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I just wrote my final paper for my WMS 301 class: Global Perspectives on Women Issues.
I think it's the most eye-opening class that I have ever taken. I learned so much-about other cultures and about myself. I always used to think that I didn't have an ethnocentric point of view, but after taking this class, I realized that I did have that point of a view a little. But now, that is entirely changed. I feel like a different person, and after reading all three memoirs by Waris Dirie, I've done a lot of research on the Peace Corps, and I think I'm pretty sure that I want to join after I graduate.
It feels really good to have learned so much practical and useful information from a class.
Everyone should read Desert Flower by Waris Dirie. It's the first memoir in the collection, but it was my favorite.
This woman, Waris, grew up in a Nomadic tribe in Somalia. At the age of thirteen, she ran away from home because her father was forcing her into a marriage to a 60-year-old man because he was offering an outstanding "bride-price" and her father said he couldn't pass that up. So one night, Waris' mother woke her up and said "Run now." So she ran, without food, water, or shoes, she ran through the deserts of Africa to get to the capital of Somalia, Mogadishu. After so much hardship, she eventually makes it to London. She becomes a model, and eventually a UN ambassador, living all over in NYC, Vienna, Paris. It's phenomenal.
At the age of five, she was genitally mutilated, and after making it to London, she realizes that the whole world doesn't have this done to them, and it's actually seen as a form of torture in most places. Since then, she's been fighting for FGM(female genital mutilation) to be eradicated.
Some parts of the memoir are hard to read because you really become to connected to her, but it's worth reading.
I think it's the most eye-opening class that I have ever taken. I learned so much-about other cultures and about myself. I always used to think that I didn't have an ethnocentric point of view, but after taking this class, I realized that I did have that point of a view a little. But now, that is entirely changed. I feel like a different person, and after reading all three memoirs by Waris Dirie, I've done a lot of research on the Peace Corps, and I think I'm pretty sure that I want to join after I graduate.
It feels really good to have learned so much practical and useful information from a class.
Everyone should read Desert Flower by Waris Dirie. It's the first memoir in the collection, but it was my favorite.
This woman, Waris, grew up in a Nomadic tribe in Somalia. At the age of thirteen, she ran away from home because her father was forcing her into a marriage to a 60-year-old man because he was offering an outstanding "bride-price" and her father said he couldn't pass that up. So one night, Waris' mother woke her up and said "Run now." So she ran, without food, water, or shoes, she ran through the deserts of Africa to get to the capital of Somalia, Mogadishu. After so much hardship, she eventually makes it to London. She becomes a model, and eventually a UN ambassador, living all over in NYC, Vienna, Paris. It's phenomenal.
At the age of five, she was genitally mutilated, and after making it to London, she realizes that the whole world doesn't have this done to them, and it's actually seen as a form of torture in most places. Since then, she's been fighting for FGM(female genital mutilation) to be eradicated.
Some parts of the memoir are hard to read because you really become to connected to her, but it's worth reading.