Cyber-Freewrite
Developing Thesis Sentences
I moved the freewrite posts from below and reposted them here per student request for a separate post for today's freewrite: John Rawson, Joshua Duong, Juan Li, and Crystal Cortez
Question: Are women who patiently tolerate abuse: physical, emotional, and/or psychological weak? Use Half the Sky as a measure. Write three sentences. Use three women as examples to support your claim.
Examples:
Srey Momm (37)
Srey Momm, a Cambodian prostitute, tolerates mental and emotional abuse because of her addiction to methamphetamine.
Goretti Nyabenda (199)
Goretti Nyabenda, married, mother of six, tolerates her husband's abuse because of her Muslim faith and for economic reasons; her husband is the breadwinner.
Developing Thesis Sentences
I moved the freewrite posts from below and reposted them here per student request for a separate post for today's freewrite: John Rawson, Joshua Duong, Juan Li, and Crystal Cortez
Question: Are women who patiently tolerate abuse: physical, emotional, and/or psychological weak? Use Half the Sky as a measure. Write three sentences. Use three women as examples to support your claim.
Examples:
Srey Momm (37)
Srey Momm, a Cambodian prostitute, tolerates mental and emotional abuse because of her addiction to methamphetamine.
Goretti Nyabenda (199)
Goretti Nyabenda, married, mother of six, tolerates her husband's abuse because of her Muslim faith and for economic reasons; her husband is the breadwinner.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 9:55 AM
22 Comments:
Crystal Cortez
English 1A 8-8:50
March 11, 2010
Free Write Thesis:
Srey Momm, who was in a brothel in Cambodia, was freed, got the chance to start up a business but sadly was too addicted to methamphetamines and didn’t know anything better to do but to be a prostitute and show to the world she was too weak to better herself in life.
Du’a Aswad from Iraq was one who was accused of sleeping with a boy and since the lack of education of her part and the men in her country she was a victim of honor, since she didn’t try to help herself she showed that she was a weak woman that didn’t try hard enough to save herself.
Goretti Nyabeda a married woman with children allowed the abuse of her husband, due the traditional Muslim faith she had she is an example of weak women that didn’t try hard enough for herself.
8:54 AM
Juan Li
English 1A 8:00-9:00am
Prof Wanda Sabir
Free writing about the “Half the Sky”
Although there are so many women who start to be independnt and take control of their lives, there are more women who still are weak and they still being controled by some power.
For example: “Momm, like many brothel girls, had become addicted to methamphetamines. Often the brothel owners give girls menth to keep them compliant and dependent. In her village, the craving had overwhelmed her, and she was consumed by the need to go back to the brothel and get some meth.”
The other example: “In Meeana’s brothel, no one used condoms. Meenais healthy for now, but she has never had an AIDS test. Because Meena didn’t use condoms, she became pregnant, and this filled her with despair.”
The last example which I want to show is: “Neth’s family continued to regard her as a foolish little girl with no rights. So any man in the family who needed something took it from Neth’s store-sometimes paying, sometimes not.
When a Cambodian festival rolled around, the men in Neth’s family didn’t have enough money to by food for a feast, so they came to raid her shop.”
John Rawson
Eng1A 8:00-8:50AM
Prof. Wanda Sabir
I do not think that women who tolerate abuse are weak, I believe often is the case like in the situatiuon with Srey Momm are addicted to factors in the situation.
I don’t think that victims of abuse who tolerate it are weak because often they are in fear for their life as well as are faced with no other option then to take it or die; I for one thinks it is far too harsh for us to judge someone for taking abuse when their only other recourse is to stand up and get beaten worse or even more terrible to be killed.
I don’t believe that the women who allow abuse to happen to them are weak, a lot of times people believe that this kind of abuse is normal and is often the product of many generations of upbringing on oth the male and female side that propogates this cycle.
8:31 AM
Joshua Duong
March 11, 2010
Eng 1A 8-8:50 am
Thesis
Its seems like most of the women in these developing countries tolerate the physical, emotional and psychological abuse from men. Most of these women, when interviewed in Half The Sky, say that this abusive behavior men direct towards women are part of their culture. If the men are supporting the family, then he can do as he pleases. It seems like the women in these poverish countries that are educated are the only women that actually believe in gender equality.
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Summera Farooq
Eng 1A8-8:50 am
Professor Wanda Sabir
March 11, 2010
Free write “Half the Sky” Developing Thesis Sentences
In Half the Sky many women successfully escape from a terrible life and start a new and better life. Unfortunately some of the women cannot live without the abuse and some addictions. These three women are examples of ineffectual women who are patiently tolerated abused physical, emotional, and psychological.
One of the examples is Srey Momm who is a young Cambodian girl and becomes addicted to methamphetamine in a brothel. Most of the brothel’s owners will addict the girls to some kind of drugs so they will not escape, even though if the girls try to escape they will eventually come back and live in the brothel for the rest of their lives .She did not have any other skills beside being a prostitute.
Goretti Nyabeda an African woman mother of six and married to an imprudent and husband. She tolerates her husband abuse because of a Muslim religion and fear for her life. If she leaves him she will have no way to survive alone and will not be able to raise the children alone. She did not have the guts to live alone a better life.
Last example is Dua Aswad from Iraq a young girl who was blamed to sleep with her boyfriend because of the elders being uneducated she was a victim of Honor death. She was weak women. She could have tried to prove and stood up for herself, but she also did not have the guts to do it.
SunJungPark
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 8-8:50 Am
March, 11 .2010
Developing Thesis Sentences
Are women who patiently tolerate abuse, physical emotional and psychological weak? Use “Half the Sky” as a measure write 3 sentence 3 example.
1.Nick’s mother, a Afghanistan widow, tolerates her son mental, and systematic abuse because of her Islam faith, honor killings, and genital cutting, reason her son, Nick, must not permit man doctor to her mother and she can’t save her life (149).
2.Meena is an Indian Muslim, twelve years old, and prostitution, tolerate the brothels, the family matriarch, mother-in- low, her son physical, mental, and emotional abuse because of her family low caste for economic, reasons, her family is modern slaves(pp3-5).
3.Mahabouba is an Ethiopia about thirteen years old, tolerate physical, psychological, and emotional abuse because of her parent divorce and Muslim faith for economic reasons her husband, Jiad, sixth years old and first wife beat for jealous, she wanted to running away(93).
Sabah Said
March 11.2010
English 1A
Mon- Thurs
Freewrite: Develop thesis. Questions: are women who patiently tolerate abuse: physical, emotional and or psychological, weak? Use : Half The Sky as a measure write 3 sentence use 3 women as examples
I don’t consider women who go through abuse to be weak. I actually think the opposite of that. I feel like there stronger then all the other women out there because they have no choice but to take the torture their in. I think their powerful, because they go through so much. These women are brave.
Momm is a innocent young girl who hs been abused to be rape. She hs been in the brothel for five years and been taken addiction medicine called meth. She then goes back to brothel after she was freed because she was addicted to meth and she had to have it. She is a brave girl who went through a lot.
Saima also has been abused and tortured by her husband but she overcomes her problems and fights poverty. She had tolerance and changed her life for the better.
Goretti dealt with her six kids and her husband who always use to be greedy and mean to her. He just spends his money on himself even though their poor. Goretti was beaten by her husband Bernard and always forced to have sex with them. Goretti had a sad life from abuse, rape, poverty and emotions.
These three women had a lot of patients. Their lives have gone through a lot and they never gave up. They kept moving forward to try to find a way to change their live. I think these women are empowered.
Ahu Yildirim
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 9-9:50am
03/11/2010
Free write “Half the Sky” Developing Thesis Sentences
In Half the Sky many women successfully escape from a terrible life and start a new and better life. Unfortunately some of the women cannot live without the abuse and some addictions. These three women are examples of ineffectual women who are patiently tolerated abused physical, emotional, and psychological.
I don’t think those women are weak because they tolerate abuse and prostitution. Many of them have either knows anybody who can help them or they don’t have any financial freedom. Many of them feel desperate or they have psychological traumatic events happening in their life or they developed addiction to drugs because of their pimps. Many of them have almost no education or no chance to access with education. Many of them don’t know what to do in life because of lack of education and their society, culture. Unfortunately their world is too small, they don’t even have any idea what kind of rights women must have, all humans must have. The ones who are still under abuse, slavery and prostitution are only need a hope, courage and good people to help them to rescue. As long as they are alive, I believe this shows us they are not weak , because they can kill themselves but they want to rescue and live.
Rath tried so hard to rescue from brothel but she was desperate. A Malaysian police put her in jail first because she was an illegal immigrant there, even though she was kidnapped there. “After she served a year in prison, she thought a Malaysian policeman was escorting her home when he drove her to the Thai border, but then he sold her to a trafficker who took her to a Thai brothel again (xiii)”. At the end of her story she made it for the better, she escaped and changed her life.
Meena tried almost everything to rescue herself from brothel. She was beaten average five days a week. Brothel owners attempted to murder her. She rescued and went to police, but police gave her to the brothel back . Marriage with a nice guy rescued her from prostitution. Even though it wasn’t total freedom but she had her rescue in that way and changed her life for the better (7).
Mahabouba was sold an old man who beat and raped her. Soon she became pregnant and in her seven months pregnancy she succeeded to escape. She had to give a birth to her baby in the middle of nowhere by herself. Her fistula was torn. She crawled the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital. She was half dead when she arrived there. She made it, she survived herself from death and abuse (95).
Some still tolerates and some changed their life for the better and they all try or tried so hard. They have gone through too much. In those type of life conditions many people might kill themselves as a rescue but they didn’t or don’t which already proves us how those women are brave and very strong.
Mokhtar Mohamed
E1A 8-9 am
M.S Sabir
i do not think that many of the women that tolerate the physical, emotional and psychological abuse are weak. Many of women are facing a lot of difficulties in their life, but most of them do not give up. They changed their lives to the better. I believe that they become stronger than other because of their experiences they face.
There are only few women that become weak and give up eventually. Weakness of women does not occur because it is their choose, but because of their experiences that make their brains devastated.
Srey Rath stands as an example of the strong women that could overcome her problems. She escaped from the brothel and worked hard and made a good business.
Momm is the women who tolerated the physical, emotional and psychological abuse. She went back to her family, but she returned back to the brothel because she was addicted to meth.
Abtisam Kaaid
Professor Sabir
English 1A
Women Who tolerate abuse
Srey Momm (37)
Goretti Nyabenda (199)
Women who patiently tolerate abuse and are emotionally weak. Not, because they choose to be but because they are raised in that environment that makes them think women’s abuse is the way of life. When your raised a certain way, you think what ever your raised to think. If women are being abused, and are considered house wife’s that don’t have any say in what going on in the world. Its only natural that they think men work and have a say in everything while women just stay home cook, clean, and bare children.
Srey Momm, a Cambodian prostitute, tolerates mental and emotional abuse not because she wanted to because she was forced into prostitution and her captures had given her methamphetamine. So over time Srey has taken meth. To forget the rapes daily and to not make her feel at all. When she was rescued, she was ashamed that everyone knew what she had been doing over the years. She considered going back to the brothels but she didn’t. overtime her addiction to meth. Won the best over her. Her addiction made her leave her family and go back to that abuse. I would consider Srey Momm, a strong women because if it wasn’t for the meth. She would have had stayed home but her addiction got the best of her.
Goretti Nyabenda, married, mother of six, tolerates her husband’s abuse because in her village he is considered to be a breadwinner. She never when to the store alone never even held money in her hands. Goretti is a victim of abuse but over time has over come the abuse. She is considered to be very strong women. She joined a program started by CARE. Over time Goretti continued to go to this program and made a profit. She has overcome abuse and now handling the money and her husband shows her respect. Men are looking at their wife’s differently thanks to Goretti Nyabenda. She proves to us yes, women can make a change in the world but they have to be willing.
Over time yes, some women may overcome being emotionally weak, but its not something that just happens. It takes time and patients and for a women to reach a point where she doesn’t care and is willing to lose everything even her own life. Some women in Half the Sky have reached that point. Others are to afraid.
Phil Redd
Eng 1A8-8:50 am
Professor Wanda Sabir
March 11, 2010
The biggest abuserer in this book is quite obviously, Sheryl WuDunn. She looks the other way, when her literary style is raping the minds of innocent students. (She also failed to captivate me as an audience. Her contributions to the book could be summed up in the title, “Woman Who Write Up Half the Crap.”)
The prostitute in Cambodia who had her freedom bought for her but went back to hooking for meth, was less then successful. (Unless, you consider being a crack whore by choice is somehow better then, being a crack whore by force. This person had the opportunity of a life time, and wasted it. “Drugs are bad, mmmmmmk.” )
There was an afgan girl who wants to be a business woman, but ends up in an incest marriage and then murdered. (Some people are just born into crappy families. The most postive thing about this story is, they never reproduced and spread ther incest DNA into the gene pool. Bad for the girl, but good for humanity.)
Veronica Flores
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9-9:50
12 March 2010
Free write Thesis:
I do not believe that women who tolerate abuse should be considered weak. In most situations, abuse is beyond a woman’s control. In developing countries, ones culture may allow this type of treatment. It is believed that if a husband finds it appropriate, he may abuse his wife. This way of thinking is embedded in these people growing up. How do you stop this cycle of abuse? Many do not question what is right or wrong, but rather just accept this behavior because they know nothing else.
Srey Momm was a Cambodian prostitute forced into her brothel at a young age. She tolerated both physical and mental abuse from her owners. Srey Momm was given methamphetamine as a way to cope with her daily routine, as well as become more dependent on the brothel itself. After being purchased from an American, Srey was able to return back to her family. Srey was so happy to reunite with family, and to hopefully seek a better life. Unfortunately, as stated in the book; “Srey Momm has voluntarily gone back to the Poipet brothel, according to her father.” (pg. 39) Like many other woman, Srey’s addiction to methamphetamine won the best of her. Her cravings were so intense that she returned to the brothel to receive more. It is cases like Srey Momm’s that proves not all women willingly accept abuse. Srey Momm had the courage and strength to leave her brothel, return to her family, and attempt to make a better life. Unfortunately, her addiction prevented her from doing so in the end.
There are also women like Goretti Nyabenda. Goretti was an African woman, and resembled a life much of a prisoner. “Women here are supposed to get their husband’s permission each time they leave the property, and her husband, a grouchy man named Bernard, didn’t like to give it.” (pg.199) Goretti was a mother of six and at the age of thirty-seven was not allowed to go to the market by herself to purchase anything. Any time she went, Bernard would accompany her, handle the money given to the seller, and she would be stuck with carrying the goods back to her home. Goretti was a victim of sexist abuse. Because she was a woman, and her husband was the breadwinner, she never had a say in any of the financial spending. Goretti later joined the program CARE, an American organization seeking to help the needs of women and girls. Goretti decided to attend a meeting without Bernard’s consent. After joining the program, Goretti was able to get her own business going with a loan the program had provided for her. Thanks to Goretti taking a chance, she is now the breadwinner. She was brave enough to go to the meeting, despite what her husband allowed. If she hadn’t have taken that chance, she’d still be where she was before.
It takes a lot of strength for these women to stand up to this cruel and degrading treatment. I believe it is more challenging because this behavior is condoned for the simple fact that is a part of their culture. It is all a matter of when enough is enough. Some women reach a point where they have nothing else to lose. They risk everything they have in hopes of better opportunities. It is these women that I admire. Unfortunately, not all women share this bravery. Because of this, they will never be freed from the abuse they undergo. This is why they need our help…
Chelsea Eomurian
English 1A
9-9:50AM
Thesis Sentences
Not all women who tolerate abuse are weak, such as Goretti Nyabenda, because there are good reasons to stay with the man--such as finances and faith.
Abused women cannot all be deemed "weak" because they might have strong ties holding them, like Srey Momm, who was addicted to methamphetamines given by her abuser.
Tolerating physical, mental, or emotional abuse does not automatically make a woman weak because they may be addicted to drugs, have a strong faith, or need the financial support from their abusers.
Kimthuy Tran
English 1A (9-9:50)
Professor Sabir
Developing Thesis Sentences
Everybody has a different situation; therefore, I believe the reasons cause to women’s abuse will differ. Some women tolerate abuse because they are weak. For example, Giretti, a African mother of six constantly was beat by her husband. She refused participating in the Care program to get help, for she was scared of her husband. However, there are women who tolerate abuse are strong. For example, Saima Muhamad, a Pakistan woman was physical abuse by her unemployed husband and brother –in-law, but Saima was not weak; she joined a women’s solidarity group and borrowed a $65 loan to do business. Also, she changed her husband’s prejudice and improved her family life getting better. Mukhtar also is an example of strong women. She did a revolutionary; she went to the police to report the rape and demanded prosecution.
Edith Gonzalez
English 1A-9am
Professor Sabir
March 14, 2010
Three Thesis Statements
Dina (84)
Dina, a seventeen year old Congolese victim, who was raped by her town’s soldiers, tolerated the abuse because of the fear that she wouldn’t have the power to go against them.
Simeesh Segaye (100)
Simeesh, who was a twenty year old girl who lived in Ethiopia, suffered form a fistula and the neglection of her husband, and who accepted the abuse because she accepted the way that women were perceived and supposed to be treated.
Srey Momm (37)
Srey Momm who was a prostitute and meth addict accepted the abuse in the brothels because of her addiction.
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Peter Kortmann
Professor Sabir
English 1A
M-Th 9-10
Are Abused Women Weak?
In most cases a women submitting to abuse whether it be physical, emotional, or psychological, is not a sign of weakness because her circumstances tend to be out of her control. The women who live in misogynistic countries face an uphill battle against a culture, not just a husband; the cultures say it is okay for a man to abuse his wife if he deems it appropriate. I would not consider Srey Momm weak because she was force-fed methamphetamines leading to an addiction problem consequently preventing her from moving forward with her life after the brothel. Goretti was not weak, but lacked the opportunity to make her own way because she was not educated and not the main financial provider for the family.
In the case of Srey Momm, a sex slave that was freed by an American in exchange for money, she “willingly” returned to the brother where she was abused sexually, psychologically, and physically as a teenager. I used the term willingly in quotations because she was bound to the brothel by a meth addiction that was forced upon her while she was being prostituted. The physical addiction of methamphetamines forced her to return to the painful situation that she begged to be rescued from. I do not consider her weak for this reason because it was the strategic application of drugs by the brothel to make it nearly impossible to make it on her own. Srey is a strong woman that was forced into a drug addiction that was circumstantial to her being sex trafficked into a brothel. Srey had tried to escape which shows that she yearned to be free but her drug addiction made it impossible to completely move forward after her release.
Goretti is a case that refers to what I said previously; women who live in misogynistic countries face an uphill battle against an entire culture, not just an abusive husband. In these cultures women are forced to be submissive to men because they are viewed to be inferior. The women are not weak for believing this, but have been taught generation after generation that this is the way it is. The only way to change these misogynistic views is to educate the women that they do not have to sustain constant beatings and are not allowed to be the breadwinners. It is partially ethnocentric to look down at their culture because our culture says it is wrong; when looking at cultures it is important be unbiased and not with relativity to our own. To Middle-Eastern countries we are the ones that are wrong because it is in relativity to their own. We cannot tell the women of Pakistan that it their cultural ways are wrong and that ours are right, we can only try and encourage them to educate themselves in all areas as well as women’s right. Until they believe that their cultural ways are wrong, women like Goretti will always exist.
Cristian Barrionuevo
Prof. Wanda Sabir
English 1A 8-8:50
March 15, 2010
Are women who patiently tolerate abuse, physical, emotional and/or psychological weak? Use three women as examples to support your claim.
Saima Muhammad, a Pakistani woman who used to live in the outskirts of Lahore, Pakistan. Her deadbeat husband was unemployed. They did not have enough money to feed their daughter. She was pregnant and another girl was on the way. Unfortunately, it was another girl. (in the Middle East world girls are not seen as a good thing by society) As a result, they decided to send their daughter to Saima’s sister –in-law house. Saima was extremely poor and her house was falling apart but there was nothing to do about that because they did not have money for repairs. Her angry and frustrated husband used to beat her up. She was victim of physical abuse and she was insulted in the most negative and deplorable way. I consider that those women who patiently tolerate abuse are not weak at all. To tolerate abuse does not imply that women are weak; sometimes life put us in tight corners in which we must accept unfair and unpleasant treatments in order to see light at the end of the tunnel. Saima went through difficult phases in her life but when she thought that everything was lost and her hope was about to fade away, the tide turned for her and a bright and pleasing future was on the way.
Woineshet grew up in an area where kidnapping and raping girls is a time-honored tradition. Besides in those Ethiopian countries when a man doubts that the girl’s family will accept him, he and his friends kidnap the girl and rape her. As a consequence, the girl will be ruined and will have difficulty marrying anyone else. Paradoxically stealing a goat is a very shameful act in those villages, but if you steal a girl is acceptable. Woineshet was kidnapped and raped. She didn’t even know the kidnappers and rapists. Woineshet’s case doesn’t mean that she was weak in the least. Many times people, mainly those women who live on that part of the world, must cope with unfavorable and disgusting situations that honestly, it would seem as if the world in those women’s lives would collapse at any time. There is always in life a particular time in people’s life when a turning point emerged and we learnt to stand up for ourselves regardless the circumstances. Now Woineshet is high school, getting good grades and planning to go to university and study law.
Meena is an Indian Muslim who for years was prostituted in a brothel. She was eight year old when she was kidnapped and trafficked. She was from a poor family and was sold to a brothel. She suffered terrible beatings. Many times she thought that it was better to die than to live in those conditions. She was not weak at least; on the contrary she always fought for herself. The problem is that society builds and develops girl according to its traditions, costumes and values. It is not a question whether women are weak or not, it is a question of changing people’s mind in those villages. Lack of freedom is the vital factor in those places. In addition, uneducated people are the ones who accept, without complaining, such terrible treatments.
I posted my assignment acouple weeks ago and was looking back and didnt see it. Im going to try to post it again.
Adriana Ultreras
Mariel Monzalve
3-12-10
Women profiles
The three women that we chose are Srey Rath, Mukhtar Mai, and Meena Hasina.
Srey Rath
Cambodian girl
sold to brothel
drugged and forced to prostitute. Eventually gave in
escaped brothel
she was captured and resold to another brothel.
She escaped again
emotionally shattered
trusting nature
entrepreneur
outgoing personality
effective saleswomen who expands business
confident
Meena Hasina
Indian women.
Kidnapped and trafficked at age 8 or 9
sold to brothel
resisted with customers, but eventually gave in because she felt wasted
tried to commit suicide
not allowed to show resistance
she because pregnant and bore 2 children (boy and girl). New generation for prostitutes.
Brothel owners held her children captive
she never fully gave in. always fought back
fled brothel and abandoned her kids.
She fought back and was able to recover kids
very strong willed
will fight for what she loves
Mukhtar Mai
South Punjab
uneducated
victim of gang rape
seeked justice
opened school
had no government support
very strong willed
stopped being so traditional
stood for what she believed
would not let anything stand in her way
One of the similarities that we noticed is that the three women were very resistant. They might have gave in, but they never resigned themselves to live that life style. They all wanted to change and improve the life of other girls. They went through though obstacles in life but were able to overcome them; even though they were not educated. They all spoke out for what they believed was right. They were looked down upon by their communities because they thought they were worthless. They were able to change the philosophy of the villagers by proving themselves.
It is possible to create an environment where girls don't have to suffer. One way would be by creating more schools that will educate boys and girls as equals. By doing so they encourage boys to look at girls in a more respectable manner. A society should be created among men to see these behavior as unacceptable and degrading for everyone.
Nseke Ngilbus
prof Sabir
Eng 1a 8-8:50
april 26 2010
In Half the Sky the authors elaborate that empowerment is making women independent, confident, and aLeader. These women generally become empowered by crossing paths with aid agencies that seek to promote good in their community. Goretti is such an example, prior to joining the program CARE, she was dependent, weak, and control by her husband. After she joined, she was able to start a little business that was able to flourish. Then on, she became empowered. She provides for her family and putting her children through school. She is also become leader in her community promoting women equality and advancement.
This is still a bad situation for most women, many women are not fortunate enough to become successful. In turn, these are the women how are beat and mistreated. Women are only considered eqaul if they make more money then their spouse. so most women are never treated as equals. But there are many foriegn help organization that serve to aid these women become empowered. So there is hope that one day women will finally acheive equality.
Jennie Lo
Professor Wanda
English 1A (9:00 – 9:50 am)
Developing Thesis Sentences (Half the Sky)
Woineshet Zebene (62)
Woineshet Zebene, a victim of sexual abuse in Ethiopia, fighted for her own freedom and refused to marry the man who raped her because she believes she will not be happy if she marry the rapist.
Mukhtar Mai (70)
Mukhtar Mai, a young lady got an awful gang-raped punishment for her twelve year old brother illicit sex with the higher-status clan in Meerwala, she reported to the police and got $8300 in compensation. She used the money to start a school in the locally because she believes in education can change the world.
Jane Roberts (146)
Jane Roberts, a French teacher in Redlands, California helped to raise $34 million for the UNFPA by asking everyone donate one dollar. She made it because she believes the power of everyone is endless.
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