Pitching an Important Issue :O

In Religion We have been learning about the MDG's and  for the past few classes we have focused in on MDG 3 about Gender and We watched the movie'Desertflower' as I explaining in my last post. Ms.L gave us a task which I really enjoyed because it used what limited artistic skills I had. The task was that we had to imagine we were pitching the story to a film maker and do a Storyboard with the six images from Waris' life that we though were the most important. Me and my very artistic partner Emma picked out six images and drew them. They were 1) Map of Somalia were Waris was born, We though it was vital to include this because it tells it own story and it was were Waris was circumcised. 2) This is a picture of Waris wondering through the desert, She has alot on her mind because she doesn't want to get married at such a young age to an man who is alot older then her and she is running away. 3) This picture is in London and is a Fast food Restaurant were Waris was working. She got this job from a sale assistant who she met in Top shop and she felt sorry for her. In the End Waris shares a apartment with her and She is the women who gets Waris noticed by a world famous photographer. 4) This is a picture of Waris when she goes to the Photographer finally and gets her make-up done and new clothes and Waris at this stage knows been circumcised is wrong and she is starting to feel she is worth more then she was been treated. 5) This is when Waris was on the Cover of a famous magazine called 'Elle' and Waris' story is inside. This made her life more public but also showed people that not all women are treated equally.6) We included this picture at the end because it showed what luck Waris had and how she went on to make circumcision illegal worldwide so no girl has to go through what she went through and letting it be o.k.

I really did not know that there was still gender equality in the world. I always thought it was worked out and everyone was treated equally. I felt that Waris had alot of courage to go off an make circumcision Illegal.



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