...Top Ten Richest Countries 1) Qatar : Qatar is the world’s most richest country with 102,768.69 as the GDP rate. It is very hard for other countries to compete with such a high rate of GDP assuming that Qatar will still be ranked as the most richest in the future. 2) Luxemborg : is the second most richest country in the world and also the richest country in all of Europe. The current GDP rate of the country is 80,679.06 3) Singapore : Third richest country is Singapore and it is one of the southeast asian countries that has made an incredible economic development. Its GDP rate is 60,883.33 4) Norway: Norway’s effective government is one of the reasons that Norway has a GDP of 55,264.46 and has been ranked as the 4th richest country. 5) Hong Kong: the current rate of Hong Kong’s GDP is 50,708.95. Hong kong is a Economic power of Asia and its stable political conditions have helped it earn this rank. 6) Brunei is the sixth most richest country developing in a high speed with the GDP rate of 50.526.35 7) USA: the American products that are purchased widely in every part of the globe has helped USA to reach into the top ten richest counties as the 7th with a GDP of 49,802.15 8) UAE: Its natural resources, particularly oil has helped this country to develop. It provides homage for the millions of people working in the UAE and send remittance back home. The current GDP of UAE is 48,992.47 9) Switzerland: Famous for its banking services around the...
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...Laila is just another girl in the town of Harat. Her father, Babi, is a scholar who was a teacher until they forced him to quit. Laila is close to her father because he would always give her advice, and pays attention with what’s going on in her life. It’s more of a challenge for Laila to connect with her mother because she’s living in the shadows of her great brothers who went off to war. When they are told that they had been killed in the war, her mother, Mammi, just wasn’t the same anymore. She lies in bed all day grieving for her sons and Laila sees her sadness. One evening, Laila asks Mammi if she ever contemplated suicide although she says no, it isn’t for the reason she wanted to hear. Mammi decides not to because she’s waiting for the...
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...When life brings two people together They were brought together for a reason. Mariam and Laila were two totally different characters with two different ways to think. But they were brought together by a man that all he did was abuse of them and make them peasants rather than wifes. Mariam and Laila have lots differences and similarities when it comes to their lives. They had to do many things to be able survive in a country when surviving is the main point. They had to come across each other to be able to survive. Although one of them at the end really didn’t. Laila and Mariam were just young girls when their live changes that makes them have so many similarities, but the choices they made made them different. But they ended up in the same house, with the same man and different places....
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...me that my aunt has just passed away from stage 4 breast cancer.. She was one of my favorite people on this small earth...the way i endured so well was that i had mental and physical strength, friendship, and patience to deal with my painful event. it may not seem much compared to Mariam and Laila but it was terrible for me. This is how they endured and lived. For Mariam and Laila to endure, they need mental...
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...ليلى عيد المنعم أم المخترعين سيدة رصيدها من الاختراعات تخطى المائة اختراع في جميع المجالات، ولكنها لم تحصل على براءة اختراع واحدة من أكاديمية البحث العلمي في مصر. رغم ذلك أطلق عليها البعض لقب "أم المخترعين"؛ نظرًا لاختراعاتها الكثيرة. وفي مؤتمر "جلوبل" بلندن تسلمت وسام استحقاق عالمي، وكان ترتيبها الثالث بين ألف عالم من جنسيات مختلفة في المسابقة التي تقام سنويًّا بلندن، وقالت عنها لجنة التحكيم في المؤتمر "أم المخترعين التي تعمل في صمت أبو الهول وشموخ الأهرامات". وعلى الرغم من أن جائزة "جلوبل" لا تمنح إلا للعلماء الذين لهم باع طويل في مجال الاختراعات فإن لجنة التحكيم وجدت أن رصيدها من الاختراعات المسجل بأكاديمية البحث العلمي هو اختراع فائق لأي باع من الاختراعات تقدم به عالم في المسابقة فأطلقوا عليها لقب "أم المخترعين" قائلين بأن هذا العدد من الاختراعات غير مسبوق في مصر أو خارج مصر". ووسط شعورها بالفخر أثناء تسلم الجائزة في موكب الصحافة والإعلام الذي أحيطت به، توقعت المهندسة ليلى أن ذلك سيكون بداية الانطلاق على أرض الوطن "مصر"، كما تصورت أنها ستحصل على جائزة الدولة التشجيعية عند عودتها مباشرة، ولكنها فوجئت بما عجزت عن استيعابه حتى الآن.. فلم يسمع عن الجائزة أحد، ولم يهتم بوصولها سوى ابنتها التي لم ترَ والدتها وهي تتسلم الجائزة؛ لأن وسائل الإعلام لم تنقل شيئًا عن الحدث وكأن شيئًا لم يحدث. النشأة والتكوين: ليلى عبد المنعم من مواليد السيدة زينب 1949، لأسرة اشتهرت بتماسكها، فوالدها رغم عمله كان عليه متابعة أولاده في الدراسة وكان حريصًا على تفوقهم، والأم كان عليها توفير ما يلزم لاحتياجات الأسرة، وكان هذا التماسك هو سرّ نجاحها وأخواتها الخمسة. وتحكي ليلى قائلة بأن نشاطها الوحيد...
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...A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Staged in pre-Taliban Afghanistan, A Thousand Splendid Suns is the story of two women and the tales of their intertwined lives. It shows how few rights they had before the Taliban came in to power and how they were stripped from them under Taliban control. Hosseini shows many examples of how these women were abused and seen as 2nd class citizens. I decided to read this book for the required assignment due to many different reasons. One of reasons I selected this book are the current conflicts going on right now in that area of the world. Another reason was that I wanted to learn a little more about that culture. I also got a positive review about the book from my cousin who read the book in his free time and loaned me the book to read. The main reason I read the book was to see how women in Afghanistan are treated before and during the Taliban control. I knew from what I had previously learned in your class on how greatly discriminated Muslim women are treated. I also knew how strict the Muslim religion is, but I wanted to read about it, even if it was fictional. My cousin had told me about the two women in the novel before but never told me specifics on how the girls were treated. I just had to read for myself to find out. A Thousand Splendid Suns was written by Khaled Hosseini, an American writer and physician who originally came from Afghanistan. This is his second book, he first wrote The Kite Runner which was a U.S...
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...MiKaila Ford Eastern Lit 5/3/13 A Thousand Splendid Suns Mariam and Laila are quite different in some respects. Mariam is rather homely, while Laila is a stunning beauty. Mariam was an illegitimate child, forced into marriage by her father; Laila’s father adored her and encouraged his daughter to reach her full potential. Mariam was denied an education, while Laila was a top student raised with the expectation that she would go on to university. Mariam has only known the abuse of her older husband, while Laila had the chance to experience true love with Tariq. Aside their differences and the circumstances that bring them together as a family, the two women are destined to become close friends. Enemies after Laila marries Rasheed, they become joined in suffering his abuse. As Rasheed turns on his younger wife, Mariam sympathizes. Mariam will be strengthened, and not diminished, by Laila’s entry into her home. Laila, too, will gain from her relationship with the older woman. Broken down by years of abuse in her marriage, Mariam has learned not to stand up for herself. Laila, on the other hand, speaks up and defends her co-wife when Rasheed strikes her. This awakens Mariam, teaching her that she can fight back.” She wished she could see Laila again , wished to hear the clangor of her laugh , to sit with her once more for a pot of chai and leftover halwa under a starlit sky. She mourned that she would never see Aziza grow up…and yet she was leaving the world as a woman...
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...Afghanistan, Laila, and Mariam face throughout their times. When it first appears in the book, Laila’s Babi, mammy, and herself were packing up their things so that they could leave Afghanistan because living there became too dangerous with the war. Babi quotes the poem “One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her wall” (Hosseini 192). Here, the phrase is used to express the hidden beauties that Afghanistan had before the war such as the buddhist statues that Laila, Tariq, and Babi once visited. The other time it is used is when Laila expresses Mariam as being in her own heart, “where she shines with the bursting...
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...through the perseverance of Mariam and Laila, how the inner strength of Afghan women allows them to endure difficult situations including forced marriages, lack of educational opportunities and and Taliban restrictions. A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khaled Hosseini is a story of two young afghan women, Laila and Mariam, who face and overcome many tragedies and live in a country ruined by political oppression and war. Both Mariam and Laila have endured so much heartache partially because they are women, but yet have managed to have pulled together the strength to persevere. To persevere is to maintain a purpose in spite of difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement and continue consistently. Even though Mariam and Laila are years apart by age, and come from two different life styles, they are both forced to marry Rasheed, an older man who they don’t... A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khaled Hosseini is a story of two young afghan women, Laila and Mariam, who face and overcome many tragedies and live in a country ruined by political oppression and war. Both Mariam and Laila have endured so much heartache partially because they are women, but yet have managed to have pulled together the strength to persevere. Even though Mariam and Laila are years apart by age, and come from two different life styles, they are both forced to marry Rasheed , an older man who they do not know, in order to make a living for themselves. Mariam and Laila eventually learn to cooperate as they...
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...throughout the different sections. Overall, the story is told from an omniscient third person. The external character shows the reader world events as they happen and how it affects the main characters, Mariam and Laila, with a factual, unbiased perspective. As the story progressed, we switch to third person limited to understand Mariam and Laila’s individual struggles and experiences, yet we never know what any of the other characters are thinking unless it is said. By shifting narrative perspectives, Hosseini demonstrates how women help each other achieve a shared goal in a time of civil war and social inequality. And through these two women (Laila and Mariam), Hosseini creates a mind-blowing, adventure of regret, despair, tragedy, and more importantly, redemption. The book begins with separate perspectives of each woman, and how they consequently come together in the same household. Mariam, to start with, is actually a result of the shameful act that her father, Jalil Khan, a wealthy business man of Herat, committed when he impregnated one of his servants. As a result of this, Mariam was forced to live in the countryside with her mother, Nana (who committed suicide), and eventually forced into marriage as a teen to a man by the name of Rasheed. Secondly, Laila is a young girl whose family background is not the best: her parents are always fighting and her brothers, whom she hardly remembers are at war with the Soviets. Despite the hard life that she is forced to...
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...Individuality Women in Afghanistan face adversity and oppression from their own biological relatives and husbands. In “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khalid Hosseini, the struggles of women are depicted vividly. It is a story of a young Afghan woman, Mariam, who faces and overcomes many tragedies in a country where women are not treated equally. At the age of fifteen, Mariam was forced to marriage with much older man Rasheed. Mariam has no authority over herself. Mariam is “nobody” in this male dominated society. Her childless marriage to Rasheed eventually forces her into a life of submission and misery until close to the end of her life. Mariam meaning of life changes after the death of Rasheed. She makes the ultimate sacrifice for Laila and the children as she is willing to take the blame for Rasheed murder. Mariam’s sacrifice is one the ultimate victory in her life. Mariam can be remember now from being nobody to somebody. It gave her a sense of authority and control over herself which she had lost many years ago. When growing up, Mariam was a strong girl who questions authority and dreams of bigger things in life. She grew up in a small shack outside the city of Herat. She was raised by Nana, her mother, who always called her “…a clumsy harami” (Hosseini 4). “Mariam was an illegitimate person who would never have legitimate claim to the things other people had, things such as love, family, home, acceptance” (Hosseini 4). The term “harami” frames her upbringing as...
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...example of both sensory description and imagery is when Laila’s home is destroyed in a rocket attack. The beginning of the scene is of Laila helping bring her family’s belongings out of the house. While on the surface this sounds extraordinarily dull the choice of phrasing and inclusion of sensory details instead creates an experience in the readers mind that is worth having. “Laila kept shuffling between the house and the yard, back and forth.” (Hosseini 192). Hosseini could have just as easily told the readers that she was moving stuff out of the house over and over, instead one can see how she is moving thus enhancing the readers enjoyment of an otherwise rather drab scene. These sensory descriptions increase in intensity and depth as the passage continues. Laila is summoned by Mammy and Hosseni paints a picture with words, “The sun bright and warm, caught in her greying hair, shown on her thin drawn face. Mammy was wearing the same cobalt blue dress… a youthful dress meant for a young woman, but, for a moment Mammy looked to Laila like an old woman with stringy arms and sunken temples and slow eyes rimmed by darkended circles of weariness, an altogether different creature from the plump, round-faced woman beaming radiantly from those grainy wedding photos.” (192-193). The reader can feel the sun, they see the colors that surround Laila, they can feel the texture of Mammy’s skin, and for a moment is transported to Afghanistan and is experiencing this moment as if they...
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...Through the use of characterization, structure, and setting, Hosseini is able to express the despondent tone, while at the same time convey the idea that hope and endless courage are the only ways to survive in a world tarnished by violence and consumed by hatred. Hosseini’s choice to illustrate women from two generations emphasises the injustice felt throughout the ages. Mariam and Laila both come from noticeably different backgrounds, but end up walking the same path in life for many years. While Mariam is considered a bastard child and lives in isolation with her mother, Laila grows up well-educated with two caring parents. The women are first mentioned together when Lalia, still a young girl, “and Tariq were...
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...require few sacrifices and more compromises” (Ben-Zeév). However, through examining Khaled Hosseini’s famous novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, I determined that love always requires sacrifice. Amongst the growing conflicts of the Middle East, the fates of two Afghani women are interwoven as they are both forced into a marriage (with the same man) that does not represent genuine love. Instead, they are enslaved to a relationship dominated by physical violence and backlash from their cruel and abusive husband, Rasheed. They are in a constant struggle with suffering and hardships with the only thing left to live for being hope alone. In Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns, the tragic theme of love and sacrifice is unveiled as the lives of Laila and Mariam are set to stage from childhood to death. Through the many hurdles that these women are forced to elude, the hopes that they cling to are continually decimated. Acceptance, true love, and having a better life are some of the various virtues that these women of Afghanistan hope for while living in and enduring an environment filled with war and constant danger. Aaron Ben-Zeév contends...
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...comfort zone. But eventually all my efforts paid off. Just like Laila and Tariq two of the main character...
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