The Mirabal sisters played a prominent role in the revolution. Not only did they stand up at a time when few people would, they also defied the roles of women in that era. In the novel In the time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez uses figurative language and character development to convey to people who are unaware of what sacrifice really is, throughout the novel the Mirabal sisters or “las Mariposas” are exemplars of this as they sacrifice of their time, energy and hearts to help not only their family and friends, but the countless strangers who are suffering from the wrath of Trujillo. In order to show the sacrifice the sisters went through, Julia Alvarez uses figurative language; such as metaphors and similes. Dede is the second born of the four sisters and the only one to survive Trujillo’s regime.
Throughout the novel, Lily Owens goes through many changes in the way she acts and how she perceives things. After accidentally killing her mother, Lily feels insecure and alone without a maternal figure. Rosaleen, her nanny, doesn’t exactly fit the role. This causes Lily to lack femininity and maturity as a woman. Over the course of the novel she learns to see past color and living with the Boatwright sisters allowed her to learn more about herself, her mother, and of course, bees.
Ian Bullock Bullock 1 2-13-09 Block 2 American History Honors SOLD: A BOOK REPORT Sold is a historical fiction novel written by Patricia McCormick that portrays the horrible atrocities of poverty. It details some of the lengths that some people will go to help support family. Also, it displays some of the deceit that goes along with having to support family, and repay debt. In Patricia McCormick's sorrowful and well-written young adult novel, the waking nightmare that young Nepalese girls experience after being sold into sexual slavery is told through the intelligent eyes of 13-year-old Lakshmi. Her family loses the little it
Raya and her friend escape from there traffickers, and are being taken care of bye the U.N Convention. Kathryn sends them to a shelter set up for girls who has been trafficked or victims of sexual slavery. Through Raya’s case Kathryn discovers some scandals about sexual slavery and human trafficking which the U.N are covering up. The U.N has covered it up to protect some security contracts. Now Kathryn are trying to take the cases to a higher level in the U.N Convention, where she finds out that the scandals and the corruption are much bigger than she could imagine.
By addressing Brenna’s abusive history through therapy she was able to validate and process through feelings of inadequacy, low self-esteem, loneliness, and powerlessness. Instead focusing and becoming victim of her abuse Brenna’s resiliency, self-sufficiency, and dedication to providing a healthy life for her unborn child gave her the motivation to set difficult goals, and she used her time at the shelter to attain them rather than remain in poverty. The social worker had a comprehensive view of the impacts of poverty in that she provided Brenna access to social services that would provide housing, food assistance and free education as described by Mantle and Backwith (2010). References Mantle, G., & Backwith, D. (2010). Poverty and social work.
Prostitution is also associated with the feminist view that all sex workers are coerced or forced into the profession, but is this true in a country with anti-pimping laws? Kelly delves into the Zona and into the lives of sex workers to find out exactly what led them to become prostitutes. We find out that prostitution is a way to make it in a gender-oppressive society. Like many of the women in the Zona Galactica, Gabriela grew up without money. Her mother passed away when she was young and she lived with several siblings as her father was out drinking.
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids The film, Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids, is a documentary of prostitutes’ children in a red light district. The director Zana Briski formed a close bond with roughly four children whose parents were prostitutes. Briski offered cameras to these children, taught them about photography, and takes them on trips. I believe this film represents the concept of “the Humanities” because it is a type of Humanities; film. The film had the children taking photographs of people where ever they pleased; visual art.
She lived from 1879 to 1966. She was a nurse, sex educator and an activist for women’s rights particularly regarding birth control. She actually coined and popularized the term. At that time in society, discussion of birth control was considered obscene and was illegal. She was jailed many times over the course of her life for publicly speaking and writing about her beliefs.
When your children got older, you decided to go back to work. You felt you could best serve your community by becoming a public health nurse serving the poorest of the poor in the slums of New York City. It was here that you began to realize what became of your life’s work and your life’s crusade. You began to recognize a cycle of life experienced by poor women. In order to get out of a poor family, young girls would hook their dreams on a relationship or marriage with a poor young man.
In many occasions this key figure managed to persuade millions of people to act irrationally or behave unethically. However, Mother Teresa required the art of persuasion which she ethically used, and demonstrated by ensuring that the sick have been taken care off. Both events had significant impact in the world but the later was considered an act of ethics. Many things that we do today in order to persuade people, we come to find that ethical behavior is a great part of it. When we were children our mothers used to use this art as a way of making us know the right decisions from the wrong ones.