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    Save a Girl Child

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    GIRL CHILD IN TODAY’S SOCIETY The female child in India has been most vulnerable for centuries. We are committing the worst crime against humanity when we don’t even allow children to be born just because they carry the stigma of being girls .The poor infant girls have no choice because they are killed inside the womb of their mothers or killed after birth in parts of Bihar ‚Tamil Nadu ‚Rajasthan and other parts of India. We forget that only girls take care of their parents and their in-laws

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    At least in India‚ the girl child has been a topic of discussions and debates for the past several decades but‚ even today‚ the position appears to remain unchanged. The girl was always an unwanted child‚ and was found killed at birth. With the advancement of Science and Technology this killing has only gone still further - for now the girl child is being killed even before birth. The present scenario in which the girl child is mercilessly killed even before birth‚ does not speak too well about

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    Black Like Me Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin is a Multicultural story set in the south around the late 1950’s in first person point of view about John Griffin in 1959 in the deep south of the east coast‚ who is a novelist that decides to get his skin temporarily darkened medically to black. What Griffin hopes to achieve is enough information about the relationships between blacks and whites to write a book about it.The overall main obstacle is society‚ and the racial divide in the south

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    Plot Summary: Black Like Me was written by John Howard Griffin about his adventure in some southern states and what he observed when he pigmented his skin to be an African American; who at the time was being discriminated against. Throughout his experiment he experienced many things including racism‚ discrimination‚ and survival. Griffin was a privileged southern white from Texas. During the pigmentation process he set out for New Orleans‚ once the procedure was done completely‚ he seen things

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    These days gender imbalance is becoming a grave problem especially in India. Girls are either aborted from mother’s womb or killed after birth. This gives rise to crimes like rape and killing. Write an essay emphasizing importance of women in the society. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ In ancient time birth of a girl child was considered as auspicious. As per an Indian proverb‚ “A home without a daughter is like a body without soul”. The birth of a daughter in the house was compared with the advent of Goddess Laxmi

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    r GIRLS EDUCATION Education of Girls: Even after fifty-five years of independence of India‚ girls in India do not have the opportunities to educate themselves‚ in spite of education being fundamental rights in the constitution of India. Mann Deshi Mahila Bank (women Bank) and Mann Vikas Samajik Sanstha (NGO) consider their primary task to work on education of girls. If women have assets and are educated they would never be vulnerable as they are today. Women’s bank and NGO have annual meeting

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    Megan Ward Black Like Me Dialectical Journal Quotation From the Text Page Number Response “How else except by becoming a Negro could a white man hope to learn the truth? Though we lived side by side throughout the South communication between the two races had simply ceased to exist?” Pg. 1 Unless you become someone or maybe go through some of the same things they’ve experienced‚ you will never truly understand them. “I had tampered with the mystery of existence and I had lost the sense of my

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    because of their skin colour. In the book‚ Black Like Me‚ Mr. Griffin who resides in the Deep South attempts to better understand such discrimination. His curiosity to experience life as a black man‚ led him to many undesired outcomes. This paper will aim to explore the issue of racial equality and justice in the Deep South over the past decades‚ Mr. Griffin’s growing desire to momentarily live life as a Black Man and the current status and acceptance of Blacks in the Deep South. More importantly‚ this

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    help him publish the book he soon wants to make after his experiment. The experiment is to change his skin color to black and try to resolve discrimination with the black and white people. Mr. Levitan thinks this is a crazy idea and thinks he’s sure to get killed the second someone finds out about what he’s doing.  This shows that it was extremely dangerous to try anything like this back in that time period because everyone was very pro-racism. I think it shouldn’t have to be dangerous to do

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    Save the Girl Child “Save the Girl Child” It is said that god created mothers because he could not be present everywhere. It is unbelieveable to realize that a god’s representative is countinuously killing someone beautiful even before she can come out and see the beauty of nature. In older days the birth of a girl child was considered as auspicious. As per an Indian proverb‚ "A home without a daughter is like a body without soul". The birth of a daughter in the house was compared with the advent

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