Today we watched one of the episodes from the pbs.org series New Heroes. What is a social entrepreneur and how does this person profiled fit that description? Respond in 100 words minimally.
I returned several Takaki essays. I have a few more to go. The revisions are due back within the week, unless what is to be revised is easy then I expect it back at the next meeting. Students are encouraged to visit with me in my office hour or to make an appointment to revise the essay.
Keep reading your book and thinking about the entrepreneur project.
I returned several Takaki essays. I have a few more to go. The revisions are due back within the week, unless what is to be revised is easy then I expect it back at the next meeting. Students are encouraged to visit with me in my office hour or to make an appointment to revise the essay.
Keep reading your book and thinking about the entrepreneur project.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 10:38 AM
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Rochelle Predovic
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
27 October 2010
Response to "The New Heroes: Kailash Satyarthi"
Slavery exists all over India and it takes a guy like Kailash, and allies to abolish it. Kailash's goal is to help child slaves escape, and despite the delay, they were able to rescue 52 children. The kids were crying at first, because they did not want to get caught trying to escape. At this area, Kailash arrived to, the children work 12 to 19 hours a day, and are severely punished for lagging behind such as sleeping.
Slavery is hard to abolish because of India's economic hardships. As a result the people of India find it difficult to have a job. In addition the citizens of India are willing to buy cheaply made goods. Those cheaply made goods sold into the market come from slave owners in India. Since slave owners do not have to pay their slaves, they can force as many children as they want into slavery, knowing that children are the cheapest source of labor.
Kailash says that no child should be a slave and in order to abolish slavery, everyone in the world has to believe that slavery is bad. Kailash also believes that education is the way out slavery and pushes children to master reading, writing, and arithmetic in school. In another effort to combat slavery, Kialash started a rug company that is inspected to ensure that there are no slaves.
Frena Zamudio
Professor Sabir
English 1A
28 October 2010
Response to "The New Heroes: Kailash Satyarthi
When he reached the age of 26, he gave up his job as an electrical engineer and focused his life on helping millions of children in India who are forced to work as slaves by big, corrupt businesses and landowners. He decided to build up invasions on factories where the children along with their families were workers. After a great success, he organized a global movement against child labor. Even if he is already recognized as a great hero figure, he continues his plans not just in India but all over the world through his social-purpose organizations and trade unions. He also helped children to go to school, because he believes that education is very important especially for the next generation because of the opportunities that may come their ways with the use technology.
Diallo Ibrehima
Professor Sabir
English 1A
25 October 2010
New heroes
We are in 2010 but slavery still exists in place like India. Kailash is a great leader who is working every day and trying his best to make sure.there is no child left behind meaning that no children should be a slave.He also, helped a lots of child slave to escape from slavery to better life basic condition.Him and his supporters were able to rescue 52 peoples including children and their mothers. This people were living in hard life for so long. For example they make kids work 12 hours and more.
Linh Tran
Professor Sabir
English 1A
31 October 2010
PBS New Heroes - Kailash Satyarthi
Via Wikipedia: "A social entrepreneur is someone who recognizes a social problem and uses entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change (a social venture)."
Kailash Satyarthi has saved tens of thousands of lives. Millions of children in India are forced into slavery by large, corrupt corporations. He has dedicated his life to freeing this enslaved population. He orchestrates daring raids on factory villages, where the children and their families are held hostage by ruthless, armed guards.
Kailash Satyarthi believes that the only way to end slavery is to make it so that no child would be in bondage. At the rescue villages, he creates an opportunity for all the children to learn. The older ones are taught trade skills that would benefit them in seeking for a job. The younger ones are taught to read, write, and compute arithmetic so that they would be able to return home and attend school with other children their age. The adults are sent back to their ancestral villages, where they can hopefully assume their old lives.
Kailash Satyarthi risks his life to carry out the noble ideal of a brighter future for the world, where all of its inhabitants can have an equal chance at life and liberty. The abolition of slavery is not an overnight task. Kailash knows that he has to fight this battle on three fronts - his town, his country, and the world. To end this cruel system of humans thoughtlessly exploiting the bodies of fellow humans - children, no less - the world must be wary of buying goods produced with slave labor. This wrongful system stays alive today because people are so willing to purchase cheap, shoddy merchandise made possible with enslaved human beings.
Denise Martinez
Professor Sabir
English 1A
31 October 2010
Response to New Heroes:Kailash Satyarthi
A social entrepreneur is a person who identifies a social problem and makes a social change. Kailash Satyarthi's social problem is child slavery. He believes all children deserve to be free and to have an education. Kailash visits a village in India where families are being kept as slaves and living in horrible unsanitary conditions as he tries to rescue them, many are scared. You can notice the troubled expression on their faces thinking "do I leave with him, or stay and suffer?" When Kailash was talking to the people there they stayed quiet and uneasy, they've all learned to be scared and signaled to speak. In the end 3 remained behind, 52 left. Satyarthi takes them to a place designed to give them the tools to prepare them for the real world. There he has a welcoming ceremony with music and gives them food. The learning process happens for 3 days and then sends the adults to make it on their own. The children stay there and acquire their basic education, they teach each other and build a community now knowing what it's like to be free and that there can be a family among strangers. Kailash also has a business in the carpet industry that doesn't exploit the workers and he's planning on creating a red mark that certifies the workers human rights aren't violated. He still needs other countries to want to abolish slavery like Asia and parts of Europe for red mark to be known worldwide.
Denise Martinez
Professor Sabir
English 1A
31 October 2010
Response to New Heroes:Kailash Satyarthi
A social entrepreneur is a person who identifies a social problem and makes a social change. Kailash Satyarthi's social problem is child slavery. He believes all children deserve to be free and to have an education. Kailash visits a village in India where families are being kept as slaves and living in horrible unsanitary conditions as he tries to rescue them, many are scared. You can notice the troubled expression on their faces thinking "do I leave with him, or stay and suffer?" When Kailash was talking to the people there they stayed quiet and uneasy, they've all learned to be scared and signaled to speak. In the end 3 remained behind, 52 left. Satyarthi takes them to a place designed to give them the tools to prepare them for the real world. There he has a welcoming ceremony with music and gives them food. The learning process happens for 3 days and then sends the adults to make it on their own. The children stay there and acquire their basic education, they teach each other and build a community now knowing what it's like to be free and that there can be a family among strangers. Kailash also has a business in the carpet industry that doesn't exploit the workers and he's planning on creating a red mark that certifies the workers human rights aren't violated. He still needs other countries to want to abolish slavery like Asia and parts of Europe for red mark to be known worldwide.
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