It is hard to believe that we are in week eleven of this semester! For this week’s reading assignment we had the option to read a passage from President Harder and his wife, Karen, or a passage from Professor Barbara Kingsolver, whom I have never heard of until today. After reading the titles of each passage I came to the conclusion that I would find more interest in reading Kingsolver’s “from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” basically because the other title “Economics, Development, and Creation” just didn’t seem to suit me. This summer I had the opportunity to travel with thirteen other Bluffton students to Arizona and Mexico.
I read, T4 by Ann Clare Lezotte, which is about her life as a Jewish, deaf girl who lived in Germany. This was the time period when Adolf Hitler ruled their country, which means they didn’t like Jewish people. In the book, she had said, “when my mother was pregnant with me, she was exposed to Rubella, or German Measles, a common cause of hearing loss in infancy” (Lezotte, 3). I’ve never had hearing loss or anything like that but I did have failure to thrive and a sensory disorder when I was younger, which impacted my life a lot.
Lucille Parkinson McCarthy, author of the article, “A Stranger in Strange Lands: A College Student Writing Across the Curriculum”, conducted an experiment that followed one student over a twenty-one month period, through three separate college classes to record his behavioral changes in response to each of the class’s differences in their writing expectations. The purpose was to provide both student and professor a better understanding of the difficulties a student faces while adjusting to the different social and academic settings of each class. McCarthy chose to enter her study without any sort of hypothesis, therefore allowing herself an opportunity to better understand how each writing assignment related to the class specifically and “what
Correspondingly, this is one of the ways sex trafficking is ‘successful’ and in high numbers, as many pimps use tactics like this for young girls and women that come from villages with little to no education. Furthermore, Lakshmi meets Mumtaz, also known as the brothel owner, she also uses inhumane techniques to force Lakshmi into working as a sex slave. “After five days of no food and water I don’t even dream” (McCormick 113). The cruel treatment in many brothels results in significant mental and physical damage, a study conducted by a human rights group states, “Human Rights Watch found that trafficking victims in India are subjected to conditions tantamount to
Patricia McCormick wrote Sold, a National Book Award winner. This book focuses on a young girl who was sold into prostitution by her stepfather. Lakshmi thought she was going to the city to work as a maid and help her family earn money. She didn't let her situation get her down however, she stayed positive the entire time she was at the house. One way she passed time was by figuring out how long it would take her to pay off her debt and leave.
Hana Brady is a thirteen year old girl that was sent to German’s concentration camp. Hana lived with her parent and brother George Brady in the city 0f Novte Mesto. As time goes by, life started to change for the Brady’s family. During this time, the Nazis starts to pick on Hana Brady’s family. Hana and her brother was no longer allowed to go to the movies, sport field, gym, skating pond, school and also she lost her friends from school.
In order to enjoy the life that every person deserves, Lakshmi has the right to receive more attention from her husband as a human being. It's interesting to see that Lakshmi works for an organization that assists those in need because they frequently experience difficulties in their daily lives. People are led and heard by Lakshmi. Despite being unable to meet her own needs, she meets those of others and solves them. As a result of experiencing isolation in her own life, she deals with similar people in order to free herself from the cage of unfavorable emotions that Hariharan had kept her in for 12
Octavia Butler uses symbolism to highlight how the irregular occurrence of time travel forces Dana to accept slavery and how her past will “live” in her presence. Dana is forced to assimilate to the past because she has no control over her fate, and her life in the past revolves around slavery. The fact that Dana quickly transitions from the past to the present shows that she is quick to accept this time of slavery even though she is not mentally prepared for it. After Dana is disturbed by the inhumanity that the children show by playing an auction game, she says, “The ease. Us, the children… I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery” (Butler 101).
Among these two books, a theme develops; the desire for survival makes people do things they normally would not do. Lakshmi portrays the theme in Sold because
Although, in Sold, Lakshmi listens to her family and trusts what they tell her when really it was wrong. Although she has her blood family, but her friends in the Happiness House count as a family also to Lakshmi. They may have not been her mother and father’s blood, but the girls in the house all act as one family. They care and trust each other just like a family does. In the story, one of Lakshmi’s family members, Anita, tells her false information.
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you're not.” (Andre Gide) In the book Speak By: Laurie Halse Anderson the main character Melinda calls the cops at a party over the summer. When school starts Melinda as a freshman is hated for stopping the party. What they don’t know is why Melinda called the cops.
Human trafficking was a major problem in this book. Researching human trafficking can further all evidence and information on the topic which the books had multiple points to emphasize on . Patricia Mccormick writes sold to inform people about the experiences of others lives and the way they are living with this happening to them or have happened . Her personal trials have taken an emotional route to connect with Lakshmi or some of the young girls she has visited previously. This essay is important because it talks and highlights very key points on Human trafficking and how it affects women and the society as a
Throughout the years, there have been multiple methods of public shaming, ranging from a criminal being forced to hold a sign about a crime committed all the way to millions of comments, bullying and threatening someone for something as small as an insensitive joke. In the informational book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson, multiple public figures and private citizens talked about their experiences of being publicly shamed, through media or through something like a court trial. Jon Ronson had gone through an experience revolving this himself where he had no other option but to post a video which led to the shaming of a couple of people. He also followed along the stories of those who had the misfortune of being misunderstood online to the
Native Americans lived according to their culture and religion, but they didn’t speak English and didn’t understand the rules of American society. The government had to somewhat “Americanize” the Native Americans. Which was a very difficult task and a huge responsibility. The government made the Dawes act. Which broke the Native American’s reservations and gave each one of them their own land.
In Girl Rising (2013), reveals how gender discrimination negatively affects the future of many women and continues to be prominent in society through forced marriages, extreme poverty, and/or labor obstacle. Girl Rising (2013) reveals heartrending stories of nine girls from different countries to show how these girls overcome great obstacles to obtain an education and change their fate. Each of these girls was paired with a writer from their own country to help tell Soka story. Young girls that were faced extreme poverty, forced marriage, and forced labor (Robbin, 2013). Each story is written by a writer from the girl’s native country and is narrated by renowned actresses such as Anne Hathaway, Cate Blanchett, Salma Hayek, and Meryl Streep
