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3 Culture
When we think of Newroz, we think of
it as a Kurdish holiday. But did you
know that Newroz is celebrated all
throughout the Middle East and Cen-
tral Asia? Newroz literally means
"new rozh", which is new day or new
light.
Once upon a time, an evil tyrant
named Zahak ruled Assyria. Zahak was
cursed and the whole kingdom be-
came cursed as a result of his wicked-
ness. This evil man ran the country for
1000 years. The sun refused to shine
on Assyria, the birds refused to chirp,
and the plants refused to grow.
King Zahak was so evil that one morn-
ing he woke up and saw that
two snakeheads had grown out of his
shoulders. At first, it was just their
heads but as king Zahak grew moreand more evil, the snakes grew as
well.
When these snakes were hungry,
king Zahak would feel great pain all
throughout his body. The only way he
could prevent the pain was by feeding
the snakes. The worst part was
that the serpents diet consisted only
of childrens brain. So at the start of
every day, two children were killed
and their brains were cruelly fed tothe snakes.
One day however, it was time
for Kawa the blacksmiths
(Kaway asngar) last child. Sixteen of
his seventeen children were already
sacrificed to the villainous ty-
rant. Kawa woke up that day and said,
Ive had enough! so he planned a
heroic trick against the king. He took
the brains of two sheep and fed it to
the serpents instead of killing his
child. His plan worked; neither the
king nor the serpents recognized the
difference.
However, Kawa was in a very sensitive
position. If the king found out
that Kawa had tricked him, the kingwould be-
head Kawa instantly. Kawa knew how
evil and wicked the evil tyrant could
be, so he was very careful in taking
care of all the details that went along
with his plot. Every night, he took
both of the children that
were supposed to be killed, and
hid them in the mountains. He was so
careful, that he didnt even tell the
childrens parents. If any word of this
sort was heard, Kawa and all the chil-
dren would be in an even greater dan-ger.
He did this for many years. Everyday,
he rescued the children that were to
be murdered and replaced them with
the sheep's brain. He took good care
of the children and when they grew to
a large number, they all plotted a re-
volt against the tyrannical king. They
took over King Zahaks castle and
killed him with a hammer. The coun-
try was finally free.
In order to tell the great news to thewhole country, Kawa and the chil-
dren lit an enormous bonfire. The sky
and the air became clean
of Zahaks curse with the fire. The
next morning, the sun started to shine
again, the birds chirped, and plants
grew. This day was March 21st, and is
known as Newroz.
Shene Goran Qaradaghi
Newroz Poem - Piramerd - 1984
The New Years day is today. Newroz is back.Anancient Kurdish festival, with joy and verdure
For many years, the flower of our hopes was down-
trodden
The fresh rose of spring was the blood of the youth
It was that red colour on the high horizon of Kurdwhich was carrying the happy tidings of dawn to
remote and near nations
It was Newroz which imbued the hearts with such a
fire that made the youth receive death with devoted
love
Hooray! The sun is shining from the high mountains
of homeland
It is the blood of our martyrs which the horizonreflects
It has never happened in the history of any nation
To have the breasts of girls as shields against bul-
lets
Nay. It is not worth crying and mourning for the
martyrs of homeland
They die not. They live on in the heart of the nation.
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This was not to be expected. ManyKurds do not know this nor do
manyJews.
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Did you know which human race is the closest biological relative of the Kurds? Quite surprisingly, after a number of studies in that biolog
area, it has been shown that the Jews are the closest biological relatives of the Kurds.
In 2001, a team of Israeli, German, and Indian scientists discovered this unexpected fact. The researchers sampled a total of 526
chromosomes from 6 populations -Kurdish Jews, Kurdish Muslims, Palestinian Arabs, Sephardic Jews, Ashkenazic Jews, and Bedouin frsouthern Israel- and added extra data on 1321 persons from 12 populations -including Russians, Belarusians, Poles, Berbers, Portuguese, Sp
iards, Arabs, Armenians, and Anatolian Turks. Most of the 95 Kurdish Muslim test subjects came from northern Iraq. The Kurdish Jews a
Sephardic Jews were found to be very close to each other. The researchers found that the approximately 12.7 percent of Ashkenazic Jews w
have the Eu 19 chromosomes descend paternally from eastern Europeans. But the majority of Ashkenazic Jews, who possess Eu 9 and oth
chromosomes, descend paternally from Judeans who lived in Israel two thousand years ago.
As a result, in the article of the November 2001 issue of The American Journal of Human Genetics, Ariella Oppenheim of the Hebrew Univ
sity of Israel wrote that this new study revealed that Jews have a closer genetic relationship to populations in the northern Mediterrane
regions -Kurds, Anatolian Turks, and Armenians- than to populations in the southern Mediterranean regions-Arabs and Bedouins.
This was a fact that was not to be expected; many Kurds do not know this nor do many Jews. It is very essential to know more about our h
tory, and this new scientific finding helps us trace back our ancestors.
Razhan Ka
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The Side Effects of Child Abuse
Physical child abuse is a physical
injury inflicted upon the child with
cruel intentions. Physical abuse
can be the result of punching,
beating, kicking, biting, burning,
shaking, or other forms of physi-
cally harming the child. Unfortu-nately, this is extremely common
in our society today. We believe
that by hurting our children physi-
cally they will be more disciplined
when in fact, it will only hurt them
mentally, emotionally, psychologi-
cally and physically.
Children who are physically
abused are likely to receive bone
fractures-particularly rib fractures-
and may have a higher risk of de-veloping cancer. Children who ex-
perience child abuse and neglect
are 59% more likely to be arrested
as juveniles, 28% more likely to be
arrested as adults, and 30% more
likely to commit violent crime.
Physical injuries are only the mi-
nor downsides to child abuse; the
major downside is the Shaken
Baby Syndrome. A Shaken Baby
Syndrome is a very common
downside of child abuse which
results in a permanent neurologi-
cal damage (80% of cases) or
death (20% of cases). Damage re-sults from intracranial hyperten-
sion (increased pressure in the
skull) after bleeding in the brain.
The psychological impact child
abuse has on a child is unbeliev-
able. The abused child is prone to
Dissociative Disorder, more com-
monly known as multiple person-
ality disorder, in which an individ-
ual possesses two different per-
sonalities; this occurs when theindividual tries hard to forget his/
her traumatic incidents by forming
a personality of their own which
results in possessing two different
personalities. Aside from Dissocia-
tive Disorder, the child is also
prone to depression and Acting
Out Syndrome. Many people who
have been abused often suffer
from unidentified chronic head,
abdominal, pelvic and muscularpain.
An idealistic way of disciplining
your child is through communica-
tion and not through abuse. 85%
of abused children are abused by
their biological parents; isnt that
shocking? Its very unfortunate
when parents believe that it is ac-
ceptable to hit and injure their
child. For instance, if your child
disobeys you when you tell him/
her to turn off the TV and to go
eat lunch, you can turn the TV off
and ground them; in NO way is it
acceptable for you to kick, punch,
or slap your child. If they refuse to
listen to you, you can simply takeaway their allowance, video
games, toys, computers, cell
phones or anything they value in
order for them to learn their les-
son. In no way, shape or form can
anyone justify child abuse because
if a stranger hits your child you
would be furious but if you dont
want a stranger to hurt your child
then why would you want to hurt
your own flesh and blood?
Alka Aziz
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8 Awareness
For every minute you are angry you
lose sixty seconds of happiness.
It is Not the End Yet!
Many Middle Eastern people- especially
Iraqis and Kurds- are lled with anger
because of the many tragedies they
suered in the past. They are like
volcanoes that erupt as soon as they
are touched. Undoubtedly, those
tragedies are the causes of their angerand grief but instead of allowing their
rage take the best of them, they should
learn form their hardships. ife is very
generous but we, who judge its gis by
their cover, cast them away as ugly,
heavy, or hard; in everything we call a
trail, a sorrow, or a duty, the hands of
an angel are present- the gi is there-
or in other words the wonder of an
overshadowing presence is present. As
Cicero once said, Man is his own worst
enemy.Having gone through manytragedies we now are unsased with
the things we have. We have become
ungrateful with what we have and ask
for more even though we have enough.
Controlling this bad feature of ours will
allow us to nourish ourselves as well as
our country. Diversity is somemes
very good, because when you are
diverse you will be able to change
things around you. I have never in my
life learned anything from someone
who agreed with me ; only through
disagreement do we truly learn from
each other. Its been proven that anger
causes us to walk on wrong paths. It
oen me leaves us regreul, leads us
to dead-end roads, and more
importantly increases our sorrows evenmore."Dont let anger provoke your
spirits, for anger resides in the lap of
fools. These are some suggesons that
help control our anger so that it does
not consume us
-, Thich Nhat Hanh, in Anger
Wisdom for Cooling the Flame,
suggests looking into a mirror,
breathing, and smiling to yourself
brings you back to the present.
-. Seneca suggests,
Hesitaon is the best cure for anger
the rst blows of anger are heavy, but it
waits, it will think again.
-. Ask yourself, what
are ve things I am thankful for?
-. As Gerry Spence
advises when facing anger, Follow the
pain to nd the answer.
As we know most of the places are
overowing with ies- Yes, one of the
most annoying creatures on our mother
earth. The queson is, do they y awaywhen we get angry at them? If you are
a tolerant, you will surely escape a long
period of sorrow and regret. We are
human beings whom our lord created,
with a strong will, ambion, and the
ability to not give up! So we should try
our best to get past this ordeal, since it
is one of the most valuable keys that
opens up a door that brightens the
future for us and our country.
Everything works out in the end. If it
hasnt worked out, its not the end 5.So let us all work together to make our
people more educated and open-
minded. A pessimist sees the diculty
in every opportunity; an opmist sees
the opportunity in every diculty.
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Franz Joseph Hayden (March 31st
, 1732- may 31st
, 1809) is
an Austrian composer, and one of the classical period's
most prolific and prominent composers. He was called
"Father of the Symphony" or "Father of the String Quartet"
because of his important contribution to the genre of sym-
phony.
Hayden was born in Rohrau, Austria, a village near the
border of Hungary. Hayden had a very tough childhood. Hewas only six years old when he went away to live with Jo-
hann Matthias Frankh who noticed Hayden's musical tal-
ent and wanted to train in him in classical music; Hayden
never lived with his parents again.
James Webster writes of Haydn's public character as
"Haydn's public life exemplified the enlightenment ideal of
the honnte homme (honest man) the man whose good
character and worldly success enables and justifies each
other. His modesty and probity were everywhere acknowl-
edged. These traits were not only prerequisites to his suc-
cess as kaplemeister, entrepreneur and public figure, but
also aided the favorable reception of his music." Haydenwas dearly respected by the Eszterhzy court musicians
whom he supervised, as he maintained a cordial working
atmosphere and effectively represented the musicians'
interests with their employer.
Joseph Haydn was the brother of Michael Haydn who, too,
was a great composer. Hayden had another brother Jo-
hann Evangelist Haydn, who was a tenor. Hayden was also
a close friend of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a teacher
of udwig Van Beethoven.
Hayden's work was central to the development of what
came to be called the sonata form. His practice, however,
differed in some ways from
that of Mozart and Beethoven
who likewise excelled in this
form of composition. Haydn
was particularly fond of the
so-called "monothematic ex-
position", in which the music
that establishes the dominantkey is similar or identical to
the opening theme. Hayden
also differed from Mozart
a n d B e e t h o v e n i n
his recapitulation sections,
where he often rearranged the order of themes com-
pared to the exposition and used extensive thematic de-
velopments.
Hayden had a well-balanced personality; his music was a
representation of that. He was known for many great
pieces, such as "ondon" symphony No. 104, the string
quartet Op. 50 No. 1, the piano trio Hob XV 27, the quar-tets Op. 76 Nos. 3 and 5, symphony No. 98, the piano trio
Hob XV 23 and many more great pieces.
This is a short melody of Franz Joseph Hayden's life sym-
phony, but the melody goes on and many more notes
need to be played in order to discover and unleash the
true identity of this great man who changed history by just
using the strings of a violin.
Sharo Karim
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Sir Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day 1642, (4January 1643, New Style) in Wools Thorpe to a relavely poor
farming family. On the cold winter night of his birth, the sick
baby seemed unlikely to live; gradually, however, he gained
the strength to survive. His father died 3 months before he
was born.
When he was barely three years old, Newton's mother,
Hanna (Ayscough), placed her rst born with his grandmother
in order to remarry and raise a second family with Barnabas
Smith, a wealthy rector from nearby North Witham. But her
second husband did not get on with Isaac; leading to fricon
between Isaac and his parents. Unl Hanna returned to
Wools Thorpe in 1653 aer the death of her second husband,
Newton was denied his mother's aenon, a possible clue tohis complex character. Newton's childhood was anything but
happy.
As a child, Isaac aended school at Kings School, Grantham
in incolnshire (where his signature is sll inscribed in the
walls). Rather than playing outdoor games as a boy, he
preferred to make models of such things as windmills and
carts. Not only were these in exactly the right proporons,
but all of the moving parts actually worked. Isaac was one of
the top students, but before compleng his studies, his
mother withdrew him from school, so Isaac could work as a
farmer. It was only through the help and intervenon of the
headmaster of the school that Isaac was able to return tonish his studies. He then passed his nal exams with very
good results, and was able to go to Trinity College, at
Cambridge.
Isaac then went to Trinity College at the University of
Cambridge with the intenon of becoming a minister in the
Church of England. Again, life was not easy for him. As he was
unable to aord the tuion fees, he worked many hours each
day serving meals and doing other jobs for the professors in
order to pay his way.
At Cambridge he was able to pursue his interests in
mathemacs, science, and physics. At that me most of the
educaon was based on Aristotle's but Isaac was more
interested in more modern mathemacians; Descartes being
an example. Isaac graduated in 1665, shortly before an
outbreak of Black Death swept through ondon. All
universies were closed while the plague raged. During this
me, Isaac returned to his familys farm, now run by his
young half-brother. He connued his study and research,
working on the binomial theorem, light, telescopes, calculus
and theology. Aer supposedly seeing an apple fall in the
garden, he invesgated gravity, but was unable to solve the
puzzle unl some years later.
When Cambridge University reopened in 1667, Isaac Newton
returned to do a Masters Degree, while teaching and doing
research.
Newton used prisms to show that sunlight was made up of all
the colors of the rainbow. This proved that the ancient
Greeks ideas about light were wrong. In Newtons me,
astronomy was severely hampered because lenses in
telescopes broke some of the light into unwanted colors,causing a somewhat unclear view. Although not the rst to
consider using a curved mirror instead of a lens, Newton was
the rst to successfully construct a telescope using this
principlea principle sll used today in many telescopes.
In 1684, Newton again began to consider gravity. He
developed his theory of universal gravitaon, which used
what is known as the inverse square law. He developed his
three laws of moon (movement) and proved mathemacally
that the same laws did, in fact, apply both to the heavens and
the earth.
Isaac Newton represented Cambridge University as a
Member of Parliament in 1689 and 1690. In 1690, his health
failed. This illness was probably a nervous breakdown broughton by many years of working long hours and enduring too
much stress. Eventually he fully recovered.
In 1701, Newton began another short term as a
parliamentarian. Two years later he was elected president of
the Royal Society. His re-elecon to that posion every year
for the rest of his life showed the high esteem in which he
was held by fellow sciensts. Then Newton published his
earlier work on light; his book, "Opks", contained both his
own ndings and also suggesons for further research. His
country ocially recognized his work in 1705 when he
became the rst person to receive a knighthood for scienc
achievement.Newton died in 1727, at the age of 84 and was buried in
Westminster Abbey.
Isaac Newton had a prodigious capacity to consider
mathemacal problems, and then concentrate on them unl
he had solved the mystery behind them. He would at mes
think for sixteen connuous hours about one single
mathemacal problem. His one pointed nature led him to, at
mes, be detached from the world. For example, he had lile
me for women. An early teenage romance came to nothing,
and he remained single throughout his life. Another good
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example about his deep thoughulness is represented in a
story of his
"Newton invited a friend to dinner but then forgot the
engagement. When the friend arrived, he found the scienst
deep in meditaon, so he sat down quietly and waited. In
due course one dinner was brought up. Newton had
forgoen to tell his servant a guest was expected. Newton
connued to be abstracted. The friend drew up a chair and,
without disturbing the host, consumed the dinner. Aer he
had nished, Newton came out of his reverie, looked with
some bewilderment at the empty dishes, and said, 'I f it
weren't for the proof before my eyes, I could have sworn that
I have not yet dined.'"
Newton was not only focusing on science and mathemacs.
Throughout his career, Newton conducted research in
theology and history with the same passion that he pursued
alchemy and science. Although some historians have
neglected Newton's nonscienc wrings, there is liledoubt of his devoon to these subjects, as his manuscripts
aest. Newton's wrings on theological subjects alone
amount to about 1.3 million words, the same length of
approximately 20 books. Although these wrings say lile
about Newtonian science, they tell us a good deal about
Isaac Newton.
Isaac Newtons contribuons to science were many and
varied. They covered revoluonary ideas and praccal
invenons. His works in physics, mathemacs and astronomy
are of great importance even today. Despite all this, he was a
strong believer in God; movang him to examine the
universe.
Even though he was born posthumously and didn't receive
the aenon of her mother at a young age, he did build up
himself. He revoluonized the way people thought of the
world; he was a hard worker and thinker. We need to look at
people like him and see that we too can contribute to our
society, no maer how hard our condions in life may be.
Razhan K Ali.
o mse am on a h an on the eah he
ast oeans o tth e nsoee eoe me
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I'm going to democratize the automobile,When I'm through, everybody will be able toafford one, and about everyone will haveone - Henry Ford
Being one of the most signicant invenons of the
1920s, the automobile drascally changed the lives
of human beings for the beer. It helped transform
the nature of transportaon on a scale never done
before.
The rst automobile was invented by Henry Ford
in the U.S, who later found the Ford Motor
Company. Over the rst few years of the 1920s, the
automobile became a hit with everyone, especially
young people who found it to be very useful. Aer
a while, almost every household in the U.S ownedan automobile. Parents drove to work in their
automobiles, families visited friends and family
who lived far away, and business men could save
much me using their automobiles. The
automobile made many jobs easier.
At the beginning many people found it hard to
drive on the poor dirt roads because it was
uncomfortable and damaging to their automobiles.
The automobiles required a lot of fuel (gas) to run.
Day by day, beer automobiles were produced
which could run with less fuel. Along with that,
naon wide road construcon took place which
created even more jobs and strengthened the
economy even more.
Automobiles made transportaon a lot easier.
Miles and kilometers were not so long anymore. As
a result, daily lives were changing on a great scale.
Just aer the U.S, many other countries began
producing automobiles. This was the cause of a
great improvement in the economy of many
countries.Today, the Ford is among the worlds most famous
cars. The Automobile was rst made to hold one
person and that was the driver, but now some
automobiles hold more than 40 people.
Shkar D. Omer
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We can see that each invention had its own great impact on the world. Penicillin was used to improve health.
The telephone helped to improve communication on a basis never seen before. And last but not least, the
printing press revolutionized literacy rates. We need to know that we too can contribute to our society.
Through diligent work, just like these inventors, we can contribute to the world in unimaginable ways.
Mazin Fadhil
In 1440, a German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg, in-
vented the printing press. The printing press was a device
that used pressure to transfer an image from some sort of
prepared, inked surface to a receiving surface, like paper
or cloth. The device was used for printing many copies of a
text onto paper. The printing press contributed a great
deal to the reduction of illiteracy rates; since only the richcould afford books in those times because it was hard to
print them down, the majority of the poor civilians re-
mained illiterate. After Gutenberg's invention, books be-
came less expensive and as a result, the poor were able to
afford them; this decreased the rates of illiteracy. In other
words, the printing press revolutionized the aspect of liter-
acy in a way that was never done before.
Penicillin was found or invented by a Scottish bacteri-
ologist named Alexander Fleming in 1928.Penicillin is
an antibiotic agent derived from the Penicillium
mold. It removes disease, and it is a known pill thatcan be used to cure many diseases. He found it when
he left a dish of staphylococcus bacteria uncovered
for a few days; he returned to find the dish dotted
with bacterial growth, apart from one area where a
patch of mold (Penicillin notatum) was growing.
Many people after him worked on Penicillin but he
was the one who made it popular. Nowadays we call
it "The Wonder Drug."
The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in
1876.He was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist, philan-
thropist and teacher of the deaf. His knowledge of the
nature of sound led him not only to teach the deaf, but
also to invent the telephone.
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UNICEF After World War II, children in Europe were at
great risk of famine and disease so the United Nations
Children's Fund (UNICEF) was created in December 1946
to provide them with food, clothing and health care. To-
day the organization provides humanitarian aid to chil-
dren in developing countries worldwide.
According to UNICEF , Afghanistan is the worst country in
which a child can be born . The infant mortality rate in
the country is 157 deaths for every 1000 births. Afghani-
stan also has the world's lowest adult life expectancy
which is 43.8 years.
Tebeen S. Ibrahim
Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope
(HST,inset) is named after the emi-
nent American astronomer Edwin P
Hubble . The telescope which weighs
11 tons and is 13.1 m in overall
length, with a 240-cm reflector, waslaunched into space by the US space
shuttle Discovery on 24 April 1990. It
has been serviced five times while in
orbit and is currently due to remain in
use until at least 2014.
The ring racer formula one-themed coaster in
Nurnberg, Germany features a pneumac launch
system that blasts riders to 216.9 km/h in a
breathtaking 2.5 seconds - twice as fast as a
Formula One car .
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