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Monday, October 27, 2014

I am Malala - Women's Rights

Difference between girls and boys rights

This quote from the book tells how boys are more celebrated than girls because the last name of the family goes on if that family has a boy, but if they have a girl then the last name doesn't stay on.  "I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children." (Page 13)

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2.This quote tells me that even though the women cook dinner the men still get the better part of the chicken. I think that this happens because men get to go work so the women should cook the dinner and offer the best part of the meal to the men for all that they have done. "When a chicken was slaughtered for dinner the girls would get the wings and the neck while the luscious breast meat was enjoyed by my father,  his brother and my grandfather." (Page 29)

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3.This quote also tells me that even a grown women cant even have her own bank account because its more of a man's job to have a bank account because he's the one who happens to make all the money.  "A women couldn't even open a bank account without a man's permission." (Page 31)

All three of these quotes that I found from the book shows how women are treated differently than men, and how they aren't that much appreciated for all that they do. I think that this is horrible that women don't get to have the same equal rights as the opposite gender. This makes women feel powerless and that they shouldn't be here in this world for just watching kids and cooking dinner. All three of these quotes I found definitely show many differences between gender rights.
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- http://www.biography.com/people/malala-yousafzai-21362253



Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Pretty Little Liars Sara Shepard Post 6

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I am now on page 244 (chapter 29) and many things have happened after Noel Kahn's party last night. I have been analyzing all of the girl’s personalities and how their all dealing with "A", and when they will tell each other that someone has been sending them texts about secrets that only Ali knew about. Aria ditched Noel and went over to Ezra's house to see how they could keep whatever their relationship was a secret. Aria and Ezra must have agreed about being a thing because she got a text from you know who that said, “Aria, That’s some kind of extra credit! Love ya, A    P.S. Wonder what your mom would think if she found out about your dad’s little, uh, study buddy . . . and that you knew!” (Page 206) From the beginning of the book I thought that Aria would be the one to tell someone anything and not keep this big of a secret from her parents, but I mean she’s been holding in her dad’s affair for a while now. As I’ve analyzed how Aria acts and what her personality is, I wonder if she is going to move forward with her AP English teacher and take the blame if they get caught being seen together other than school. I keep rereading and studying the message that Aria got from “A” and I’m wondering what “A” is planning to do with her dad’s little secret. I also have been analyzing a note that Emily found stuck on the back of her bike tire. “. . . I love staring at the back of your head in class, I love how you chew gum whenever we’re talking on the phone together, and I love that when you jiggle your Sketchers during class when Mrs. Hat starts talking about famous American court cases, I know you’re totally bored.   . . . and I’ve done a lot of thinking about why I kissed you the other day. I realized: It wasn’t a joke, Ali.  I think I love you. I can understand if you never want to speak to me again, but I just had to tell you. – Em” (Page 225-226)
"Thought you might want this back. Love, A"

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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Pretty Little Liars Sara Shepard Post 5

I told you that I would come back with a new post, and here I am again with more to tell. I'm on page 192 (chapter 22) and everyone at Rosewood is talking about Noel Kahn's party that he is going to have this weekend. Aria doesn't know if she is going to go or not with Noel because she is still crushing on Ezra, Hanna is wanting Sean to go with her but they have been having some disagreements over how far they are allowed to go in their relationship, Spencer doesn't think that she is going to go because she would rather spend her time doing her calculus homework than be at a party filled with random people that probably don't even go to Rosewood, and Emily doesn't know if she is going to go or not with Ben because he's getting annoyed with her spending so much time with the new girl, Maya. "They pulled through the Kahns' open wrought-iron gates. The property was set back from the road, so the driveway was half a mile long and surrounded by tall, thick pines. Even the air smelled cleaner. The redbrick house sat behind massive Doric columns. It had portico with a little horse statue on top and a gorgeous all-grass sun room off to the side. Emily counted fourteen windows on the second floor, from one end to the other." (page 179) I pulled out this piece from the story because it vividly described the setting of the Kahn's house and where the party was at. This page had a lot of imagery going on and I could picture exactly what every thing looked liked from detail to detail. I could tell that it was right around when the sun went away and the moon came quietly out ,  the temperature dropping 10 degrees, the leaves laying on the ground crumbled and crushed without any care, and people with red plastic solo cups filled up with as much beer they could hold to the point where it was dripping all over their hands as they walked inside and out of the Kahn's house. I will come back with another post soon and talk more about what trouble happened for the girls at Kahn's party. Look out cause I'm always watching you. -A