Writing for Fallujah

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This paper is a creative work about a young girl, named Ayasha, who is faced with the "Assignment," which for Fallujans is the writing of an essay that marks one's transition into adulthood. In the Fallujan Utopia, one is not considered an adult until one contributes to the "family"--contributes to the Fallujan "Way" or their democracy. One does this by way of writing a suggestion of change so that the Utopian society does not become stagnant, and truly represents the mind of the people. The paper shows how Ayasha speaks to women, both young and old while she is considering what to write for her "Assignment," and the revelations that she has in the process may change Fallujah forever.

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"In revolution, there is the seed of hope that the Utopian ideal may bloom. In writing this Utopia, my goal was find the potential for Utopian evolution in our world today, thereby giving it agency and immediacy that would be sacrificed if the Utopia were 'elsewhen,' in a place alien to us. In pondering the state of affairs around the world, I came to the conclusion that most Western nations are to too stayed and fixed in their ways for a near contemporary Utopia to arise, barring the unthinkable upset of western democratic nations. In my bias, perhaps, I could not conceive of an America, a Britain, a France, nor a Germany experiencing an Utopian revolution any time in the foreseeable future. I was compelled to search elsewhere. Looking backward in very recent history, I immediately thought of the country of Iraq. Iraq, if things had gone differently, could have very well become an Utopia. Iraq is blessed with all of the prerequisites; an evolved civilization, an ideal location, natural resources, a deeply rooted cultural history, and most importantly, have been recently conquered and/or liberated, which amounts to a revolution. My record of the Iraqian Utopia, therefore, recognizes the allied invasion of Iraq, but more as a national myth than a painful memory."

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