Half & Half

Half the Sky: How to Change the World A book review by Kelsey Wells Summary: Half the Sky is a heart breaking, eye opening report of the oppression of women and a call to action. In this book, two journalists, Nicholas Kristof and His wife, Sheryl WuDunn, travel throughout Asia and Africa, meeting remarkable women who have overcome the greatest odds and lived to share their stories. During their journey, Kristof and WuDunn met women of all ages who were victims of the most horrific abuse.…

they are related, 16 out of the 17 students got this two questions correct the only student that got half credit was student #2. The only thing the student forgot was to be more detailed and label the angles. I also put questions 3,4 and 5 together because they were similar questions based on the vocabulary and my…

gender was not statistically significant up until the end of grade one, the differences in reading and math between full-day kindergarten and half-day kindergarten were statistically significant up until that point. After grade one, these findings switched, with gender becoming significantly significant, but not the differences within full-day kindergarten and half-day kindergarten, although they were still positive. These findings demonstrated that while there do appear to be significant…

The concept of his photography work entitled "Half-Drag" expresses " the extravagantly made-up drag divas and the organic men that lie beneath." When we watch drag queens on television and see them in person; we don’t think about who they are without the make-up we just observe them with the glitz and the glamor and the fancy exotic clothes. When we speak to them they give us the attitude, jazziness and the funniness that makes us laugh. Leland stated that he wanted to capture them in a…

Jasmine grows up in India, she has an incident with an astrologer that leaves her with a star shaped scar on her forehead. This is what her fate had brought her, a third eye, she calls it. Her family does not care about her fate or the scar, only who and when she will marry. But how will Jasmine marry someone with the big, ugly, scar on her forehead, will her future husband not like it? This was a sign. Jasmines fate will lead her on an adventure to America, from state to state, continuously…

During this quarter we have cover various themes throughout all the reading we were assign. The last novel we had to read was The World in Half by Cristina Henríquez and what made this book so different and unique from the others was it’s location, Panama. The others novels and stories we read were about immigrants from Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico, which are the most popular Latino community. Other Spanish speaking countries don 't get much recognition in the United States, especially Central…

In the reading “Half the Sky” “Investing in Education,” Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn discusses a thirteen-year-old girl, Dai Manju, a thin girl with black hair and shorter than an average American thirteen-year-old who lives in the Dabie Mountains of central China. The family has no electricity, running water, or any form of transportation. Manju’s parents were illiterate and they did not see any reason for a girl to be educated, especially for $13 per year so she was forced to drop out of…

Method In this LAB we measured how long it would take for varying starting amounts of M&M’s to decay. We did this LAB in order to find out if the rate of decay is dependent upon the initial amount of mass present in a radioactive sample. We changed the starting number of M&Ms or the initial “mass” of the M&Ms (our independent variable) in order to be able to come with a clear answer to the question. We also controlled the number of times we would shake the cup in order to not change the way we…

adjustments very common in modern life. Information changes in a short time and greatly affects society, but how? These three articles, The Half-Life of Facts, The Food Pyramid and Why It Changed, and The Explosion in What We Know About Life Forms, are the prime explanations about these advancements. Change is everywhere, why don’t we recognize it? Well, in The Half-Life of Facts and in The Food Pyramid and Why It Changed, their authors explain the answers to the question. Lines 8-10 of the…

Half The Sky focuses on turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide. Nowadays, we lose sense of what’s important. There are tragic stories that people need to know of because in return, we are able to relate and sympathize with the victims. The issues tackled are sex trafficking, violence against women and deprivation of education. The real story lies within the people who rise above this cruelty. The interview is done by Nicholas Kristof whose wife is Sheryl Wundun who are both…