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Personal Narrative: My Life In Iran

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I have spent 17 years of my age in Iran. I faced with constant religious persecution, unrelenting human right violations such as systematic access denial for higher education, and my home was confiscated. I always have been wondering how a system or a human being can be such self-centered and closed minded without any integrity? Then I remind myself that we all always need to examine our characteristic because it needs “improvement and discipline”, and “Freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose” as mentioned in The Meditations (Aurelius, 1994). I believe that we should live our life in a way that our hero is our self in 10 years. In Iran, the crime is to educate many disadvantaged, working Afghanian- Iranian children who have

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