All four of these chapters have really impacted me. From chapter eleven, discussing how a husband from Pakistan would constantly beat his wife Saima Muhammad because of his anger of having no job, was sad to me. Her husband owed $3,000 in debt and that is a lot to some people, especially in the living conditions that Saima and her family were living in. She soon joined an organization and made a huge improvement and started her own little embroidery business. She was able to pay off her husbands debt and remain her daughters in school. "Saima became the tycoon of the neighborhood, and she was able to pay off her husband's entire debt, keep her daughters in school, renovate the house, connect running water to the house, and buy a television." This chapter really made me proud of how hard Saima worked and was able to surpass her obstacles and help her family. Chapters twelve and thirteen were quite inspirational as well. I admired the determination of Zhang Yin in chapter twelve and how she worked immensely hard and never gave up. Even with no english education, she managed to travel here to the U.S. and work for her business. Knowing that she later become a billionaire with a net worth of $ 4.6 billion dollars, is amazing and really made me value that true meaning behind dreams and hard work combined, make everything possible. Chapter thirteen was quite different dealing with the gential cutting of young girls. This chapter was not my favorite because it was quite brutal and gruesome and knowing that this is a culture thing, makes matters more complicated. Chapter fourteen was interesting and a good way to wrap up the book because it discussed how the world is today with everything we learned about women and their struggles.
Quiz Question: Who is Zhang Yin?
Research Proposal: Why have women been mistreated so unfairly and poorly throughout the world?
Monday, April 23, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Kristoff & WuDunn Ch: 6-10
In chapter six, Kristoff and WuDunn discuss more about the sufferings women have gone through in foreign and rurual countries. From India, to Ethiopia to Congo, women have been raped, beaten, slaved, and killed because in some mens eyes, women of a certain lower class, don't and shouldn't exist as having rights and being honored or even respect at most. In the beginning of the chapter, Kristoff and WuDunn express in telling how in rural areas, a lot of women die because they don't receive the proper medical care during and after childbirth and die from complications of fistulas. "Fistulas like hers are common in the developing world but, outside Congo, are overwhelmingly caused not by rape but by obstructed labor and lack of medical care during childbirth." The story a girl named Mahabouba Muhammad was told and how she was sold and rape and beaten by the man who bought her. Women are not treated equally whatsoever, and i believe it's time that all these instances and experiences come to a rise and show how badly these women have been treated over the years in India and Africa and other places.
In chapter seven, Kristoff and WuDunn really explore and got into the rural areas and get information and personal experience of women who have suffered tremendously. In the beginning of the chapter, Kristoff and WuDunn go into depth of why so many women in India and Africa die during childbirth. Whether it's because of the lack of medical resource, no money to pay the local doctor, or being nieve to getting medical help when pregnant, many women have died or have lost their babies during childbirth. A woman named Prudence had a difficult childbirth and eventually, ended carrying her dead baby in her stomach for some days and that was poisoning herself. The local doctor, Dr. Pipi was quite upset with Prudence because he didn't understand why she never came in before childbirth and got medical care and pre-natal advice to better help her and her baby.
In chapter eight, nine, and ten Kristoff and WuDunn discuss the medical care world for women in third world countries need. In chapter eight, a woman named Rose visited a maternity clinic in Kenya. She was not recognized because she hardly went to the clinic. She went there because she was pregnant and wasn't feeling too well at all. After the doctor saw her, he concluded she had an infection and it was threatening her life as well as her baby's life. The doctor put her on a program that would help her nutrition and take care of the infection she had. CARE and AMDD, were outreach programs that are dedicated to helping clinics, like the one Rose went to, and making sure the women there get the necessities they need during their pregnancies and during childbirth. In chapter nine, Nick discusses his trip to Afghanistan and how he met a man who studied and learn english at a university. Nick learned from the man that his mother never had been to a clinic before. To Nick, this was surprising news, but to the people in Afghanistan, it wasn't at all. Chapter ten has a completely different turn and discusses how a family who was poor in China and didn't have enough money to send their daughter to school or get an education. The father wasn't concerned about sending his daughter to school because he saw that as a "waste" of money because his daughters were going to be selling socks or working in the fields regardless.
Quiz Question: What countries have the most women "sex-slaved" in the world?
Research Question: What defines social standing in determining who should be treated right or wrong? Why do women get excluded from that group as social outcast if they're lower class? Is it a cultural thing in India or China to behave this way?
In chapter seven, Kristoff and WuDunn really explore and got into the rural areas and get information and personal experience of women who have suffered tremendously. In the beginning of the chapter, Kristoff and WuDunn go into depth of why so many women in India and Africa die during childbirth. Whether it's because of the lack of medical resource, no money to pay the local doctor, or being nieve to getting medical help when pregnant, many women have died or have lost their babies during childbirth. A woman named Prudence had a difficult childbirth and eventually, ended carrying her dead baby in her stomach for some days and that was poisoning herself. The local doctor, Dr. Pipi was quite upset with Prudence because he didn't understand why she never came in before childbirth and got medical care and pre-natal advice to better help her and her baby.
In chapter eight, nine, and ten Kristoff and WuDunn discuss the medical care world for women in third world countries need. In chapter eight, a woman named Rose visited a maternity clinic in Kenya. She was not recognized because she hardly went to the clinic. She went there because she was pregnant and wasn't feeling too well at all. After the doctor saw her, he concluded she had an infection and it was threatening her life as well as her baby's life. The doctor put her on a program that would help her nutrition and take care of the infection she had. CARE and AMDD, were outreach programs that are dedicated to helping clinics, like the one Rose went to, and making sure the women there get the necessities they need during their pregnancies and during childbirth. In chapter nine, Nick discusses his trip to Afghanistan and how he met a man who studied and learn english at a university. Nick learned from the man that his mother never had been to a clinic before. To Nick, this was surprising news, but to the people in Afghanistan, it wasn't at all. Chapter ten has a completely different turn and discusses how a family who was poor in China and didn't have enough money to send their daughter to school or get an education. The father wasn't concerned about sending his daughter to school because he saw that as a "waste" of money because his daughters were going to be selling socks or working in the fields regardless.
Quiz Question: What countries have the most women "sex-slaved" in the world?
Research Question: What defines social standing in determining who should be treated right or wrong? Why do women get excluded from that group as social outcast if they're lower class? Is it a cultural thing in India or China to behave this way?
Monday, April 9, 2012
Kristoff & WuDunn Ch:1-5
In chapter one, Kristoff and WuDunn begin this chapter by revealing the life of Meena, who was a lower-class Indian girl, who was used as a sex slave. She was captured when she was about six years and was taken to the Brothel, where she was prostituted and beaten there. She faced many horrible experiences, including two pregnancies, and many drug intake. Finally, she was abel to escape and was set free because the brothel didn't want her causing anymore trouble. She married a man named Kubuz, and they had two daughters. Even though Meena was married and was trying to start her life over again, she wandered about her other two children back in the brothel and wanted to go and rescue them. She finally did rescue her daughter Naina and son Vivek.
In chapter two, Kristoff and WuDunn discuss the issues that young girls have faced with in India dealing with sex trafficking and their abusing environment. Sex slave has been going on for awhile, especially in India. Kristoff and WuDunn discussed how Nick went to India and visited Meena and during his trip, he ran into a police officer there who spoke decent english and had an interesting conservation. Sex slave in India is common because they use the poor lower-class girls to please the men who are engaged to middle/upper-class girls and to keep the girls virtue, they have the men sleep with the prostitutes at the Brotherl. Before this book, i never knew had in depth prostitution was in India. This book has really opened my eyes to how things are there.
In chapter three, women's rights was discussed in terms of speaking up for themselves and putting a voice for society to hear. Kristoff and WuDunn brought up a good point in way many young girls and women are abducted and taken into the brotherl prostitution world; women don't say anything or fight back or speak up about their awful mistreatments. "One of the reasons that so many women and girls are kidnapped, trafficked, raped, and otherwise abused is that they grin and bear it." Women do put up fights sometimes to their mistreatment, but as long as they take it and don't fully put an effort in stopping sex slaves from being forced, they will continue to be mistreated and used.
In chapter four, Kristoff and WuDunn discuss how rape is quite endemic in South Africa as well. A medical technician named Sonette Ehlers went there to produced national attention to this matter in South Africa. Ehler developed a tactic tool that would help women not get rape, called the Rapex. The violence level against women in these countries are immense. "Violence against women by an intimate partner is a major contributor to the ill health of women. Rape is so stigmatizing that many women do not report it, and thus researchers have difficulty tabulating accurate figures."
In chapter five, Kristoff and WuDunn discuss how the Bible relates and supports the stoning of girls not bleeding during their wedding night. This book to be quite honest, is not my favorite, but it does discuss a lot of stuff that's going on in the world, that women have been suffering from. Kristoff and WuDunn discuss how many men in India and China use women solely for sex and don't view women with any rights, according to social standing.
Quiz Question: What does "sex slave" mean?
Research Proposal: Why is the culture in India so focused on social standing, that it allows for men to sleep with other young girls, involuntary because of them being poor lower-class level?
In chapter two, Kristoff and WuDunn discuss the issues that young girls have faced with in India dealing with sex trafficking and their abusing environment. Sex slave has been going on for awhile, especially in India. Kristoff and WuDunn discussed how Nick went to India and visited Meena and during his trip, he ran into a police officer there who spoke decent english and had an interesting conservation. Sex slave in India is common because they use the poor lower-class girls to please the men who are engaged to middle/upper-class girls and to keep the girls virtue, they have the men sleep with the prostitutes at the Brotherl. Before this book, i never knew had in depth prostitution was in India. This book has really opened my eyes to how things are there.
In chapter three, women's rights was discussed in terms of speaking up for themselves and putting a voice for society to hear. Kristoff and WuDunn brought up a good point in way many young girls and women are abducted and taken into the brotherl prostitution world; women don't say anything or fight back or speak up about their awful mistreatments. "One of the reasons that so many women and girls are kidnapped, trafficked, raped, and otherwise abused is that they grin and bear it." Women do put up fights sometimes to their mistreatment, but as long as they take it and don't fully put an effort in stopping sex slaves from being forced, they will continue to be mistreated and used.
In chapter four, Kristoff and WuDunn discuss how rape is quite endemic in South Africa as well. A medical technician named Sonette Ehlers went there to produced national attention to this matter in South Africa. Ehler developed a tactic tool that would help women not get rape, called the Rapex. The violence level against women in these countries are immense. "Violence against women by an intimate partner is a major contributor to the ill health of women. Rape is so stigmatizing that many women do not report it, and thus researchers have difficulty tabulating accurate figures."
In chapter five, Kristoff and WuDunn discuss how the Bible relates and supports the stoning of girls not bleeding during their wedding night. This book to be quite honest, is not my favorite, but it does discuss a lot of stuff that's going on in the world, that women have been suffering from. Kristoff and WuDunn discuss how many men in India and China use women solely for sex and don't view women with any rights, according to social standing.
Quiz Question: What does "sex slave" mean?
Research Proposal: Why is the culture in India so focused on social standing, that it allows for men to sleep with other young girls, involuntary because of them being poor lower-class level?
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