Fiche oral bac idée de progrès

Quelques fautes mais qui sont imperceptibles a l'oral , tu devrais revoir ta conclusion , elle est trop vague et imprecise . Ton ouverture sur les prochaines annees doit etre reformulee.

I’m going to deal with the notion of Idea of Progress. To begin with, I’d like to state a definition of and social contributes to make the world a better place. It’s the idea that the world can become increasingly better in terms of science, technology, modernization, liberty, democracy and quality of life.

In order to illustrate this notion, I will try to answer the question: Are women’s rights making progress?

In order to illustrate this notion, I chose 2 documents which we studied in class.

The first document is the speech made by Hilary Clinton at United Nations’ conference in Beijing. This conference is the fourth world conference on women. In her speech Hillary C. denounced discriminations suffered by women around the world in our society.

Forever, women were lower than men, they were dominated by us. They didn’t have rights. But their status has improved, they have acquired rights like the right to vote and more liberty, but this is not the case in all countries. In a lot of country, billions of women are mistreated by their common law partners, their families, indeed according to Ms Clinton this is « a leading cause of death worldwide among women ages 14 to 44 is the violence that they are subjected to, in their own homes, by their own relatives. ». Women are only considered like sexual objects, they only existed to satisfy men's desires , they are not considered like full human beings, such as Hillary said it « young girls are brutalized by the painful and degrading practice of genital mutilation. » & « women and girls are sold into a slavery of prostitution for human greed »

Furthermore, all these discriminations women don’t have the choice, the right to choose for her or her family like denounce Hillary Clinton: « Women are denied the right to plan their own families and that includes being forced to have abortions or being sterilized against their will ». In some countries, having a girl is a shame a disadvantage, thereby baby girls are killed at birth or mistreated, like the ex-first lady of USA stated it « Babies are denied food or drowned or suffocated or their spines broken simply because they are born girls ».

In this extract Hillary Clinton started her sentences by « it is a violation of human rights when… » it shows the fact that attitudes have evolved today and a woman is finally absolutely regarded as a human being. She finished by: « human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all. » it symbolized that today women are equals to men and it will never change.

Selected readings from Toward a Meaningful Life: The Wisdom of the Rebbe (William Morrow, 1995), authored by Simon Jacobson

 The second document is an extract of from Toward a Meaningful Life: The Wisdom of the Rebbe written by Simon Jacobson.

Men and women are different physically but not only, like said the author: « there are also differences in the way men and women think, speak, and behave. »

Men and women were created different to complete themselves and to be a better person  together, he said: « There is absolutely no difference between a man and a woman, they are the male and female elements of a single soul ». It shows that men and women are different but their differences complete them together, without woman, a solo man is less than a man with a woman, they make a pair who works together. A solo man is not complete without a woman and a woman is not complete without a man, they need the other one.

He said that men are physically superior than women but this superiority couldn’t be used to dominate women but to help women to be better than they are now.

Between man and woman, it must have an equality, man shouldn’t dominate woman: “men must concentrate on using her on using their dominant qualities for the good”.

Men and women are equals but they have their particularities, with these particularities they complete the other, man and woman make a pair. Man is not superior to woman, and woman is not superior to man.

As a conclusion, the liberties and rights of woman have changed, they acquired more, attitudes towards women changed greatly, man is not superior to woman they are equals. However, persist discriminations to women, it must change in the next years.

Je suis d'accord avec Yanis sur la conclusion elle est un peu courte et tu pourrais mieux la formuler. Je ne te la fais pas en anglais car je vais me faire censurée par le modérateur si je te fais tout. En tout cas, reprends l'idée qu'effectivement les droits ont évolués mais que beaucoup reste encore à faire déjà dans les pays développés par exemple les droits économiques ne sont toujours pas les mêmes dans la réalité. L'Islande est un des seuls pays à ma connaissance qui oblige les employeurs à payer les mêmes salaires aux hommes et aux femmes à poste et compétences égales. Par ailleurs dans le reste du monde les maltraitantes faites aux femmes restent quotidiennes et ce sont elles les premières victimes des conflits cf le viol comme arme de guerre.