Best speeches by female politicians in history – Women in international politics Hillary Clinton: “Women’s rights are human rights” “At this very moment, as we sit here, women around the world are giving birth, raising children, cooking meals, washing clothes, cleaning houses, planting crops, working on assembly lines, running companies, and running countries. Women also are dying from diseases that should have been prevented or treated. They are watching their children succumb to malnutrition caused by poverty and economic deprivation. They are being denied the right to go to school by their own fathers and brothers. The most emblematic conference on women’s rights in history turned to be the UN 4th World Conference on Women that took place in Beijing, China in 1995. Hillary Clinton, at that moment the first lady of the United States, strongly criticized violation of women’s rights all over the world and in China. To read the text click here. Aung San Suu Kyis: “Freedom from fear” “It is not power that corrupts, but fear. For the whole speech please click here.
The science of stage fright (and how to overcome it) - Mikael Cho Prinsessebryllupet Ari Behn holdt sitt livs viktigste tale til Mãrtha. Her er talen gjengitt i sin helhet. Deres Majesteter, Deres kongelige høyheter, Stortingspresident, Kjære Märtha. Kjære Martha, Vi møttes i drømmene våre da vi var små. La oss få fortsette med å møtes i drømmene våre. Takk, kong Harald. Kjære Sonja og Harald, Først og fremst må jeg takke dere for at dere er verdens beste foreldre. Jeg takker dere for fra første stund å ha møtt meg med tillit og en vennlighet som har grepet meg dypt. Å forelske seg i landets prinsesse er nå en ting. Jeg er blitt svært glad i dere begge to, og gleder meg veldig til å tilbringe mer tid sammen med dere i årene som kommer. Kjære Mette-Marit og Haakon, Dere stråler av felles kunnskap og overskudd. Nå var det riktignok ikke mye glede å spore da kronprinsen knuste meg fullstendig på en skitur i fjellet. Kjære mamma og pappa, Takk for at dere etter først å ha skjenket meg livet, ikke et eneste øyeblikk har latt være å ta meg på alvor. Kjære Anja og Espen!
Donald Trump - Biographical Elements True or False? Yle tackles Finland’s top ten complaints about asylum seekers More than half of all people seeking asylum in Finland are turned down and forced to leave. The average time it takes to process an asylum application is about six months, a period that can be extended if there are a large number of asylum seekers, but additional resources have been promised to help speed up the process. Since the end of July, the Finnish Immigration Service has granted asylum to 40 percent of applicants (946 people). Of those that were allowed to stay, some 500 were granted asylum outright and the rest were accepted for their secondary or humanitarian protection or other reasons. The Service handed down 633 negative decisions in this same time period, and 278 cases were dropped. 557 applications were not examined for anterior reasons, like the applicant already had the right to reside in another safe country or some other country was responsible for processing the application. 1. False. 2. False (in most cases). 3. False. 4. False. 5. False. 6. True. 7. 8. False. 9.
Is the U.S. Ready for a Woman President? 68% of Young People in Swing States Say Yes | Politics | U.S. News In 1937, the American public was asked for the first time by Gallup if they would consider voting for a woman president if she were qualified “in every other respect.” Only 33% said yes at the time. That sentiment has certainly changed. More than 80% of young voters in key battleground states say that a woman could be an effective president and strong leader, according to an exclusive U.S. As part of the poll, conducted for U.S. When considering gender, a slightly larger share of men disagreed about a woman’s ability to be an effective and strong leader, with 7% of the men polled answering either “disagree” or “strongly disagree” compared to 4% of the women. Answers to the question also appeared to have a political dimension, with those identifying with the GOP showing a greater tendency to disagree that a woman could be an effective leader. The survey was conducted beginning Aug. 25 – on the heels of the Democratic National Convention – and ran through Sept. 3.
The Other Pair This ELT lesson plan is designed around a short film by Sarah Zorik titled The Other Pair and the themes of altruism and empathy. Students watch a short film, write a story, and speak about a story. I would ask all teachers who use Film English to consider buying my book Film in Action as the royalties which I receive from sales help to keep the website completely free. Language level: Pre-intermediate (A2) –Intermediate (B1) Learner type: All ages Time: 60 minutes Activity: Watching a short film, writing a story, and speaking about a story Topic: Empathy and altruism Language: Vocabulary related to shoes, narrative tenses Materials: Short film Downloadable materials: the other pair lesson instructions Support Film English Film English remains ad-free and takes many hours a month to research and write, and hundreds of dollars to sustain. Step 1 Ask your students to come up with as many different types of shoes as they can in 2 minutes. Step 2 Elicit boots, trainers, slippers, flip-flops, etc. Step 3
Lift Off “Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin,Is a great equalizer of the conditions of men.” – Horace Mann, 1848.At the time of his remarks I couldn’t read — couldn’t write.Any attempt to do so, punishable by death.For generations we have known of knowledge’s infinite power.Yet somehow, we’ve never questioned the keeper of the keys —The guardians of information. Unfortunately, I’ve seen more dividing and conqueringIn this order of operations — a heinous miscalculation of reality.For some, the only difference between a classroom and a plantation is time.How many times must we be made to feel like quotas —Like tokens in coined phrases? —“Diversity. Inclusion”There are days I feel like one, like only —A lonely blossom in a briar patch of broken promises.But I’ve always been a thorn in the side of injustice. Disruptive. Talkative. As educators, rather than raising your voicesOver the rustling of our chains,Take them off. I was in the 7th grade, when Ms.
Donald Trump's Speech - Excerpts Refugee crisis: eight life stories from Budapest's Keleti station ‘I want to go back to my country and teach people’ Majd Haaj Hassan is as quick with a Shakespeare quotation, reeling off Sonnet XVIII in a grubby refugee camp, as he is with a political analysis of Syria’s woes. Like many of those who could afford the steep smugglers’ fees to cross the first borders into Europe, the English literature student, who is still determined to graduate from some university, somewhere, comes from a wealthy family. “We had six houses, two cars, 1,000 hectares of land with olive trees,” he says. He is travelling with his brother, Walid, who operated a concrete-mixer truck in Idlib, Walid’s wife and two young children and several other friends and relatives. The two specific triggers for their departure were a battle between Jabhat al-Nusra and Isis that levelled two houses in their small town, and a drawing his six-year-old niece made one day when he brought her a pack of crayons and some paper. So they sold the cars, land and two houses to pay for the journey.