...Discrepancies in freedom of speech and Gender segregation are the most striking difference between Iranian and American education. One of the important and bold discrepancies is freedom of expression in Iran and America, in Iran the student cannot summon their thoughts, the government has strict control over everything. But in America the students have freedom of speech and express their thoughts without fear of government oppression because of their views that may be contrary to government. Namely, American students can easily give negative comments about the president elect, who the student do not agree with. While in Iran, disagreement with the government or president can lead to jail, or cause them to lose their lives. The other discrepancy is gender segregation in Iran of male...
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...describes the repression of there “dream” which refers to segregation and the movement against African-Americans from being able to advance. In this case rebellion, not conformity is needed to shape society in a positive way. To conform to segregation and hatred towards another race would be to damaging for a society to grow and function properly. As Hughes mentions in the poem, “Maybe it just sags, like a heavy load. Or does it explode?”(Hughes 406). Does this mean that every injustice should be met with a show of rebellion? That is for society to determine. Conformity and rebellion are two facets of life that will never end. Just recently the elections in Iran were taking place, and they are the best example of how the push to conform led people to rebel in open defiance of their government. A rigged election led the people to open rebel against a government that sought to conform the people to their ideals and values. “When a million people showed up on Revolution Avenue in downtown Tehran to pretest the results of the June 12 presidential elections, most of them wore sneakers, in case they had to run for their lives. The crowd included people of all walks and ages (32). The point that I have been trying to make throughout this paper is that justice, or injustice, leads to conformity or rebellion. It is as natural as human evolution itself. “ That people are now willing to risk their lives and take action shows that Iran has crossed a threshold. The nature of the demonstrations...
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...allows her to become a strong-minded woman during a time of great female oppression in Iran. For Marjane, the ideas of nationalism and patriotism had been a major part of her upbringing. The novel begins with ten year old Marjane in 1980. Although not a teenager yet, Marjane is forced to conform to the oppression and the various laws that specifically target women. Marjane's mother was a very opinionated individual who believed in equal rights. Her rebellious nature becomes an influence to Marjane as she begins to grow older and mature. Taji, Marjane's mother, is a passionate woman who is extremely disappointed with the things in Iran. She actively protests with others who are not happy with the elimination of women's rights and violent attacks on innocent people It began with schools becoming segregated by sex. The French school that Marjane once attended was no longer allowed in Iran. The revolution had begun to ban all sorts of western and European influences. For example, women were obliged to wear veils in public now. If a female was to be caught by the authorities without a veil on, they would be verbally abused and possibly even severely chastised. Moreover, a man and a woman were not allowed to be seen in public unless they could prove they were married. This concept was one that many girls of Satrapi's generation actually seemed to are about. For instance, after the segregation of schools in Tehran, the government required that all the teachings were prohibited from...
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...Africa. Recent events of the past four decades have caused a loud uproar among countries and even organizations to exclude the country of Iran from the 2012 Olympic Games in London. It is found to be an evident case that Iran is an example of a country that completely contradicts the Olympics’ purpose in a variety of ways and therefore should not be allowed to contend. In the past century, three countries have been denied the right to compete in the Olympics for different reasons that the IOC believed as unforgiveable. According to Larry Zuckerman (2004), in 1920 and 1924 Germany was banned from the Olympics after WWI due to inhumane acts during the war such as the mass killings, lootings, and burnings of towns known as the Rape of Belgium. They were also ostracized due to their direct influence of bringing Europe into the war. In 1948, both Germany and Japan were not invited to the London games. According to George Duncan (n.d.), the two countries attributed to the massacre of civilians such as the genocide of the Jews by the Nazi’s, and the mass killings, and slave labor of civilians by both countries. Lastly, in an article by Brian Mackenzie (2004), it is found that South Africa was excluded from participation at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo. South Africa was governed by an oppressive apartheid regime, which is a system of racial segregation, and therefore was banned until 1992. It is seen as an honor and privilege to be a part of the...
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...Women and Higher Education in Iran Iranian women hold a high regard for education and they believe that obtaining a higher education will lead to financial independence and a higher social status. While the pursuit of a degree may appear to be the driving force behind their choice to attend college, there are other contributing factors. College provides an opportunity for young women to experience a limited form of independence and to intermingle with members of the opposite sex. College is the first public place where women come into contact with members of the opposite sex. “College in one place in Iran’s Islamic society that enables young men and women to interact, albeit surreptitiously.” (Shavarini 341) Relationships between men and women are highly guarded in Iran. Their society is heavily segregated by gender. Men and women who are not related may not have any contact. Young men and women are often stopped in public and asked to show proof that they are related. Those that have broken this rule may be detained, fined, and even punished. Because of this segregation many women feel that it is suffocating them. Girls have few choices after high school they are often forced to marry or go to college. Going to college will delay marriage for young girls by another four years. Attending a college or university allows them to escape their restrictive home environments and gives them a chance to be away from the scrutiny of their family and neighbors. “Young women were flocking...
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...26) They were elected to be the goodwill ambassadors because the state department thought they would preach the gospel of American Freedom to suck Third World allies as Iran, Pakistan, Lebanon, and Ghana. The White Citizens Council of Alabama opposed this policy because they were racists and thought of Jazz as part of the “negro” community. Martin Luther King Jr, “Knock at Midnight” (1967) 2. During the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56), 70,000 African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, boycotted city busses for a year to protest segregation. Martin Luther King Jr was just 26 years old when he led that boycott. Eleven years later, in this speech, he looked back. What kinds of fears and threats did King face and how did he overcome those fears? Threating telephone calls, threating their life their families and their children’s. At midnight he came home got into bed and the telephone started ringing who said “nigga we are tired of you and your mess and if you are not out of town in three days we are going to blow your brains”. He overcame those fears with logical reason following what Martin Luther king had said to fight for justice and with the guidance of Jesus. 3. The images in the video are all photos are African Americans engaged in non-violent direct action—challenging the law of segregation and being arrested for it. What do these images have to do with the speech? There is an African American guy preaching his testimony to the community about the experience...
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...urban vote. When apprised in 1946 of lynching’s and other forms of mob violence still practiced in the South, he appointed a committee on civil rights to investigate discrimination based on race and religion. The report, issued the next year, documented blacks' second-class status in American life. It asserted the need for the federal government to secure the rights guaranteed to all citizens. Truman responded by sending a 10-point civil rights program to Congress. When Southern Democrats, angry about a stronger civil rights stance, left the party in 1948, Truman issued an executive order barring discrimination in federal employment, ordered equal treatment in the armed forces and appointed a committee to work toward an end to military segregation. The last military restrictions ended during the Korean War. Blacks in the South enjoyed few, if any, civil and political rights. More...
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...Freedom and Equality Freedom and equality are both very important to the life that we now live in America. Freedom gives every free man and woman the right to believe the way that they want to believe, as well as they consider to be a way of life. Freedom is why our nation, America, was created. Equality makes every man and woman equivalent, and gives both the same opportunities in life. Freedom is a basic right to all Americans, old or young, Black or White, Catholic or Muslim, male or female. For many years we have fought for this right. Starting back in the American Revolutionary War days, until now, where we are still active in Iraq and Iran, we have and we will always be fighting for this basic right that we have. Equality has been something that Americans, especially minorities, have been striving towards. Since the beginning of this country, the white classes of land owners have always had every right that our government has had. Eventually the White classes of every man in America have obtained the same rights of the land owners. The minorities and females of every race has had a more difficult time of attaining the rights and freedoms of the White men of America. The Founding Fathers of America wrote the constitution, and in the preamble of that document, are the words “We The People”. This starting sentence of our most important document shows that our America and its people, of any race and sex, should be as equals and sharing the same freedoms...
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...title and the first sentence one can instantly identify that the revolution was not tweeted, a coincidence I think not. The first sentence states, “Western observers have been celebrating the role of Twitter, Facebook, smartphones, and the internet in general in facilitating the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt last week.” Western observers stand for Americans who in no way participated in the revolution. Another point that the author states about how the revolution is not do to Twitter, Facebook and other social media is when he states, “In Cairo’s Tahrir Square continued to grow during the five days that the Mubarak government shut down the internet; that only nineteen percent of Tunisians have online access; that while the Iran protests may have been tweeted round the world, there were few Twitter users actually in-country” The quote shows that even with no internet the protest still continued to grow in size despite the social media being down. In the essay ‘Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted’ Malcolm Gladwell argues that social media doesn’t play a role in big scale revolutionary movements, because it forms weak bonds between people and doesn’t have a hierarchical structure. Gladwell shows his point about ineffectiveness of social media in revolution...
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...amusements are more dynamic contrasted with staring at the TV, they are viewed as more effective.3 Since these diversions are known as the second excitement after TV, rivals of these recreations underscore on their negative impacts, for example, invigorating resentment and savagery, costing a great deal of cash and having negative impacts of physical and psychological wellness, which are much higher than the constructive outcomes of the diversions, for example, expanding the coordination of eyes and hands.4 As Klein and Keepers said in their exploration reports in 1990, understudies who incline toward computer recreations to different stimulations have more behavioral issues that different understudies (referred to from Patton). At present in Iran, an awesome piece of...
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...The 1979 Iranian Revolution Revolution is the culmination of popular discontent brewing for a certain amount of time. People may grow dissatisfied with sharp social contrasts, inequality, segregation, discrimination, and other blatant violations of their rights. Even conservative authoritarian Arabic societies like that of Iran can experience the rise of general discontent and indignation. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 is the revolt rationalized by a wide range of motives from corruption to excessive westernization adopted by Shah Mohammad Pahlavi. The unpreparedness of the ruling elite and its foreign patrons along with repressions sealed the fate of the Iranian leader signifying the historic shift of power and foreign vector. The point is that the Iranian Revolution of 1979 was the product of Shah Pahlavi’s repressive regime largely facilitated by regime’s weakness and unpreparedness, which culminated in crucial achievement and the establishment of a theocratic regime ruled by Ayatollah Khomeini over the following decade. Popular Sentiments, Ideological Groups, the Unique Nature of the Iranian Revolution, Rationales behind the Revolt, the Factors of Success Philosophy Doctor Homa Katouzian (n.d.) noted that the revolution of 1979 was the rebellion of the Iranian society against the political regime reigning supreme at the time of the event. Based on its underlying features, what happened in the country in the late 1970s did not match the norms of Western revolutions...
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...COLD WAR & World Leadership Wartime Peace Conferences (1945): • Yalta Conference - Peace conference held between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin in order to establish the goals of WWII. They agreed to try people in Japan and Germany and the creation of the United Nation ( a world peace organization created in order to prevent further world wars. It created 6 offices all of which worked collectively to regulated political and economic affairs, promote peace and human rights.) Stalin promised to hold free elections in Poland after the war ended, but he never kept it. • San Francisco Conference - the 50 nation's delegates agree upon allowing 2 soviet satellites and the Soviet Union a seat in the UN. Iron Curtains - used to describe the boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact countries (Soviet and its satellites) from the NATO countries (North Atlantic Treaty Organization - created in order to encourage economic flow and alliances.) Cold War (1946-1989) - war of ideas waged between the US and the Soviets, in which each nation attempted to influence the political and economic views of another nation. They used weapons such as: • propaganda - advertisement • economic and military aid (Marshall Plan under Truman provided aid to nations that would remove trading barriers and cooperate economically; Truman Doctrine provided military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey) • alliances - military agreement to protect each other against another's aggression...
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...demonstrated whatever is left of the world how they could assemble an innovatively propelled country. Next, as Doctor MaGee Explains, "A large portion of the towns were the same, and rivalry in provincial ranges was high on the grounds that everybody knew everybody." This was a noteworthy point in the mechanical advancement of the United States on the grounds that the nearby individuals of rustic zones, with rivalry, will probably succeed and make new thoughts to industrialize the nation (According to Dr. Magee). With the new mechanical progressions that were being made in the United States, it truly up began and inspired a modern upheaval to cure a whipped human progress from past wars. Second, another reason America began to move from segregation to worldwide contribution...
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...A Walk Through Time The significant moments in time collectively make up our nations history. In that history we see change, growth and experience loss. These events make us the people, that make up the country that love and contribute to. I chose five events in time that brought about a tremendous change across the world, and making life as we know it today, a walk in the park. MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT Montgomery Alabama, 1955 and 1956 was an extremely volatile time for African-Americans and Whites, but the events of that year made history and changed the way of life for every Montgomery resident. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a peaceful protest that lasted one year. Its main goal was to put an end to racially segregated seating on buses, but by the end it accomplished much more (Toonari). A Walk on the wild side Prior to the Supreme Court 1956 decision, African-Americans were forced to ride at the back of the bus. They suffered ridicule and racial slures at the hands of the bus drivers and the White passengers. In the early 1950’s two teenagers, Claudette Colvin and Mary Louise Smith were both arrested for refusing to give their seats to white passengers (Allen, R. 2000). Although this created some tension within the African-American community it tool the arrest of Rosa Parks, a former NAACP secretary who refused to give up her seat on the bus, on December 1, 1955 to set the wheels in motion for what would...
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...actors who will attempt to exploit vulnerabilities to access data and information. With incredible amounts of information that is electronically accessible, the capability of securing software and information technology has become progressively more important but is exceeded by the speed of advancement in systems and software where the lack of processes can lead to vulnerabilities that can be exploited. While these vulnerabilities are often used by criminals for fraudulent activities, they have also been used as a means of conducting a “cyber war” between nations to further their national interests. Analysis In the summer of 2010, the cyber worm Stuxnet was discovered to have “infected the software of at least 14 industrial sites in Iran, including a uranium-enrichment plant” (Kushner, 2013). While most malware applications produce spam or steal personal data, the Stuxnet was developed to target the centrifuges themselves on the physical layer of the Iranian nuclear program. Further evaluation of the malware utilized a three part approach- according to David Kushner, they were to target Microsoft Windows computers, progress to the industrial control systems of the centrifuges, and to compromise the programmable logic controllers- and utilized multiple techniques for the cyber-attack. Among the methods, Stuxnet could propagate itself through a network or through a USB device for standalone systems to introduce zero day attacks and rootkits “to hide itself from users and...
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