Nearly half of India’s children are girls. However‚ the girl child is considered a lesser child in our society. Irrespective of class‚ caste and economic conditions‚ she is discriminated against and neglected at all the levels. This result in the denial of basic services required for her survival‚ welfare and development. The girl child is perceived as a burden to be passed on to another family. Her contribution in the household economy is not acknowledged. Various factors contribute towards
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Black Like me The book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin is a moving true story of how a white man manages to experience what it is like to be a “Negro” or black person in the 1950s. The author did this social experiment by taking medication and dying his skin a deep brown. He wanted to really experience the challenges and changes a black man in this time would go through. By traveling through the far south‚ Griffin got a taste of what real life was for a Negro. The experiment starts in the
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In the novel Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin‚ the title is used as an allusion to a line in the poem “Dream Variations” by Langston Hughes. In this poem Hughes writes of his wishes to end racism. He writes “Rest at pale evening… / A tall slim tree… / Night coming tenderly / Black like me.” John Howard Griffin who longed to address the issue of race thought that with the title it would reach out to not only to the whites but also to the blacks. Carmihael Stokely states “Black Like Me is an excellent
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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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organizations have been able to accomplish such a feat. In the Black Like Me‚ Griffin experiences many derogatory actions against him because he was an African American. Specifically‚ there are three times that Griffin was treated poorly because of his skin color. Because griffin published these incidences in his book‚ he was able to enlighten society regarding the true essence of the problem of racism in America. An incident that really showed America the persisting problem of racism was when Griffin tried
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of discrimination and violence against the girl child UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre Florence‚ Italy‚ 25-28 September 2006 Girl child empowerment: A challenge for all Prepared by * Nicole Bidegain Ponte * The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the United Nations In the next lines I propose to integrate the agenda of sexual and reproductive rights with the ordinary life of girls and adolescents. I will put forward good practices
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Black Like Me is about a middle aged white man living in Texas in the late 50’s and early 60’s. He is deeply committed to the cause of racial injustice. He decides to temporarily become a black man and sets out to explore the racial injustice a African American deals with on a daily basis. After this experiment he realizes that racism is a result of social condition‚ and not any inherent quality within blacks or whites. He pleads for tolerance and understanding between the races. The author and
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of life. Thus investment on a girl child is a smarter way to the overall development of a family.Education is one of the many vital fields where girl children remains a victim of disparity and is neglected as compared to the other sex.But it is proved worldwide that educating a girl child can boost the development‚ break the cycle of poverty that goes on for generations and lead to better and more productive lies around the world. It is ironic yet true that more of girl children in India and other
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How sad‚ many girls missing from our country are found buried in some graveyard.... India is growing dynamically in every fields. Today‚ the boom in economy‚ innovative technologies and improved infrastructure has become nation’s pride. The country has witnessed advancements in all fields but bias against a girl child is still prevailing in the country. This social evil is deep rooted in Indian ethos and the most shocking fact is that the innovative and hard high end technologies are brutally
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Throughout "Child of the Americas" the speaker describes herself as many different nationalities. She uses the metaphors “I am not African‚ Africa is in me…Spanish is in my flesh…I am not European‚ Europe lives in me…” to show us that because she identifies herself as american she can also be seen as all these different nationalities because America is a country in which many different cultures have settled down and started to fuse together into original lifestyles. What is the tone of the
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