Peshawar Essays

  • Personification In The Kite Runner

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    The focus of this essay is to analyse and critically discuss chapter six of The Kite Runner novel. The examples will be provided as well as the effectiveness of each stylistic feature. The author of the Kite Runner novel is Khaled Hosseini. He was born in 1965 in Afghanistan and then moved to America in 1976. Whilst living in America, he published three bestselling novels, one of which is The Kite Runner. The Kite Runner novel depicts the Afghanistan condition from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan

  • The Kite Runner: A Literary Analysis

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    Willa Cather, a famous author, once said about life that there are only really two or three human stories. Not only is there a very meager amount of stories to be told, but they have been repeated over and over again as if they were new each and every time. Cather’s remarks can be interpreted many different ways with different variations of the meaning being possible. However, when you break down most types of stories they can fall into the same categories of stories. There is really only two possible

  • Najmah Character Analysis

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    Going to Peshawar is the key catalyst that influences Najmah to start talking.(SIP-A) The key ctatalyst that influences Najmah to start talking is Peshawar.(STEWE-1) Nusrat saw the locations Najmah’s catalysts and figured that Najmah might in fact be a girl since the only way to get catalysts in the places Najmah has catalysts is to

  • Refugees In Suzanne Fisher Staples Under The Persimmon

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    has taken all of the men from the village, “the rest of them are going to cross the border into Torkham” (Staples 32), after they get there, they have nowhere to go since they left behind their entire lives and need to “wait in the refugee camps in Peshawar” (31). The struggles they faced to get to the refugee camps are unimaginable. They had to walk days on end with the fear of terrorists around every corner. Through mountains and across deserts, nothing stops them from getting across the border into

  • Vietnamjah Quotes With Page Numbers

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    if she doesn't have her family with her. (SIP-B) Namjah is going to Peshawar to find her family but when she get there she thinks of talking to look for her father and

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder In Under The Persimmon Tree

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    disorder after her mother and baby brother are bombed, which causes major internal conflicts. (BS-2) Najmah later shows severe symptoms of the illnessdisease, which cause her to be silent and stay disconnected from others, which allows for her to reach Peshawar to find her family. (BS-3) Finally, Najmah develops more into herself after encountering Nusrat and the disease begins to ebb away the more that Najmah talks to Nusrat, which helps to comfort her. (TS) Throughout the book Under the Persimmon Tree

  • How Did The War Affect Najmah's Life

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    (MIP-4) Suzanne Fisher Staples uses real world conditions of the camps to show how Najmah 's life is affected by the war. (SIP-A) The camps in Peshawar and Torkhum that Najmah stayed at offered tents but they were usually old and barely suitable to live in. (STEWE-1) When Najmah arrives at the refugee camp in Peshawar she notices that the tents “ have skin peeling from them the way skin peels when it 's been too long exposed to the sun.” (Staples 185). Najmah also noticed “are covered with

  • Najmah's Personality

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    guide you through the violence, Najmah has been through all of that terror by herself and she was only ten years old.(BS-1):Najmah has suffered major trauma, these impacts forced her personality to mature.(BS-2): Najmah and her neighbors head off to Peshawar and her experiences changed Najmah’s personality.(BS-3): When Nusrat came into Najmah’s life, she learned to trust again and found the hope she needed to return to Golestan.(TS): Najmah has been through many losses that have shaped and impacted her

  • What Disappointment Do Soraya And Amir Face?

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    In Chapter 15, Amir meets with the dying Rahim Khan. Where are they? He meets Rahim in Peshawar, Pakistan. 2. What does Amir say about clichés? Why does Amir use the cliché about "an elephant in the room" to describe his meeting with Rahim Khan? 7. In Chapter 17, Rahim gives Amir a letter from Hassan, who wrote it six months before. What is

  • Baba And Amir Character Analysis

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    widower and his homeland to his wife, emphasizing his negative feelings of leaving Afghanistan. Baba is also happier in Peshawar than in America; he has so many friends. He is rich and well-known there. However, Baba is now only a day manager at gas station, knowing a few people, suffering both poverty and loneliness. When Amir mentions to go back, Baba replies Amir that "Peshawar is good for

  • Raim Khan In The Kite Runner

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    Rahim, one of the old friend and business partner of Amir father, called Amir in America that he wanted to meet him. Amir came into Pakistan to meet Rahim Khan who was living in an Afghan refugees camp in Peshawar. After meeting Amir, Rahim Khan told him all that happened after they left for

  • Importance Of Nonverbal Communication In The Classroom

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    Introduction Communication is an ongoing process of sending and receiving messages that enables human to share knowledge, ideas, thoughts, information, feelings, emotions, and attitudes. It requires a medium in which the communicated information is understood by both sender and receiver. There are two media, verbal and non-verbal, which are simultaneously used for communication. Non-verbal correspondence is typically comprehended as the procedure of correspondence through sending and accepting silent

  • Challenges In A Long Walk To Water

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    Sometimes determination and family can overcome your challenges. A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park is about a boy named Salva that is going through some challenges. He uses determination and his family to get over some of his challenges. He lives in Southern Sudan. A big challenge he faced was he had a war happening in his own town. He used his family to get through a few of his obstacles. He had a lot of obstacles he had to overcome on his journey. A girl named Malala lives in pakistan, she

  • Clothes Symbolism

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    Question 1 In “Clothes”, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, the use of symbolism to express the theme of change is evident throughout the entire passage. Mita has never had the freedom to express herself as she pleased. She has always had restrictions on what she could say, do or wear. She is married off to Somesh and through this, she discovers her newly found freedom. Symbolism is expressed throughout the entire story, but one of the most memorable examples of this is when Mita is finally at liberty

  • Importance Of Nonverbal Communication In Teaching Learning

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    ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to explore the use of non-verbal communication and its effect on teaching learning process .The research was descriptive. The objectives of the study were to explore the perception to teachers, students, regarding non-verbal communication as an important teaching learning tool, also to analyze the non-verbal communication use in English language teaching learning process. Research questionnaire were: 1.Why teachers use non-verbal communication in the English

  • Loss In Najmah's Under The Persimmon Tree

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    (AGG) Losing a family member is a very tragic experience that will happen to everyone at some point, but what if you lost them all at one time? (BS-1) Najmah’s loss has lead her to go through many changes. (BS-2) Najmah has to flee to a refugee camp because it is not safe to stay in Kunduz alone, and that affects her in a variety of ways. (BS-3) At the end of the book, Najmah makes a very big decision to go home, which is influenced by the loss of her family. (TS) In Under the Persimmon Tree, one

  • Organisational Structure Of The Salvation Army

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    The Salvation Army was formed in London’s East End in 1865 by one- time Methodist Reform Church minister whose name was William Booth and his wife Catherine. In reality, Booth named this institution the East London Christian Mission. 150 years ago The Salvation Army was formed to function as a religious and charitable corporation. Whose purpose “is to lead men and women into a proper relationship with God” (What Is the Salvation Army? pp.8-9) the organizational structure of the Salvation Army does

  • Najmah Persimmon Tree Essay

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    Nusrat. (STEWE-1) As Najmah regained her “... strength and my resolve grows to leave for peshawar, I begin to think I might be able to talk again if I want to.” (Staples 150-151) Najmah thought she can fulfil her father's wish as time went by and she became stronger. (STEWE-2) In the refugee camp, najmah came to a realisation “By the seventh day in the refugee camp at Torkhum I know I am strong enough to reach Peshawar” (Staples 151). (SIP-B) Another scenario that helped Najmah become trusting was when

  • Najmah's 'Under The Persimmon Tree'

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    (AGG) Refugee have been fleeing their homes in hope of safety, just like Najmah and the people in her villages leaving their homes in a time of danger. (BS-1) In the book Under the Persimmon tree when Najmah left her home for Peshawar to find her family she became a refugee when she left her home . (BS-2) Similarly, the difficulties refugees encounter on their journeys are similar to the ones Najmah experiences as a refugee. (BS-3) Finally education at camps or provided near camps is where Najmah

  • Essay On Truck Art

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    Truck Art is rooted in traditions that come from the truck drivers, and painter’s community and culture, expressing cultural identity by conveying shared community values and aesthetics. Truck Art encompasses a range of utilitarian and decorative media, Such as wood, metal, steel, reflective tape, luminous plastic sheet etc. Truck Art is made by painters whose creative skills convey their community`s authentic cultural identity rather than an individual artistic identity. Truck Art is one of the