Equality

In today’s world it can be seen that women have made considerable progress over the years being treated as equals to men. When comparing the women of today with the women from fifteen thousand years ago, mentioned in Andree Collard’s “Rape of the Wild”, significant differences can be seen. According to Collard, pg. 16, para. 2, under patriarchy, “nature and women are reduced from a position of importance to a position of insignificance”. For a lot of the world this position has been reversed and women now represent as much of an equal force as men do. The Middle East is one section of the world still showing a lot of oppression towards women. In the article “Return of Islamic Leader Worries Some Tunisian Women” (see link below)

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/115291829.html

Cecily Hilleary speaks of how in the Arab country, Tunisia, women have had more than half a century of freedom, including political, legal and personal freedoms which could lead an example for the rest of the area. A code was passed in 1956 which allowed women these freedoms. Since then a vast majority of women in Tunisia have been seen as equals to men, however, now there is a possibility that these freedoms may be taken away with the return of Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi. Ghannouchi supports Sharia, which allows men significantly more rights and liberties than women. Hopefully this country’s government and people will be able to avoid such a hierarchical system, hopefully women will be able to keep their rightful place as equals.

Earth Day 2010

This video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYpVdnKzQqg, presents the issue of Earth Day 2010. The author, Lotsoglaughs369, presents this video about helping replenish our world. He posted it on February 9, 2010, around the time of Earth Day 2010, in an effort to show the world what we are doing to our nature. The video discusses the facts of how we are doing this.
The metaphorical concepts TIME IS MONEY, TIME IS A RESOURCE, and TIME IS A VALUABLE COMMODITY form a single system based on sub categorization, since in our society money is a limited resource and limited resources are valuable commodities (Lackoff & Johnson, “Metaphors” page 9). The previous quote fits in well with this environmental issue. Time IS money AND a resource. It’s going to take time for us to build up what we have destroyed and the time we take to do this is going to be our biggest resource. As the video presented, we have destroyed a lot of what shouldn’t have been; rainforests are dying, fish are becoming extinct, ice is melting because of rising temperatures that we have caused, there’s more trash that we know what to do with, as well as tons of other unnecessary aspects of our society that bring us closer and closer to becoming extinct ourselves. The video presents a system of things that brings each aspect of what we destroy all into one to educate is on how we can do our part on Earth Day. The video grabs the attention of our sub consciousness and brings about the feeling of what are actions have done to our world. The remembrance of our actions produces the feeling of failure in us. We have failed to make our world a better place and failed to put these environmental issues at the top of our to do list. However, I do believe there is hope for us, as long as we always keep in mind how WE can make our world a better place to live. I found an image of Earth Day 2010, http://jennyescano.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html, that was made by a different author but I think it ties in with the you tube video well. I also found another site that has some good brief readings on the same issues the video presented, http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/global-environmental-issues-1006.