...Nicholas d. Kristof “ Where Sweatshops Are Made” addresses the lifestyle of Phnom Penh. The author explains the working system of the poor countries of the world. Kristof uses information from different families to support this thought. He explains the place to be very tough and at the poverty level. Where you see children walking around barefoot searching for cans to make money. Kristof argues that labor standards can improve working conditions but not for poor countries where working in a factory is a dream. The author says, “A job in a sweatshop is a dream, an escalator out of poverty, the kind of gauzy if probably unrealistic ambition that parents everywhere often have for their children.” Factories jobs were looked at to be a better job. Rather than picking up cans in the heat you can work in factories that are inside or in the shade. This is also a dream for parents to want their children to have this future. Kristof mentions a woman name Vath Sam Oeun that wants her son to work in a factory job instead of searching for cans beside her. This woman has seen for her self a child get ran over by a garbage truck. He addresses how hard life is for these people. Children do no not have the opportunity to visit the doctor or even that a bath. The author does not agree with the labor standards that Obama is trying to set because of the fact that factory jobs are good jobs to poorer people. Kristof makes another claim that the poorer people that work in these factories work...
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...1. What is Kristof’s main idea? The main idea in Nicholas Kristof’s essay is that if guns were regulated like cars are being regulated, we would save thousands of lives and lower the fatality rates associated with guns. 2. How doe he use analogy? Kristof compares guns to cars. He says that if the owners of the guns were regulated like the owners of the cars, there would be fewer deaths. Ever since establishing lower speed limits, driver’s license requirements, car registration, air bags, seat belts, and increasing drinking age the rate of deaths associated with cars have significantly reduced and thousands of lives are being saved. If the government starts to regulate guns in the same manner, we could save more lives. He says when combining...
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...the articles became easy since it was mostly SOAPS TONE and this will really help on our AP Exams since we use SOAPS TONE to write the rhetorical analysis essay. This assignment will really help us on improving our writing since so you can only write so much about an article in four sentences so it helps us work on our usage of word choice. We began to realize that a single strong word can replace a few small not so strong words. The format of a précis is almost set up like an essay where each of the four sentences represents the beginning of a new paragraph. After looking back and analyzing all of the précis combined, you can characterize Nicholas Kristof as a columnist who isn’t afraid of having his opinions out there and he isn’t afraid of giving in by writing solutions to problems, his bravery might be the reason he is a communist. Kristof focuses on America’s political and economic issues but it isn’t where every article repeats the same things like other columnists might do. For one article he wrote about Iranians wanting their country to go back to being normal, then for another one he wrote about Obama’s foreign policy and the effects of it toward other countries like Yemen, and the for another one he wrote about America downgrading its rank when it comes to economic development and social progress. you can see that a new place and a new issue are mentioned in every article to come. Another great thing he does is that he tries to fit in personal experience, like for one...
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...“where sweatshops are dream” writer Nicholas D. Kristof makes a number of points regarding what he sees as an adverse effect of labor standards compliance on the economic development of low-income countries that we feel require some clarification and comment. His purpose in this essay is to let people know that sweatshops can help people. Kristof assumes his readers are Americans that are repulsed by the idea of importing products made by barely paid barely legal workers in dangerous factories. By establishing his credibility, building his case slowly, and appealing to both logic and emotions, Kristof succeeds in writing effective argument. Most of us think that we make our decisions based on rational thought. However, Aristotle points out that emotions such as anger, pity, fear, and their opposites, powerfully influence our rational judgments. Due to this fact, much of our political discourse and much of the advertising we experience is directed toward moving our emotions. Kristof appeals to pathos by using words or images designed to move readers and appeal to the reader’s emotion. Emotional appeals can use sources such as interviews and individual stories to paint a more legitimate and moving picture of reality or illuminate the truth. “The miasma of toxic stink leaves you gasping, breezes batter you with filth, and even the rats look forlorn.” “Many families actually live in shacks on this smoking garbage.” This examples show how Kristof creates a connection between the two...
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...overseas. Most people would be interested in this because of what we buy can have an effect on the workers. Even though we don’t see it first-hand here in Indianapolis, Indiana, it does matter us as a human being. With this paper I hope to enlighten my fellow classmates on the core reading. Since the paper is more pro-sweatshops I will give some of the cons to it as my response. I want this paper to help educate the reader so they can make a more informed opinion on the matter. The importance of this is the more people that are aware and talking about it, the more we can help make a positive difference in the world. Is a horrible job better than no job at all? This article from The New York Times, Where Sweatshops Are a Dream by Nicholas Kristof, gives Americans a different perspective on the nature of sweatshops. It comes from somebody who has seen...
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...can go to Africa and become a godlike savior or, at the very least, have his or her emotional needs satisfied. Many have done it under the banner of ‘making a difference’.” * Teju Cole, “The White Savior Industrial Complex.” “When a warlord continues to kill and torture across a swath of Congo and Central African Republic, that’s not a white man’s burden. It’s a human burden. To me, it feels repugnant to suggest that compassion should stop at a national boundary or color line. A common humanity binds us all, whatever the color of our skin — or passport.” * Nicholas Kristof, “Viral Video, Vicious Warlord.” Taken together, the essays cited above work as a marvelous (and heated) example of argument and counterargument. Responding to the Kony 2012 video, Cole and Kristof fundamentally disagree over the effectiveness and appropriateness of humanitarian intervention in third-world countries. For Kristof, “complexity” is an excuse for inaction; he chides “armchair cynics” and praises the “uncertain” efforts of Kony 2012. Cole, on the other hand, sees these efforts as a way to “satisfy the…sentimental needs of white people…” He criticizes American sentimentality and suggests that, if America truly cares about “making a difference,” they might want to examine their money-driven and “villainous” foreign policy. Both directly and indirectly, these authors mention something called “the white savior complex”—also known as “white man’s burden” and “the White Messiah complex...
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...A Poverty Solution That Starts With a Hug By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF PERHAPS the most widespread peril children face isn’t guns, swimming pools or speeding cars. Rather, scientists are suggesting that it may be “toxic stress” early in life, or even before birth. This month, the American Academy of Pediatrics is issuing a landmark warning that this toxic stress can harm children for life. I’m as skeptical as anyone of headlines from new medical studies (Coffee is good for you! Coffee is bad for you!), but that’s not what this is. Rather, this is a “policy statement” from the premier association of pediatricians, based on two decades of scientific research. This has revolutionary implications for medicine and for how we can more effectively chip away at poverty and crime. Toxic stress might arise from parental abuse of alcohol or drugs. It could occur in a home where children are threatened and beaten. It might derive from chronic neglect — a child cries without being cuddled. Affection seems to defuse toxic stress — keep those hugs and lullabies coming! — suggesting that the stress emerges when a child senses persistent threats but no protector. Cues of a hostile or indifferent environment flood an infant, or even a fetus, with stress hormones like cortisol in ways that can disrupt the body’s metabolism or the architecture of the brain. The upshot is that children are sometimes permanently undermined. Even many years later, as adults, they are more likely to suffer heart disease...
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...About Guns”, Nicholas Kristof takes on this very issue. According to his bio, Kristof has been a foreign correspondent and columnist for the New York Times since 2001. However, his bio says nothing about any involvement with firearm related topics. This makes his opinions less trustworthy than that of an actual expert on the issue. Kristof is very pro gun control and dispels five main myths from those that oppose his views on gun control. The author believes that greater restrictions and laws concerning firearms will lead to a safer country and far less casualties....
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...History 11 exam 2 study guide 1) Explain the structure of the US Gov. under the new constitution and describe the compromises that led to its ratification? What problems do you think remained for the united states under this constitution? The structure of the US Gov under the new constitution sets out the powers of the United States does and what the State powers are as well. In addition Madison is setting up a competion between the US Gov and the States. The US gov can coin money, make taxes, make treaties. State Powers can create taxes, make treaties, but can’t coin money. Many of the powers of the States are often duplicated from the Us Gov. powers. Also there is the 3 branch concept which consist of Executive branch (President, Enforce laws),Legislative Branch (Congress, Make Laws), and Judicial Branch( Interept Laws). These branches will also compete with each other. Example of congress fighting with the president on raising the national debt ceiling. In addition the Judicial branch will sometimes get involved because they have the power to declare a law constitutional or unconstitutional which is the final say. In addion the Judicial Branch can also interpret laws made by the legislative Branch.The compromise that led to the ratification are Virginia Plan:being a large state, because virgina had a larger population.the viginians did not think it was fair for a state to have 3times less population to have a equal vote as a larger state such as virginia.They wanted more...
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...Qualities of an Epic Story in The Notebook What is an epic? An epic, by definition, is the telling of an epic hero’s story through the vast journey and sacrifices he makes. The Notebook would be considered an epic for many reasons. Some may disagree and say it’s just a love story that contains no characteristics, and no proof of being an epic. But in this paper the characteristics of an epic will be explored through facts and examples from the text and from today’s present life and culture. The epic hero, Noah Hamilton in Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook states, “I am no one special, just a common man with common thoughts. I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me. And my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect, I've succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived (The Notebook).” Some examples of the characteristics in The Notebook that proves this is an epic would include vast settings, the story begins in medias res, the characters have epic digressions and that the hero embodies the values of the culture. Because of how the story starts, media res would be considered the first characteristic of an epic that can be noticed in The Notebook. Our story begins at a nursing home in the south where Allie is being looked after due to her dementia. The nurse is in her room, attempting to have Allie come out and go outside for a little while until a mysterious man shows up. Now, we don’t know who this man is that has just entered her room, and we’re not...
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...know who made them. Anonymity allows the experts to express their self freely, encourages openness and avoids admitting error by revising earlier forecasts. The history of Delphi derives from the Oracle of Delphi. According to Wikipedia, the authors of the method were not happy with this name, because in implies something oracular, something smacking a little of the occult. The Delphi method was developed at the beginning of the Cold War to forecast the impact of technology on warfare. The method was a creation for the report, for the U.S. Army Air Corps on the future technological capacities that might be used by the military. The Delphi method was developed by project RAND during the 1950-1960s by Olaf Helmer, Norman Dalkey, and Nicholas Rescher. It has been used ever since, with many modifications and reformulation, such as the Imen-Delphi procedure. There are steps one must use in the Delphi Technique; Step 1 – Is choosing a Facilitator,...
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...The Jolly Holiday Man and His Shadowy Counterpart They see you when you’re sleeping, they know when you’re awake, they know if you’ve been bad or good so be good for goodness sake. There is one obvious name that comes to mind here, but not many know of the other that has become lost from the holiday culture. It is fair to assume that most everybody knows about the jolly Santa Claus, but few know he has a partner known as Krampus. They are two sides of the same coin, with Krampus also being known as St. Nick’s shadow. Both were and still are highly present in European areas, but when St. Nicholas came to America as Santa Claus, Krampus was left behind. There seemed to be no need for this fearful figure in the new world, but as he is beginning to become noticed once again one must understand who he is to our beloved Christmas childhood hero....
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...Name 4/9/2016 BIO 1 Nicholas of Cusa The person that I was assigned for our first biography was Nicholas of Cusa. Nicholas of Cusa was “born in 1401 and passed away on the day of August 11, 1464” (Hudson). Nicholas of Cusa was a German philosopher, theologian, and astronomer. He was one of the first German proponents of Renaissance humanism, and he made spiritual and political contributions in European history. When Nicholas of Cusa was at a young age, “he entered the Faculty of Arts of the Heidelberg University in 1416 as ‘a cleric of the Diocese of Trier,’ studying the liberal arts”(Hudson). He seemed to have left Heidelberg soon afterwards, “as he received his doctorate in canon law from the University of Padua in 1423” (Joost-Gaugier). After he attended the University of Padua in 1423, “he entered the University of Cologne in 1425 as ‘a doctor of canon law,’ which he appears to have both taught and practiced there”(Joost-Gaugier). In the field of philosophy, “Nicholas of Cusa was noted for his deeply mystical writings about Christianity” (Hudson), particularly on the possibility of knowing God with the divine human mind. Nicholas of Cusa wrote of the unfolding of creation in God. “He was suspected by some of holding pantheistic beliefs, but his writings were never accused of being heretical” (Joost-Gaugier). In the field of mathematics, Nicholas of Cusa can be read about in the different essays that he wrote. “Most of Nicholas of Cusa's mathematical ideas can be found...
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...Payton and Samantha brought their little guy into my baby photographer studio for his newest milestone portraits. I met this couple for the first time when they brought Cullen in for his newborn session. He was just a week old at that time. The time flies by in a heartbeat! This time he was brought in for a cake smash session. While it's hard not to love all kinds of baby sessions, these are some of my favorites. His parents say that he is a happy, active and talkative boy who loves being outside. Silly sounds and funny faces make him laugh, but his favorite thing is eating. I was warned to keep the cake away until it was cake smash time. He really dug into that cake when the time came too. It was a blast to watch him play in the cake and...
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...pointless but somehow comic. He used it in order to deride the human vices and to show inefficiency of actions of moralistic, hypocritical persons. Munro was killed on the French front during the First World War. His sister in her Biography of Saki writes: “One of Munro’s aunts, Augusta, was a woman of ungovernable temper, of fierce likes and dislikes, imperious, and moral coward, possessing no brains worth speaking of, and a primitive disposition.” Naturally the last person who should have been in charge of children. The character of the aunt in the Lumber – Room is Aunt Augusta to the life. The text tells us a story about a small boy Nicholas, who was brought up by his tyrannical and ungoverned aunt Augusta. He was "in disgrace" as he had refused to eat his wholesome bread-and-milk that morning. When children were taken to Jagborough sands Nicholas made some attempts to get into the gooseberry garden. As a matter of fact, he had no intention of trying to get into the gooseberry garden, but it...
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