It had been more than seven years since I saw my family, so I decided to take a vacation and see them. The moment I landed at Cairo airport, I saw my older brother. All the way from the airport to my family house, which is in in a small village four hours away from the airport, he was showing me pictures of girls on his phone and asking me what I think of them. Even though I knew his plan, and why he is showing me these pictures, I ask him I pretended like I did not understand. He looked at me and said: “pick one; you are here to get married.” I looked at him, and in my mind, I want to turn back and take the first plane back to the U.S. I told him, I am not here to get married; I am here just to visit. He said “okay...”, but all the way home he was talking about the girls that he showed me. I know that arranged marriage is normal in Egypt, and most of my friends got married this way, but I did not want to get married this way.
When we reached the village, I was shocked by how everything looked so
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I ended up agreeing with them after all the pressure they put on me. I picked one girl from the ones they showed me. This girl leaves for college all week and only comes to the village to visit in the weekend. The first weekend was my birthday, so my sister and my nieces invited me to spend the weekend with them. I went to my sister’s house which is far from my house and spent the entire weekend there. By the time I went back home, the girl had already left to her college, and she was not coming back until the next weekend. The only way to get out this is to find a way to get out of the house on the weekend. The second weekend I went to see my old college mates and spent the weekend with them. The third weekend, I did the same thing and went to my sister house again. The weekend before, I come back to the United State. I had already had my bags packed, and Sunday was my last day, or at least that's what I
Once we all had our food and we were all at the table we all agreed that the tacos they made that day were really nasty which kind of made some of us upset because we were actually hungry. After lunch, we all went and sat back in the classroom for the rest of the school day. Towards the end of the school day we all went to grab our luggage from the security room which had been checked by now and security took what we couldn’t have because it wasn’t safe. We then all took our luggage to this white van which was going to bring our stuff towards the dorm so we wouldn’t have to walk our entire stuff across the campus. Once we made it to the front we grabbed our things and they showed us to our rooms, after getting settled the rest of the day was nice we all met new faces and just had
Amari was a 15-year-old girl who was soon to be married to Besa, a strong young man. All that changed when their village was attacked. The village was celebrating the welcoming of the strangers, the strangers shot the elderly and the children. Amari's parents and her brother, Kwasi, had died that tragic
“People get married; their interests shift. But there is no escaping the fact that our interment accelerated the process, made it happen so suddenly it was almost tangible” (39). The most disheartening part was that they had no way of avoiding what was being done. The Wakatsukis were forced to let their close knit family unravel at the speed of light. “What had to be endured was the climate, the confinement, the steady crumbling away of family life” (98).
Besides, I was going to a beach for a week, it's basically a vacation, right? After ending up at my destination, i quickly learned I would really be doing some work. I was assigned to work at a homeless shelter from 8 am until around 3 pm. When we got to the destination, I learned my group would be putting together new beds that were going into the new building that would allow 700+ homeless men stay. We also sorting clothing that would soon be given to the many men, women, and children.
However, today there is growing awareness of how harmful they can be, especially for young women. Arranged marriages lack the element of love and mutual consent, leading to a lack of normalcy for young women. This part of my essay will talk about the dangers of arranged marriages for young women. Firstly, arranged marriages restrict young women’s freedom of choice. In many cases, young women are forced into marriages against their will, often for the sake of financial gain or to maintain social status.
The final bags were filled with extras ( toothbrush, toothpaste, food, etc.).The car was very empty on the way there. My dad was driving. My mom was in the passenger seat and I was in the back with my sister. On they way there we saw a really cool, broke down farm. It was still up and running but, it didn 't have any animals.
I think that about all five of us were set on unpacking and hitting the pearly white sand and crystal clear water. That was all that happened then. The sixth hour was boring because everyone was just ready to get out of the car. The good thing though is that we could smell the beaches. That meant one thing.
I was to immediately move across country to live with my strict uncle and his family of six after my parents discovered I had a boyfriend at the age of fifteen. They were afraid I was brainwashed by the American culture. They thought it was best to move us from Phoenix, Arizona to Shelby Township, Michigan to be around people of my ethnicity, mostly my family. I remember crying the entire way there, the tears running down my face began to expose streaks due to the non-water-proof loreal foundation I had on. my father tried to convince me that my destiny was in Michigan.
Upon my return, I expected to resume going to the school’s campus and only be half online. This wasn’t what happened, however. “We live too far away now. I can’t drive you so far every day.” My mom had said when I asked her about my returning to school.
In “Longing to Belong”, Saira Shah gives you a look into the life of a 17 year old girl longing to understand her parents heritage and trying to fit into a culture that is so much different from what she knows. Having a father who originates from Afghanistan and a mother who originates from India. Saira wants to learn the culture of her father’s afghan routes. The author feels the only way in to learning is by being betrothed into an arranged marriage. The author states that her uncle in seeing “two unmarried” daughters in the company of a chaperone visiting his home, concludes that they were sent to be married.
According to the society norms, it was very rare that a married couple were actually attracted to each other. The individuals couldn’t have gone against the society expectations so, without caring about what they really want, they followed the expectations and married whoever. This shows they could not make any individual life choices without thinking of what everyone else would have done. Not only are the social expectations based on love but also small, foolish details.
That day, she told me to take it one step at a time and not to be afraid to step out of my comfort zone and push my limits; this gave me the comfort to move on with my life. That next week, I was immediately enrolled in middle school in the United State. My schedule consisted of the same old boring, bland things, “get to my classes, and then go home.” I never made time for company, I didn’t socialize with anyone, nor did I join any activities or clubs.
I never thought this would have happened. Why did my life have to turn this way? Those were the thoughts in my head when I found out my parents were going to get a divorce. Why did it have to happen to me? I was a cheerful, ten year old boy who never fretted about anything until that point in my life.
Forwardly, the dilemma is addressed with references and happening globally. Forced Marriages are compared to Arranged marriages with the motives defined and changing of the meaning of marriage in today’s world from opposite sex to same-sex marriages. Judicial stance on this issue with the voices filed under the human rights slogan, deeming over a little on Islamic and Sharia law. The pros and cons in a society for a couple and the myths and facts hounding the families to commit a crime of honor in the name of forced marriage. GIRLS NOT BRIDES ‘Forced marriage is a means of controlling female sexuality and women’s autonomy.
It all started on a summer day, I went to nags head beach with my family. We got a big beach house with my whole family and a few friends. This was about 4 years but it feels like it was just the other day. We went at the very end of the summer. It was still nice and warm outside.