Cyber-Assignment
Post the 3-5 Essay Questions here which take their topics from Mighty.
Post the 3-5 Essay Questions here which take their topics from Mighty.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 10:18 AM
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
About Me
- Name: Professor Wanda's Posse
- Location: College of Alameda, Alameda, CA, United States
I have a Master's Degree from the University of San Francisco in Writing, and an undergraduate degree from Holy Names College in Humanistic Studies. I write a weekly column for a local newspaper, San Francisco Bay View. I also have an Internet Radio Show: Wanda's Picks http://wwww.blogtalkradio.com/wandas-picks
Previous Posts
- Freewrite Cyber-Assignment1. The Day After V-Day. ...
- Cyber-Assignment1. Read Hacker: Summarizing & Para...
- Bring Diana Hacker, Rules for Writers to class in ...
- Today in class we practiced citing using: a block ...
- Homework for the weekend is to complete the book: ...
- They Say Templates re: Starting with Others Are Sa...
- Cyber Assignment 1Post your arguments re: Mighty.
- Today we had a library orientation with Professor ...
- Today we reviewed They Say (19) and shared respons...
- Cyber-AssignmentsPost the in-class summaries on Le...
25 Comments:
Analise Bostrom
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
15 February 2012
Essay Questions
1. What role do women play in bringing peace to Liberia?
2. How do men and women differ when it comes to dealing with the war.
3. What is it that Leymah gains in her lifetime, what does she sacrifice.
kenneth Windham
Eng 1A
professor sabir
15 Feburary 2012
1 What gives women the power to change a nation
2 Why didnt the man participate in the womens struggle for rights in the beginning
3 How did Leymah influence the women of the nation
Samantha Swain
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
15 February 2012
1. Were the Liberian people mad with the lack of help from the U.S. during the war?
2. How did the war destroy families in Liberia?
3. Were men capable of bringing peace like the women did?
Stephen Yang
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
15 February 2012
1. How did Liberia's society form?
2. Why did domestic violence occur in Liberian's homes?
3. Why did Taylor and the other leaders started the Liberian Cival War?
4. What were the difference between other country's child soldiers and Liberians?
5. Who were the peace women and where did they protested?
Flora Diamond
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
15 February 2012
Essay Questions: Mighty
1. Was Leymah a responsible parent?
2. Should the child soldier's be spared from persecution?
3. Will Leymah become the future Liberian President?
4. Will Liberia lower the percentage of those in poverty in the future?
5. Can women make a change in the United States society, as was done in Liberian?
Ana Vasquez
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
Questions for essay:
1. Why is Leymah still feel
insecure about herself even though she is now a successful women?
2. Why does it seem that Leymah suffered way more then other Liberian families during the war?
3. Did it take Leymah a long time to heal from all the bad situations in her life?
4. Did leymah have to sacrifice a lot in her life to be who she is today?
5. What was the womens goal in Liberia?
Mark Jansz
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
15 February 2012
Essay Questions: Mighty
1. Why did it take so long for Leymah to leave Daniel when she was already strong.
2 How will the young boys adapt into a peaceful society?
3. How strong is the bond, and will power of family?
Savannah Conley
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
15 February 2012
Essay Questions:
1)How did the war effect Leymah’s and other Liberian families?
2)Who suffers the most in civil wars like the one in Liberia?
3)What involvement has and does the U.S. have with Liberia?
4)What is the process of healing and going back to a normal life after the experiences Leymah and other Liberians had?
Hoan Vu
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
15 February 2012
Essay questions:
1. Why there are many soldiers that are boys?
2. Why boy soldiers behaved the way they had?
3. Why are the women are the main casualties of the war?
Kenneth Magno
Professor Sabir
English 1A
15 February 2012
Essay questions:
1. How were other developed nations involved in Liberia and other affected countries that fought for peace?
2. How will the lost generation, young soldiers, adapt to the unfamiliar society and culture of Liberia?
3. Were Leymahs actions considered one who portrays the characteristics of being responsible and hard working?
Daniel Escudero-Whitney
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
15 February 2012
Mighty Be Our Powers / 5 Essay Questions
1. What does Leymah show us about domestic violence and how it affects a female victim?
2. According to Mighty Be Our Powers, Leymah is a Christian. Are there any practices she follows or superstitions that she believes in that are like other religions or cultures outside her own?
3. What does Leymah's recounting of the Liberian civil war tell us about the social structure of her country?
4. During the first years of the civil war, Leymah was very down-trodden. What happened to change that?
5. If you could choose one thing that gave Leymah the power to succeed, what would it be?
Judy Keophanhem
English 1a
15 February 2012
1. How do Leymah set examples of how women should be more appreciated?
2. How does Leymah portray women as being leaders?
3. How did the war in Liberia shaped the person Leymah has become?
Jovita Wechsler
Prof. Wanda Sabir
English 1A
2/15/2012
1. How is society dealing with the child soldiers?
2. Does Leymah ever consider having done things differently so she could have been there for her family?
3. Did these women manage to change a nation?
4. How is her relationship with her children?
5. What are things after a civil war? Is any kind of normalcy achieved? WHat's Liberia's current situation?
Colleen Low
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1a
15 February 2012
Essay Questions.
1. Why do many of the women in “Mighty Be Our Powers lack the confidence to express themselves?
2. If men were valued as important, why didn’t the leaders for the organizations speak out as Leymah did during the
3. Ho is it that women become so helpless, that they are not able to see the truth.
Susan Kelly
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
16 February 2012
5 Essay Questions
1) It is possible that Leymah's memoir does not have the evidence to answer this question but it certainly sparked curiosity. What interest did the U.S. have in Liberia at the time of the civil war, and if that interest was during the cold war why the lack of interest as the cold war fizzed out?
2) What is Leymah's drive? In her memoir she tells us that her children are her motivation but her story is not consistent with that.
3) This story is not one of a hero who was born from nothing, what advantages does Leymah have that contributed to the opportunities that were presented to her? Apart from those opportunities she sought out herself.
4) How did President Sam Doe manage to cause divide among tribal groups who once flourished together and even married each other?
5) In Leymah's memoir we see her evolve from a confident young woman, to an abused insecure woman, and eventually to a powerful woman, what triggered those changes in her?
Nezha Abdelrahman
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
17 February 2012
Essay Questions
1. How did the relationship with her parents shape how Leymah thinks?
2. What was Charles Taylor motive to start another war?
3. What was Leymah's reactions to child soldiers and how did she establish to help them despite the fact they were murderers?
Mike Lieu
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
15 February 2012
1)What was the effect of the war on Leymah's life?
2)Will other women in other countries follow the same footsteps as Leymah to make a difference in their own country?
3)How will the Taylor boy's life change now that Taylor has left Liberia?
James Espinoza
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
15 February 2012
Essay Questions
1. Were the Liberian women able to end the war without using violence?
2. Did Leymah rely on God to help her become a leader?
3. Was Leymah partially responsible for some of the horrible situations that she had to endure?
4.Should the child soldiers be held responsible for what awful things they had done?
De'janae Bates
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
17 February 2012
Developing essay questions
1. How did Leymah began to hear women share the tragedies that they discovered?
2.Who were some of the people who helped her achieve her goals?
3.How did Leymah feel when she had to leave her children in order to provide for them?
4.How did Leymah make herself forgive her husband Daniel for all the abuse that he caused towards her?
Jamie McNair
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
15 February 2012
Essay Questions
1) How does Leyma handle transitioning from "innocence into a world full of fear?"
2) How does Leyma cope with keeping her faith in God strong?
3) How does Leyma make a difference in women empowerment?
Suelekha Yussuf
English 1A
Professor. Sabir Wanda
17 February 2012
Essay Questions.
1. How Leyman Gbowee reflect the importance of the women’s movement that helped transform Liberia? If women ran the world, would wars still exist?
2. In order to believe that the world portrays women as inferior one must find women who are willing to be that victim instead of being more like Gbowee or Hillary. What does that say about the inherent character of men? How women are being portrayed in the Book (The Might).
3. What are the roles of other countries in contemporary Liberia war? Consider the historical relationship in past, present and future. Discuss the stifling influence between Liberia and International committee.
4. As Liberia seems to have up side downs in the politics system that caused wars for many years. What is the role of the Liberians in the rebuilding process of post conflict Liberia? Could the new Liberia slivered after those shortcomings. Explain, using the book (Might)?
5. Through out the book Leyman express the importance of education in society. Explain how the book used education as the source to empowering society.
Eng. 1A
Professor Wanda Sabir
Whitney Maxwell
17 February 2012
Essay Questions
1. Is Leymah the protagonist or antagonist in relation to her struggles and compromising situations.
2. Was Leymah's choice to separate herself from her family and children, necessary for her to do her peace work ?
3. What are the expectations of the Child Soldiers post war ?
4. What role did men play in bringing peace, in reality and in the eyes of the women?
Abel Abyu
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
27 February 2012
Essay Questions:
1) What is the connection between domestic violence and civil war?
2) What role do women play in war, especially in third-world countries?
3) Is domestic violence a taboo subject in Liberia?
Danishia Mahomes
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1A
27 February 20112
Essay Questions
1.How did Leymah's children feel, when they saw their mom happy or sad?
2.Does Leymah encourage her children to follow in her foot steps.
3.What gives men the courage to hit women?Is it because they are cowards.
4.Is Leymah more like her mother or her father?
5.How many children did Leymah, originally plan to have?
Adriana Ultreras
Professor wanda Sabir
English 1A
15 February 2012
essay questions
Compare child soldiers in world to the ones n Liberia.
Compare women’s role is society to the women from Liberia.
How was author Leymah a hero in the book Mighty Be Our Power?
Why didn't the Unites States intervene in the war that was going on in Liberia?
Post a Comment
<< Home