and gardening.] A teenage girl in the mid-1960s abandons her home on Antigua‚ a tiny island in the West Indies‚ bound for New York and not to return home for 19 years. She becomes an au pair for a family in Scarsdale‚ N.Y.‚ then for a different family in New York City. She breaks off all contact with her mother‚ takes photography courses at the New School‚ dyes her hair blonde and changes her name. A few years later‚ in her early 20s‚ she convinces Ingenue‚ a girls ’ magazine‚ to allow her to interview
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High bride price and low intellectual capabilities Girls are a source of instant wealth‚ therefore‚ are retained at home for bride price. Research confirms that parents value most of their young girls like gold‚ coffee and other commodities to be traded at the immediate market value. They are only few and scarce that their value has soared recently. This is even worse around Ialibu area and some parts of Central Province. Some young girls can cost around K20 000. Women are used as the medium
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Girls’ education: towards a better future for all Cover photo: A schoolgirl in Surinam. (© Ron Giling/Still Pictures) Girls’ education: towards a better future for all Published by the Department for International Development January 2005 ii Foreword by the Secretary of State for International Development ‘To be educated means… I will not only be able to help myself‚ but also my family‚ my country‚ my people. The benefits will be many.’ MEDA WAGTOLE‚ SCHOOLGIRL‚ ETHIOPIA
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are the receiving end in Indian society. They are will treated or tortured at every stage. A girl child is in bondage from her very childhood. She is under constant‚ vigil First by the parents‚ then her husband and finally her own children. Not only that‚ she is often condemned to death even before she is born. This is called female killing in the womb itself. In ancient India the birth of a girl child was hailed as auspicious. An old Indian proverb lies down that a home without a daughter is like
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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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FAMILY George Peter Murdock (Social Structure 250 societies) “A social group characterised by common residence‚ economic co-operation and reproduction. It includes adults of both sexes‚ at least two of whom maintain socially approved sexual relationship‚ and one or more children‚ own or adopted of the sexually co-habiting adults”. The family thus lives together‚ puts resources and produces offspring. Nuclear family is the smallest group. Extended family is Nuclear family plus vertical
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ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT ELSIE VS MOTHER In a story of a young girl coming of age and finding her sexuality in a very religious community‚ it is key to have a female figure that plays a key role for the character. A mother should play the key role but what happens when this role is confused with a very spiritual role? Where will a young girl turn to when her life goes against the rules society has set for her? Jeanette has lived a sheltered life with no influence on her except
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The 1991 movie My Girl tells the story of 11-year-old Vada Sultenfuss who‚ having lost her mother at birth ‚ lives with her dementia-ridden grandmother and her job-oriented father in the funeral parlour that he owns and operates. The story follows Vada‚ an extreme hypochondriac who has many strange misconceptions about death‚ through a variety of life-changing experiences‚ including the engagement of her father and the devastating loss of her best friend‚ Thomas Jay. Through these experiences
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voluntary organizations‚ a vast majority of the girls are yet illiterate in India. During the last four decades since independence‚ much is being done to emancipate women. Education of girls is one of the basic features of the plan. Many schools and colleges are founded for girls. Even co-education has received considerable support from the public‚ and although orthodox parents still view the system of co-education with suspicion‚ a large number of families send their daughters to co-educational institutions
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In 2011‚ the average child with both biological parents living and well tested 30 out 36 for life satisfaction. In simpler terms‚ 13‚469 kids took a test and the ones who had both living parents got an 83% on how happy they were with their life. That means that more than half of the average child population is content or happy with their current life status. In the books we have read in class‚ each author attempts to search for sympathy in the reader to make the novel they’ve written something readers
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