Social Awareness Project

“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament”
- Florynce R. Kennedy

o        In Our world what men  say and do is automatically better then what a women says and thinks                 

o        Men only care about themselves; a mans way or the highway

o         If things were in reverse our positions on politics and things like abortion would be different

 “We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars.”
― Marilyn Manson

o        Says that our world only cares if women have abortions because they want our kids to fight their wars

o        The un-borns will either die from an abortion or die later fighting in a war

“Against abortion?  Don't have one.”  ~Author Unknown

o        Just because you don’t support abortion doesn’t mean another doesn’t need one

o        If you don’t like the idea don’t have one or just ignore it

o        Every women has the right to decide and take actions that she sees fit to protect her health

1. Nobody's Home by Avril Lavigne

Well I couldn't tell you why she felt that way,
She felt it everyday.
And I couldn't help her,
I just watched her make the same mistakes again.

What's wrong, what's wrong now?
Too many, too many problems.
Don't know where she belongs, where she belongs.
She wants to go home, but nobody's home.
It's where she lies, broken inside.
With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes.
Broken inside.

Open your eyes and look outside, find the reasons why.
You've been rejected, and now you can't find what you left behind.
Be strong, be strong now.
Too many, too many problems.
Don't know where she belongs, where she belongs.
She wants to go home, but nobody's home.
It's where she lies, broken inside.
With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes.
Broken inside.

Her feelings she hides.
Her dreams she can't find.
She's losing her mind.
She's fallen behind.
She can't find her place.
She's losing her faith.
She's fallen from grace.
She's all over the place.
Yeah,oh

She wants to go home, but nobody's home.
It's where she lies, broken inside.
With no place to go, no place to go to dry her eyes.
Broken inside.

She's lost inside, lost inside...oh oh yeah
She's lost inside, lost inside...oh oh yeah

2. Slipped Away by Avril Lavigne

Na na, na na na, na na
I miss you, miss you so bad
I don't forget you, oh it's so sad
I hope you can hear me
I remember it clearly

The day you slipped away
Was the day I found it won't be the same
Oh

Na na na na na na na

I didn't get around to kiss you
Goodbye on the hand
I wish that I could see you again
I know that I can't

Oh
I hope you can hear me cause I remember it clearly

The day you slipped away
Was the day I found it won't be the same
Oh

I had my wake up
Won't you wake up
I keep asking why
And I can't take it
It wasn't fake
It happened, you passed by

Now you are gone, now you are gone
There you go, there you go
Somewhere I can't bring you back
Now you are gone, now you are gone
There you go, there you go,
Somewhere you're not coming back

The day you slipped away
Was the day I found it won't be the same no..
The day you slipped away
Was the day that I found it won't be the same oh...

Na na, na na na, na na
I miss you 

3. Tomorrow by Avril Lavigne

And I wanna believe you,
When you tell me that it'll be ok,
Ya I try to believe you,
But I don't

When you say that it's gonna be,
It always turns out to be a different way,
I try to believe you,
Not today, today, today, today, today...

I don't know how I'll feel,
tomorrow, tomorrow,
I don't know what to say,
tomorrow, tomorrow
Is a different day

It's always been up to you,
It's turning around,
It's up to me,
I'm gonna do what I have to do,
just don't

Gimme a little time,
Leave me alone a little while,
Maybe it's not too late,
not today, today, today, today, today...

I don't know how I'll feel,
tomorrow, tomorrow,
I don't know what to say,
tomorrow, tomorrow
Is a different day

Hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah, and I know I'm not ready,
Hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah, maybe tomorrow

Hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah, and I know I'm not ready,
Hey yeah yeah, hey yeah yeah, maybe tomorrow

And I wanna believe you,
When you tell me that it'll be ok,
Yeah I try to believe you,
Not today, today, today, today, today...

1.         This song relates to the world because it’s about depression and many people all over the world suffer from depression. It’s about a teenage girl suffering from depression and how her depression makes her feel. She fells abandoned by her family and friends like no one can help her. Avril Lavigne

relates the girl’s depression to an old abandoned house. I feel like the house is trapping her because it kept saying “there’s no place to go” and “she’s broken inside”. I think it could have been that or Avril Lavigne was relating the house to her relieve from depression but she can’t get inside because “nobody’s home”. This song makes you feel alone, like no one cares, no one understands, and no one can help. I feel like these songs by Avril Lavigne are images of her and what she thinks of herself. Over all this song relates to the world because it’s about abandonment and depression.

2.         This song relates to the world because it’s about losing someone very close to you and how hard it could be. This song in particular is about Avril Lavigne losing her Grandfather. “The day you slipped away was the day I found it won’t be the same” part of the main idea in the song is that you truly don’t know what you have until it’s gone and you can’t get it back. This song can relate to anyone because everyone has experienced death even if they don’t remember. Both my Grandfathers and one of my Grandmothers died before I was born. Even though I never knew them I still miss them and wish I could have gotten a chance to at least meet them. My family always tells me and my sister stories about them and just can’t seem to forget them or feel any less sad even though they died twenty years ago. I think that’s the other part of the message to the song is that you should never forget people even after they’re gone for good.

3.         This song is relates to the world because it’s about depression. Family and friends keep telling the girl that it will be ok but she can’t get rid of her depression. She tries to convince herself that she will be ok but she can’t, she knows it’s not true. She tells herself that she doesn’t know what will happen tomorrow and maybe she won’t be sad tomorrow because her sadness just won’t go away. I also think this son could be about her losing someone close to her and she’s in the depression phase of grieving and not ready to let go. Let go is also the title of the album so letting go of something could be the story behind all the songs on this album.

                                                                                                   

Malala Yousafzai: Bravery of an ignored struggle

Last month, the world was shocked when the Pakistan based Taliban shot a fourteen year old girl in an assassination attempt because of her education and women's rights activism in the Swat valley. She miraculously survived and the incident stirred a worldwide reaction of solidarity. To the global imagination, Malala Yousafzai became the antithesis to the extremist and apathetic narrative surrounding the nation of Pakistan today. The nation's few inspired citizens raised their voices condemning the attack, as the international media applauded giving a global platform to a largely ignored struggle against extremism. Yet, as time went by, the issue melted away, out of the dynamic news cycle. The rare public outcry was no where to be seen. Yet, the question of the incident's effect on the Pakistani public sphere still hangs in the air. Is Malala's name still chanted on the streets of Pakistan or is it now just a whisper? Has the incident really shaken the people out of their fear and apathy? Has it given them the vigour to reclaim their nation and their faith?

Malala Yousafzai: Bravery of an Ignored Struggle is about a fourteen year old girl who was shot by a Taliban because she was educated and was part of Women’s Rights Activism a month ago. She miraculously survived with a bad bullet wound to the head. This sparked international support for a largely ignored struggle for women’s rights but only a month later and almost all of it is forgotten. If it was a man that got shot in this situation it probably wouldn’t have been forgotten in less then a month. So, why are women considered not as important as men?

Women’s Rights Activism has been going on for a long time, but how are we so different? Women make up approximately one half of the population. Without us the human race would die out and I don’t think the men understand that. The women in these countries have to cover their whole bodies and men won’t even shake hands with them because they consider them to be so low and that they are so much more powerful then them. They’re not allowed to learn or do anything a man can do. About the only thing they are allowed to do is stay home and take care of the children. The U.S. used to be like that but the women had a strong voice. It’s still not even today, women only get paid about seventy cents for every dollar a man makes doing the same job. I think that’s unfair but it’s better then what these women in the Middle east have. If the women in these countries could only speak up they could be more equal to these men.

The Middle East is fighting for the men’s power against the dictators but they’re not fighting for the women’s rights against the men. Men already have too much power that’s how all these wars start up, men trying to be more powerful then other men and trying to rule the world. If we give just a little bit more of that power to the women so they can at least vote and run for office our world would be much happier because it wouldn’t be run only by men.

Bibliography

http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/ayushmanjamwal/3248/64091/malala-yousafzai-bravery-of-an-ignored-struggle.html by Ayushman Jamwal, November 22

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/women-s-rights

http://www.quotegarden.com/abortion.html