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School Paper
I have a paper due in five weeks for my Globalization and Development class. The object of the paper is to talk about a group in a developing country and describe the struggles they face. Such as.. The Hutus and the Tutsis.. Women in Arab countries that have to cover every inch of skin. I wrote about child brides and talked about the struggles these girls face and how they are being stripped of their lives at a young age. However, when she gave me back my first draft, she told me that I was talking about a social problem and not a group. So, if any of you could help me out in picking a group to write about that would fall into three of these nine categories: of gender, ageism, marxist, modernization, dependency, imperialism, nationalism, economic development or globalization... that would be stellar.
Thank you so much!
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I think your teacher is wrong. The problem of child brides covers several areas of the nine categories she has given you. The would be gender, ageism(though not by true definition), modernization, and to a lesser extent economic development or globalization.
In the countries where child brides is a problem it is mainly a problem of rural tribes. This problem has caused somewhat of a Geopolitical problem for these countries as the try to modernize and join the western world.
I suggest you speak with your teacher and point out to her where the problem of child brides does enter into the categories she has given you. I believe with the proper research on your part you will be able to prove your point.
Now depending on how much you support your thinking. Should, after talking with your teacher she refuses to accept you paper on this subject you can always appeal her decision to her boss the department chair or the school principal.
Before doing so I suggest you speak to your parents and gain their support. For going this route while it is the proper way to do something you believe in. Most school administrators may not like you doing so and try to punish you for doing so. They, in my eyes would be wrong, for this is definitely how we learn and grow and they would be missing a wonderful teaching moment.
Unfortunately they would teachers and school administrators are more prone to see someone doing something as I am suggesting as being a square peg in a round hole. So talk with mom and dad before taking this route.
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As you've said you wrote about why Arab women cover every inch of their skin. Approximately all of the women in Arab countries do that. Doesn't that still qualify as And belonged on gender issue? Yes, That's a social problem but of about gender. You just tend to specify the problem and that tend to lead to social problem. I think there's nothing wrong between the topic you are focusing on especially about child brides and Arab women.
Why not tell your teacher about it and reason out on about that topics.
I want to ask her why it's wrong pointing out that two issues whereas the problem is correlated to gender but just specified into social problem.
Hope this helps.
'Blueheart'
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Don't you think it would be easier to just find a group that has a particularly bad child bride issue? Child brides are clearly a gender issue, as well as often a nationalist issue, and are often argued for as reaction against Western imperialism.
Niger has the worst record on the planet for child brides, despite the fact the government has tried to create some laws against it, they have been protested against as being anti-Islamic and are basically ignored. A combination of culture, poverty, and religion results in over 30% of female get married before they are 15, and 75% before they are 18.
If you need a 'group', I'd ask your teacher if the hundreds of thousands Nigerian women forced to marry before eighteen qualifies as a group.
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