Final Project Kickstart

For our final project in my Writing and Rhetoric course we are required to write on a group of immigrants that we have studied throughout the semester. One particular group that has always stood out to me are the women in the middle east who lived under the rule of the Taliban.

Ever since I was young, I have always had deep empathy for these women who don’t have any legal rights. I was raised by a mother who has a full time career, and I am so grateful that if I choose it, I also have that option. In my research I found that under Sharia law; music, movies, TV, card playing, singing, dancing, boxing, and even kite flying was outlawed. Homosexuals are buried alive, and women are virtually enslaved. Women were not allowed to work, in some areas they were not allowed to show their faces, and most could not even leave the house without a male escort. I never realized how much I took for granted in my life, that there are women who can’t even read, not because they don’t want to, but because they have never been allowed the opportunity to read. It is because of this that I decided to further my research in these women, and find out if in post Taliban middle east, if there are more, less, or equal amounts of opportunity for women. So far I have found that in some conditions they have gotten worse, since before women knew what sort of risk they were facing if they rebelled, but now since there are supposedly less consequences, the men are taking a stand and enforcing them. I plan to continue my research, and further my empathies for these women. I may not be able to change their lives, but I can appreciate my own situation and make the very most of the many freedoms I am able to have.