Lab Activity(Group 3)

I am going to reply to the question "Isn’t Little Bee pretty young when she comes to the UK? Isn’t she legally a child? Doesn’t that complicate things from a human rights perspective? How so? Investigate the human rights of the child." It is important to know that if Little Bee is legal since she could be supposed to live in the UK like everybody else. It is also important to know that if the UK is doing the right thing(detaining Little Bee) since they might have violated human rights.
Little was 14 year-old(according to what she says). however, she does not have an ID, which means she does not have a official name, D.O.B. If you argue that Little Bee is too young and it's the reason why she is detained(she can't take care of herself without supervised), the information below explains why Little Bee should not be seen 14 year-old.

http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Up+to+a+third+of+%E2%80%9Cunderage%E2%80%9D+asylum+seekers+prove+to+be+older/1135245704793
According to the source, it says underage immigrant(who generally do not have IDs) can prove or claim to be older than their age by doing determination tests. In the novel, Little Bee is smart, dependent, can speak English and she is likely to be able to claim to be older than 18 year-old or even older. Moreover, the UK can not simply determine Little Bee's age without looking at any proofs even if she claims to be what age she is. Therefore, in my opinion, doing determine tests is the best way to determine one's age.

"http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/asylum_and_immigration"
This is another source I found from a organisation in London. This source is important because it tells us that detaining asylum seekers(even underage) is not the UK generally does. "Generally, children under age 16 are placed in foster care". In other words, even though children are underage(like Little Bee), they should be taken care by a foster parent or two instead of being detained like a criminal.  Also, the website implies that what the detention centre in the novel does is illegal. According to the website, "We have a duty to look after these UASC under the Children Act 1989 (Sections 17, 20, 23, and 24) and the Leaving Care Act 2000. We support the young people to engage in learning, training, and employment." In other words, asylum seeking children should be protected by law and not be detained. Little should have been provided chances to learn, train and even be employed instead of doing nothing in the dark room.

Asylum seeker who receives good care from the organisation in London Borough of Hounslow.

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Comparison/Contrast of Sheryl Wudunn and Kevin Bales’s Speeches

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      At the Ted Global conference, Sheryl Wudunn and Kevin Bales each speaks about global challenges they think are neglected by most people today. Wudunn suggests that gender inequality against women is common in some countries and yet the mass media rarely present it. Her argument is that women are part of the support to the society and should be given education and job opportunities. On the other hand, Bales suggests slavery is neglected the same way as gender inequality and it happens in many countries. His argument is that slaves should be helped to build dignity, stability in order to have a happy life and most of us are capable in helping them. 

Despite their different topics and ideas, Bales defines his topic more effectively and is more persuasive, Wudunn adds up to a more effective call to action. 

     First of all, Bales defines his topic “slavery” more completely. Not only who, what, where and when is slavery about, Bales suggests why slavery happens today. According to Bales, “people do not enslave people to be mean to them. They do it to make a profit”. In other words, slavery happens for a reason that slaveholders benefit from it(can use them to work without paying, saves the money for hiring workers). With the reason that slaveholders enslave people out of their greediness and laziness(not willing to hire workers and work on their own), now the audience understand why slavery is evil to slaves and slaveholders do not deserve the profit from it. Also, according to the United Declaration of Human Rights, “No one shall be held slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.” In other words, slavery is strictly outlawed with a consensus all around the world. If we do not help stop slavery while we know exists, we are thinking it is normal and we are somehow helping the slave holders escape from their behaviour. This means we are as well offending the UDHR article. Compared to Bales, Wudunn defines gender inequality less completely. Even though she suggests who, what, where and when gender inequality is about, she does not give any reason why gender inequality happens today. In her case studies, she suggests that parents do not let females go to schools. Wudunn then adds “This happens to girls in remote areas”. Here, Wudunn only tells the situation and how common it is, but she never seems to tell why exactly girls are not allowed to go to school and why they are seen unequally. Females can be seen unequally due to many reasons such as physical inferiority, tradition, cultural belief. Even if girls are as smart as boys as proved by Wudunn, if the gender inequality is caused by tradition(for example, boys treat parents better), it will still happen unless the tradition disappears. However, if we know gender inequality is caused by tradition, we can start educating parents about how the tradition should not persist(for instance, telling them how females and males can be the same such as their same thoughts, goals, actions, desires). This way, in the long term, people will not have reasons to be bias against females anymore and females and males will be treated the same.

     Bales’s talk is more persuasive based on his experience on the topic. Bales has large experience about slavery and he seems to be familiar with his topic. According to Bales, he has done all the research by himself. He has read over 3000 articles, been to five countries around the world, met both the slaves and slaveholders. In other words, he has first hand information about the topic and it is reliable. Also, he has perspectives from the slaves and slave holders since he has talked to them. That means he has seen what the people involved have seen and knows their feelings. This makes his talk persuasive because he proves the audience that he’s giving facts about the issue and is not making assumptions to what is happening. Moreover, reading 3000 articles takes a long time and it proves that he has put a lot of effort and passion about the issue, this makes the audience see the importance of the issue from his effort on the research. On the other hand, Wudunn does not tell where her research is conducted and has only visited one person from one country as she mentions. Throughout the talk, Wudunn does not mention who, when, and where the research about “men and women’s spending” and “slave price” is done and. In other words, her research can be from anywhere(internet, magazines) or non-professionals without credentials and might not be credible. Even if the results are true, they might have been done over a long time ago that the situation has changed. Moreover, the story content that she tells other than Dai Manju might also be altered by the mass media since she has not met the people in person(Mahabuba, Saima, Beatrice).

     Finally, Wudunn adds up a effective call to action after her ideas. At the end of the speech, Wudunn says “there was a micro lending group in the village that gave her a 65-dollar loan” and then suggests how the loan has helped Saiman to become successful. Here, she is implying that micro lending organisations are helpful to poor people. We should know that there are many organisations that raise money and claim to help the poor today. For instance, organisations that

raise money to help the poor buy food, clothes. However, it might not work in the long term since the poor will finish the food and break the clothes someday. Giving them a micro loan can help them in the long term since we are helping the poor to help themselves and they will learn how to make money on their own and eventually be able to buy clothes and food on their own. Wudunn is suggesting the immediate action we can do is to donate money to the micro lending groups. On the contrary, Bales does not give a clear call to action to the audience. His call to action is not specific to the audience. At the end of the speech, Bales does not mention any groups that have helped the boy in Ghana or any other people he has suggested. Instead, he only suggests how much money they are given. The audience might find it hard to give immediate action to slaves after his talk since he does not tell who(groups, organisations) specifically they shall donate the money to. Since slavery is neglected as mentioned by Bales at the beginning of the speech, these groups and organisations might be even hard to find or even not exist. The audience are not any experts and professionals about slavery and we can not assume that they know any organisations that aim to help stop slavery.

     To conclude, Bales defines his slavery more effectively with telling why it is happening; his talk is more persuasive with his experience and passion about slavery; Wudunn has a clear call to action to the audience. After analysing the two authors’ merits and flaws about their speeches, I now understand to form a strong, persuasive, informative speech, one must have good experience and understanding about his topic, and be able to bring out the purpose of the speech(message to audience).

                                                                                                                                                    

                                                                 Works Cited

Bales, Kevin. “How to Combat Modern Slavery.” TED. Feb. 2010. Lecture.

Wudunn, Sheryl. “Our Century’s Greatest Injustice.”  TED. July 2010. Lecture.  

“The universal Declaration of Human Rights.”

     <http://www.un.org/en/documents/undr/index.shtml>. Web. 17 Apr. 2014.

Comparison/Contrast of Sheryl Wudunn and Kevin Bales’s Speeches(rough draft)

     At the Ted Global conference, Sheryl Wudunn and Kevin Bales each speak about global challenges they think are neglected by most people today. Wudunn suggests that gender inequality against women is common in some countries and yet the mass media rarely present it. Her argument is that women are part of the support to the society and they should be given education and job opportunities. On the other hand, Bales suggest slavery is neglected the same way as gender inequality and it happens in many countries. His argument is that slaves should be helped to build dignity, stability in order to have a happy life and most of us are capable in helping them. Despite their different topics and ideas, Bales defines his topic more effectively and is more persuasive, Wudunn adds up to a more effective call to action. 

     First of all, Bales defines his topic “slavery” with all aspects. Not only who, what, where and when is slavery about, Bales suggests why slavery happens today. According to Bales, “people do not enslave people to be mean to them. They do it to make a profit”(1:25). In other words, slavery happens for a reason in which slave holders benefit from it(can use them to work without paying, saves the money for hiring workers). With the reason that slave holders enslave people out of their greediness and laziness(not willing to hire workers and work on their own), now the audience understand why slavery is evil and it is unfair to slaves and even us. For the slaves, they can be spending their own time to leisure, earn money and live of their families. Now they are benefitting people they do not know and are even being tortured. For us(developed countries), we pay domestic helpers relatively high wages while giving them sufficient food and resting time. Knowing that we do pay and respect to workers, it makes much sense to us that we should stop slavery(or at least treats slaves fairly). Also, according to the United Declaration of Human Rights, “No one shall be held slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.” In other words, slavery is strictly outlawed with a consensus all around the world. If we do not help stop slavery while we know exists, we are thinking it is normal and we are somehow helping the slave holders escape from their behaviour. This means we are as well offering the UDHR article. On the contrary, Wudunn does not give any reason why gender inequality happens today. In her case studies, she suggests that parents do not let females go to schools. She then adds “This happens to girls in remote areas”(0:32). Here, Wudunn only tells the situation and how common it is, but she never seem to tell why exactly girls are not allowed to go to school and why they are seen unequally. Females can be seen unequally due to many reasons such as physical inferiority, tradition, cultural belief. Even if girls are as smart as boys as proved by Wudunn, if the gender inequality is caused by tradition, it will still happen unless the tradition disappears. However, if we know gender inequality is caused by tradition, we can start educating parents about how the tradition should not persist(for instance, telling them females and males can have same sizes, thoughts, goals, actions, desires and have they are the same). This way, in the long term, people will not have reasons to be bias against females anymore and females and males will be treated the same. Some may say that Sheryl already proves how females are the same by giving examples about how smart and successful Dai Manju and Biira may be. However, they might be smart and successful because they have poor families and they are motivated from it.(They do not want a poor life anymore). In other words, their success might only prove that how living in a poor family can make you push yourself and girls in rich families might still be the problem. Instead, Wudunn can suggest how successful women are in urban areas, workplaces, colleges to how how women in general are equal to men not just in rural areas.

    Bales’s talk is more persuasive based on his experience on the topic. Bales has large experience about slavery he seems to be familiar to his topic According to Bales, he has done all the research by himself. He has read over 3000 articles, been to five countries around the world, met both the slaves and slaveholders. In other words, he has first hand information about the topic and it is reliable. Also, he has perspectives from the slaves and slave holders since he has talked to them. That means he has seen what the people involved have seen and knows their feelings. This makes his talk persuasive because he proves the audience that he gives facts about the issue and is not making assumptions to what is happening. Moreover, reading 3000 articles takes a long time and it proves that he has put a lot of effort and passion about the issue, this makes his talk persuasive because the audience see the importance of the issue from his seriousness(makes sense for a person to pay effort to something he thinks is important). On the other hand, Wudunn does not tell where her research is conducted and has only visited one person from one country as she mentions. Throughout the talk, Wudunn does not mention where the research about spending(5:14) and slave price(7:31) is about. In other words, her research can be done anywhere or from non-professionals that are not credible. Her research might be found on the internet and we should know that there are always false information on the internet. The research might be made up from magazines without credentials and experience in doing research. Moreover, the story content that she tells other than Wudunn might also be fake or altered by newspaper since she has not met the people in person(Mahabuba, Saima, Beatrice).

     Finally, Wudunn adds up a effective call to action after her ideas. At the end of the speech, Wudunn says “there was a micro lending group in the village that gave her a 65-dollar loan”(11:31) and then suggests how the loan has helped Saiman to become successful. Here, she is implying that micro lending organisations are helpful to poor people. We should know that there are many organisations that raise money and claim to help the poor today. For instance, organisations that raise money to help the poor buy food, clothes. However, it might not work in the long term since the poor will finish the food and break the clothes someday. Giving them a micro loan can help them in the long term since we are helping the poor to help themselves and they will learn how to make money on their own and eventually be able to buy clothes and food on their own. Wudunn is suggesting the immediate action we can do is to donate money to the micro lending groups. Also, she is suggesting such method that we can help and then proves how it works. Moreover, Wudunn mentions a group Niantic Community Church Group in Connecticut and how it has helped the organisation Heifer International with donation. Here, Wudunn is giving a more specific way we can help. She is telling us that we can donate money these two groups and they are truly helpful to the poor. On the contrary, Bales does not give a clear call to action to the audience. His call to action is not specific to the audience. At the end of the speech, Bales does not mention any groups that have helped the boy in Ghana or any other people he has suggested. Instead, he only suggests how much they are helped with. The audience might find it hard to give immediate action to slaves after his talk since he does not tell who(groups, organisations) specifically they shall donate the money to. Since slavery is neglected from the mass media and people as mentioned by Bales at the beginning of the speech, these groups and organisations might be even hard to find or even not exist. The audience are not any experts and professionals about slavery and it is normal for them to not know any organisations and groups that aim to help stop slavery.

     To conclude, Bales defines his slavery more effectively with telling why it is happening; his talk is more persuasive with his experience and passion about slavery; Wudunn has a clear call to action to the audience. After analysing the two authors’ merits and flaws about their speeches, I now understand to form a strong, persuasive, informative speech, one must have good experience and understanding about his topic, and be able to bring out the purpose of the speech(message to audience).

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Analysis of Kevin Bales's Speech about Modern Slavery at Ted Global

While listening to Kevin Bales’s talk about slavery at Ted Global, one thing that stuck me most is that he seem to be passionate about his the issue that he is in hope of dealing with. He does not only know about the situation of slavery from others, he does the research himself and gets involved in helping the slaves. For instance, he has done research by visiting several countries around the world and meeting the slaves and even slaveholders.(1:25) Also, he has helped a woman in Nepal(15:45). He does not only tell people to help stop slavery and he himself is in action as well.  It makes what he is talking about convincing since he is making himself a role-model to the audience by doing what he wants them to do. Another moment that struck me is when he asks the audience if they are willing to live in a world with slavery(16:31). This is a rhetorical question that he expects the audience to have only one answer - no. It might sound no point of asking it since the answer is obvious but this is also why we must help stop slavery- since we all think the answer is “no”. Here, the question Bales suggests acts as a motivation to the audience in getting involved in stopping slavery. I have been to China over 5 times and I have experience about modern slavery. Every time I went to China, it was common to see slaves on streets. These slaves include children and adults or even elderly. Slaves do not work like how Bales suggests(labor work), though. Most of them were disabled physically(limbs chopped off) and they were forced to beg money from pedestrians on the streets. They were probably controlled by a group who allured/abducted people and force them to earn money for them(by begging). I think this kind of slavery is worth concerning about since it is common in China and is not easy to tackle with(slaves are disabled themselves, it is hard to help them find their skill and build economic autonomy since they are unable to work without limbs and it is likely they will fall back into slavery). 

Despite the content of the speech, Kevin Bales is a skilled speaker who is successful in making the speech interesting to hear and interacting with the audience. He provides the right amount of humour during his speech. For instance, at the beginning, he suggests that slavery today is not like poor marriages and jobs we have(jokes that many people would make)[2:10). Moreover, as the speech goes on, he stops making jokes and this lets the audience know it is time for them to pay attention to and respect what he is talking about. He raises questions such as “are we willing to live in a world with slavery?”(16:31) and “are we truly free?”(16:57) and this way the audience can not ONLY LISTEN to what he says but to form introspection(reflection). It is seen that Kevin Bales appeal to the audience mostly by a sense of fairness. Throughout his speech, as mentioned, he supposes the audience agree to what he is saying(we do not want to live with the existence of slavery) by the rhetorical question. In addition, he never directly mentions WHY the audience should help stop slavery. For instance, he does not suggest what benefits we will get by helping to stop slavery. He only supports his ideas by telling the audience to ask themselves “are we truly free?”. He supposes since we are all humans, we all have human rights to be free and there is no way slavery should exist. If slaves are not free, neither are we since we are all humans and we should be seen as a group.  

Bales contention is that we should help stop slavery by liberation. For instance, to help slaves build up a stable life with self-sufficiency so that they will not have to depend on others nor get back into slaves anymore. Although Bales has clear claims about his ideas, his fails to provide reasons and refutation to his claims. Starting 4:19, Bales suggests that slavery is supported by corruption from the local governments. However, he fails to tell the reasons why governments have to corrupt. For instance, what makes the government corrupt. In fact, most of the governments that corrupt are less developed countries that need money to build up a good social structure. They sell slaves to those more developed countries because they do not want the uneducated people to be their burden(since they can not earn money) and they want to make profits. If Bales suggests this fact to his speech, the audience can easily think of more ways to help stop slavery. For instance, the more developed countries can set up factories that only require labor work(suitable for less developed countries) and hire the local people. By doing so, there is a win-win situation where the more developed countries will have the locals produce goods for them while the locals have job opportunities. In long term, the less developed countries will become richer(people have paid work) while the more developed countries benefit. Let me suggest a counter argument to this. Some may say that more developed countries might exploit the locals by providing them poor working condition, low wage and excess workload. However, there are always contracts factories and workers can make and factories will risk being penalised if they offend the laws. Also, we as consumers can always protest against the producers by not buying their products so that they are pushed to treat workers well. Bales also fails to suggest refutation to his idea that we can stop slavery with our sufficient intellectual power. He should not assume every intellectual person is willing to help stop slavery since there are always lazy people and people who have weak sense of belonging to the society. Instead, Bales can persuade the intellectual people to help by offering good reasons why they should help. Bales fails to give a direction about immediate actions the audience can do. For instance, he only suggests how liberation can help slaves but not how we can practice liberation such as through what organisations can we donate the money and other specific ways we can help(what work to do). Even if the audience want to help slaves after his talk, it is unlikely that they can get involved since they do not know where and how to start.  Bales offers examples about the bad situation of slavery(boys from Nepal) and case studies about how the effectiveness of liberation to slaves(16:16 where ex-slaves have hope about their lives). However, his evidence might not be credible since we do not know it is not from experts. Bales offers evidence from his own research but he does not tell why should the audience believe his statistics since he might not be an expert in researching. He may have introduced more about himself to build up a credibility. For instance, where he is graduated and what success has he come with. 

There is an introduction(how Bales comes up with the topic), body and a conclusion in Bales’s speech except the thesis is not in the introduction part. Instead the thesis is in the middle of the speech(12:11). Bales does not provide effective transitions to sequence or list his ideas. For instance, the beginning of each paragraph are mostly with words “and” and “now” or no transition words at all. Transitions are important as they tell the audience/readers how his ideas are connected/replying to each other so the they can understand more clearly and easily. Even if his ideas are really connected, Bales should assume the audience are not as smart as him and do not know about his ideas at all and provide transitions for them to understand more easily.  

Bales’s speech reminds me how serious slavery is today and how it is neglected. Now I understand that to stop slavery, we can not just buy slaves back(short term solution). Instead, we can help slaves to help themselves by providing them a chance of building up a stable life and dignity so that they will be unenslaveable. Also, he tells us that how easy slavery can be stopped. However, Bales does not provide specific ways we can help. We should keep in mind that liberation can only be done by local people who are part of the local culture, speak local language and know how to protect themselves and slaves. As foreigners, it is illegal for us to liberate people.(limitation). Perhaps we can donate money to liberators to support them.(This is one specific way we can help that Bales does not mention). If we take action blindly, we may end up suffering ourselves as Bales suggests(getting threatened by slaveholders[10:35, 15:45]). Overall, the speech is a good motivation for us to help but not a good guidance to help. 

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Analysis of Sheryl Wudunn’s Speech at TedGlobal

    Upon watching Wudunn’s talk, it is obvious that she presents with different tones and gestures. Also, she involves interaction with the audience. For instance, she suggests a poll with the audience. As an audience, I find her speech interesting to listen as she catches my attention with the emotions she expressed. I feel like she is talking to me instead of giving a speech. Moreover, the audience should feel more involved as Wuduun suggests a poll. Finally, as she walks around and faces different parts of the audience, I feel that she has successfully taken care of every audience. In the past when I listened to speeches from invited guests at school, they usually presented their ideas with materials shown on the projector screen and they talked with serious tone while standing still.  Upon reading the transcript of the talk, it is obvious Wudunn uses a lot of lists to what she talks. She first tells the audience she is going to list a few points, then she begins presenting them one by one. This makes her speech clearer as we see how the ideas she suggests relates one another and she gives us a quick guide about what she is going to include.  Despite the credibility of the evidence, she involves a lot of evidence by telling cases that happened in places around the world. She must have done a lot of research of this and it makes what she says more convincing as we see that the issue is not just happening in one country but globally. 

     

     Sheryl Wudunn can be seen a experienced speaker as we see she is outstandingly confident throughout her speech. Again, she also knows how to get the audience hooked with her. She expresses her feelings effectively by having gestures and different tones; interacts with the audience by asking them questions and facing each of them. Her confidence makes the audience believe what she says as she says it with no doubt like she is telling all facts/truth. 

     Wudunn does not provide reasons to some of her claims and her evidence is too weak and one-sided even though it is seen throughout the speech. Wudunn’s central idea is that the oppression about women is common today and it is neglected. However, she fails to tell why women are oppressed today in the first place. Instead, she only tells how serious the problem is by giving examples and case studies. Perhaps women are oppressed due to tradition, or perhaps women are oppressed because they are physically weaker than men. She should have mentioned WHY women are oppressed instead of telling people to give opportunities to women. This will not only change women's lives, but also our perceptions about women.(For instance, learn how to respect women).  Wudunn offers mostly case studies to her idea. She suggests case studies about people around the world(Dai Manju, Mahabuba, Saima and Beatrice). However, the case studies are mostly based in rural areas. This might not necessarily tell how serious the issue of women oppression is since she fails to tell the situation in places around us. Instead, she should have provided case studies in urban areas to tell us how women oppression not only happens to poor people.  She also suggests research to slavery and maternal mortality statistics. However,  most of the statistics might not be true.For instance, she suggests words like “research has shown”, without telling who are the ones to research. We should know that the stats she suggests can be researched by non-professionals such as magazines or even students, which means the stats might not be 100% trustable. Some of her stats are one-sided. For instance, she only suggests that women slaves are worth a little money today without telling how much men slaves worth. It is possible that both men and women slaves are more disposable rather than girls are valued less. Moreover, even though she mentions how sex trafficking(women) is common today, she does not provide the seriousness of trafficking of  men today. We must know that not only women are trafficked today. Men can be trafficked too and the trafficking of men might be even more serious(men can do more labor work, yet they can work as prostitute too). If it were true, what Wudunn suggests about sex trafficking is common today will not support her idea(women are oppressed) since it itself is a problem no matter how unequal the society sees men and women. Finally, she suggests some of the claims like they are the truth with no evidence. For instance, she suggests that “most spending is done by men”. She supports this by saying that the money is spent on alcohol, cigarettes, soft drinks, prostitution and festivals. However, girls can spend money on the same things just like men do and some might even spend the money on buying makeup products, clothes, etc. She seems to be biased about only men spend money not wisely. (perhaps she is trying to conceal the truth that women too spend money not wisely by not telling it). She fails to defend her ideas by providing counterarguments throughout the speech. This makes her ideas weak as there are more chances people can find ways to criticise her ideas.  

     

     Wudunn’s speech is well-organised as she includes an introduction, body and conclusion. Her introduction gives the audience curiosity by not telling the topic. However, there is no central idea(thesis) at the beginning of her speech. Perhaps she can suggest her idea(women are oppressed) before telling the case to let the readers have a clear concept about what she is going to say.  Wudunn has effective transitions throughout her speech. For example, she uses phrases such as “let’s start off”, “turns out”, “and” and “so” to connect her ideas. this makes her ideas sensible as they are connected and reply to one another with purpose. The paragraphs are not similar to one another nor well-structured as only two of them has quotations and none of them has topic sentences. Without a topic sentence, the audience might not understand what central idea of each of her examples is trying to support. Even she suggests a quote from Bill Gates and Larry Summer, she does not analyse or explain their quotes effectively. Instead she might briefly explain what their quotes and then analyse them to show the audience the purpose of the quotes. Instead, her "analysis" of the quotes only proved that the quote is true rather than it's meaning. For instance, when she suggests Summer's quote, she immediately tells a story about how "the highest return on investment in the developing world is in girls' education is true without telling why it is true. She could have suggested the idea that girls can be as smart as boys and even smarter than boys to make the audience clear about girls and boys should be equalised. 

   Although the oppression against women(as Wudunn suggests) is true, I too think that it is not a major issue today. Such situation does not happen around us.   Her case studies only include rural areas. She can suggest cases in the society that we live in, for example, discrimination and stereotypes in workplaces and schools. Yet, I see women being treated fairly today as many females go to school today, and most workplaces hire females.(in urban areas) Wudunn can suggest the issue mostly happens in rural areas so the audience can have a clear direction about which specific groups to help. 
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