Today in class we looked at block quotes and signal phrases, using Half the Sky as a resource to find and analyze such phrases. Homework is to develop three (3) signal phrases and block quotes on one's own. Use Half the Sky as the resource.
Bring the citations to class typed tomorrow. Remember, a block quote is a citation that is more than four lines of text and is set off (4 spaces from the left margin, left justified).
A signal phrase introduces the speaker or the citation.
Tuesday we will develop questions for our essay and practice completing the Initial Planning Sheet. We will also work on our outlines for the essay. I also plan to give students the two quizzes: pronoun case and ellipses.
You will only have about 15-20 minutes on the essay. I will give you half an hour on the Grammar Exam 1 on Wednesday. We will grade them in class. If you miss class, you will have to make the exam up in office hours.
Thursday, students need to bring the Pronoun Case templates typed and in an electronic format to class, and be prepared to write the essay.
Bring the citations to class typed tomorrow. Remember, a block quote is a citation that is more than four lines of text and is set off (4 spaces from the left margin, left justified).
A signal phrase introduces the speaker or the citation.
Tuesday we will develop questions for our essay and practice completing the Initial Planning Sheet. We will also work on our outlines for the essay. I also plan to give students the two quizzes: pronoun case and ellipses.
You will only have about 15-20 minutes on the essay. I will give you half an hour on the Grammar Exam 1 on Wednesday. We will grade them in class. If you miss class, you will have to make the exam up in office hours.
Thursday, students need to bring the Pronoun Case templates typed and in an electronic format to class, and be prepared to write the essay.
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SunJungParkg
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8:00-8:50
17 March 2010
Ellipsis & block quotes
Saima joined a women’s solidarity group affiliated with a Pakistani microfinance organization called Kashf Foundation. Wudunn said:
Saima took out a $65 loan and used the money to buy beads and cloth, which she transformed into beautiful embroidery to sell in the markets of Lahore. She used the profit to buy more beads and cloth, and soon she had an embroidery business and was earning a solid income- the only one in her household to do so. Saima brought her eldest daughter back from the aunt and began paying off her husband’s debt (186).
Dai Manju is poor student, and she studied at school and she got good job. She insisted:
That is the power of education. One study after another has shown that educating girls is one of the most effective ways to fight poverty. Schooling is also often a precondition for girls and women to stand up against injustice, and for women to be integrated into the economy. . . [I]t is difficult for them to start businesses or contribute meaningfully to their national economies (169-170).
Edna built a hospital her homeland, Somaliland. This answer happen emerge situation:
Somehow, improbably, it all comes together. At three o’ clock one morning, a man arrived, pushing his wife in a wheelbarrow. She was in labor. The team leaped into action and rushed the woman into the delivery room. Another time, a monadic woman gave birth in the desert and developed a fistula. Her husband couldn’t stand her smell and constant wetness, and stabbed her in the throat; the knife went through her tongue and stopped at her palate. The other nomads stitched her throat together with needle and thread and carried her to Edna’s hospital. . . (128).
Joshua Duong
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8-8:50 am
Block Quotes
The authors of Half The Sky mentions the life of a poor, local woman living in Pakistan:
Mukhtar grew up in a peasant family in the village of Meerwala in southern Punjab.When people ask her age, she tosses out one number or another, . . . she doesn't have a clue as to when she was born. Mukhtar never attended school, because there was no school for girls in Meerwala, and she spent her days helping out around the house. (70)
While the authors examine the subject of maternal mortality, they stated:
. . . Maternal mortality is an injustice that is tolerated only because its victims are poor, rural women. The best argument to stop it, however, isn't economic but ethical. What was horrifying about Prudence's death was not that the hospital allocated its resources poorly, but that it neglected a human being in its care. As Allan Rosenfield has been arguing, this is first and foremost a human rights issue. And it's time for human rights organizations to seize upon it. (122)
One of the statistics Nicolas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn stated in their book Half The Sky about women's abuse had a frightening, but real effect on women all around the world:
. . . [E]very ten seconds, a girl somewhere in the world is pinned down. Her legs are pulled apart, and a local woman with no medical training pulls out a knife or razor blade and slices off some or all of the girl's genitals. In most cases, there is no anesthetic. (221)
Romina Sarmiento
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9-950
15 March 2010
Block Quotes
The authors, of Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, share the differences between American prostitutes and prostitutes in other countries:
Interviewing women like Meena over the years had led us to change out own views on sex trafficking. Growing up in the United States and then living in China and Japan, we though of prostitution as something that women may turn to opportunistically or out of economic desperation. In Hong Kong, we knew an Australian prostitute who slipped Sheryl into the locker room of her “men’s club” to meet the local girls, who were there because they saw a chance to enrich themselves. We certainly didn’t think of prostitutes as slaves, forced to do what they do, for most prostitutes in America, China, and Japan aren’t truly enslaved (9).
The authors, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, of Half the Sky, explain one of the reasons why girls are raped:
One of the reasons that so many women and girls are kidnapped, trafficked, raped, and otherwise abused is that they grin and bear it. Stoic docility – in particular, acceptance of any decree by a man – is drilled into girls in much of the world from the time they are babies, and so they often do as they are instructed, even when the instruction is to smile while being raped twenty times a day (47).
The history of virginity is described by the authors of Half the Sky, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn:
The cult of virginity has been exceptionally widespread. Not only does the Bible advocate stoning girls to death when they fail to bleed on their wedding sheets, but Solon, the great lawgiver of the ancient Athens, prescribed that no Athenian could be sold into slavery save a woman who lost her virginity before marriage (81).
Abtisam Kaaid
Professor Sabir
English 1A
17 March 2010
3 Block Quotes From Half the Sky
One of the Authors in the book, Half the Sky, Nickolas D. Kristof, believes and has stated:
People get away with enslaving village girls for the same reason people that had got away with enslaving blacks two hundred years ago: The victims are perceived as discounted humans…. United States cares about intellectual property.
When India feels that the West cares about in intellectual
property. When India feels that the West cares … it will
dispatch people to the borders to stop traffickers.
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, The Writers of Half the Sky, overtime wondered what policy should they peruse to try to eliminate slavery. They have stated:
We sympathized with the view that prohibition won’t work
and better against prostitution today than it did against alcohol
in America in the 1920s. Instead of trying fruitlessly to band
prostitution…. It permits access to brothels so that they can
more easily be checked for underage girls. Over time, we’ve
changed our minds. That legalize-and-regulate model simply
hasn’t worked very well in countries where prostitution is often
coerced. Partly that’s because governance is often poor...and partly
it’s that the legal brothel tend to attract parallel illegal business in
young girls and forced prostitution.
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn stated:
Behind the rapes and other abuse heaped on women in much in
the world, it’s hard not to see something more sinister….Namely:
sexism and misogyny. How else to explain why so many more
witches burned than wizards? Why acid is thrown in women’s faces,
but not in men’s? why are women so much more likely to be stripped
naked sexually humiliated than men? Why is it that in many cultures…
while old women are taken outside the village to die of thirst or to be
eaten by wild animals? Granted… men also suffer more violence than
males do in America- but the brutality inflicted on women is particularly widespread, cruel, and lethal.
Abtisam Kaaid
Professor Sabir
English 1A
17 March 2010
3 Block Quotes From Half the Sky
One of the Authors in the book, Half the Sky, Nickolas D. Kristof, believes and has stated:
People get away with enslaving village girls for the same reason people that had got away with enslaving blacks two hundred years ago: The victims are perceived as discounted humans…. United States cares about intellectual property.
When India feels that the West cares about in intellectual
property. When India feels that the West cares … it will
dispatch people to the borders to stop traffickers.
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, The Writers of Half the Sky, overtime wondered what policy should they peruse to try to eliminate slavery. They have stated:
We sympathized with the view that prohibition won’t work
and better against prostitution today than it did against alcohol
in America in the 1920s. Instead of trying fruitlessly to band
prostitution…. It permits access to brothels so that they can
more easily be checked for underage girls. Over time, we’ve
changed our minds. That legalize-and-regulate model simply
hasn’t worked very well in countries where prostitution is often
coerced. Partly that’s because governance is often poor...and partly
it’s that the legal brothel tend to attract parallel illegal business in
young girls and forced prostitution.
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn stated:
Behind the rapes and other abuse heaped on women in much in
the world, it’s hard not to see something more sinister….Namely:
sexism and misogyny. How else to explain why so many more
witches burned than wizards? Why acid is thrown in women’s faces,
but not in men’s? why are women so much more likely to be stripped
naked sexually humiliated than men? Why is it that in many cultures…
while old women are taken outside the village to die of thirst or to be
eaten by wild animals? Granted… men also suffer more violence than
males do in America- but the brutality inflicted on women is particularly widespread, cruel, and lethal.
Kimthuy Tran
Professor Sabir
English 1A (9-9:50)
18 March 2010
Bock Quotes
As Duflo says:
When women command greater power, child health and nutrition improves. This suggests that policies seeking to increase women’s welfare in case of divorce or to increase women’s access to the labor market may impact outcomes within the household; in particular child health….Increasing women’s control over resources, even in the short run, will improve their say within the household, which will increase… child nutrition and health (194-195).
Anne e-mails us:
Swimming with her, with all our clothes on naturally (except for Bob, who could wear a bathing suit because she was a man), in the Gulf of Aden at Berbera, in that warm turquoise water with the pink mountains in the distance and her bodyguard marching up and down the otherwise absolutely deserted beach with his marching gun, is a lot more interesting than paying bridge at the local Y (129).
As The Lancet noted:
The neglect of women’s issues . . . does reflect some level of unconscious bias against women at every level, from the community to high-level decision makers. . . . While we may ignore it, maternal health does involve sex and sexuality; it is bloody and messy; and I think many men (not all, of course) have a visceral antipathy for dealing with it(116).
James Barker
English 1A 9-9:50
Professor Wanda
March 17, 2010
A Muslim woman said,
You think we’re victims, because we cover our hair and wear modest clothing. But we think that its Western woman who are repressed, because they have to show their bodies-even go though surgery to change their bodies-to please men (154).
Sunitha said,
I realized that if I’m going to be here for a long time, I have to be accountable to me team, to their families, I can’t expect everyone to be a mad person like me (58).
The author Nicholas D. Kristof said when talking to Hunt,
When I urged him to broaden his research for the future leaders of Iraq, which had yielded hundreds of men and only seven women, he responded, ‘Ambassador Hunt, we’ll address women’s issues after we get the place secure.’ I wondered what ‘women’s issues’ he meant. I was talking about security (237).
Edith Gonzalez
English 1A-9am
Professor Sabir
17 March 2010
3 Signal Phrases and Block Quotes
Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas D. Kristof share what they believe are the first steps to take for ending the brothels in places such as Cambodia:
The first is that rescuing girls from brothels is complicated and uncertain. Indeed, it’s sometimes impossible, and that’s why it is most productive to focus efforts on prevention and putting brothels out of business. The second lesson is never to give up. Helping people is difficult and unpredictable, and our interventions don’t always work, but successes are possible, and these victories are incredibly important. (45)
Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas D. Kristof, talk about the reality of women not speaking up is for most women:
This is not to blame the victims. There are good practical as well as cultural reasons for women to accept abuse rather than fight back and risk being killed. But the reality is that as long as women allow themselves to be prostituted and beaten, the abuse will continue. When more girls scream and protest, when they run away from the brothels, then the business model or trafficking will be undermined. (47)
Sakena Yacoobi, who was highly recognized for her achievements on providing education, shared her views on education and why people are so afraid to educate women:
That is why these people are afraid of educating women-they are afraid that then the women will ask questions, will speak up….That’s why I believe in education. It is such a powerful tool to overcome the poverty and rebuild the country. If we took the foreign aid that goes to guns and weapons and just took one quarter of that and put it into education, that would completely transform this country. (164)
Jennie Lo
Prof. Wanda
English 1A (9:00-9:50am)
17 March 2010
Three block quotes from Half the Sky
From the story of Usha Narayane in the slum of Kasturba Nagar, outside the central Indian city of Nagpur, we learn how she becomes a community organizer to bring the Dalits together and make the difference, it proves:
‘Empowerment’ is a cliché in the aid community, but it is truly what is needed. The first step toward greater justice is to transform that culture of female docility and subservience, so that women themselves become more assertive and demanding. As we said earlier, that is, of course, easy for outsiders like us to say: We’re not the ones who run horrible risks for speaking up. But when a woman does stand up, it’s imperative that outsiders champion her; we also must nurture institutions to protect such people. Sometimes we may even need to provide asylum for those lives are in danger. More broadly, the single most important way to encourage women and girls to stand up for their rights is education, and we can do far more to promote universal education in poor countries (53).
From the book Half the Sky, the author states that sexual honor is a major reason for violence against women:
The cult of virginity has been exceptionally widespread. Not only does the Bible advocate stoning girls to death when they fail to bleed on their wedding sheets, but Solon, the great lawgiver of ancient Athens, prescribed that no Athenian could be sold into slavery save a Confucian saying from the Song Dynasty declares: ‘For a woman to starve to death is a small matter, but for her to lose her chastity is a calamity’ (81).
Women’s right is an important element around the globe. It is not only helping the harmony of the society; it is also supporting the economic growth in the developing countries:
If there is to be a successful movement on behalf of women in poor countries, it will have to bridge the God Gulf. Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause. That’s what happened two centuries ago in the abolitionist movement, when liberal deists and conservative evangelicals joined forces to overthrow invisible women onto the international agenda (143).
Sabah Said
3/16/10
English 1A
Mon- Thurs
Block quotes
Both Nicolas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, share those women that are having abortions because they are unhealthy:
“That has been the patter again and again; With the best of
in tension, pro-life conservatives have taken some position in reproduction health that actually hurt those they are tryi-
ng to help and that result in more abortions”. (Pg.134)
Nicolas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn state that there is a donation for women from UNFPA:
“After President Obama announced in January 2009 that he would restore funding for UNFPA, the quest on arose: Is
34 Million Friends still necessary? Should it fact away?
but then the group started by to indignant women has ras-
a total of 4 billion, and they saw vast needs remaining so
they decided to continue finding of UNFDA.” (pg. 148)
The author Nicloas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn talked about how the Mexican children are starving:
after only three years, poor Mexican children living in
the rural areas where opportunities operates have incre-
ased their school enrollment, here more balanced diets,
are receiving more medical attention, and are learning
that the future can be very different from the past.”(pg.174)
Chelsea Eomurian
English 1A 9-9:50AM
Professor Sabir
15 March 2010
The authors of Half the Sky explained:
Curbing population growth isn’t nearly as simple as Westerners assume. In the 1950s, one pioneering family planning project in Khanna, India, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and Harvard University, gave intensive help with contraception to eight thousand villagers. After five years, the birth rate among those people are higher than that of a control group given no contraception. Far more commonly, contraception programs have a modest effect in reducing fertility, but still less than supporters expect.
Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn argue:
The Islamic feminists, as these scholars are known, argue that it is absurd for Saudi Arabia to bar women from driving, because Muhammad allowed his wives to drive camels. They say that the stipulation that two female witnesses equal one male witness applied only to financial cases, because women at the time were less familiar with finance.
The authors of Half the Sky note:
Rape has become endemic in South Africa, so a medical technician named Sonette Ehlers developed a product that immediately grabbed national attention there. Ehlers had never forgotten a rape victim telling her forlornly: “If only I had teeth down there.” Some time afterward, a man came into the hospital where Ehlers works in excruciating pain because his penis was stuck in his pants zipper.
Corinne Williams
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9-9:50am
15 March 2010
Block Quotes
1. After girls have been trafficked and returned home, they may feel like they have wronged their families or villages, but sometimes all the family cares about is the girl being back at home. Srey Momm’s was returned home after being kept in a brothel in Cambodia for five years and this was her moving return home:
A moment later, it seemed as if everybody in the village was shrieking and running up to Momm. Momm’s mother was at her stall in the market a mile away when a child ran up to tell her that Momm had returned. Her mother started sprinting back to the village, tears streaming down her cheeks. She embraced her daughter, who was trying to drop to the ground to beg forgiveness, and they both tumbled down. It was ninety minutes before the shouting died away and the eyes dried, and then there was an impromptu feast. Family members may have suspected the Momm had been trafficked, but they didn’t press her when she said vaguely that she had been working in western Cambodia (Kristof and WuDunn 38).
2. In some places, more than sex trafficking, women suffer from issues giving birth, as described by Kristof and WuDunn:
Maternal morbidity (injuries in childbirth) occurs even more often than maternal mortality. For every woman who dies in childbirth, at least ten suffer significant injuries such as fistulas or serious tearing. Unsafe abortions cause the deaths of seventy thousand women annually and cause serious injuries to another 5 million.... And there is evidence that when a woman dies in childbirth, her surviving children are much more likely to die young as well, because they no longer have a mother caring for them (99).
3. Problems women have in other countries could be very much avoided if they were educated and given a chance to be more than a housewife and child bearer, Kristof and WuDunn explain:
It’s no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work. In contrast, it would be difficult to imagine – at least for the moment – millions of rural Pakistani or Egyptian teenage girls being fully educated and then allowed to move to the cities while still single to take up jobs and power an industrial revolution (210).
Lauryn Helling
March 20,2010
English 1A
Wanda Sabir
As Sakena dives into the detail of he growing school so points out how difficult it was to get her feet off the ground; "It wasn't easy, and it was very risky.] I negotiated that if people supplied houses and protected the schools and the students, then we would pay the teachers and provide supplies. So we had thirty-eight hundred students in underground schools. We had rules that the students wold arrive at intervals, no men were allowed inside, and people would work as lookouts."
When Woineshet was raped by a man she later married, she went on to say that this isn't the first time a case like this had risen; "There were many cases like this in our village. I knew it was very bad for the girl, but there was nothing to do. They all married the man . . . When he goes free, people will see that, and they do it again and again."
When Srey Neth talked about the short leash she was put on in Poipet by the men, it was nothing like the readers expected; "I can walk around Poipet, but only with a close relative of the owner. They keep me under close watch. They do not let me go out alone. They're afraid I would run away." If she was able to escape at night, "They would get me back, and something bad would happen. Maybe a beating. I heard that when a group of girls tried to escape, they locked them in the rooms and beat them up."
Brittany Tuazon
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A 9:00AM
27 March 2010
Signal Phrases & Block Quotes
1. In the narrative written by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WutDunn, set on an evasive journey through 3rd world countries revealing the terrifying lives of children and women today. The purpose of this book is to evoke angry, sadness, awareness, and hope that we in America have the power to change their circumstances. Many Americans fight along side the heroin authors to give the power back to these women. Like Jane Roberts who read an article Nick had written about a teenage girl in Khartoum Sudan with obstetric fistula. This sparked a burning flame in Jane’s heart and she petitioned to the UNFPA for “34 Million Friends” this stated:
If 34,000,000 American women send one dollar each to the UN Population Fund, we can help the fund continue its “invaluable work” and at the same time confirm that providing family planning and reproductive health services to women who would otherwise have none is a humanitarian issue, not a political one. (147)
The power of one man’s voice has the capacity to influence citizens across the nation. With that 1 dollar, 34 million women created the funds for accessible health services for thousands of women in poverty.
2. In Addition to saving these women from their oppressors, another task that the author‘s were faced with was to help these women from themselves. Many of them led happy and productive lives after their past became a thing of the past. However, some women weren’t as fortunate. Srey Momm kidnapped at a young ago and having been pimped for five years was killing her slowly. Nickolas and Berney (a fellow reporter) bought her from the brothel and brought her to her village in Cambodia. It wasn’t until weeks later, Momm voluntarily went back to the brothel to live this abusive lifestyle. Nick responds:
The stigma that the girls feel in their communities after being freed, coupled with drug dependencies or threats from pimps, often lead them to return to the red-light district.
Among strategies these low life’s use against their victims are different sources of control such as threats, beating, and drugs. Many of the enslaved girls develop a dependency on methamphetamine. To produce willingness and dependency on the brothel. These brothels damage, break and kill the lives of these women with each breathe they take. Destroying every hope they may have for the future.
3. As many celebrities begins to involve themselves in foreign affairs and using their fame to increase awareness on issues plaguing societies. Many use their popularity to make a difference and inspire others to continue what they’ve started. Nicholas Kristof acknowledges Bono, lead vocals of U2. He states:
We’re great admirers of Bono, who ahs been indefatigable in support of aid for Africa and who knows the subtleties of development; he talks poverty policy as well as he sings. (176)
Although many known celebrities have the noblest intentions, they tend to do more harm than good. America’s aid for foreign countries help a small percentage at that time but does not make a life altering difference for these countries.
Nseke Ngilbus
Wanda Sabir
Eng 1a
april 27, 2010
Wudunn and kristof said,
The first is that rescuing girls from brothels is complicated and uncertain. Indeed, it’s sometimes impossible, and that’s why it is most productive to focus efforts on prevention and putting brothels out of business. The second lesson is never to give up. Helping people is difficult and unpredictable, and our interventions don’t always work, but successes are possible, and these victories are incredibly important. (45)
It was said,
The neglect of women’s issues . . . does reflect some level of unconscious bias against women at every level, from the community to high-level decision makers. . . . While we may ignore it, maternal health does involve sex and sexuality; it is bloody and messy; and I think many men (not all, of course) have a visceral antipathy for dealing with it(116).
Wudunn and kristof wrote,
. . . Maternal mortality is an injustice that is tolerated only because its victims are poor, rural women. The best argument to stop it, however, isn't economic but ethical. What was horrifying about Prudence's death was not that the hospital allocated its resources poorly, but that it neglected a human being in its care. As Allan Rosenfield has been arguing, this is first and foremost a human rights issue. And it's time for human rights organizations to seize upon it. (122)
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