Cyber-Assignment
Post 5 signal phrases and 3 block quotes from Half the Sky. Indicate the page numbers and list the members of the group who participated.
Re: the signal phrases group them, the same for the block quote. If students want to practice using ellipses marks for the block quote, you can. Just make certain the intention of the writer remains consistent. You don't want to get sued (smile).
Students can include the signal phrase with the block quote as well. Do not forget the page numbers.
We spent time in class reviewing Pronoun Case in SPHE. We'll write the essay in class on Thursday and take the 50 question Grammar Exam 1. Email the templates to yourself once completed for Thursday.
I tossed out the idea of having an International Woman's Day party next week, March 8. It will be the 100th anniversary of this day. I was thinking food, music, poetry sharing stories. Let me know.
Let us know of any community gatherings or activities/programs for Woman's History Month/Day and activities/programs reflecting on war/peace. Perhaps we can go on a field trip.
Post 5 signal phrases and 3 block quotes from Half the Sky. Indicate the page numbers and list the members of the group who participated.
Re: the signal phrases group them, the same for the block quote. If students want to practice using ellipses marks for the block quote, you can. Just make certain the intention of the writer remains consistent. You don't want to get sued (smile).
Students can include the signal phrase with the block quote as well. Do not forget the page numbers.
We spent time in class reviewing Pronoun Case in SPHE. We'll write the essay in class on Thursday and take the 50 question Grammar Exam 1. Email the templates to yourself once completed for Thursday.
I tossed out the idea of having an International Woman's Day party next week, March 8. It will be the 100th anniversary of this day. I was thinking food, music, poetry sharing stories. Let me know.
Let us know of any community gatherings or activities/programs for Woman's History Month/Day and activities/programs reflecting on war/peace. Perhaps we can go on a field trip.
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Vanessa Dilworth, Teepian Yn, Kaijie Zhang
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9-9:50am
28 February 2011
Group Assignment: Signal Phrases
Block Quotes-extra credit signal phrases
To bring more awareness to women’s health issues Allen Rosenfield and colleague Deborah Maine came together to publish an article in the British journal Lancet and stated:
It is difficult to understand why maternal mortality receives so little serious attention from healthcare professionals, policy makers, and politicians. The world’s obstetricians are particularly neglectful of their duty in this regard . . . most obstetricians concentrate on subspecialties that put emphasis on high technology (105).
In a heartwarming testimony Harper expresses the pros and cons of being from an economically privileged background and living in the third world country Goma in the Congo.
There are times when all I want is a fast internet connection, a latte, and a highway to drive on. Yet the greetings I receive in the morning from my coworkers are enough to keep me here. The main factor that separates me from my friends here is the opportunities I was given as a first world citizen and I believe it is my responsibility to work so that these opportunities are available to all (92).
In an attempt to steer young adults away from premarital sex, one abstinence educator would began her speech with an interesting analogy.
Your body is a lollipop. When you have sex with a man, he wraps your lollipop and sucks on it. It may feel great at the time, but unfortunately, when he’s done with you, all you have left for next partner is a poorly wrapped, saliva-fouled sucker (137).
Signal Phrases
1. “So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women’s power as economic catalysts (xxii).”
2. “Naseem told us: ‘I want you to know that no matter how we are killed, even if it looks like an accident, it isn’t (77).’”
3. “But Woinet found support in an unlikely corner: indignant Americans, mostly women, who wrote angry letters demanding change in the Ethiopian legal code (65).
4. “Behind the rapes and other abuse heaped on women in much of the world, it’s hard not to see something more sinister than just libido and prurient opportunities. Namely: sexism and misogyny (67).
5. “The World Bank summed up the experience in a 2003 report: ‘Maternal mortality can be halved in developing countries every 7-10 years. . . regardless of income level and growth rate (118).’”
Summer Hurst
Elle Johnston
Alex Pena
Mary Watson
English 1A 9am-9:50am
5 Signal Phrases and 3 Block Quotes:
Signal Phrases:
“'As a result, said a Ghanaian doctor, Eunice Brookman-Amissah, “Contrary to its stated intentions, the global gag rule results in more unwanted pregnancies,more unsafe abortions, and more deaths of women and girls”'. (132)
“'John Holmes, the UN undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs, says flatly: “The sexual violence in Congo is the worst in the world”'. (85)
“'As Martin Luther King Jr. put it during the American civil rights struggle: “We must straighten our backs and work for our freedom.” (47)
“' ...Kuduz grabbed a knife and warned: “If you even try to steal them, I'll cut you into pieces.” (9)
“'Neth shrugged uninterestedly. “The police wouldn't help me because they get bribes from the brothel owners,”she said in her robotic way, still staring at the television.”' (36)
Block Quotes:
“Nick criticized DMSC on his blog, and an Indian responded:
It never ceases to amaze me how supposedly feminist, progressive thinkers like you often get weak-kneed at the prospect of women actually owning decisions about sex and work. . . .It is highly unsavory of you to exploit the difficult stories of sex workers as an argument against sex work as a profession at a time when sex workers are finally making some headway in creating safety for themselves. Your stance . . . smacks of the Western missionary position of rescuing brown savages from their fate.” (28)
“Anne e-mailed us:
Swimming with her, with all our clothes on naturally (except for Bob, who could wear a bathing suit because he 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 machine gun,is a lot more interesting than playing bridge at the local Y.” (129)
“'A week later, an excruciating e-mail arrived from Lor Chandara, our interpreter:
Very bad,bad news. Srey Momm has voluntary gone back to the poipet brothel, according to her father. I asked the father if any one beat or blamed her but he told me that nothing bad had happened to her. She left the village at 8 am. On Monday without telling her family. Srey Momm left her phone with the family, and she called them last night to tell them that she is in Poipet.” (39)
GROUP # 2
Cherefah Obad
Julie Phoukeo
Jon Abdouds <-(Spelled Wrong!)
Signal Prases:
1:Page 65
"People were saying i broke tradition", Woinshet said bitterly, and she looked up from her hands for a moment. "They were criticizing me, Saying i had escaped. I was furious with that attitude."
2:Page 103
Allan was bowled over by what he saw in Nigeria, Particularly by the need for family and for maternal care. He also was beset by doubts." I began to feel that the model of care we were giving wasn't appropriate for Nigeria," He recalled.
3:Page 104
It's difficult to appreciate today how unusual this approach was, for physicians closely guarded their prerogatives, and it was heresy to entrust mere midwives with midwives with medical responsibilities," Because it was so different an approach, I would have trouble getting it approved today," Alan said.
4:Page 68
Yet sometimes women in Pakistan or China kill their newborn daughters simply because daughters are less prestigious than sons. Rehana drowned her daughter because "girls are unlucky".
5:Page 85
“'John Holmes, the UN undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs, says flatly: “The sexual violence in Congo is the worst in the world”'
Ellipsis:
1:Page 63
They all married man ... When he goes free, People see that and do that, and they do it again and again".
2:Page 105
To bring more awareness to women’s health issues Allen Rosenfield and colleague Deborah Maine came together to publish an article in the British journal Lancet and stated:
It is difficult to understand why maternal mortality receives so little serious attention from healthcare professionals, policy makers, and politicians. The world’s obstetricians are particularly neglectful of their duty in this regard . . . most obstetricians concentrate on subspecialties that put emphasis on high technology
Block Quote:
1:Page 39
“'A week later, an excruciating e-mail arrived from Lor Chandara, our interpreter:
Very bad,bad news. Srey Momm has voluntary gone back to the poipet brothel, according to her father. I asked the father if any one beat or blamed her but he told me that nothing bad had happened to her. She left the village at 8 am. On Monday without telling her family. Srey Momm left her phone with the family, and she called them last night to tell them that she is in Poipet.”
2: Page 28
“Nick criticized DMSC on his blog, and an Indian responded:
It never ceases to amaze me how supposedly feminist, progressive thinkers like you often get weak-kneed at the prospect of women actually owning decisions about sex and work. . . .It is highly unsavory of you to exploit the difficult stories of sex workers as an argument against sex work as a profession at a time when sex workers are finally making some headway in creating safety for themselves. Your stance . . . smacks of the Western missionary position of rescuing brown savages from their fate.”
3: Page 39
A Hawaiian parable taught to us by Naka Nathaniel, The former Times videograoher, himeself a Hawaiian:
A man goes out on the beach and sees that it is covered with starfish that have picked them up and throwing them back into the water. "What are you doing son?" the man asks."You see how many starfish there are?You'll never make a difference." The boy paused thoughtfully, and picked up another starfish and threw it into the ocean. "It sure made a difference to that one" he said.
GROUP # 2
Cherefah Obad
Julie Phoukeo
Jon Abdouds <-(Spelled Wrong!)
Erin Callahan
Signal Prases:
1:Page 65
"People were saying i broke tradition", Woinshet said bitterly, and she looked up from her hands for a moment. "They were criticizing me, Saying i had escaped. I was furious with that attitude."
2:Page 103
Allan was bowled over by what he saw in Nigeria, Particularly by the need for family and for maternal care. He also was beset by doubts." I began to feel that the model of care we were giving wasn't appropriate for Nigeria," He recalled.
3:Page 104
It's difficult to appreciate today how unusual this approach was, for physicians closely guarded their prerogatives, and it was heresy to entrust mere midwives with midwives with medical responsibilities," Because it was so different an approach, I would have trouble getting it approved today," Alan said.
4:Page 68
Yet sometimes women in Pakistan or China kill their newborn daughters simply because daughters are less prestigious than sons. Rehana drowned her daughter because "girls are unlucky".
5:Page 85
“'John Holmes, the UN undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs, says flatly: “The sexual violence in Congo is the worst in the world”'
Ellipsis:
1:Page 63
They all married man ... When he goes free, People see that and do that, and they do it again and again".
2:Page 105
To bring more awareness to women’s health issues Allen Rosenfield and colleague Deborah Maine came together to publish an article in the British journal Lancet and stated:
It is difficult to understand why maternal mortality receives so little serious attention from healthcare professionals, policy makers, and politicians. The world’s obstetricians are particularly neglectful of their duty in this regard . . . most obstetricians concentrate on subspecialties that put emphasis on high technology
Block Quote:
1:Page 39
“'A week later, an excruciating e-mail arrived from Lor Chandara, our interpreter:
Very bad,bad news. Srey Momm has voluntary gone back to the poipet brothel, according to her father. I asked the father if any one beat or blamed her but he told me that nothing bad had happened to her. She left the village at 8 am. On Monday without telling her family. Srey Momm left her phone with the family, and she called them last night to tell them that she is in Poipet.”
2: Page 28
“Nick criticized DMSC on his blog, and an Indian responded:
It never ceases to amaze me how supposedly feminist, progressive thinkers like you often get weak-kneed at the prospect of women actually owning decisions about sex and work. . . .It is highly unsavory of you to exploit the difficult stories of sex workers as an argument against sex work as a profession at a time when sex workers are finally making some headway in creating safety for themselves. Your stance . . . smacks of the Western missionary position of rescuing brown savages from their fate.”
3: Page 39
A Hawaiian parable taught to us by Naka Nathaniel, The former Times videograoher, himeself a Hawaiian:
A man goes out on the beach and sees that it is covered with starfish that have picked them up and throwing them back into the water. "What are you doing son?" the man asks."You see how many starfish there are?You'll never make a difference." The boy paused thoughtfully, and picked up another starfish and threw it into the ocean. "It sure made a difference to that one" he said
Vanessa Rocha
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8AM
28 February 2011
Signal Phrases:
1. “You educate a boy and you’re educating an individual,” Greg says, quoting an African proverb. “You educate a girl and you’re educating an entire village.” (161)
2. “I stay away from them,” she explained dryly. “I don’t want to play around with boys. I just want to learn hairdressing so that I can open my own salon.” (42)
3.” I was forced into prostitution by a brothel in town,” Meena told the astonished desk officer at the police station. (7)
4. “This project is simply the most meaningful and worthwhile initiative that I have undertaken in my thirty-six years in education,” Frank Grijalva said. (19)
5. “It’s pretty doable,” says Gary Haugen, who runs International Justice Mission.(27)
Block Quotes:
1. “'A week later, an excruciating e-mail arrived from Lor Chandara, our interpreter:
Very bad,bad news. Srey Momm has voluntary gone back to the poipet brothel, according to her father. I asked the father if any one beat or blamed her but he told me that nothing bad had happened to her. She left the village at 8 am. On Monday without telling her family. Srey Momm left her phone with the family, and she called them last night to tell them that she is in Poipet.” (39)
2. “Nick criticized DMSC on his blog, and an Indian responded:
It never ceases to amaze me how supposedly feminist, progressive thinkers like you often get weak-kneed at the prospect of women actually owning decisions about sex and work. . . .It is highly unsavory of you to exploit the difficult stories of sex workers as an argument against sex work as a profession at a time when sex workers are finally making some headway in creating safety for themselves. Your stance . . . smacks of the Western missionary position of rescuing brown savages from their fate.”(28)
3. "As Harper jabbers away in Swahili with her African friends, it's clear that she is getting as well as giving. She agrees:
There are times when all I want is a fast internet connection, a latte, and a highway to drive on. . . .The main factor that separates me from my friends here is the oppotunities I was given as a first world citizen, and I believe it is my responsability to work so that these opportunities are available to all."(92)
Amani Ali
Farhad Rahimi
David Guzman
Sherri Short
Professor Sabir
English 1A 9am
28 February 2011
Signal Phrases:
“As Martin Luther King Jr. put it during the American civil rights struggle: ‘. . .’” (47).
“John Holmes, the UN undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs, says flatly: ‘. . .’” (85).
“As a UN Arab Human Development Human Development Report put it: ‘. . .’” (159).
Signal Phrases and Block Quotes:
“It might also help if women didn’t menstruate and childbirth involved storks. 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 decisionmakers. . . . 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).
“As Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian put it in 2008 article in the Review of Economics and Statistics:
We find little robust evidence of a positive (or negative) relation-ship between aid inflows into a country and its economic growth. We also find no evidence that aid works better in better policy or geographical environments, or that certain forms of aid work better than others. Our findings suggest that for aid to be effective in the future, the aid apparatus will have to be rethought” (176).
“Soranos of Ephesus, a Greek physician who wrote a pioneering book on gynecology in the second century, stipulated:
A large clitoris is a symptom of turpitude; in fact, [such women] strive to have their own flesh stimulated just like men and to obtain sexual intercourse, as it were. Now, you will perform the surgical operation on her in the following way. Placing her lying on her back with the feet closed, one should hold in place in a small forceps that which protrudes and appears to be larger and cut it back with a scalpel” (222).
Lauren Hernandez, Ramsay Jackson, Cody Henneman, Eman Obad, Reagan Lolo, Mahmood Kohgadai, Lanisha Jones
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8:00-8:50am
28 February 2011
Group 5
Signal Phrases:
page 209
"As Homi Kharas, an economist who has worked on these issues for the World Bank and the Brookings Institution,advised us:"
page 194
"As Duflo says:"
page 137
"Then the session leader invites girls to suck on the lollipops and explains:"
page 74
"'I saw him once," Halima said of her fiance, As-Salam."
page 248
"She found it a very rough adjustment, as she put it in an email to us:"
Block Phrases:
page 209
"Engineering an economic takeoff is really about using a nation's resources most efficiently.Many east asian economies enjoyed a sustained boom by moving young peasant women from farms to factories, after giving them a basic education for free.In malaysia , Thailand and china , export-oriented industries like garmens and semi conducters..."
page 194
"When woman command greater power, child health and nutrition improves. This suggest 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..."
page 137
"Your body is a wrapped lollipop. When you have sex with a man, he unwraps your lollipop and sucks on it. It may feel great at the time, but, unfortunately when he's done with you, all you have left for your next partner is a poorly wrapped, saliva-fouled sucker."
Zinaida Dzhilavdaryan
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1 A
28 February 2011
Signal Phrases:
One Chinese family-planning official, Li Honggui, explained it this way: “If a boy gets sick, the parents may send him to the hospital at once. But if a girl gets sick, the parents may say to themselves, ‘Well, let’s see how she is tomorrow’” (xiv)
As the journal Foreign Affairs observed: “…the modern global slave trade is larger in absolute terms than the Atlantic slave trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was” (11).
But the girl had been so drugged and broken that at the station she looked at Meena and declared numbly: “I’m not your daughter” (15).
Her mother recalled later: “Neth got mad. She said we [the family] had to stay away, or everything would be gone. She said she had to have money to buy new things” (41).
She explained patiently: “I should not have been beaten, because I was always obedient and did what my husband said. But if the wife is truly disobedient, then of course her husband has to beat her” (69).
Block Quotes:
An American student Harper, a member of HEAL Africa organization explains how she handle everyday troubles in the hospital:
“There are times when all I want is a fast internet communication, a latte and a highway to drive on. Yet the greetings I receive in the morning from my coworkers are enough to keep me here…” (92)
Nick, who had been gritting his teeth, offered an explosive suggestion:
“…we should start kidnapping Indian middle-class girls and forcing them to work in brothels in the United States! Then young American men could have fun too, don’t you think? That would improve our harmony in society!” (24)
In one of the brothels its owner was trying to assure Nick that girls chose voluntary to earn the quick money. But the Anup Patel, a Hindi-speaking medical student at Yale University, explained:
“…afraid and timid, the prostitute remained silent until we assured her that we wouldn’t get her in trouble. Barely audible, she told us that almost none of the prostitutes in Sanagachi came with aspirations of becoming a sex worker. Most of them, like herself, were trafficked.” (30)
Mulugeta Mahray Mahray 1
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8:00 – 9:00AM
28 February 2011
Signal phrase:
One afternoon, Meena was singing to her tow young daughters, teaching them a song:
India will not be free,
Until its women are free.
What about the girls in this country?
If girls are insulted and abuses and enslaved in this county,
Put your hand on your heart and ask,
Is this country truly independent? Page 16
What matter to the children’s well-being isn’t so much the level so the family’s wealth as where is controlled by the mother or by the father. As Duflo says:
When women command greater power, child health and nutrition improves…….will improve their say within the household, which will increase….child nutrition and health. Page 195
He laughed when we suggested delicately that women in Africa typically work harder and handled money more wisely than men, and he responded:
You couldn’t be more right .Women do work better. …………Women perform better in Africa, much better, we see that in Botswana……..Men are more consumption oriented. Page 196
Nick criticized DMSC on his blog, and an Indian responded:
I never cease to amaze me how supposedly feminist...smacks of the Western missionary position of rescuing brown savages from their fate. Page 28
I might also help if women didn’t menstruate and childbirth involved storks. As The lancer noted:
The neglect of women’s issues … does reflect some level of unconscious bias against women at any level ……while we may ignore it….I think many men ( not all , of course) have a visceral antipathy for dealing with it . Page 116
“I began to feel that the model of care we were giving wasn’t appropriate to Nigeria,” He recalled. Page 103
“Why should I have spent the money on myself?” she told Nick on his first visit to Meerwala. Page 71
She said simply. “If I can’t get justice for myself, I will get justice for others.” Page 67
Tony San Nicolas
Morgan Laporte-Hilliard
Dereke Bizuneh
Andrew Duong
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8:00a-8:50a
28 February 2011
Signal phrases:
Page 28:
"Nick Criticized DMSC on his blog, and an Indian responded:". . . .
Page 61:
"When critics complained that it was a medieval punishment, Ehlers responded tersely: 'A medieval device for a medieval deed.'". . . .
Page 92:
"As Harper jabbers away in Swahili with her African friends, it's clear that she is getting as well as giving. She agrees:". . . .
Page 116:
"It might also help if women didn't menstruate and childbirth involved storks. As The Lancet noted:". . . .
Page 129:
". . . . Then others went as well, including Anne Gilhuly and her husband, Bob, who visited when Edna was doing double duty as Somaliland's foreign minister a few years ago. Anne e-mailed us:". . . .
Block Quotes:
Page 28:
"It never ceases to amaze me how supposedly feminist, progressive thinkers like you often get weak-kneed at the prospect of women actually owning decisions about sex and work. . . . It is highly unsavory of you to exploit the difficult stories of sex workers as an argument against sex work as a profession at a time when sex workers are finally making some headway in creating safety for themselves. Your stance . . . smacks of the Western missionary position of rescuing brown savages from their fate."
Page 137:
"Your body is a wrapped lollipop. When you have sex with a man, he unwraps your lollipop and sucks on it. It may feel great at the time, but, unfortunately, when he's done with you, all you have left for your next partner is a poorly wrapped, saliva-fouled sucker."
Page 92:
"There are times when all I want is a fast Internet connection, a latte, and a highway to drive on. Yet the greetings I receive in the morning from my coworkers are enough to keep me here. I have this blessing of carrying a purse sewn by a woman waiting for fistula surgery at the hospital and watching how these new skills have changed her whole composure and confidence, of celebrating with my Congolese friend who was accepted for a job right after he graduated from university, of seeing children in school who previously never had the chance, of rejoicing with a family over their improved harvest, of dancing with my coworkers over a grant awarded for a program. The main factor that separates me from my friends here in the opportunities I was given as a first world citizen, and I believe it is my responsibility to work so that these opportunities are available to all."
Tyler Mecozzi
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8AM
March 1 2011
Signal Phrases:
1. “You educate a boy and you’re educating an individual,” Greg says, quoting an African proverb. “You educate a girl and you’re educating an entire village.” (161)
2. “I stay away from them,” she explained dryly. “I don’t want to play around with boys. I just want to learn hairdressing so that I can open my own salon.” (42)
3.” I was forced into prostitution by a brothel in town,” Meena told the astonished desk officer at the police station. (7)
4. “This project is simply the most meaningful and worthwhile initiative that I have undertaken in my thirty-six years in education,” Frank Grijalva said. (19)
5. “It’s pretty doable,” says Gary Haugen, who runs International Justice Mission.(27)
Block Quotes:
1. “'A week later, an excruciating e-mail arrived from Lor Chandara, our interpreter:
Very bad,bad news. Srey Momm has voluntary gone back to the poipet brothel, according to her father. I asked the father if any one beat or blamed her but he told me that nothing bad had happened to her. She left the village at 8 am. On Monday without telling her family. Srey Momm left her phone with the family, and she called them last night to tell them that she is in Poipet.” (39)
2. “Nick criticized DMSC on his blog, and an Indian responded:
It never ceases to amaze me how supposedly feminist, progressive thinkers like you often get weak-kneed at the prospect of women actually owning decisions about sex and work. . . .It is highly unsavory of you to exploit the difficult stories of sex workers as an argument against sex work as a profession at a time when sex workers are finally making some headway in creating safety for themselves. Your stance . . . smacks of the Western missionary position of rescuing brown savages from their fate.”(28)
3. "As Harper jabbers away in Swahili with her African friends, it's clear that she is getting as well as giving. She agrees:
There are times when all I want is a fast internet connection, a latte, and a highway to drive on. . . .The main factor that separates me from my friends here is the oppotunities I was given as a first world citizen, and I believe it is my responsability to work so that these opportunities are available to all."(92)
Ronald Parker
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1 A
28 February 2011
8-8:850
5 Signal phrases:
“You educate a boy and you’re educating an individual,” Greg says, quoting an African proverb. “You educate a girl and you’re educating an entire village.” (161)
But the girl had been so drugged and broken that at the station she looked at Meena and declared numbly: “I’m not your daughter”
(15).
“It’s pretty doable,” says Gary Haugen, who runs International Justice Mission.(27)
“This project is simply the most meaningful and worthwhile initiative that I have undertaken in my thirty-six years in education,” Frank Grijalva said. (19)
As the journal Foreign Affairs observed: “…the modern global slave trade is larger in absolute terms than the Atlantic slave trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was” (11).
3 Block Quotes:
1. “'A week later, an excruciating e-mail arrived from Lor Chandara, our interpreter:
Very bad,bad news. Srey Momm has voluntary gone back to the poipet brothel, according to her father. I asked the father if any one beat or blamed her but he told me that nothing bad had happened to her. She left the village at 8 am. On Monday without telling her family. Srey Momm left her phone with the family, and she called them last night to tell them that she is in Poipet.” (39)
Page 92:
"There are times when all I want is a fast Internet connection, a latte, and a highway to drive on. Yet the greetings I receive in the morning from my coworkers are enough to keep me here. I have this blessing of carrying a purse sewn by a woman waiting for fistula surgery at the hospital and watching how these new skills have changed her whole composure and confidence, of celebrating with my Congolese friend who was accepted for a job right after he graduated from university, of seeing children in school who previously never had the chance, of rejoicing with a family over their improved harvest, of dancing with my coworkers over a grant awarded for a program. The main factor that separates me from my friends here in the opportunities I was given as a first world citizen, and I believe it is my responsibility to work so that these opportunities are available to all."
Nick criticized DMSC on his blog, and an Indian responded:
I never cease to amaze me how supposedly feminist...smacks of the Western missionary position of rescuing brown savages from their fate. Page 28
I might also help if women didn’t menstruate and childbirth involved storks. As The lancer noted:
The neglect of women’s issues … does reflect some level of unconscious bias against women at any level ……while we may ignore it….I think many men ( not all , of course) have a visceral antipathy for dealing with it . Page 116
Adalie Villalobos
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8-8:50
2 March 2011
Signal Phrases:
1. page 74
"'I saw him once," Halima said of her fiance, As-Salam."
2. page 7
"I was forced into prostitution by a brothel in town,” Meena told the astonished desk officer at the police station."
3. page 23
" 'So what exactly are you monitering?' Nick asked"
4. page 95
"'I love this work,'" she said in exasperation the first time we met."
5. page 94
"'People said it was a curse,'" Mahabouba recalled."
3 Block Quotes
1. Page 28:
"It never ceases to amaze me how supposedly feminist, progressive thinkers like you often get weak-kneed at the prospect of women actually owning decisions about sex and work. . . . It is highly unsavory of you to exploit the difficult stories of sex workers as an argument against sex work as a profession at a time when sex workers are finally making some headway in creating safety for themselves. Your stance . . . smacks of the Western missionary position of rescuing brown savages from their fate."
2. Page 92
"There are times when all I want is a fast Internet connection, a latte, and a highway to drive on. Yet the greetings I receive in the morning from my coworkers are enough to keep me here. I have this blessing of carrying a purse sewn by a woman waiting for fistula surgery at the hospital and watching how these new skills have changed her whole composure and confidence, of celebrating with my Congolese friend who was accepted for a job right after he graduated from university, of seeing children in school who previously never had the chance, of rejoicing with a family over their improved harvest, of dancing with my coworkers over a grant awarded for a program. The main factor that separates me from my friends here in the opportunities I was given as a first world citizen, and I believe it is my responsibility to work so that these opportunities are available to all."
3. page 39
"Very bad,bad news. Srey Momm has voluntary gone back to the poipet brothel, according to her father. I asked the father if any one beat or blamed her but he told me that nothing bad had happened to her. She left the village at 8 am. On Monday without telling her family. Srey Momm left her phone with the family, and she called them last night to tell them that she is in Poipet.”
Abraham
Angela Vasquez
Angelica Munoz
Audrey Topacio
Berta
Carolina
Shameiko
Professor Sabir
English 1A 8:00-8:50 am
03 March 2011
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Page 28:
It never ceases to amaze me how supposedly feminist progressive thinkers like you often get weak-kneed at the prospect of women actually owning decisions about sex and work...It is highly unsavory of you to exploit the difficult stories of sex workers as an argument against sex work as a profession at a time when sex workers are finally making some headway in creating safety for themselves. Your stance... smacks of the Western missionary position of rescuing brown savages from their fate.
Page 39
Very bad, bad news. Srey Momm has voluntarily gone back to the Poipet brothel, according to her father. I asked the father if anyone beat or blamed her but he told me that nothing bad had happened to her. She left the village at 8 am on MOnday without telling family. Srey Momm left her phone with the family, and she called them last night to tell them that she is in Poipet.
Page 92
There are ties when all I want is a fast Internet connection, a latte, and a highway to drive on. Yet the greetings I receive in the morning from my coworkers are enough to keep me here. I have the blessing of the carrying a purse sewn by a woman waiting for the fistula surgery at the hospital and watching how these new skills have changed her whole composure and confidence, of celebrating with my Congolese friend who was accepted for a job tight after he graduated from university, of seeing children in school who previously never had the chance, of rejoicing with a family over their improved harvest, of dancing with my coworkers over a grant awarded for a program. The main factor that separates me from my friends here is the opportunities I was given as a first-world citizen, and I believe it is my responsibility to work so that these opportunities are available to all.
Signal Phrases
Page 28:
"nick criticized DMSC on his blog, and Indian responded:"
Page 39:
"A week later, an excruciating e-mail arrived from Lor Chandara, our interpreter:"
Page 72:
"Officials ordered the release of the men who had been convicted if raping her. Mukhtar collpased in tears. 'I'm afraid for my life..."
Page 73:
"Laura Bush offered a video tribute, noting, 'Please don't assume that it's only a tale of heartbreak. Mukhataran proves that one woman really can change the world.' "
Page 92:
"As Harper jabbers away in Swahili with her African friends, it's clear that she is getting as well as giving. She agrees:"
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