Wednesday, November 03, 2010
Staying Focused--Cyber Extra Credit
Today we watched the New Heroes film about women in the collective: Rio de Janerio, Brazil, in celebration of the first woman president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff. Here is a fun article about her: http://www.lemondrop.com/2010/11/03/dilma-rousseff-meet-brazils-first-female-president-and-former-g/
For extra credit summarize this article and post here.
SUPER WOMAN
Nov 3rd 2010 By Emily Tan
Meet Brazil's First Female President (& Ex-Guerrilla)
After winning the presidential election in Brazil, Dilma Rousseff will be the country's first female president -- and part of the ever-growing group of lady heads of state, which includes former Philippine president Corazon Aquino; Finland's current president, Tarja Halonen; and Costa Rica's newest leader, Laura Chinchilla.
Hello, America? But in the meantime, more on Rousseff.
"I want to state my first commitment after the elections: to honor Brazil's women so that today's unprecedented result becomes a normal event," 62-year-old Rousseff said in a speech soon after hearing about her win on Sunday. "I would very much like that parents look into their daughters' eyes and say, 'Yes, women can.'"
Before running for president, Rousseff held many powerful political positions, including secretary of energy, which later turned into minister of energy, where she was credited with heading up the "Luz Para Todos" ("Light for All") program -- making sure that electricity would be in over a million Brazilian homes.
She was then named chief of staff to the outgoing and extremely popular Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (known to everyone as Lula). Sharing the same vision for the economic and social improvement of Brazil, Lula handpicked and fully backed Rousseff to be the presidential candidate for the Workers Party.
Keep reading for more on her flip-flopping position on abortion and super-secret past as a guerrilla fighter ...
Even though Rousseff is now seen as a role model for women, her "iron lady" persona -- as well as her conservative stances on certain issues (like abortion) -- has placed her under fire. The new president-elect defended abortion rights earlier in her campaign, then started losing the support of religious groups. After sniffing a potential loss of votes, Rousseff retracted her earlier statements. "My position is against abortion, which is violence against women," she said during a meeting with Catholic leaders. "No woman is in favor of abortion."
And there's the fact that she's a former guerrilla fighter.
Born to a school-teaching mother and Bulgarian father who was a lawyer, Rousseff went to an all-girls private school in her younger years. However, once she hit her teens, she became aware of the military regime in Brazil and traded her ballerina dreams to fight for her country's well-being. She joined the left-wing armed resistance in the '60s. Being part of a guerrilla organization forced her to go underground and take on various aliases in order to keep herself and her family safe.
A ballerina/spy president? Now that we can get behind.
Although she's owned up to her guerrilla past, Rousseff, now 62, makes it known that she didn't fire weapons because of her poor eyesight. "My involvement was just political," she said in a 2008 TV interview. "I used to have more than a ninth or 10th degree of myopia."
But being involved made her a fugitive in the military government's eyes. Rousseff was arrested in 1970 and subjected to rounds of torture that included being hung in a "parrot's perch" and, well, electrocution to make her sing. "They gave me electrical shocks, a lot of electrical shocks," she said in another interview. "I began to hemorrhage, but I withstood. I wouldn't even tell them where I lived."
After her release in 1972, Rousseff went to school for economics and jumped into a career that has led to her now being one of the world's most influential and powerful women.
Who do you think would win in an arm-wrestling competition? Her or Sarah Palin?
For extra credit summarize this article and post here.
SUPER WOMAN
Nov 3rd 2010 By Emily Tan
Meet Brazil's First Female President (& Ex-Guerrilla)
After winning the presidential election in Brazil, Dilma Rousseff will be the country's first female president -- and part of the ever-growing group of lady heads of state, which includes former Philippine president Corazon Aquino; Finland's current president, Tarja Halonen; and Costa Rica's newest leader, Laura Chinchilla.
Hello, America? But in the meantime, more on Rousseff.
"I want to state my first commitment after the elections: to honor Brazil's women so that today's unprecedented result becomes a normal event," 62-year-old Rousseff said in a speech soon after hearing about her win on Sunday. "I would very much like that parents look into their daughters' eyes and say, 'Yes, women can.'"
Before running for president, Rousseff held many powerful political positions, including secretary of energy, which later turned into minister of energy, where she was credited with heading up the "Luz Para Todos" ("Light for All") program -- making sure that electricity would be in over a million Brazilian homes.
She was then named chief of staff to the outgoing and extremely popular Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (known to everyone as Lula). Sharing the same vision for the economic and social improvement of Brazil, Lula handpicked and fully backed Rousseff to be the presidential candidate for the Workers Party.
Keep reading for more on her flip-flopping position on abortion and super-secret past as a guerrilla fighter ...
Even though Rousseff is now seen as a role model for women, her "iron lady" persona -- as well as her conservative stances on certain issues (like abortion) -- has placed her under fire. The new president-elect defended abortion rights earlier in her campaign, then started losing the support of religious groups. After sniffing a potential loss of votes, Rousseff retracted her earlier statements. "My position is against abortion, which is violence against women," she said during a meeting with Catholic leaders. "No woman is in favor of abortion."
And there's the fact that she's a former guerrilla fighter.
Born to a school-teaching mother and Bulgarian father who was a lawyer, Rousseff went to an all-girls private school in her younger years. However, once she hit her teens, she became aware of the military regime in Brazil and traded her ballerina dreams to fight for her country's well-being. She joined the left-wing armed resistance in the '60s. Being part of a guerrilla organization forced her to go underground and take on various aliases in order to keep herself and her family safe.
A ballerina/spy president? Now that we can get behind.
Although she's owned up to her guerrilla past, Rousseff, now 62, makes it known that she didn't fire weapons because of her poor eyesight. "My involvement was just political," she said in a 2008 TV interview. "I used to have more than a ninth or 10th degree of myopia."
But being involved made her a fugitive in the military government's eyes. Rousseff was arrested in 1970 and subjected to rounds of torture that included being hung in a "parrot's perch" and, well, electrocution to make her sing. "They gave me electrical shocks, a lot of electrical shocks," she said in another interview. "I began to hemorrhage, but I withstood. I wouldn't even tell them where I lived."
After her release in 1972, Rousseff went to school for economics and jumped into a career that has led to her now being one of the world's most influential and powerful women.
Who do you think would win in an arm-wrestling competition? Her or Sarah Palin?
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Thu Houang
Professor Sabir
English 201A
3 Novemeber 2010
This article talked about what Dilma Rouseff had experienced which was both good and bad. I learned she gave up something that she loved to do which was being a balerina in order to have the position she have right now. Becoming the woman that all women looks are not easy at all because many women would not be able to handle what she been through such as going in the military to fight, being arrested, and being tortured with electrical shocks. After reading this article, I felt like she deserves to be the first country’s female president not only because she had suffered, but because she saved many Brazilians’ lives by making sure all homes have electricy and makins sure that all women are not getting torture.
In my opinion, I think Dilma Rouseff will win the arm-wrestling competition because Rouseff had electrical shocks for a lot of times since she is still alive, I feel that she is strong enough to win Sarah Palin. Also i believe that beacause Rouseff been through both physical and emotical challenges more than Palin.
Professor Sabir
English 201A
3 Novemeber 2010
This article talked about what Dilma Rouseff had experienced which was both good and bad. I learned she gave up something that she loved to do which was being a balerina in order to have the position she have right now. Becoming the woman that all women looks are not easy at all because many women would not be able to handle what she been through such as going in the military to fight, being arrested, and being tortured with electrical shocks. After reading this article, I felt like she deserves to be the first country’s female president not only because she had suffered, but because she saved many Brazilians’ lives by making sure all homes have electricy and makins sure that all women are not getting torture.
In my opinion, I think Dilma Rouseff will win the arm-wrestling competition because Rouseff had electrical shocks for a lot of times since she is still alive, I feel that she is strong enough to win Sarah Palin. Also i believe that beacause Rouseff been through both physical and emotical challenges more than Palin.
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Adalie Villalobos
Professor Sabir
English 201B
7 November 2010
Dilma Rousseff would win hands down against Sarah Palin. After reading this article about Rousseff, I am really excited at the fact that she has overcome so much and now is the first female president in Brazil. It is amazing that she used to be a guerrilla fighter. I would certainly say that she is indeed a fighter. She is a very inspiring woman and many young girls have a great role model to look up to. I do hope that she meant what she said about being against abortion because I am Catholic and I am definitely against abortion. Rousseff sounds like an amazing woman and she has changed the lives of many just by simply giving them electricity, something that many of us take for granted. The simple fact that Rousseff did not tell the people who tortured her where she lived, shows that she is a strong woman and can definitely hold her own.
Dilma Rousseff is a great leader and role model. She is of course influential and a very powerful woman. She would definitely win in an arm-wrestling competition against Sarah Palin, not only physically, but mentally as well.
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Professor Sabir
English 201B
7 November 2010
Dilma Rousseff would win hands down against Sarah Palin. After reading this article about Rousseff, I am really excited at the fact that she has overcome so much and now is the first female president in Brazil. It is amazing that she used to be a guerrilla fighter. I would certainly say that she is indeed a fighter. She is a very inspiring woman and many young girls have a great role model to look up to. I do hope that she meant what she said about being against abortion because I am Catholic and I am definitely against abortion. Rousseff sounds like an amazing woman and she has changed the lives of many just by simply giving them electricity, something that many of us take for granted. The simple fact that Rousseff did not tell the people who tortured her where she lived, shows that she is a strong woman and can definitely hold her own.
Dilma Rousseff is a great leader and role model. She is of course influential and a very powerful woman. She would definitely win in an arm-wrestling competition against Sarah Palin, not only physically, but mentally as well.
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