Taken Hostage Summary

Although my interest was lost in certain parts of the book, it did teach me a lot about being successful

The holding of hostages continued for month’s event after the death of the Shah. Throughout their captivity, the hostages were paraded in front of the media. Though the hostage takers were not members of the Iranian government or military, their allegiance to Khomeini and the Islamic government shaped a worldwide crisis.

I did actually really like this book. I was not sure if I was going to enjoy it when the project was first assigned, but after reading for a while, I became really interested

The 1970s was a rough time for Americans. The economy was struggling and gas prices were doublings, sometimes gas stations even ran out of gas. While all this was going on, the media caught the attention of the American people on the story of the sixty six hostages that were captured in Tehran. Soon that became the center of attention. Both in Iran and America, people focused on what would happen and especially how President Jimmy Carter would respond. In his book, Taken Hostage, David Farber closely examines the events that led up to the hostage crisis. He informs us of America’s first encounter with radical Islam and what had caused the conflict between them. For four hundred and forty-four days, President Carter tried to put effort into resolving the issues but he failed on releasing the hostages. Since the American people paid close attention to this issue, they were highly disappointed with President Carter and his processes. From our class lectures and throughout the tensions illustrated in Farber’s book, we learn of how the role of Cold War policy had fueled the crisis between the United States and “Radical Islam”, the Cold War policy shaping the response of the U.S. to the crisis, and also understanding the present War on Terror.

This book was certainly one of the more difficult books I have ever read in any scenario ever. To expand upon, it was mostly due to the fact that I, at the time, was completely unfamiliar with the subject of politics. Thus leading into my first point, I did enjoy this book because I was able to learn new aspects of our world. Even more so, I was able to apply them to the real world in this upcoming presidential election. Of course with the good comes the bad, I was simply overwhelmed with information that the book did come off as confusing at many parts. Not to mention the excessive amounts of examples in history that each theme has occurred, did anger me a little bit.

The book to me was interesting. The author use make history sounds more exciting than the

Overall, this book is a really deep thinking book, I haven't fully understand what the author is trying to teach us, but I love this process of stretching my

This novel taught me alot. I loved all of the concepts but practice and purpose had the most effect on me. I will continue to use them in life and never forget

All in all, I liked this book a lot. First of all, it was hard to start reading it - there was so many new people and that’s why I was confused a lot. Later in the book, it was hard to stop reading, because the whole book was really interesting. There are short texts throughout the book - they help a lot in some confusing situations. Also, sometimes they explain some stuff more in depth. Overall, I liked this book a lot and I would recommend it to anybody who likes history and breathtaking

The Iran Hostage Crisis was a discretionary standoff between Iran and the United States. In 1979, a group of Iranian students went to the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 American hostages. Fifty-two hostages were held for 444 days, from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981. The reputation of Iran's leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, started to become awful as the Hostage Crisis kept going. Ayatollah Khomeini was the Iranian Shia Muslim religious leader and politician and he made several demands that needed to be met before the hostages were released. The Iran Hostage Crisis caused the United States to cut ties with Iran and was an exemplary demonstration of America’s resolve to ensure the safe return of our citizens.

The Iranian Hostage Crisis wasn’t the result of a spontaneous uproar of the Iranian people in an overtaking of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran. Rather, the crisis was the result of a lengthy series of chaotic events that caused many of the Iranian people to develop a severe hatred of the United States.

The [Bush] administration found it consistently difficult to get the measure of Tehran. Bush depicted it as a “nation held hostage by a small clerical elite that is repressing and isolating its people,” but the reality was far more complex. (482)

Starting in the 1960’s under the Johnson administration, the United States created two economic burdens based off the Vietnam War and President Johnson’s Great Society. President Johnson 's spending on the Vietnam War and the Great Society had boosted economic growth to 4.9%, and inflation to an alarming 4.7%. Going into the next presidency in 1968, during the start of the Nixon administration, President Nixon made a number of questionable decisions that led to the mass inflation crisis of the 1970’s. Stagflation got its name during the 1973 - 1975 recession. There were six quarters of shrinking Gross Domestic Product (GDP), while inflation tripled in 1973, rising from 3.4% to 9.6%. It remained between

I felt that reading All Quiet on the Western Front was an intense book to read. Throughout the course of the book, the many

The process of addressing memories of private suffering within “The Victims” by Sharon Olds is implied through contradictive perspectives. In the poem there is a shift in focus and tone during line 17. The poem addresses issues of suffering from two distinct perspectives, the first coming from a little girl and the second a grown woman. The narrative, imagery and diction are different in the two contrasting parts of the poem, and the second half carefully qualifies the first, as if to illustrate the more mature and established attitudes of the narrator in her older years – a stipulation of the easy imitation of the earlier years, when the mother’s views dominated and set the tone. Change has governed the poems structure here; differences