‘Don’t cry,’ I said. ‘I’m alive, alive, alive.’”
The ending here is very significant. It shows that the woman has been through unbearable experiences yet she is hopeful that at least she is still alive and how after passing through all that she was lucky to be still alive.
All this I have watched from my living room in Beirut. Sitting on a worn gray couch with earplugs in, trying to block out the sounds of sheering metal from the construction site right under my window as I translate stories from Arabic to English for the Damascus Bureau, an under-project of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting.
This is a very surprising revelation. After I thought that it was too much for one person to pass through all this tragedies, to the extent that I thought that it must be exaggerated. At this point I realized that it is more that one real story written by writer as if she really lived them.
have been threatened, beaten, strip-searched, thrown in prison, tortured and made to watch as my mother knelt weeping at the dirty feet of tribal leaders to beg for any information about my kidnapped father. I have waited at countless checkpoints, praying that no one finds the bread, the money, the schoolbooks, the chocolates I have hidden in my bag, on my body, trying to smuggle them through to people on the other side. I have buried seven husbands, three fiancés, fifteen sons and a two-week old daughter I finally agreed to have at 42 for my husband’s sake, to bring life back to his tongue after we laid our two grown, handsome sons to rest, one after the other, and grief took all his words away.
The lead paragraph is a very strong attention grabber. Although it is a very depressing story, but it made me wonder why her life was so tragic and where she was. I wanted to continue reading to know more about how she survived.
It is not just religion or ethnicity alone that explains each conflict but often the overlay of multiple identities with specific cultural, geographic, and political histories and grievances that may be rekindled under certain conditions.6
I agree with this point that it's never only the religion there a lot of major conflicts which are not told
The Americans with Disabilities Act, one of the most successful, landmark civil-rights laws in American history, did more than prohibit discrimination; it required proactive accommodations to ensure that merely “equal” treatment did not produce or reinforce inequality.80Title 42 of the US Code, chapter 126 § 12101 et seq., accessed on May 30, 2016, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_42_of_the_United_States_Code. Public Accommodations and Commercial Facilities (Title III) or see 42 US Code §§ 12181–12189, accessed on May 30, 2016, http://www.ada.gov/ada_title_III.htm. jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_2269_80").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_2269_80", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", fadeOutSpeed: 100, predelay: 400, position: "top right", relative: true, offset: [10, 10] }); Formal guarantees of equal protection or equal rights are often insufficient to create inclusive structures.
Equality is the key
Donald Trump, not only announced his intent to build a wall along the United States-Mexican border to keep out “criminals and rapists,” but also demanded a ban on Muslim immigrants, even Syrian refugees, from entering the United States.16
The president of one of the most powerful countries in the world this is the way he thinks what do you expect from the people who support him? Racism is not something you're born with it depends on how were you raised.
Since then, hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas have been driven from their homes and denied full citizenship rights,
This happens every where in the world for example the Muslim Uighur in china which is something against humanity