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I found this quote when i was reasearching more about genial cuting in cultures. “Are women human yet? If women were human would be a cash crop shipped from Thailand in countaniers into New York Brothel 's ? Would our genitals be sliced out to cleanse us?. When will women be human? When ?{- Catherine A. Mackinnon, Are Women Human? }. I felt like this was powerful quote with this book. It make a powerful statement with human trafficking and it made clear how women in other counties inst available comparing them to cash crop. I cant image comparing any human or animal to cash crop.
Chapter thirteen was very incredibly hard for me to read over those poor young girls who had their genial cut. The act seem very cruel in so many different
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She sat down with her and explain that stuff with her. She grew up knowing that she wasnt very important and very fortunate to have what she has. Girls learn may not run efficently due to cost of things, but its a excellent start. Could anybody els do this?, maybe, if the given tools to help other people? If school over there help the girls to know that they would have a shot to make things easier on them. The book made it clear that we cant change anything in the past for any inequities that have happened before but having Jordana story might spur ourselves into action.A big time group in the book called Goldman Sachs have recoginzed that women are the single thing driving action in Euro zone labor market. Having them know that women are the single thing driving action in Euro-zone labor market success. It does help put woman in the financial sense and making them become …show more content…
I found another powerful quote You must be change you wish to see in the world{ Mahatma Gandhi}. I honestly believe in this saying nothing will change until a individualize stand up for a certain cause. Some peolpe might see different issues that need to be adresses vs another issues. More importantly, there might be issues that peolpe want to change but doesnt know how and they are relaying on other peolpe to get it started. When i read chapter fourteen, the reality is that women’s issues are ignored. Any cases dealing with a woman can be turn down and look over people shoulders. I 'm just wondering, we put a stop to slavery was a black issues and even the Holocaust was a jewish issue. Why wouldnt we put a stop to this? . In my oppion, it just like having a girl who is a

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