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In world history, gender inequality and women’s and empowerment have been an ongoing battle of victories and setbacks, especially for women. Women are disproportionately affected by gender inequality; they are often looked at with pity or a need to be protected from the outside world. This desire to protect women has evolved into a culture of restriction, when it comes to what women can and cannot do in their day to day lives. The Middle East is especially susceptible to devaluing women in society

The graphic novel Persepolis written by Marjane Satrapi is about the author’s life experiences while growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic Revolution. However, the book doesn’t feel quite so simple as a story. It’s more of a plea for help to the world outside of Iran to aid them in ridding the country of its oppressive religious government. Within the text there are multiple social groups that are silenced by the government both before and after the revolution. Such groups are women, the

forces against the Assad Regime, the Iranian government has the opportunity to spread influence within the Central Command (CENTCOM) area of responsibility (AOR), specifically within Syria. Iran’s persistent influence across Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon via proxy forces has multiple diplomatic, economic, military, and ______ implications. These relationships and

oppression, imagine happiness, sadness, feeling lost and feeling found, imagine that you are Marjane. For Marjane, these feelings and events comes without imagining because she has experienced them all firsthand. Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian girl living in Iran during the Iranian Revolution in the 1980s. The memoir and graphic novel Persepolis that she published in 2000, gives an inside look at the life of a girl from a society that is often stereotyped or misunderstood. The story she tells is a bildungsroman

banks that Iran deals with prefer to err on the side of caution. Their hesitation is understandable given that a mistake could earn a bank the wrath of the US Treasury Department and fines that exceed $1 billion. The recent experience of a reputable Iranian pharmaceutical group shows the magnitude of the problem. When a senior company representative flew to Paris to present a French bank with documentation

Religion as a catalyst for self growth Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis: The story of a childhood” is an autobiographical novel which depicts her childhood and her growth from childhood to her early adult years in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. The novel is based on the history of Iran and the Islamic religion. Religion plays an important role in the development of the story as well as in the growth of Marji. The topic says that religion acts as a catalyst for self growth this means that

In the beginning of Persepolis we see the ways that the government restricts Sharia law to the Iranian in a coercive way. Many times throughout the book, Satrapi rebels against the commandments. In one instance when Satrapi shows signs of her simply being a teenager that adores the western music and fashion. “[Guardians of the revolution] ‘What do

The movie Argo is a visual production of an event called the Iranian Hostage Crisis that happened in the 1980’s. The Iranian Hostage Crisis happened when the U.S decided to take one of Iran’s previous Shah and treat him for cancer. This led to many Iranian people storming the U.S embassy, and taking over 60 hostages. These hostages were held for 444 days before being released. Argo was based on a rescue mission called ‘The Canadian Caper” in which six americans escaped capture and hid in the Canadian

The graphic novel Persepolis, written about the Islamic Revolution beginning in 1979, paints a vivid picture of the life of a seemingly ordinary girl. Author Marjane Satrapi’s life, recorded in this novel through the perspective of “Marji,” produces strong feelings in the audience through drilling in her reoccurring theme. Her book is centered around the idea that she needs to find the truest version of herself and to set it free. This theme is displayed throughout the story throughout her childhood

she wanted her readers to see different perspectives in her writing. However, Satrapi’s tensions between past culture and the present culture is self- evident in her novel. The Author shows this by writing about her experience in Iran during the Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. To what extent does the tension between past and present impact young Satrapi in Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis? This conflict between past and present changes Satrapi’s life, family, and people around