Yezidi Research Paper

Have you ever thought about how to learn about Chaldean culture? This paper will provide you the reader with this knowledge. I will discuss Chaldean traditions and how my family have brought them to the United States. The Chaldean tradition derives from the ancient civilization and though it has little change my family is very fortunate to practice this unique culture. We as a family lived in the Middle East (Iraq “majority”, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, Iran …), and nowadays are spread all over the world after the recent wars and challenges in the region that they live, especially those of Iraq. The Chaldean community like myself have migrated to the United States and live in two major Cities (Detroit in Michigan, and San Diego in California. The majority of Chaldeans like my family and I that have lived in USA came from the Northern part of Mesopotamia in a small village called, “Tilkef”. I am a Chaldeans like many of my relatives that are Christian Catholics, and we speak a language of Aramaic (The language that Jesus was speaking), which is also called Chaldean. The Aramaic is one of the oldest, continually spoken languages in the world. People think that Arabic and Chaldean languages are the same thing, actually they are nothing alike, and you will not be able to understand Arabic just because you speak Chaldean. I can speak both of these two different languages, and the use of this language is only because the Chaldean used to live with the Arab people for hundreds of

My Yiayia is a very special person to just about everyone who knows her. She loves to talk about her memories and experiences of when she was younger. During the interview I was able to hear even more wonderful stories from her past. She was in high school during the 1950s, she grew up in a small poor neighborhood with brick streets, one high school, one factory everyone would work out once they graduated highschool, and one drug/grocery store. She remembers there was a soda machine at the drugstore where people from her school went to socialize but she was never allowed to. Her parents were immigrants from Turkey making her cultural background very important in her life, she was very sheltered throughout her school years, and her family's

Yadira Sosa is a teacher in San Benito Texas. Mrs. Sosa has had the privilege to teaching for 10 years at Dr. Cash Elementary. Mrs.Sosa has been a PK teacher for the past 5 yrs. After interviewing Mrs. Sosa I have learn that being a teacher is a great challenge. Its a profession that requires many skills one must possess. The firsts thing Mrs.Sosa said was you have to love children and have patience in order to be a teacher. Patience is the number one skill a teacher must posses. Children come form different background and have different personality. As a teacher you have to find a way to work with the student to earn their respect. Another skill Mrs. Sosa mention was teamwork with the staff. Working as a team helps the student and helps

“Everything I was dreaming of is gone.” Those are the words of Abdullah Kurdi, whose wife and two children drowned after the small boat that was supposed to take them from Turkey to the Greek island of Kos had capsized. Abdullah Kurdi was ultimately trying to get his family to a better life in Canada when it all went wrong and he lost everything. Since Alan Kurdi’s little body washed up on a Turkish beach on September 3, his photos have taken the world by storm.

There are many countries in the world and every country is unique and individualistic with many exclusive qualities. Everyone in the world has a culture but it is not easy to accept or agree with other people’s culture. The ethnography, “Guests of the Sheik”, written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea really captures what it is like to live and to be immersed into another culture. Ethnography is “comprised of the writings of the anthropologist, detailing the life ways of a particular culture, investigated by means of direct fieldwork” (Arenson, and Miller-Thayer 1). Elizabeth Fernea lived in a small village of El Nahra in southern Iraq for two years to gather data for her anthropologist husband Bob. In the beginning, she had limited knowledge of Iraq, its religion or culture, but as she started connecting with the women of the society, she came to learn both about this foreign country and about herself. Acculturation is “the process of acceptance resulting for the contact between two cultures, or an individual interacting in at least two cultures” (517). As she builds relationships with the woman’s, she is acculturated.

At the age of sixteen, Amir Ronaghi bravely decided to come to the United States for more educational and lifestyle opportunities. Like most Iranians, this hard process included living abroad for a few years to get a VISA, for him Austria, later moving to the United States to endure many adversities before success. Despite the obstacles, Amir knows how to balance fun and hard work. For instance, every Sunday, he never fails to play soccer, additionally traveling to play on a medical soccer team. While traveling to foreign places, Amir enjoys photography, especially with his family near a beautiful or significant site. Towering at over 6 feet tall with a smile as bright as the sun, Amir Ronaghi is extremely caring and humble while inspiring others to work hard for a better future.

Selim I also known as “The Grim” was the third son born to Bayezid II, he came into power by getting rid of his father. Selim began to wage war on other Muslim states because he believed that the other Muslim states were condoning heresy. Selim I first killed thousands of Shia Muslim people before he started a war with the Persian Shia king named Isma’il. Selim I and his army also began to move towards Mesopotamia and finally in 1514 Selim’s army conquered the Safavid army. This was easy for Selim I because his army was equipped with muskets and weapons such as guns, while the Safavid army had older weapons like the bow and arrow, blades, and spears. After defeating the Safavid army he then moved on to start a war with the Mameluk leaders that

The ISIS Yazidi Women Abductions are a very important topic to address at this point in time. The Yazidi people have been persecuted based on the beliefs in a benevolent peacock angel (Melek Taus) which contains elements of Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam. ISIL views this peacock angel as a malevolent archangel Lucifer or more commonly known as Satan. Under the Islamic Law observed by ISIS, Yazidis are officially given an opportunity to convert to Sunni Islam or be put to death. This has led to the exile, abduction and unfortunate massacres of at least 5,000 Yazidi men, women, and children. This is a crucial issue to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland because

1. The Yazidis are a minority religious group from Iraq. They are being forced to flee to Mount Sinjar in order to escape religious persecution from the Isis terrorist group. According to The Times of India, the Yazidis “have often been misconstrued as satanic” which is causing many people to terrorize the group for their beliefs.

Only a month after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 an article appeared in The Guardian that claimed to reveal the identity of “The Man who Inspired bin Laden” (Irwin n.p.) Still reeling from the carnage and destruction, many in the West sought to understand what could have inspired that magnitude of violence. British author Robert Irwin believed he found the answer “not in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan,” or hidden in the biography of Osama bin Laden (Irwin n.p.) but in the works of Egyptian fundamentalist Sayyid Qutb. Generally regarded as one of the most influential Islamic revivalists of the 20th century, and a prominent member of the Muslim Brotherhood, he has been described in scholarly publications as the “spiritual father of al-Qaeda” (Hansen and Kainz 57) and his seminal work, Milestones, has more than once been compared to Mein Kampf.

Mohammad Yaya is the father of Mohammad Mostafa. He is 58 years old and he has lived next to a bakery at Cartier 23 in Kabul for approximately 30 years. He is able to read and write. He lives with his wife of more than 35 years, Nazifa, their daughters, Nazila and Mina, his daughter-in-law, Mina, and his granddaughter, Hafnat. Nazila is older than 25 and does not work. His daughter, Mina, is 26 or 27 and she keeps the house. His daughter-in-law, Mina, is illiterate and does not work. Mina lived with her father before marrying Mostafa and moved into the witness’ house after the wedding. Mostafa had always lived in his father’s house.

Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi (1080-1140), a man well known in the history of our people, was a great Torah scholar, philosopher, and poet. In fact, he was arguably the greatest Hebrew poet since the times of Tanach and almost certainly the greatest of the Spanish era. Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi was a giant best known for his poetry exalting the Jew’s love and yearning for Zion and his great works of Jewish Philosophy.2

Losing someone you care about and being strong about it is very hard. Everyone has experienced hardship like this and everyone can relate just like you and Kaguyahime. So, the lesson in my Japanese myth “Kaguyahime” is to learn to appreciate what we have before time makes us appreciate what we had. The myth “Kaguyahime” is a story about an old man who finds a girl that was magically born in a bamboo shoot. The old man and his wife raise her and as she gets older she starts to learn who she really is. This myth relates to my family because when I was a little kid my grandma use to tell me this story. She would say that I’m just like Kaguyahime because I was a beautiful baby girl and that I was also born magically. This myth was originally written in the 10th century in the Tokugawa Period which is between the years 901-1000. Here’s how the story goes.

Becoming a mother is viewed as essential throughout many African cultures, for it is as if you have not fulfilled your duty as a women if you have not been a mother. Strong rooted traditions and superstitions play an important role in this. For example, Hamzawi was told he was infertile because his first wife put a curse on him. When a child showed up on his doorstep Hamzawi called him, "An angel from heaven" (Saadawi, 36). He was eager to take the child in, for he was not able to have one of his own and saw the child as a gift from Allah. Hamzawi's opinion of this child changed rather quickly as soon as misfortune began to occur in the village and people began to blame the child for it was a child of sin. They stopped greeting Hamzawi, and

For more than a century, the demand or desire for a Kurdish state somehow divided the Kurdish people and their neighbors in terms of their opinion toward an independent Kurdish state. Kurds are possibly on of the largest ethnic groups in the world that do not own a country of their own. They are the largest minorities in Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Syria (Murray p.31). It has been a challenge due to the radical ideologies of the neighboring countries toward an independent Kurdish state since they always translated that step as a threat to the repeating of the scenario to the Kurds in their own country. It is usually hard to express your self as a Kurd when people ask you about your place of origin. A Turk, Egyptian, or American can almost