This particular class session started with Nicholas Kristoff’s Half the Sky documentary on FGM. It is difficult not to get too emotional in this course because the film showed how Ms. Edna Adan‚ an FGM victim herself‚ stood up against it and later on established an organization that works towards its elimination. Ms. Adan is a truly inspiring person. She worked at the United Nations (one of which was being the WHO representative of Djibouti) and used all her lifelong earnings and retirement benefits
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As I read Nicholas D. Kristof narrative I am very shocked of how arrogant the author truly is. He travels to a foreign country in which he has no knowledge in‚ and suddenly questions their culture‚ identity‚ and religion. He talks about his experience traveling to the capital of Saudi Arabia‚ and the things he encountered. However one thing that caught my intention was the author stated he saw “giggly black ghost”. As a result of that statement I have come to the conclusion that the author stepped
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In Kristof Nicholas Article‚ he claims that everyone is a little bit racist. He has excellent point to as how people are. A few of these points are that‚ universities are more likely to choose “whiter” sounding names compared to african american sounding names. He also states that in a game designed by harvard‚ were you shoot people‚ people were more likely to shoot african americans than white people. Nicholas Makes many more points on how people are racist‚ even if it’s towards themselves.
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11-22-10 Global Literature Quiz As we read “Half the Sky” we were able to get a taste of how difficult the lives were for the women that were a part of these terrible doings to women. Coming from a family in which the majority is women‚ I cannot bare to see any women put in the situations that these women were put in; the daunting thing about the whole situation is that these heinous acts still exist today. As for the question‚ why is the desperate state of women in impoverished cultures also
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Nicholas D. Kristof’s “The Educated Giant” makes an ineffective argument‚ incorporating too much pathos and not enough ethos‚ making the article bias. In “The Educated Giant” written by Nicholas D. Kristof‚ he explains why China is likely to over take the United States as the worlds most important country of the century due to its large focus on education. In the article‚ Kristof talks about his trip to China and the education system he observed. Beginning with peasant schools‚ he discovered
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When Food Kills Nicholas Kristof An outbreak causing the death of 31 people in Europe is causing wide speculation of the agriculture industry. The outbreak‚ caused by E. coli‚ supposabley arose from bean sprouts grown in an organic farm in Germany. All over the world food-borne illnessess are hopstitalizing and even killing people. Just in the United states 325‚000 people are hospitalized and 5‚ooo die every year because of the wide spread of food-borne illnessess. Farmers all over the
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became a hot spot nowadays. This question is serious because it relates to the public safety. In a 2014 article “ Our Blind Spot About Guns”‚ Nicholas Kristof argues that there is a need for sensible regulation of guns. He makes his idea credible by comparing the regulation of cars with the regulation of guns. In his opening paragraph‚ Nicholas Kristof draws his opinion of gun control by introducing the regulation of driving. At the beginning‚ he suggest that without regulation of cars‚ there will
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Life of the Americans is in danger and the reason isn’t anything uncommon; guns and people carrying guns are threat to Americans‚ as shooting someone has become a trend. Nicholas Kristof‚ columnist for The New York Times‚ in his article‚ ‘Do We Have the Courage to Stop This?’‚ argues that‚ even though we are concerned about making numerous laws about things that aren’t even scary‚ the law makers and the people are silent and ignorant about gun regulations. Massacre shooting in schools have resulted
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Eng 102 Boyer-White 2/10/11 Rhetorical Analysis of Kristof Nicholas Kristof wrote a compelling article titled “Our Gas Guzzlers‚ Their Lives”. In the article he is arguing that wealthier country’s greenhouse gas emissions are severely damaging life in many African countries. In fact Charles Ehrhart‚ a Care staff member in Kenya‚ states‚ “The negative impact of the West’s carbon emissions will overwhelm the positive effects of aid” (Kristof 580). So although we are trying to aid‚ it is our lifestyles
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In “The Asian Advantage”‚ Nickolas Kristof analyzes the factors of Asians are successful in the America and points out that even though Asians have greater opportunities and accomplishments compared to Whites‚ does not stand for discrimination is solved. Indeed‚ discrimination is still a problem‚ but I think there are details she is missing. Kristof gives her opinion that “Teachers had higher expectations for the special students and made them feel capable – and so that’s what they became
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