Nicholas D. Kristof

The author’s purpose in Half the Sky, a nonfiction book written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, is to educate the reader about the challenges that women and girls in low-income countries face and to offer solutions on how to turn this oppression into opportunity for these women and the countries that they come from. Kristof and WuDunn are able to express their purpose by connecting real stories from women half way across the world to facts about the situations that they are in, “Saima [a

Tragedies occur every day around the world. Just as it seems, hearing of the tragedies may be overwhelming to listen to because there are so many occurrences to keep track of. In the essay “The Girl Effect,” Nicholas D. Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn are journalists who relocated to China from the U.S. to pursue their careers. They come to find out about how neglected we’ve been to certain quotidian cruelties that take place in foreign counties specifically relating to the unfair treatment of

The book “half the sky” opened my eyes to many women issues that occur around the world. Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn did a great job in making a series of essays and anecdotes that work together, to create two different types of arguments. Even though I enjoyed reading this book there where two stories that stood out to me. The first one is Rescuing Girls is the Easy Par, in this part the author talks about sexual enslavement in countries in Asia. Sexual enslavement is the exploitation

Opportunity for Women Worldwide, where Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn argue that the oppression of women is the worst current global issue that calls for change. Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide was published in 2009, after Kristoff and WuDunn spent an abundance of time abroad volunteering. While both authors were researching for their book,

following an article “Where Sweatshops Are A Dream" by Nicholas D. Kristof and published in the New York Times on January 15, 2009. The author argued that sweatshops are actually a cherished dream in the poorest countries. Nicholas Kristof lived in East Asia for many years and observed how living standards improved because of sweatshops. He also made an observation in his wife’s hometown in southern China. Other articles written by Kristof about sweatshops and many other contentious topics, makes

tragedy than an opportunity” (Kristof & WuDunn, 2009, p. xviii). This quote does an excellent job of introducing the issues discussed in the book Half the Sky. In this book, Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn present us with the issue of the unjust and cruel treatment of women in today’s world. Women throughout the world are treated in unthinkably bad ways, but the majority of people are not even aware of the suffering these women face on a daily basis. According to Kristof and WuDunn (2009), “Women

Half the Sky written by Nicholas D. Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn is a novel that in dept depicts some of the horrific cases of the oppression of women and girls in developing countries.The novel takes you through Africa and Asia, with detailed accounts of how so many women have been treated poorly simply because of their status and sex. Not only does the novel give you shocking and almost surprising information that most people in more developed countries don’t know, because they are sheltered by

a whole does not change its ways we will ruin our one and only planet that is suitable to sustain life. In Warm, Warmer, Warmest an article by Nicholas D. Kristof argues that that “stopping global warming should be the paramount struggle of our time”(Warmer). While researching this topic I used multiple resources to better understand what Nicholas Kristof is explaining in his article. I first looked at a government run website that helped explain global warming and how it is affecting us today. Then

through isolated news articles and speakers. I must admit, however, I did not understand the full scope of the problems faced by this universal underclass of citizens until I read the book Half the Sky, written by married New York Times reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. I picked up this book on the recommendation of my girlfriend and found myself unable to put it down. Insert picture of book The book is an account of the wide range of structural issues faced by women in third world nations

Kristof. The context of this article is for his readers to be aware that sweatshops are an essential to many developing countries that may have beneficial benefits. To summarize Kristof’s article, he indicates the danger of not working in sweatshops. He also