On a cold windy night, the sound of bombs dropping echoed not too far away. Ahmad was laying down thinking about his life. He contemplated his existence by asking himself questions. Is his life worth it? Is staying in the country worth risking his life? He does not want to leave the country that he grew up in, the country that he had endless good memories in, the country that offered him a home and regardless of the circumstances, it made him feel as though he belonged; however, he could not stop wondering when his turn will come. When will he follow half of his friends and family to the cemetery? He continued to ponder while staring up at his bleak ceiling. Suddenly, his phone rang. It was Louts. “I thought you were asleep.” Louts said. “I …show more content…
“Your mom. She wants me to convince you not to leave and she has a point you know.” Lotus says. “I got a point too. It’s not safe here. I have the chance to leave a country that’s experiencing war and move to a county that I can live peacefully in.” Ahmad says. “Although your point is valid, the way you want to travel with, is not safe. Don’t you watch news? Do you know how many people drowned trying to leave the country with this method?” Lotus replies with anger rising in her tone. “Who cares? I’m going to die anyways. I’d rather die trying to escape this war, so that I don’t regret it later.” Ahmad shrugs. “Do you think that you are the only one that is experiencing war? Have you even thought about your mother and father? What will happen to them when you leave? First your brother left them, and now you want to leave. Did you think of me? What will happen to me if something happens to you?” Lotus replies with tears building up in her eyes. Lotus slides off of the swing and begins to walk away. Ahmad couldn’t stop her from going, he didn’t know what to tell her if he stopped her. He didn’t want to break her heart again. He knew all she wanted to hear was that he was going to stay but he couldn’t tell her that
Since the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration has been calling every citizens and every nations to support his Middle East policy. Nonetheless, the U.S. has been involved in the middle-east struggle for more than half of the century, wars were waged and citizens were killed. Yet, political struggles and ideological conflicts are now worse than they were under Clinton’s presidency. As “President’s Address to the Nation” is a speech asking everybody to support the troops to keep fighting in Iraq, I, as an audience, am not persuaded at all because of his illogical fallacy in the arguments. In this essay, I will analyze how and what are the illogical fallacies he uses in the speech.
“ I joined the Army when I was fourteen because, one, I was persuaded that the only way to get my parents back or to stop that from happening was to be apart of the Army and kill those people who were responsible for killing my parents. But, you see, the thing that is very disturbing about this thing is that once I joine...
In his article, “Fleeing Terror, Finding Refuge,” Paul Salopek describes the prolonged conflict and distress of the Syrians. The Syrians, having been introduced into a warzone, are being forced out of their homeland in search of refuge. Salopek introduces the struggles of the Syrians in an intriguing and eye-opening style throughout his article. Throughout the article, “Fleeing Terror, Finding Refuge,” Paul Salopek is able to use the rhetorical strategies of rhetorical questioning, diction, and anecdote as a way to involve, inform, and create a lasting impact upon his audience relating to the Syrian Refugee Crisis.
Although a major component of this conflict is religion, the difference in beliefs in the Middle East is not the sole reason for Palestinian resistance and violence. Instead, each person is motivated to fight for freedom in a unique way. For some, the occupation has causes issues and deaths of family or close friends. Others simply feel that it is their duty to fight for independence. No matter the reason, each freedom fighter feels that their actions are justified by the problems that the occupation has bestowed upon them. In Hany Abu-Assad’s Paradise Now, two Palestinian men are are chosen to commit a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, Israel. Using the two men as examples, Abu-Assad demonstrates the distinct effects that each man feels in Israeli occupied territories. Hany Abu-Assad has experienced the oppression of the Israeli occupation first hand, and in Paradise Now, he uses long shots to show the overall injustice of the situation and close-up shots to show how single people are trapped by unique circumstances.
“Above all, Iraq launched the war in an effort to consolidate its rising power in the Arab world and to replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf state” (Iranian Chamber Society). This war continued for eight year, which during this time Marjane grew up elsewhere due to her parents not wanting her being involved with it, also with how she was already acting. War didn’t just take you by surprise, but in a way made you tougher. When in war with a neighboring country it was difficult to be ‘free’ because the government was always on the ‘look out’ so, people were taken by surprisingly new rules. Including, but not limited to, the
“We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets. They were foreign sounds to us then. The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born. Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise, none of us had any notion that a way of life had ended. Our way of life. If not quite yet, then at least it was the beginning of the end.”
Ever the shrewd leader, Hussein realized that the primary way to ensure stability was to increase the standard of living. The fi...
“There is too much stress here and I can't deal with the many affairs that are going on. Daisy is too much to handle and I can't even begin to mention Tom.” She replied back. I could tell in her eyes that she did not want to leave at all but she knew she had to.
A thick plume of black smoke and ash hung in the air in a heavy haze, almost completely obscuring the lurid red glow of the waning sun. Below, a cloud of grey plaster dust twisted and writhed amid the sea of debris as intermittent eddies of wind gusted by.
Trapped in a warzone… People are dying, suffering and desperate for freedom. For many innocents across the Middle East this is the current situation they are living in. Now these vulnerable people have even less opportunity to escape their terror than ever. This is all thanks to tactless executive orders recently put in place by the Trump presidency that will prevent Muslims from entering America. It’s a controversial and idiotic decision that’s had a lot of people, up in arms.
Schools and hospitals have been used to store military equipment. They serve as bases for military operations. Iraqis who show friendship toward coalition troops are murdered in cold blood by the regime's enforcers,” and gives a pledge to the people of Iraq saying “We're coming with a mighty force to end the reign of your oppressors. We are coming to bring you food and medicine and a better life. And we are coming, and we will not stop, we will not relent until your country is free.”
Every month ever-more American and Iraqi soldiers were being killed.” Joel Brinkley tells us how the presence has influenced terrorism instead of stomping it out “It showed that the war is breeding violent insurgent cells across the Arab world. Some of these insurgents intend to join the fight against the United States in Iraq.” Many oppose democracy and the western ways, or plan to exploit the democratic ideals “[…] to loiter in Iraq to improve the instincts of corrupt officials.” George Will explains how America is being used.
...s the ordinary Syrian who tries hard to surmount he difficulties of everyday life and who is tired of political slogans” (qtd. in Lawson 416).
“I-I don’t know,” he replies timidly. “Do we even know what we’re fighting for anymore?”
The Creature That Opened My Eyes Sympathy, anger, hate, and empathy, these are just a few of the emotions that came over me while getting to know and trying to understand the creature created by victor frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. For the first time I became completely enthralled in a novel and learned to appreciate literature not only for the great stories they tell but also for the affect it could have on someones life as cliché as that might sound, if that weren’t enough it also gave me a greater appreciation and understanding of the idiom “never judge a book by its cover.” As a pimply faced, insecure, loner, and at most times self absorbed sophomore in high school I was never one to put anytime or focus when it came time