Missing Girls Research Paper

The Guerrilla Girls are a group of women formed in 1984 after an art exhibition hosted by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City where it became clear to them that the art industry was gender bias with women artists not being acknowledged. Since then they have been devoted to fighting sexism and racism within the art world, their mission to bring gender and racial inequality within the arts into focus. They have done this by producing factual and humorous posters that comment on these issues and that challenges and confronts society to realise the injustice.

Iggy Azalea's return to social media hasn't been as smooth as she would have hoped. A fan contacted her on social media and stated that the single "Pretty Girls" flopped a little bit. The rapper responded,"It's difficult to send a song up the charts without additional promo and TV performances etc. unfortunately I'm just featured." Azalea's comments were taken as disrespectful and Pop Zone tweeted that the rapper was throwing shade at Britney Spears and her team. Azalea answered Pop Zone by tweeting,"My comment is factual, it applies to any song. I don't have to suck the womans [sic] asshole 24/7 to be her friend, do I? Bye girls." "Pretty Girls" has achieved moderate success since its release last month. It reached Number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, Number 23 on Mainstream Top 40, and Number 5 on the Hot Dance Club Songs. The music video for the single has received over 79 million views on YouTube.

The NYC Radical Cheerleaders describe their activity as, “[A]ctivism with pomp poms and middle fingers extended. It’s screaming F*CK CAPITALISM while doing the splits” (qtd. in Adams and Bettis 36). Since their inception in the mid-1990s, the feminist Radical Cheerleaders have given women a stronger voice in the activist sphere while they scream, shout, and protest against a myriad of social issues. These range from the patriarchy, LBGTQ discrimination, and beauty standards, to police brutality, sexual assault, and capitalism, but they are all linked to the fight for human rights. In their protest, they subvert the stereotypical image of the white, blonde, thin cheerleader, looking to incite public interest and engagement. Ultimately, radical cheerleaders channel the theatricality and obscenity of the women’s liberation movement to reclaim their rights in the public sphere with curses, vulgarity, and action.

There is a highway in Canada that holds terrifying stories revolving around multiple unsolved murders and disappearances of women, most of them being First Nations. In this essay you will hear some true stories of what has happened to a few of these girls along that highway and those who played a role in the girls disappearances/murders. The stretch of this highway is located between Prince Rupert and Prince George, British Columbia. The 724 kilometre distance passes through or near approximately a dozen modest communities, first nations reserves, and traditional grounds. It is also a very well-known hitchhiking route, particularly for First Nations people who cannot afford cars or a bus pass.

Significance: Demo states that the Guerrilla Girls have a few strategies they employ represented in their protests. These strategies are imitation, reinvention of historical concepts,

According to Guerrilla Girls website, “We undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the downright unfair. We believe in an intersectional feminism that fights discrimination and supports human rights for all people and all genders…. We also do projects and exhibitions at museums, attacking them for their bad behavior and discriminatory practices right on their own walls, including our 2015 stealth projection about income inequality and the super-rich hijacking art on the facade of the Whitney Museum in New York” (Guerrilla Girls). I perceive the Guerrilla Girls movement to be fierce and funny, but yet impressive, and effectively as a whole. Their messages allowed them to have

“The 2010 ILO Global Report Accelerating action against child labor notes that child labor continues to decline, but that the rate of reduction has slowed. There was a decline of 3% between 2004 and 2008, compared with a 10% decrease between 2000 and 2004.” (UN). Some countries haven’t even developed laws and regulations that are crucial to the process of eliminating child labor. “India, Norfolk Island, Pakistan, and Tonga have not established a minimum age for work. India and Pakistan, as well as six Oceanic countries and territories, have not established a minimum age for hazardous labor. Fiji, Kiribati, Maldives, and Papua New Guinea have not prohibited hazardous occupations and activities for children.” (DOL). Families who are in poverty make it harder to stop child labor and get children education. “Prohibitive costs associated with education—such as books, uniforms, and teacher fees—prevent children from attending school in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Kiribati, Kyrgyz Republic, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, and the Solomon Islands.” (DOL). Because families are poor, they are unable to buy school supplies needed for school, therefore, they cannot attend. In addition, starving families do not see school and education as their number one priority. “Physical access to education is a problem for children living in remote, rural areas, particularly in Bhutan, Cambodia, India,

In April 2014 the militant terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from their Nigerian school. The girls were raped, forced to convert to Islam, and maintained in captivity, or sold into marriage (Whiting). This egregious act shocked the world and focused attention on the treatment of women and girls around the world. The most public individual woman among the oppressed is Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl, who in 2012 at age 15, was shot by the Taliban for demanding that girls be allowed to attend school (Hodges and Gross). Heroes are people who stand for their beliefs. Malala was not alone on that school bus; other girls were also defying the Taliban. The Nigerian school girls knew Boko Haram was in the area; the terrorists had already kidnapped or killed hundreds of people, but the girls were still at school. This week, Frontline is broadcasting a program, "Escaping ISIS," on the treatment of women and girls, and the attempts to help them. Anyone watching the program will be viewing a number of

In most countries, women have less access to education than their male counterparts. According to UNESCO (2013), of the 110 million children out of school in developing nations, 60 percent are girls; women also represent nearly two-thirds of the world's illiterate population. Some countries are even worse than others. Examples include the fact that nine out of ten Afghan women are illiterate, and the shocking truth that only one in twenty attend school beyond the sixth grade. Chad is another prime example of the disparity between men’s and women’s educational standards- only ten percent of Chadian girls have completed elementary school. Women with higher education tend to be healthier, earn more, have fewer children, and provide

Sometimes I wish I was an only child. I have an irritating brother. Ross is my 18 year old brother. Our birthday’s are 1 day apart and I dislike it. When we were younger we always had our parties together. I hated having them together and his friends. My Grandma is psychotic! After my Grandpa passed away we realized she doesn’t know how to do anything. She doesn't even remember my name. My Grandma always gets Ross’ girlfriend’s name right, but never remembers mine. My family calls me the “Forgotten Child” because of my Grandma and great-aunt, Phi-Phi. I love spending time with friends and family! My friends and I love to travel together. Our recent trip we took was to Chicago. We went for a concert and got stuck standing in the rain for 2

Fifty nine million adolescents are being rejected their right to education (Equitable Access n.pag). Whether the reason is because they are overwhelmed with chores or because the closest school is across the river and through the woods, kids between the ages of five and nine are not learning how to read or solve an addition problem. In Mexico, girls, specifically, are being denied their right to education. According to “Access to Elementary Education for Indigenous Girls”, “...women are forced to quit school at very early ages…” (De Guevara n.pag). These women do not lack the physical access to education, because there are schools available to them. However, they are denied the actual right to education because they are kept at home to do

Access to primary education for women has improved significantly except in some parts of Africa and Central Asia where there is still poor access to educational facilities. This global change occurred because of the goal set by the United Nations to “Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling” (We Can End Poverty 2015) Although this goal has not yet been fully achieved, it has contributed largely to the advances that have been made towards equal education. There are still over 20 influential countries that discriminate against women by preventing them from equal access to education. In these nations, gender inequality in education suppresses the independence, development, and sense of self-worth of women. We, as a well-educated community, need to stand up for the basic human rights of these girls and women by spreading awareness about this issue and supporting organizations that promote equal education for women across the world. Two examples of charitable organizations that support this cause are The United Nations Children's Fund, an organization that provides assistance to children and mothers in developing countries, and Heifer International, a non

Since their uprise in 1984 the Guerrilla Girls have been attempting to expose the racial discrimination in the art world. The achievement, fame, and quality of the Guerrilla Girls came from their focus being that they knew exactly who they wanted to be- the gendered inner voice of the art world. They introduced themselves to general society remarkably - "we wear gorilla masks to keep the focus on the issues rather than our personalities.” They communicated their thoughts and ideas clearly, creating black and white posters that recorded the hard realities of sexism and prejudice in the art world. They utilized humor to demonstrate that feminists can be amusing. Also, their objectives and goals were clear - they needed more prominent representation

In 2014 , over 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped, left in the hands of Buhari hoping to bring them home safe and have justice served. People rallied up all over the world in the search

As Barbara Matera said it “the lack of education is robbing women of their full potential”. This essentially creates a setback that women have to face