The idea of progress

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The Idea of progress

 

            I’m going to talk about the notion « The idea of progress ». How can we describe this notion ?  We live in a world that is constantly changing wether in its technology or in its culture. Therefore it is possible today to choose by ourselves to do things that we think would be good for our life for example our professional career or where even we want to live in the future thanks to a really globalized world. But in some case « progress » can become a subject of debate. I studied with my school three documents about this notion. The first one is called « Another Girl »  which is an extract of the novel Secret Daughter, by Somaya Gowda, the second one is Changing India from the novel « Farewell to an Indian I Hardly Knew » by Giridharadas, the last one is short bigraphy of Indira Gandhi, a Prime Minister in the sixties. I’m going to focus my study on India, a country in developpement which I think has beyond capacities to become a figure of progress.

            In which way is India a country in progress ? 

            First of all, we can say that the way of life in a lot of countries really changed over the past decades. While China is already a leader in economy but also progressively in its culture, India is also making huge progresses. We can see in the document Changing India, how the country has evolved over the past few years. The narrator in the book is a girl whose parents are Indian and moved to America, where she was born. America not like India before, is a very open-minded country where all dreams seem to come true. That’s why so many people left India to go to America  in the past century. However, the girl from the novel who moved to India in her adult years says that it’s a completely new country with a new mentality : girls become breadwinners, more and more children that are even from the lower class are getting into school to get a diploma and even some religion and cultural habits are changing : Indians start eating meat if they feel like to and not by caste. Therefore, India has become a very popular country to visit but also to go and study abroad for example. Even BBC made a documentary called « The Great Indian Dream ». People from this country have no longer need to go an Western country to succeed because they now believe in their country’s power and abilities to become a developed, successful, prospere country.

            However, they are still some issues remaining including gender acceptation. In fact, mostly in smaller villages and cities, girls are considered as useless because they can’t look after the family’s name. They say girls are also unreliable for the parents when they get old. That’s why India is becoming a male dominated-society. In the document Another girl, we can see how the dad is excited for the baby his wife is giving birth to, thinking that it’s  a boy. He says : « Where is my little prince ? Come, come… let me see him ! » but it’s actually a girl. Even if sex-selective abortion is strictly forbidden, the number baby girls is still very low and a few of the citizens would tell what is actually happening to the new baby girls. We saw that India has changed a lot in their mentalities but it’s very interesting to see how a lot of them still considere girls as powerless because so many women in the world are iconic figures. For example in India, Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister for more than 10 years in the sixties and she should be an example of successful and inspiring woman in India. Through her figure we can see that there is progress because she’s the only woman who got into to this position but the progress shouldn’t be yet considered as accomplished. How can we demonstrate women’s skills when we don’t give them any chance to prove themselve ? Just like in China, for many years women were considered as a burden just like the father says in the second document: « She will become a burden to us, a drain on our family. ». Therefore, families would sell them because they can’t do any physical work to earn money. But the current generation is over this point of view and more and more women are high earners and high placed in the working business.

            To sum up everything, we can say that India is a figure of progress in many ways wether it’s in its culture or its economy. However some issues like gender acceptation is still remaining even if the number od successful women across the world is increasing very quickly. Progress should not only apply to the economy or the politics but also to social acceptation. Your gender is not a disease. There is no pathology.  Therefore we can say that everyone should have a chance to prove themselves, doesn’t matter if your a girl or a boy because everyone has a value.

[Jean B]

 

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Rebonjour! 

Me revoilà pour ma dernière notion! Je tiens à remercier la personne qui a corrigé mon précédent texte! Voilà le dernier, je pense avoir fait beaucoup plus de fautes que le texte de la dernière fois...

The Idea of progress

 

            I’m going to talk about the notion « The idea of progress ». How can we describe this notion?  We live in a world that is constantly changing wether in its technology or in its culture. Therefore it is possible today to choose by ourselves to do things that we think would be good for our life for example our professional career or where even we want to live in the future thanks to a really globalized world. But in some case « progress » can become a subject of debate. I studied with my school class three documents about this notion. The first one is called « Another Girl »  which is an extract of from the novel Secret Daughter by Somaya Gowda, the second one is Changing India from the novel « Farewell to an Indian I Hardly Knew » by Giridharadas, the last one is a short bigraphy of Indira Gandhi, a Prime Minister in the sixties. I’m going to focus my study on India, a developing country in developpement which I think has beyond  <<??? C'est une préposition, un adverbe ou un nom mais en aucun cas un adjectif. Alors, qu'as-tu voulu dire ? capacities to become a figure of progress.

            In which way is India a country in progress? 

            First of all, we can say that the way of life in a lot of countries really changed over the past decades. While China is already a leader in economy but also progressively in its culture, India is also making huge progresses. We can see in the document Changing India, how the country has evolved over the past few years. The narrator in the book is a girl whose parents are Indian and moved to America where she was born. America not like India before, is a very open-minded country where all dreams seem to come true. That’s why so many people left India to go to America  in the past century. However, the girl from the novel who moved to India in her adult years says that it’s a completely new country with a new mentality: girls become breadwinners, more and more children that are even from the lower class are getting into school to get a diploma and even some religion and cultural habits are changing: Indians start eating meat if they feel like to and not by caste. Therefore, India has become a very popular country to visit but also to go and study abroad for example. Even BBC made a documentary called « The Great Indian Dream ». People from this country have no longer need to go an to a Western country to succeed because they now believe in their country’s power and abilities to become a developed, successful, prosperous country.

            However, they  there are still some issues remaining including gender acceptation. In fact, mostly in smaller villages and cities, girls are considered as useless because they can’t look after the family’s name. They say girls are also unreliable for the parents when they get old. That’s why India is becoming a male dominated-society. In the document Another girl, we can see how the dad is excited for the baby his wife is giving birth to, thinking that it’s  a boy. He says : « Where is my little prince ? Come, come… let me see him ! » but it’s actually a girl. Even if sex-selective abortion is strictly forbidden, the number of baby girls is still very low and a few of the citizens would tell what is actually happening to the new baby girls. We saw that Indians have changed a lot in their mentalities but it’s very interesting to see how a lot of them still considere girls as powerless because so many women in the world are iconic figures. For example in India, Indira Gandhi was the Prime Minister for more than 10 years in the sixties and she should be an example of successful and inspiring women in India. Through her figure we can see that there is progress because she’s the only woman who got into to this position but the  progress shouldn’t be yet considered as accomplished. How can we demonstrate women’s skills when we don’t give them any chance to prove themselve? Just like in China, for many years women were considered as a burden just like the father says in the second document: « She will become a burden to us, a drain on our family. ». Therefore, families would sell them because they can’t do any physical work to earn money. But the current generation is over this point of view and more and more women are high earners and high placed in the working business.

            To sum up everything, we can say that India is a figure of progress in many ways wether it’s in its culture or its economy. However some issues like gender acceptation is still remaining even if the number of successful women across the world is increasing very quickly. Progress should not only apply to the  economy or the  politics but also to social acceptation. Your gender is not a disease. There is no pathology.  Therefore we can say that everyone should have a chance to prove themselves, doesn’t no matter if whether your  you are a girl or a boy because everyone has a value.

Comme déjà signalé dans ton sujet précédent, tu as un réel problème avec le déterminant " the ". À revoir d'urgence dans ta grammaire.