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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

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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.

Sharo Karim


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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.

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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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Shkar D. Omar

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