No Woman, No Cry

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Who are we talking about when we say the word ‘mother’? What does that person look like? How do they behave? What does a ‘good’ mother look like? What does a ‘bad’ mother look like? How can we tell if a mother is ‘good’ or ‘bad’?
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A majority of reflective writing is normally presented in a personal reflection essay format. In summary, a personal reflection is a reaction to a specific incentive. Habitually, it is written by a person with the aim of discovering personal experiences, emotional state and events. A personal reflection is basically an opportunity to review events, opinions and feelings from a fresh standpoint. A majority of blog posts are generally written in this style. Nevertheless, you may also be needed to write
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Watching the film I realized that the film is separated into a number of segments that are dedicated to separate cases in four different countries. The first set is in Tanzania where a woman who is pregnant with her third child undergoes through some hitches while being treated in a dilapidated clinic. These are some of the problems that a majority of women undergo mainly those who live in developing countries and are faced by high poverty levels. In the film, the closest hospital is several miles away therefore forcing the filmmaker to give $30 required to hire a van to carry the woman over dusty roads that are so bumpy that I even anticipated that the woman will go into labor before she gets to a clinic (Scheck, …show more content…
This kind of cultures have really led to so many deaths for both the new born and the mothers because of the resulting complications which cannot be handled at the community level. In the film No woman, No cry, I learned with so much anger that in Bangladesh, culture practically directs women should give birth at home (Scheck, 2012). A majority of women in Bangladesh give birth at home with some without the knowledge of the possibility of giving birth in a hospital or a clinic. In the film, a woman declining to go to a hospital is enforced to alter her attitude completely when she starts to bleed profusely. This kind of culture should be shunned at all levels if the world really values the worth and contribution of women who are also mothers (Scheck,

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