A Call to Action is a fantastic book written by Jimmy Carter that highlighted the mistreatment and of girls women on the global scale. Carter began by making a statement in his book's introduction. Carter's statement is, "All the elements in this book concerning prejudice, discrimination, war, violence, distorted interpretations of religious texts, physical and mental abuse, poverty, and disease fall disproportionately on women and girls" (Carter 1). I really appreciated that he made this statement early in the book; it sets the tone about what his feelings and beliefs are about women. Before Jimmy talked about the mistreatment of women around the world, he first gave background information about himself. This background information consisted …show more content…
The centralized theme and messages of A Call to Action relies heavily on feminism. The way Carter displayed the theme was by presenting a problem that only a woman experiences and then providing reasons why it's unacceptable. For example, Carter presented the problem of full prisons in the United States and legal killing; then followed it up by verbalizing why this harms women and girls. The problem of full prisons is that the United States focuses on punishing criminals instead of trying to reform them. This increases the chance of women being kept in prison for a very long time for a small reason and creates more criminals. Additionally, the problem with legal killing is that it doesn't actually lower the murder rate. Not only that, capital punishments are costly and ineffective. The death penalty actually correlates with making people more violent and accepting of violence. Many countries have now outlawed the execution of human beings but the United States still keeps it around. Carter even talked about how China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United States account for more than ninety percent of executions worldwide. Thus, creating a more dangerous world for the sisters, mothers, grandmothers, etc. of the world. I enjoyed this chapter a lot because I used to support capital punishment until I was presented with these facts. However, I disliked the idea that we should only remove …show more content…
As I said before, I definitely encourage anybody to read the book and try to appreciate it. Equally important, the book came with it's own set of strengths. Carter's strengths and weakness are very easy to see by any reader. First of all, one of Jimmy's strengths the amount of statistical data he uses to back up his idea. Throughout the book, Carter used statistics to improve his main idea and to support the theme of the book. Furthermore, another strength I was able to distinguish was the fact that he kept chapters brief and didn't try too hard to explain everything. In addition, he was able to divide the book up in many chapters that covered their own ideas. Lastly, another strength in Carter's book is his foundation the Carter Center. The Carter Center was used to strengthen his chapters in just about all of them. For example, he'd explain how he established it with his wife to talking about how they use it to eradicate disease. Also, the foundation is used not only to eradicate disease that is long forgotten, they used the foundation to make and preserve peace wherever they were. Jimmy Carter did an excellent job of exposing the horrible practices that women were being affected by. On the other hand, A Call to Action also had it's own set of problems and weaknesses. One of the main problems that I saw was that he always talked about himself. In explanation, he
At the time of Jimmy Carter's presidency, he was often perceived as an unsatisfactory president, but today is associated with some of the exceptional ex-presidents. His accomplishments drew interest from the Nobel Committee, who would ultimately award him the Nobel Peace Prize. Jimmy Carter’s background, actions, and legacy, assisted him in winning the prestigious award.
(2) “If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, it is that human rights are women's rights - and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard” (Clinton, 1995).
Jimmy Carter was born on October 1, 1924 in Plains, Georgia. His father was a hardworking peanut farmer who owned his own small plot of land and his mother was a nurse. At the age of ten he started working at his father’s store. Carter was a studious boy he avoided trouble. He enjoyed sitting with his father in the evenings, listening to baseball game and politics on the battery-operated radio. His parents were both deeply religious. They wanted him to attend Sunday school. So, he did, he attended the all-white Plains High School. Carter was the first person from his father’s side of the family to graduate from high school. He studied engineering at Georgia Southwestern Junior College before going to the Naval ROTC program where he continued
Carter was one of the ten candidates for the democratic presidential nomination in 1976. He campaigned on certain themes for example reducing government waste, balancing the budget and increasing help to the less fortunate. All of carter’s strategies were more focused on the people and the economic issues around the United States at the time. He always tried to find ways to help everyone in America. He focused on changing things and trying to make the United States a better country. He was elected president in 1976 defeating President Gerald Ford in a very close election. He served as the 39th president of the United States. During his term as president of the United States, Carter created two new cabinet-level departments, the department of energy and the department of education. He also started a national energy policy that included things like price control and new technology. With the economic issues being one of Carters main focuses he confronted high inflation, high unemployment and slow growth. Due to the Soviet move he ended détente and escalated the Cold War. At the time president Carter many different issues to deal with as president. From 1979 to 1981 Carter faced the Iran hostage crisis, the 1779 energy crisis and the soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Iran hostage crisis happened on November 4th 1979, a group of Iranian students who attended a Muslim school in Iran were instructed to strongly support the Iranian Revolution and to take over the United States Embassy in Tehran. Fifty-two American citizens were held hostage for the next 444 days until January 20th 1981. During this terrifying crisis President Carter stayed in the white house for more than 100 days until he left to participate in the lighting of the National Menorah. On April
Jimmy Carter was a one-term president who won on a campaign of being “not Washington,” “not Republican,” and “not Gerald Ford.” This lack of a campaign policy led to a spectacularly poor domestic policy.
I graduated high school with two of Jimmy Carter’s great nieces. Roslyn came alone, except for the secret service, to our graduation because Uncle Jimmy was not feeling well. Jimmy Carter is a great Christian man and humanitarian. He built a distinguished career as a diplomat, humanitarian and author, pursuing conflict resolution in countries around the globe. His core values have always driven him. Carter accomplished the Panama Canal treaty and the Camp David Accords which brought peace between Israel and Egypt. However, I disagree that he was a great president, and in my opinion, not even a good one. Specifically, he was the least successful president in foreign policy. Carter wanted to refocus America’s foreign policy on the promotion of
On September 5, 1995, Hillary Clinton delivered an influential speech at The Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Clinton expresses general concern over escalating violence toward women, in other word’s gendercide. “Gendercide refers to the systematic elimination of a specific gender group, normally female. It’s most common in India, China, and other regions in Southeast Asia” (GirlsKind Foundation). Crimes, such as bride trafficking, infanticide, abandonment, and dowry related murder; often take place within private households, going unnoticed and not even acknowledged. “Tragically, women are most often the ones whose human rights are violated. Even now, in the late 20th century, the rape of women continues to be used as an instrument of armed conflict Women and children make up a large majority of the world’s refugees” (Clinton 3). By addressing her speech in Beijing, where gendercide is prevalent, Hillary expressed her objective effectively not just the United Nations, but to audiences across the world. Clinton effectively delivered her speech by portraying her purpose for women to achieve equality and better opportunities, with ethical appeals, emotional appeals, and logical appeals.
I used to teach at a school for underprivileged children back home in India. It was not uncommon for girls to just stop attending. The reason given was that their fathers thought that they did not need to go to school. Their only goal in life was to get married and look after their family. Clinton’s use of strong words such as ‘barred’ and ‘banned’ increases the seriousness of the topic. She also uses the rhetorical device of anaphora to get her point across. She starts a series of sentences with “It is a violation of human rights when…” and then goes on to describe a number of horrifying situations. She does not shy away but instead describes them in graphic detail, invoking in the audience a sense of sympathy. Additionally, Clinton describes a number of varying scenarios which the women, who comprised the audience, could relate to. In her speech, Clinton tugs on the heartstrings of the audience and becomes a representative of the
Shot’s have been fired and the North and South are at war in the United States. With around two million men enlisted to fight for a cause, who was going to help the community, run the factories and support the United State’s? Women did by stepping up as the times called them too. They helped men at war by serving with them in the Army, the Navy, and the Marines as either nurses or spies.Women who were white working-class and free and enslaved African-American women were laundresses, cooks and matrons, plus 3,000 white middle-class nurses. Women also sent relief supplies, delegated to Europe, sold war bonds and conserved food. The field wasn’t the only war going on, the ladies in the communists had their own “wars” to fight. They lobbied for playgrounds, cooked hot lunches for nurses and schools, inspected school and helped in club movements. Movements in the
...n our country. She’s saying that the advancement of women is getting stuck between a rock and a hard place. This was such a strong point in her speech because it shed light into the logical thinking, and made a historical connection to slavery. By making this connection, she was able to help many see that women were convicted slaves to the current state of the union.
Back in the early 1900s, every African American faced racial discrimination in some kind of way and many did not realize how they were affected. Rubin Carter never gave up as he faced difficult problems relating to racial discrimination. His struggle with prejudice throughout his childhood, and career left a lasting impact on the need for civil rights due to being wrongfully convicted. Racial discrimination was a huge problem in the North during the 1930s and African Americans faced hard times because of this crisis. Clearly, Rubin Carter faced many harsh consequences during his childhood.
From zero to hero, that would be one way to sum up James Earl “Jimmy” Carter, Jr. the 39th President of the United States’ career. Although his time in office was regarded by many as a total disaster, it was his post-presidency work that would show the world his abilities as a visionary leader with unequalled ethics. His creation of the Carter Center in 1982, paved the way for international conflict resolution for over 3 decades and would ultimately net him the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. I will now explain what makes him a visionary and ethical leader as well as how it relates to me.
Gruss, Susanne. The Pleasure of the Feminist Text: Reading Michele Roberts and Angela Carter. N.p.: Rodopi, 2009. 121-26. Print.
A growing population of women’s activists can be attributed to the growing number of courses being offered and information available. Only a few decades ago this would not have been heard of. It is due to the increasing amount of awareness on the topic of women’s status as second class citizens that activism has increased. Through various media, we have learned of topics such as the “glass ceiling”, the working conditions of women in Third World countries, the current injustices against women being carried out in the First World, reproductive rights, as written about by Angle Davis, and other limitations imposed on women.
In the book Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center written by bell hooks, an African-American author, social activist and feminist first published in 1984 the author explains what she believes are the core principles of feminism. Throughout the book the author examines the early feminist theory and goes on to criticize it saying that it did not aim for a systematic change also that the movement has the potential to improve the lives of both men and women immensely. In the book the author investigates the performance of African-American women in the movement and what is needed to drive the movement towards ending oppression of all kinds.