Mary Ewald’s letter to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was shortly sent after the worried mother found out her son had been abducted in Kuwait.(Carroll, 177) In this letter Mary Ewald aims to convince the reader, President Hussein, that her family has been unjustly affected by the abduction of her son and pleads, “let my son go” (178). In order to convey this message Ewald sides strongly on her ethos. To prove her credibility her writing style, tone, diction, personal anecdotes and character traits are all implemented together to aid in her argument. Knowing that the president of Iraq would not receive letters from everyone and actually give in, Ewald strategically used her past experiences to get through to him.
Farber successfully argues that the iranian hostage crisis was infact the first encounter with radical islam. Farber paints the picture of two oppossing rivals. The Shah represents corruption and the Khomeini represents relegion. The Shah is allowed to enter the United states to recieve treatment for cancer. The fall of the Shah of iran leads to Ayatollah Khomeini and his followers to take over.
In Laura Blumfeld’s “The Apology: Letters from a Terrorist”, instead of hating a Muslim terrorist for shooting her father, she used her background in Middle East Correspondence to send letters and communicate with her father’s shooter, Omar Khatib. After revealing that she is the daughter of the man he shot, she discovers the remorse in the gunmen but also begins to understand Omar’s reasoning behind the shooting. Blumfeld put herself in Omar’s position to get his point of view on why he did what he did. “Thirteen years have passed.
Nick Flynn spends a large majority of his memoir, The Ticking is the Bomb, reflecting on both the Abu Ghraib prison scandal of 2004-2005 and his impending fatherhood, seemingly placing two incompatible ideas side by side. At first glance, the memoir seems disjointed and causes the reader to question why Flynn would choose to write about parenthood alongside depictions of torture. Close examination of the text, however, reveals Flynn’s complex and nuanced worldview. Flynn finds torture to be reprehensible, and a significant portion of the memoir is devoted to coming to terms with the fact that he had shaken hands with known torture-advocate Sam Harris. Perhaps he does not wish to raise his daughter in a world where scandals like Abu Ghraib
The purpose of Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio writing this book was to inform people of what happened in Tehran after the American embassy was seized.
The first issue that was discussed in the article was about David Peace. Peace talked about missing out on life as a young man and how he feared going out into the real world. This an effect that mass imprisonment could have on young black men. They adapt to life in prison where they are control and once they receive freedom it scares them. The reason for this issue is due to political socialization.
He goes into depth and great detail about this Al-Qaeda affiliate’s story. If readers do not know anything about the process of catching a bombmaker, Mr. Dillow’s writing allows them to be greatly informed. This article appeals to anyone who is interested in Government operations, and Science. This piece of writing is very well written. Proper
In the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr., he writes a letter in which he is expressing his concerns about having morals and justice. On the other hand, the article “What’s Wrong with Equal Right for Women” by Phyllis Schlafly, her main focus was to campaign against the endorsement of the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution. In both the letter and the article, Martin Luther King Jr and Phyllis Schlafly are both very strong activist with different opinions. In the letter that Martin Luther King Jr wrote from Birmingham City Jail was to write to a group of clergy members who did not approve of his actions in Birmingham City.
In the opening chapter, Kimball begins his discussion by describing his encounter with the then Ayatollah, Ruhollah Khomeini, in Qom, Iran on Christmas Day. He described the Ayatollah as being very charismatic and grandfatherly, as well as being an extraordinarily influential religious and political leader (Kimball, p. 1). The two discussed a number of important issues like the Iranian revolution, Christian-Muslim relations, Jesus, and the U.S. hostages (Kimball, p.
One of the most impertinent questions of the modern time is: Should the United States involve itself in foreign conflicts or should it restrain from being enmeshed in world affairs? According Barbara Kingsolver’s writing in the novel The Poisonwood Bible, America should function in an isolated state, and not concern itself with the problems of the surrounding world. In the narrative “The Poisonwood Bible”, Barbara Kingsolver was meticulous in her choosing of allusions in order to establish her firm opinion that The United States of America cannot use democracy as an instrument to urge citizen engagement in political disputes. Barbara Kingsolver includes reference to different political and cultural aspects in the two focused regions in order to exemplify the juxtaposition between the predatory Price family and the Congolese victims. This apposition works as a parallel to further the author’s underlying message that if a country wants to adopt the American way of life, it should come from that country’s citizen and not the outside ruling of the United States.
The word terrorist attaches to every part of this essay so that the reader will view them in a negative light and become persuaded to believe that torture is a necessary action to perform on them (terrorists). The word innocent also attaches to every part of this essay to make the reader become a defender to those “who never asked to be in danger”. This word (innocent) also connects with the word baby because whenever a person thinks about a baby the adjectives that are associated with it are helpless, unknowing, innocent, and unaware to the danger that surrounds them. This connection is made because the one thing any (moral) human being would care about over their own self would be their children. Levin uses this connection so that it is very relatable to the audience’s everyday life and the emotional appeal is able to have more influence since it is a scenario any
Samira Ahmed’s realistic fiction novel, Love, Hate, and Other Filters, takes place in modern-day Chicago where a suicide bombing has engrossed the attention of America. Maya Aziz, a Muslim teenager, is targeted for her heritage while attempting to lead a life free of high school drama, controlling parents, and difficult relationships. As Maya copes with Islamophobia, prejudice against Muslims, she begins to understand the horrors and shortcomings of violence. One lesson the story suggests is that hatred is an infectious and blinding motive. From the very beginning of the story, readers are familiarized with the source of terrorism through thorough description and sentence structure.
The book Baghdad Burning and the film Turtles Can Fly can both be very influential to a reader or viewer. These two works give an insightful look into Iraq during the time of the war on Iraq in 2003. Either of these works can provide a reader or viewer with many important lessons about Iraq, the Iraqis, and their culture. But, even though Riverbend’s book Baghdad Burning and Bahman Ghobadi’s movie Turtles Can Fly are both important works, Baghdad Burning by Riverbend is more important to help people think critically and understand important aspects of the world around them.
The United States invasion of Iraq in 2003 was dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom by US Forces, but it seemed like freedom was the last thing on their minds. Abu Ghraib prison was an occupied Iraqi prison where the US Army held mass incarcerations and sponsored inmate torture. 2007 marked the year that a documentary titled “Ghosts of Abu Ghraib” was produced by HBO and directed by Rory Kennedy. This documentary showed the abuses and injustices inured to the Iraqi prisoners at the hands of the United States Soldiers. Although the guards at Abu Ghraib Prison Complex had personal reservations against the treatment of the prisoners, they were manipulated into authoritarianism by their overzealous obedience.
The invasion of Iraq echoes the ideological view of Woodrow Wilson, immediately following World War I. In Wilson’s opinion, his Liberal Internationalism was a cure-all end-all to conflicts between nations. His matrix of diagnoses and prescriptions
