afghanistan has gone through several civil wars and invasions that has left the country scarred and damaged either physically or through its people. In a seminar with the class, we discussed the ways that the country could heal and protect the vulnerable population such as women and children.

Afghanistan today is one of the most violent and unstable countries in the world and is economically and politically on its knees after decades of conflict. There are five main obstacles are preventing Afghanistan from developing, which are high levels of corruption, crime, insecurity, drug-trafficking, and lawlessness (DFID, 2005). The current Afghan government is struggling to improve these issues despite receiving billions of dollars of foreign aid. The Taliban governed Afghanistan from 1996-2001 after a devastating civil war and their rule was characterised by the wide-spread human rights abuses (Okin, 1998) and the mismanagement of the economy, education system and health care system (Goodhand, 2000; Goodwin, 1998; Reyburn et al,

Afghanistan has recently been in the news and in the living rooms of Americans with the increased activity and focus on the Taliban insurgency group that threatens the survival of the state. For many, they are the wild west where there is no law and anything goes. While there is some truth to that, Afghanistan faces serious problems in their quest towards becoming a developed nation. The Millennium Development Goals were created by the United Nations to help countries stabilize and develop faster in order to catch up with the rest of the world. It was also a matter of universal human rights and speaking up for those whose voices could not be heard.