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| Through fear of losing the cultural identity that had been created by Mohammed, Muslims clung to the past and refused any integration of the now rapidly expanding Western culture into their own. Instead, they shunned any small percieved influence and kept themselves completely isolated. �Assaulted from all sides, the Muslim world turned in on itself,� Amin Maalouf writes, indicating the intense fear, contempt, and suspicion that permeated the Muslim world in regards to the West. This, coupled with a determination to never be taken advantage of in such a way again, created who the Arabs were for many years after the Crusades, �a man held hostage by religion and culturally obsessed with identity,� (Lamb 15). THE END (finally) |
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| ATTENTION ALL YE WHO COME HERE: By my esteemed estimation, if you have bothered to come all the way through that and end up here, at the end, you are one of three people. 1) you're insane...join the club. Your membership card will arrive in the mail any day now. 2) you've been emotionally blackmailed by me to read this or die, in essence. In that case, I'm glad you're such a good little minion. Or 3) You're in IB, the night before the due date and have typed "Extended Essay" into Google and proceeded to happily copy and paste to your heart's content. Well, I hate to burst your bubble kiddo, but in case you didn't know, the IB gods have every single one of the Extended Essays ever turned in on record and run every single essay ever turned in through their little database and if even ONE paragraph comes up the same, it's adios IB diploma, hello months of ridicule. Don't believe me? Ask anyone. Or, you can try it. It won't hurt me any...I can just say I wanted to save my essay for posterity and put this little warning here to deter you. But did you listen to me? NOOOOOO. Then I may laugh at your foolishness in trying to thwart ME!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHA. I hope all the #3 types got the message. For the rest of you, feel free to curl up in a corner and cry. I understand that this essay is a biotch. | ||||||
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