School Girl Attacks

School Girl Attacks

Learning Team A- Dimitri, Zawauna, and Corey

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July 17, 2013

Patsy Pace

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Women over the world have continued to struggle for the right to live their lives, become educated, and search for freedom and justice. In the United States, the education, and freedom sometimes are taken for granted and most do not appreciate the opportunities, which are freely given to anyone willing to accept. Some may think education is not important but when viewing other countries, women do not have the right to be free or educated.

The video of School girl attacks is a realistic breath taking story about the attacks on school girls in Kandahar, Afghanistan. There are two words to best describe this story, fearless, and determination. Zahira, a 13-year-old student always was enthusiastic about attending school. She soon would experience fear after a traumatic acid attack on her and five other innocent school girls. As the girls walked from school, men on motorcycles drove passed and threw acid in their faces for trying to go to school.

Conflict Perspective

Children are thrust into a society where their lives can be taken in an instant. Acid attacks usually take place when the female refuses the male romantically or intimately, which can lead to jealously and punishment but this was clearly a terrorist attack on school girls wanting an education. An acid attack can cause disfigurement, scarring, blindness, and will never be accepted again in the country because of their “Shame.” After an acid attack many women husbands and families desert them because of the “shame” and many are homeless. One example from the School Girl Attacks video was seeing the girl hiding her face, ashamed of her scars and terrified of her own people, but she still wanted an education. This shows the desperation of wanting and showing empowerment, determination, and perseverance.

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Feminist Perspective

The laws from the Taliban Regimen that reigned...