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Here’s to
the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in
the square holes, the ones who see things differently... They’re not fond of
rules and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree
with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore
them; because they change things, they push the human race forward. And while
some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius; because the people who are
crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Samir Duwoot
says she cries every day because her children don’t have a father. It’s the
reality of the five-year conflict in Syria. People, families
left with nothing. Her daughter knows no different. Like many children here,
her young eyes have seen much of the brutality of conflict,
but have never seen home.
Her dad,
Shahadi Nanood, died last year while fighting for the regime. She
doesn’t understand where he’s gone, with her mother saying she sleeps in the
same place her father used to sleep, she’s waiting for him to come home. The rest of
their family have fled to Lebanon. For those in poverty like
them, there’s no option but to stay.
They now
live in this school near Damascus, which 141 people now call home. A building
serving a dual purpose. But it’s estimated that
across Syria, up to two million children no longer go to school, a further
million no longer live in their own homes and six million need emergency humanitarian assistance.
“It’s been
the most dangerous place in the world for children. Five years is a lifetime for a
child! This war has been going on for five years! There are ten year olds in
Syria who’ve never seen the inside of a classroom.”
Generations, opportunities changed forever by
this conflict and in the balance if the ceasefire doesn’t hold.
Emmeline Goulden was born on 14 July
1858 in Manchester into a family with a tradition of radical politics. In 1879,
she married Richard Pankhurst, a lawyer and supporter of the women's suffrage
movement. He was the author of the Married Women's Property Acts of 1870 and
1882, which allowed women to keep earnings or property acquired before and
after marriage. His death in 1898 was a great shock to Emmeline.
In 1889, Emmeline founded the
Women's Franchise League, which fought to allow married women to vote in local
elections. In October 1903, she helped found the more militant Women's Social
and Political Union (WSPU) - an organisation that gained much notoriety for its
activities and whose members were the first to be named 'suffragettes'.
Emmeline's daughters Christabel and Sylvia were both active in the cause.
British politicians, press and public were astonished by the demonstrations,
window smashing, arson and hunger strikes of the suffragettes. In 1913, WSPU
member Emily Davison was killed when she threw herself under the king's horse
at the Derby as a protest at the government's continued failure to grant women
the right to vote.
Like many suffragettes, Emmeline was
arrested on numerous occasions over the next few years and went on hunger
strike herself, resulting in violent force-feeding. In 1913, in response to the
wave of hunger strikes, the government passed what became known as the 'Cat and
Mouse' Act. Hunger striking prisoners were released until they grew strong
again, and then re-arrested.
This period of militancy was ended abruptly
on the outbreak of war in 1914, when Emmeline turned her energies to supporting
the war effort. In 1918, the Representation of the People Act gave voting
rights to women over 30. Emmeline died on 14 June 1928, shortly after women
were granted equal voting rights with men (at 21).
Os dejo unos enlaces donde podréis encontrar expresiones útiles y frases hechas habituales en inglés. No es para que memoricéis todas, sino para que curioseéis y escojáis dos o tres que vosotros mismos utilicéis en castellano.
