Cyber-Assignment
Today in class students continued developing their profiles. We defined the "power" and looked at the prefix "em" as in empower and what it meant to be empowered. In the world of Half the Sky what does a powerful or empowered woman look like?
Students were asked to post their findings and from these case studies develop a prototype of archetype of the "empowered woman." If girls could be inoculated against patriarchy and oppression these characteristics or ingredients would be a part of the preventative medicinal formula.
Post your group work here. Each student should then respond to another's post. Use an example to support your claim (response).
Do you agree with the group's evaluation? Can you expand the profile further? How does what happens to women in the Third World impact women in First World nations? What separates us from them or are we closer than we like to think?
Homework
1. Students are to complete Half the Sky
2. Continue working on SPHE. We are in section 4. Don't forget to also do the elipses exercises in the appendix.
Today in class students continued developing their profiles. We defined the "power" and looked at the prefix "em" as in empower and what it meant to be empowered. In the world of Half the Sky what does a powerful or empowered woman look like?
Students were asked to post their findings and from these case studies develop a prototype of archetype of the "empowered woman." If girls could be inoculated against patriarchy and oppression these characteristics or ingredients would be a part of the preventative medicinal formula.
Post your group work here. Each student should then respond to another's post. Use an example to support your claim (response).
Do you agree with the group's evaluation? Can you expand the profile further? How does what happens to women in the Third World impact women in First World nations? What separates us from them or are we closer than we like to think?
Homework
1. Students are to complete Half the Sky
2. Continue working on SPHE. We are in section 4. Don't forget to also do the elipses exercises in the appendix.
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Brittany Tuazon
Chelsea Eomurian
Daniella Jabson
Sabah Said
Veronica Flores
THREE WOMEN ENTREPENEUR
Zhang Yin, China
-Raises poor, earning only $6 a month for her 7 siblings.
-Learned the intricacies of the paper business at a special business in an higher economic zone.
- Started her own business using scrap paper
- Later moved to LA to ship scrap paper back to China.
- After starting her recycling company it became the biggest American export to China by volume
-Also started a paper manufacturing center in China.
* she is now worth $4.6 billion
TRIGGER MOMENT:
She learned the paper business and realized she can earn more money for her family if she went out on her own.
Mukhtar Mai, Meerwala in Southern Punjab
-struggling low class family
Little brother was kidnapped and gang raped.
-the gang later made up a story to shame there family to justify their homosexuality.
-for forgiveness of this fabricated shame, her virginity was exchanged
-After this damage to her family, Mukhtar reported the incident to the President Musharraf who then felt sympathetic and presented her with $83,000.
-Bought an elementary school for women in her village.
-Built a girls high school and working on a school for boys
-Bought cows for income to sustain schools, bought a school van and doubles as an ambulance.
-built another school in the ghetto where the government doesn’t even try to rebuild.
TRIGGER MOMENT:
After her rape when she was at home her humiliation grew to anger and her rage fueled her intentions. Her injurious experience became her strength.
Saima Muhammad, Lahore, Pakistan
-Kashf Foundation, $65 loan
-Bought beads and cloth for embroidery
-Paid off families debt
Her husband worked for her
-Became the tycoon of the neighborhood
-Kept her daughters in school, renovated their home, connected running water and bought a television.
*self-confidence; Dressed well
TRIGGER MOMENT:
Her husband and his family would beat her and never let her leave the house or handle money. The families oppression drover her to be more financially stable.
Brittany Tuazon
Chelsea Eomurian
Daniella Jabson
Sabah Said
Veronica Flores
THREE WOMEN ENTREPENEUR
Zhang Yin, China
-Raises poor, earning only $6 a month for her 7 siblings.
-Learned the intricacies of the paper business at a special business in an higher economic zone.
- Started her own business using scrap paper
- Later moved to LA to ship scrap paper back to China.
- After starting her recycling company it became the biggest American export to China by volume
-Also started a paper manufacturing center in China.
* she is now worth $4.6 billion
TRIGGER MOMENT:
She learned the paper business and realized she can earn more money for her family if she went out on her own.
Mukhtar Mai, Meerwala in Southern Punjab
-struggling low class family
Little brother was kidnapped and gang raped.
-the gang later made up a story to shame there family to justify their homosexuality.
-for forgiveness of this fabricated shame, her virginity was exchanged
-After this damage to her family, Mukhtar reported the incident to the President Musharraf who then felt sympathetic and presented her with $83,000.
-Bought an elementary school for women in her village.
-Built a girls high school and working on a school for boys
-Bought cows for income to sustain schools, bought a school van and doubles as an ambulance.
-built another school in the ghetto where the government doesn’t even try to rebuild.
TRIGGER MOMENT:
After her rape when she was at home her humiliation grew to anger and her rage fueled her intentions. Her injurious experience became her strength.
Saima Muhammad, Lahore, Pakistan
-Kashf Foundation, $65 loan
-Bought beads and cloth for embroidery
-Paid off families debt
Her husband worked for her
-Became the tycoon of the neighborhood
-Kept her daughters in school, renovated their home, connected running water and bought a television.
*self-confidence; Dressed well
TRIGGER MOMENT:
Her husband and his family would beat her and never let her leave the house or handle money. The families oppression drover her to be more financially stable.
Victor Ani
Abtisam Kaaid
Lucia Fallah
Kimthuy Tran
Sideeq Islam
The three women that help the empowerment of women were Mukhtar, Edna, and Roshaneh. Each woman has achieved extraordinary goals that provide women the power to protest and prevent abuse towards women.
Mukhtar
• rape victim
• fought her attacker
• father on her side
• made a school to educate women
• fights for women’s rights
• empowerment from the village
• 24 hour hotline
Edna
• victim of circumcision
• educated
• supportive father
• married now divorced
• built hospital
• fights for women’s rights
Roshaneh Zafar
• educated women more on microcredit
• came from a wealthy family
• founder of Kashf (miracle)
Edith Gonzalez
Jennie Lo
James Barker
Peter Kortmann
English 1A- 9am
Professor Sabir
March 10, 2010
Character Profiles:
1. Angeline Mugwender (chapter 10) - Angeline who lived in Zimbabwe and who was the daughter of impoverished farmers was a victim of poverty. Because of Angeline’s family economic status, she was not able to afford going to school, and was teased constantly by classmates because how poorly she dressed.
-Trigger Moment: The moment in which Angeline met Ann, who was a Welsh woman, Angeline was able to see a women with power who was trying to make a difference. Ann’s efforts to help young girls like Angeline continue with their education, is what encouraged Angeline to continue and fight for the education that she well deserved for being an outstanding student.
2. Saima Muhammad (chapter 11) - Saima who lived in Pakistan was depressed of the life her and her family were faced with through poverty. Saima was constantly depressed because of her husband being unemployed and because of the constant misjudgments of the people around her.
-Trigger moment: The moment in which desperation to be able to provide for her family and help pay her husbands debt lead Saima to take out a $65 loan, through micro finance, to help start her own broidery business.
3. Goretti Nyabenda (chapter 11) – Goretti who lived in northern Burundi, which is one of the poorest places ever, who was a mother of 6 was in many ways a prisoner of her husband. She was uneducated and every action she took was ordered or controlled by her husband.
-Trigger moment: The moment in which Goretti realized that the money that she and her husband were making in the fields was not enough, and built the courage to disobey her husband and attend a CARE meeting.
Archetype:
-Women would need recognition of their situation and the knowledge of how to succeed.
-The determination to want to do better or drive to pull through their unfortunate situations.
-Provide a course that provides women with information and support to succeed.
-Show women role models of people who were once in their situations who were able to turn their lives around for motivation and encouragement.
-Teach women skills and trades to help them survive.
-Have more microfinance systems to help women start their own businesses, but also help them develop a vision or idea so their business can become successful.
Similarities:
-All women received help from outside resources.
-All women were victims of poverty.
-All women were seeking to provide a better life for themselves and their families.
Dissimilarities:
-Saima and Goretti were married, Angeline was not.
-Angeline was seeking education, when Saima and Goretti were seeking a job opportunity to provide for their families.
John Rawson
Nseke Ncribus
Eng 1A 8:00-8:50AM
Prof. Wanda Sabir
Edna: she came from an educated family-was circumcised as a young woman-through education she learned about medicine-opened a hospital in the slums to help the poor-trained other women to become nurses and to perform surgeries.
Woineshet: father was educated-was raped-spoke out against her attackers-went to police-government wanted her to succumb to her attacker and marry him-now in high school-planning to go to college and study law-wants to pursue justice for cases of abduction.
Zhang Yin: was a poor woman looking to raise money for her family-got some education- learned about paper and the low amount in her country and the large amount in the United States-moved to L.A. to ship recycling to China-set up the largest import for China.
Empowerment to these women rests on the ability of education. The possibility of education can help these women as well as many other people tremendously Empowerment is unlocking the potential inside. Even though you need teachers and or books to educate someone, the person can be taught and in many cases can be taught things that give them more power in society, and thus a stronger voice to speak from. Education can be linked to the success of many of these stories, as well shows educated families are less likely to oppress their children in the same ways they were.
Joshua Duong
Victor Guerrero
Mokhtar Muhammad
March 10, 2010
Eng 1A 8-8:50 am
Empowerment
An example of an entrepreneur is Usha Narayane. She was a person living in the slums of Kasturba Nagar. She was a person that stands out from all the other people of the village. Usha thrived in this village, despite how poor everyone else was. She is a fighter, even when those gang members came to her village and terrorized everybody. She stood up to the gang, even though no one else dared to try and oppose them. In this particular case, Usha is empowering herself. Usually, oppressed people need a little push to help them get moving in life.
Goretta was an example of a woman getting empowered. She was virtually a nobody. Goretta was just a regular woman, living in poverty, getting abused by her husband almost everyday. She got empowered by the CARE foundation. She went to the foundation, hoping that she can get a loan to invest in something, and hope that it will be a success so she can have some money. After growing crops and buying goats, she found herself in a place of self-control and self-confidence. She no longer takes the abuse of her husband. The husbands feels that, too, that he can no longer beat her because she is the one supporting the family.
Another person who was empowered was, who used to be a small, Chinese girl, named Dai Manju. She was living in a world where, it was considered at the time, t be one of the worst places to be born as a girl. Back in those times, Almost all the girls had the same name. The names that they had were all carnations of the same theme; bring me a son. Dai was empowered by education. After several years of schooling, she became a sort of tycoon of her community. She bought a new house for her family, and had control of her own life.
Abtisam Kaaid
Professor Sabir
English 1A
3 Empowered Women
The three women that my group and I picked are Mukhtar Mai p.70, Edna p.123, and Rashaneh Zafar p.189. Though there are many women that shows recognition of ones strength. Some are spiritual, physical, mental, emotional and also intellectual strengths deep inside many of the women in Half the Sky. Many women in this book of time have empowered themselves and made a change and there communities. We picked these women mostly because they feel strong about education and really stood out to us more then another women in this book. We believe that each one of these women show great empowerment. Although these women are very similar they all came from different parts of the world, and eventually all wanted the same thing which is empowering other women.
Mukhtar and Edna both are victims. Mukhtar is a victim of rape as for Edna she’s a victim of female genital circumcision. Both Edna and Rashaneh came from wealth backgrounds. All women have support from their families especially their fathers, which influence’s them to become empowered. Although each women accomplished different goals for example: Mukhtar built a school to better educated women, Edna built a hospital and Rashaneh is helping women with microfinance.
All women show great empowerment. On there paths of life discovery each one wanted to make a difference in many life’s around the world. They want women to know that women should get and education, have babies in hospitals and take out a loan if its need to have a better life. Life is short, make a difference to the people around you.
Crystal Cortez
English 1A 8-8:50am
Three Women Entrepreneur
Ellaha (Ch. 9)
• Inmate in Jail in Kabul, Afghanistan
• Forced to marry her cousin
• Beat by family (uncle and cousin) because she refused to marry him
• Smart (educated) (learn to speak English)
• Parents uneducated and very accustomed to traditional Afghan followings
• Worked in a construction company for Americans
• Got a scholarship to attend a university in Canada because her boss help her get the scholarship
• Ran way to not marry her cousin but got caught by police and jail mainly for safely from family beating her to death
Trigger
• Was education and a better future away from the traditions of Afghanistan
• She wanted to choose who she married and it is not an uneducated man , because she wants a educated husband
Edna Adan (Ch. 7)
• She’s from Somaliland
• Came from an educated family
• She had her genitals cut because her mother wanted it done
• She went to school and was interested in health care
• She open a hospital in the slumps
• She thought poor women to become midwifes
Trigger
• Her motivation was how her father was who believed in her and helping her woman and country opening a hospital.
Saima Muhammad (Ch. 11)
• From Lahore, Pakistan
• Her husband and brother-in law beat her
• She would try to make money through selling things at the market place but it’s not enough for her family
• Husband made a debt of $3,000
• She got a loan of $65.00 to buy beads and clothing to make embroidery to sell in the market
• She paid off her husband’s debt
• Started businesses
• Husband worked for her, helping with everything
• She had her daughter in school to get an education
Trigger
• She got motivated after she felt hopeless when her family (husband, brother-in-law, mother-in-law) would abuse her
• Money issues struggles
David Atchison
Corinne Williams
Kyle Williams
Chris Kerr
Lisa
10 March 2010
Woman empowerment
Saima
1) Born in Lahore, Pakistan
Husband beat her everyday
She was beat by her brother in-law
Open up her on embroidery with only $65.00
Sunitha
1.) Born in Hyderalsad, India
Prostitutes that she could save, she taught trades like binding bocks and crapt.
Started out helping and teaching poor people
Trigger moment: raped by group of men that didn’t like what she was doing. She realized that rape happens too women everyday. Fought against pimps and brothel owner to fee the prostitutes and give them better lives
Srey Neth
Cambodian
she didn't know her actual birth date
a pretty, short light skinned girl
was brought to a brothel at a young age (14)
was raped and forced to serve customers
Nick bought her for $150 (to free her from the life at the brothel) and brought her back to her village
she opens a grocery store in her village, but her family would constantly steal from her until her business collapsed
father had tuberculosis, so Neth studied and became a Hairdresser at a Hairdressing shop at Sapor
she was tested for HIV early on, and the test came back positive. Which brought Neth into a depression.
after she found out that she didn't have much time to live, she wanted to be with her family so that when she dies she will be home
shortly after her decision she meets a man named Sothea who she ends up falling in love with and marrying.
she becomes pregnant and fears that the baby will have HIV, but she has no idea how to tell Sothea about her past life in the brothel
mentally all this stress was taking its tole on Neth's health and she began to become sickly physically. Srey Neth
Juan Li
Summera Farooq
Cortny Lozano
Ivorionda Owens
Andrew Yount
The three women we chose are Edna (pg 123), Sakena (pg 162) and Dai Manju (pg 168). These women all went through hardships and struggles in their lives but the main thing they all had in common were that they all received educations and from there went on to help others.
Edna's trigger moment was when she was brutally circumcised and saw how truly appalled her father was by the terrible act inspired her to never let that happen to others and open a hospital when she grew up.
Sakena's trigger moment was when she was studying and getting her education abroad in Stockton CA, after she recieved her full education she wanted to give women back home the same chances at education she had so she opened underground secret schools for women only.
Dai Manju's trigger moment when she was a child and had hopes of being the only one in her family to graduate elementary school. She dreamt of graduating and did so years later thanks to a generous donation made for her. She went on to become a business tycoon in her area and she helped support her community and pave the way for women in the workplace.
Leonardo Martin
English 1A 9-9:50 AM
Professor Sabir
March 10, 2010
Mukhtar Mai
-Poverty stricken family
-Punished through rape
-Created a school for women in her village.
Edna Adan
- Victim of circumcision by her mother
-Educated and wealthy
- Support from her father
- Built a hospital through sacrifice and donations
-Educates women in her hospital
Saima Muhammad
-Beaten by her husband
-Hopeless life
-Her husband had a debt of 3,000 dollars
-Joined CARE
-Used microfinance to support her family
-Created a business that flourished and helped keep her family going
Archetype
-Recognize these women for their struggle and their ability to conquer oppression
-Create opportunities that will allow women to be able to help their families
-Educate women
- provide useful information to these outdated communities
SunJungPark/Cristian Barrionuevo
Huarui/Mulugeta Mahray
English 1A 8:00-8:50
Professor Wanda Sabir
March, 10,2010
“Group profile” part 1
Our group discussed about women empowerment four profiles in “half the sky”. First, Mamitu Gashe(ch7) story about Ethiopia’s surgeon doctor herself. Second, Goretti(ch11) is African woman started in the village by CARE organization. Third, Enda(ch7), She studied nursing, midwife, and hospital management for seven years when she was in Britain and build her country Africa hospital. The three women, Mamitu Gashe, goretti, and Enda are great heroes in the world.
Mamitu Gashe must be the only case in the world who became a surgeon without getting a degree. She is a clear example of empowering herself. In other words, the power comes from inside out. Paradoxically, she grew up illiterate in a remote village in Ethiopia and suffered a fistula as a young wife in her first pregnancy. For my mind, what made Mamitu so determined and faithful to her compassionate heart was the fact that she went through a fistula surgery and as a consequence, she perfectly knew what a fistula meant in a woman’s life. Absolutely, that was her turning-point in her life and from that time on, she began to observe life from a different perspective. Without doubt, Mamitu is a woman who possesses great convictions, determinations and values. Besides, she put a potential combination into practice; “patience and effort.” Although she was born illiterate, she managed by herself to jump from being just somebody who helped out by making beds in the local Fistula Hospital to developing surgeries. To put it in a nutshell, no matters the adverse circumstances we may be immersed in, when you are convinced and determined to what chief role you wish to play in society, practically nothing will prevent you from succeeding. Mamitu is a genuine epitome of vivacious, patient, humble and persevering in life. Honestly, she went far in her life and now she is reaping what she sowed. She has made a significant commitment that just few people would dare to make; “to help poor people in the poorest countries in the world.”
Goretti is an African woman from northern Burundi. In a society where women have no power, Goretti is not allowed to leave the house unless she receives permission from her husband, Bernard. The couple grew vegetables but is barely able to earn enough to survive. Goretti have never been to school and is not permitted to buy anything or go to the market. Goretti's chance for empowerment came when a program started in the village by CARE, the venerable American aid organization that has focused on the needs of women and girls. Through her determination, Goretti and the women created their own bank, from which Goretti borrowed two dollars and start making money by selling crops. After receiving a steady income, she was able to start her beer business. Goretti no longer needed her husband's permission and was finally on equal grounds. Through her CARE association, Goretti started helping other women by educating them and help with health issues such as HIV and childbirth. The women of the village were finally empowered through the help of CARE and their own hard work. Women were now filled with confidence and no longer second class citizens.
SunJungPark/Cristian Barrionuevo
Huarui/Mulugeta Mahray/jacki gnrrido
English 1A 8:00-8:50
Professor Wanda Sabir
March, 10,2010
“Group profile” part 2
According Half The Sky, Enda’s Hospital located at Horn of Africa in Somaliland at Hargeisa where she grew up. Enda Adan is the founder of a beautiful maternity hospital and she was the first girls went to school at her generation in her country. In addition, she was the first women got scholarship to study in foreign country in Britain. While she was working as interpreter for British doctor at Hargeisa, she said,” she got her into health, and whetted my appetite even more for health work.” She studied nursing, midwife, and hospital management for seven years when she was in Britain. As a result, she became the first qualified nurse – midwife in her country. She used to work for World Health Organization across the world. However, her dream was to build a hospital at her homeland and to work in. After she retired from WHO, she made a decision to build a hospital. She said,” She knew that Somaliland has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world.” So, she sold her personal asset and funding her entire life saving account. However, her fund was not sufficient to complete her dream hospital. She ran out of money. She requested donors for the rest of her project to accomplish but she got refuse. However, Mr. Ian Fisher wrote an article in The New York Time in regard to Edna vision. She got response from individuals as well as world nonprofit organizations. With the help of these donors she able to completed her dream project.
Dai Manju’s parents didn’t believe in education but that didn’t stop Dai from being successful in life. Dai’s parents didn’t believe in education for the fact that, you truly can’t be successful in the village which they lived at. Therefore, her parents wanted Dai to drop out of sixth grade. Dai was devastated, but since she was the star student of the class a teacher wrote an article in order, for her to become someone in life. Dai got a scholarship from Morgan Guaranty therefore; she graduated from middle and high school and attended accounting school. Dai is now a successful account. Therefore, nothing is impossible if you just believe in yourself.
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.
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.
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.”
Victor Guerrero
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
8:00-8:50am
There are a lot of problems with women empowerment in developing countries. First off men will not allow women to be head of the household. Young women are usually sold into brothels due to lack of education. There are a lot of government corruption and leads the police to not enforce laws. In developing countries there is no money to buy condoms so young children can learn to be safe. Also working for less than a dollar cannot pay for bills which leads to prostitution. Some women see this as a rebound and bounce back. They open up their own businesses and start a new life. Some would go to school and struggle making it into college. Women who empower theirselves gets onto the road of success. Women see that under their living circumstances they can still aim for the top so wont let nobody bring them down.
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.
Peter Kortmann
Professor Sabir
English 1A
M-TH 9-10
Profile Response
Victor's group chose three very good profile cases to write about. If I would have written about one more profile case I would have chose Edna; she was the wife of a diplomat and decided to make her own difference in her country by starting her own maternity hospital. She empowered women by:
-Forcing the male construction workers to teach other women how to make bricks, leading to the first female brick layers.
-Edna also taught women essential skills to become effective nurses at the hospital.
-Built a facility that lowered the cost for women to give births as well as fix fistulas of women who encountered birth problems or sexual assaults.
-Edna also taught and enforced the nurses to speak English while in the hospital.
Veronica Flores
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9-9:50
11 March 2010
Profile Response:
Looking through each profile, many different women were discusses. One woman’s story in particular stood out to me. Crystal Cortez discusses Ellaha; a woman from Afghanistan. Ellaha’s story included:
• Having an uneducated upbringing.
• Beaten brutally because she refused to marry her cousin.
• Despite her uneducated parents, she was educated. (spoke English)
• Had the desire to marry someone of her choice; someone who was educated as well. Her cousin was not.
• Ran away to avoid having to marry her cousin. Was caught by the police and taken into custody to avoid her families threats.
• Was an employee of an American company.
• Received a scholarship to attend a university in Canada, with the help of her boss.
• Wanted more education, hoping to seek a better future away from the traditions of her home, Afghanistan.
Ellaha’s story stood out to me because she strived so hard to be something better than what everyone had settled for. She wanted to break away from the tradition of parents choosing your husband. Ellaha was independent, and strived to stay educated and hopefully leave the strict traditions of her country. She fought for what she believed, and I admire that.
Summera Farooq
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A8-8:50 am
March 11, 2010
Group Profile Response
All the groups did a great job about profiling three women. I think Victor’s group chose three great profiles. I think Edna is a great example of women empowerment. She was circumcised and impressed by how much her father care about her. She went to school. She built a maternity hospital for women. Later in the hospital she taught women important skills to become effective nurses at the hospital. She also forced men to teach women how to built bricks. Edna also taught and enforced the nurses to speak English while in the hospital.
Romina Sarmiento
English 1a 9-950
Professor Sabir
11 March 2010
3 Women of Empowerment
Usha Narayane
- grew up in poverty
- university graduate
- took part in elimination of rapist
Mukhtar Mai
- never attended school because there were no schools for girls
- gang raped trying to get sympathy for brother who was accused of raping another girl
- built school for girls in her village to give them what she never had
Edna Adan
- grew up in poor Somaliland
- learned to read on her own
- built hospital that provides care and after care for pregnant women
Archetype
- despite all odds used their knowledge of the hardships they endured and gave back to community
- provides education to other women
- persistant in providing what they lacked growing up
Ahu Yildirim
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 9-9:50am
03/10/2010
Response to Victor Ani, Abtisam Kaaid, Lucia Fallah, Kimthuy Tran, Sideeq Islam’ group
All those other groups’ work was quiet good, but I enjoyed this group’ profile the most. Their chose of women not only achieved impressive power also help other women who needs help and rescue. Muktar, Edna and Roshaneh Zafar are great examples of women empowerment and achievements. They all added something good and beautiful into this life and make positive changes for other women who are raped, under abuse, prostitution…etc.
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
april 25 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.
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