Shah Bros. Inc. v United States No. 10-00205 (Ct. Int'l Trade 2013) Facts Shah Bros is an importer of a smokeless tobacco product. The company imports a product called gutkha from India. The product was classified by the customs department as snuff. Shah Bros protested this classification and contended that the product should be classified as chewing tobacco.
Graceling, by Kristin Cashore, is a story about Katsa, a young female graced with the skill of killing, and how she struggles to find freedom from power. Cashore demonstrates the message power has limits multiple times throughout the novel. At the beginning of the novel, Katsa is constantly ordered to perform gruesome executions for her uncle, King Randa. For example, “In one motion she snapped his neck. There was no blood…… ‘What’s the point of a public execution,’ he said, ‘if the public misses the part where the fellow dies?’...”
The struggle of power is shown throughout the book. Haman is the king’s advisor who wanted to be king. He manipulates the king in approving his requests of genocide to the Jews. He was involved in the murdering of the Jewish race, including Hadassah’s family. When women are sent to be in election of a queen, they put on all the jewelry offered to them.
The colony is saved from the hand of general who lead them with hard military to a democratic state. Z is an individual living in a society who values conformity and strength. He dreams of a better place like “Insectopia” where he can be himself without any judgement from anyone. One night, in a bar, Z meets Princess Bala and dance with her, but he did not know who she was at that time.
While this is happening, none of the people in Iran are fully aware of how to react because the country didn’t have a leader at the time. Marjane had to experience this imperialism during her teenage years and it played a large role in her perspective. To demonstrate this in the book, it says, “‘God did not choose the king. ’[said Marjane’s father] ‘He did so!
Arab Open University Faculty of Language Studies Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA) EL121: The Short Story and Essay Writing Fall Semester 2015-2016 Part (I): STUDENT INFORMATION (to be completed by student) 1.
The character of Rasheed is an epitome of the male dominated Afghan society. He is an unsympathetic patriarch who treats his wives as pieces of property. He exercises his power over them and uses them for the satisfaction of his physical needs. In the beginning after marrying Mariam, Rasheed treats her well. He takes her out to show around the City of Kabul and also buys a beautiful shawl for her.
We also see the oppression of the Shah when Marjane’s grandfather is forced into jail. This inspires
However, their very obstacle was man. Although, the women were often seen as unfaithful and inferior to men, Shahrazed portrays a feminist character by using her sneaky strategy and fearlessness of men to trick the king, save the women of the kingdom and help them overcome discrimination. If the king was to kill every woman after a night with them, this would have caused a population decrease and the kingdom would eventually run out of women for him to marry. This story makes the reader take sides of the women that the king is
He resists for Amir whom he loves with his whole heart. Amir witnesses this struggle, but he does nothing; he runs away since “he was just a Hazara, wasn’t he?” (Hosseini 77). Amir has always believed, deep down, that his father favored Hassan, a Hazara, the dirt of Afghan society, over him, his own son. Seeing Hassan reduced to that level of baseness is perversely satisfying for him.
Karl Marx was a German philosopher, journalist, economist, and a revolutionary sociologist who had many radical ideas that leaders of state governments found as a threat, but revolutionists found inspirational. He was born into a wealthy middle class family who came from a long line of Rabbis in 1818 in Trier, Prussia. He was one of the first social scientists to focus mainly on social classes, and came up with the belief that capitalism created prosperity for few and poverty for many. Which meant one social class dictated one social life, where wealthy families lived in leisure and abundance, while the non wealthy lived in poverty and hardship. Marx studied capitalism sufficiently and most of his writings focused on problems with capitalism
Shahrazad shows him other people’s struggles and this does three things to The King. Firstly, the story brings us back to the idea of “misery loves company.” Shahrazad is able to show The King that everyone goes through trials and tribulations at some point in their life. Each of the old man’s tales conveys the same theme of being innocent, while the people closest to you betray you. We see this in the First Wise Man’s Tale when it reads “I entrusted my wife, this one here, with my mistress and son, bade her take good care of them, and was gone for a whole year.
Arabian Nights The Arabian Nights is one of the most well known collections of stories told around the world. The stories passed down from generation to generation in many different countries has brought endless entertainment to readers throughout the world, more specifically The Arabian Nights have become a pivotal past of Western culture with the wild tales of its character. The stories Aladdin, Princess Shahrazad, Ali Baba, and Sinbad the Sailor are forever in the imagination of Western civilization. The stories that span over several centuries and multiple countries began as a collection of folk stories and fables that were passed from one person to the next, slightly changing as the stories were passed along.
Mahfouz, as well as Said, shared a direct contact with the Arabian lifestyle because they grow up in that society. Mahfouz’s novel depicts the real world with the touches of the supernatural and mystic, but as a form of evil in the world not as exotic and uncivilized as the Europeans did. Mahfouz’s Arabian Nights and Days “takes new depths and insights as it picks up from where the ancient story ends” (Fayez 229). Mahfouz uses the Arabian Nights tales and Shahryar’s and Scheherazade’s society to portray the contemporary social and political issues of his people. Mahfouz aims to show various thematic concerns of the people of the East than the early versions left out.
