Wednesday, December 17, 2008

ROAR blog ( Cuba Today )

( First Impressions )

Comments:
1- Cuba gained independence from Spain after their victory of the 1959 revolution

2- the constitution of 1940 was what made the sex equality but few dignified jobs were offered to women

3- Lee inteviewed and learned about Monica and her achievements to make herslf a better life

4- the eduacation sysytem was unfair they rejected rural schools more even if 80 percent

5- one sex schools are rare other than Ana Retancourt ( general they are uni-sexed schools )

Questions:
1- What does Lee wnat to do for the schools ?

2- Is she being biased between the sexes because she's a woman ?

3- What's wrong with the education system ?

4- Will Lee make any difference in Cuba ?

Vocabulary:
1-Conscience: the inner sense of what is right or wrong in one's conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action

2- Optitude: capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something; talent

3- Sanitary: of or pertaining to health or the conditions affecting health, esp. with reference to cleanliness, precautions against disease, etc.

Literary terms:
1- metaphor
2-Personification

Overview Sentence:
Lee began inteviewing Morgan and other family that are "woman that are head of household" She focusing on women's inequality and visit rural areas that have one- sex schools to see their achievements compared to other schools.

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