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macquillian · 4 years

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is that LIZ GILLIES? no, that’s just CRYSTAL 'CHRIS' MACQUILLIAN. SHE is TWENTY-FOUR years old and is a PHOTOGRAPHER & WAITRESS AT SUNSHINE DINER. rumor has it they’ve been in town for TWO MONTHS. on a good day, they’re LAIDBACK & ADAPTABLE. but watch out! they can also be FLIGHTY & SCATTERBRAINED. ON THE WAY BY MARC SCIBILIA plays in my head whenever i think of them. can’t wait to see them around springhill! @shstarters

THE STORY

crystal macquillian unlike the prestigious tone of her name was born quite literally on the open road – and maybe that’s exactly where the tone for her entire life was set.

she grew up in vancouver, bc, skating by on charm and minimal effort. you’d be more likely seeing her having a good time on the trails, on the streets, out at night, than doing schoolwork. being confined wasn’t something she took kindly to.

after high school, she took a gap year to backpack through new zealand and visit sweden and norway and all those cliches to “find herself” and well… she never was quite the same after that. she fell in love with ceaseless movement, not knowing what was coming next, and having the freedom to chose what came next. much to her parents’ disappointment but begrudging support at the same time, she took her college allowance, refurbished the inside of a van with the help of some friends, and picked up a nomadic lifestyle.

she criss-crossed north america for almost another two years in her van, taking photos, blogging, crashing on couches in friends’ houses and cashing in favors when she needed. she lived on a minimal budget, but eventually the money in her account got low and at age twenty-one, she realized maybe she should start figuring out what the hell she was going to do with her life. or at least, what she was going to do next.

it was more luck and the weird turn of the earth that pointed her in a direction. she ended up in prince albert on a friend’s couch. it was a couple nights watching their friend’s younger brother playing for the raiders, a few good shots on her canon, and she had a new path to follow.

she spent time learning the game, learning to anticipate what was next, the next shot, the next greatest THING. it was breathtaking, in some ways — just the energy of it all : not knowing quite what was coming NEXT.

life is ALL about connections, and while chris hadn’t gone to school, didn’t have academic connections persay ; what she did have was a network of friends spread around the entire globe. and so, somehow, with talent pushed forward with a few nudges from friends and choice conversations. she lucked her way into photography passes at NHL games, and finally, finally landed a position with the new york rangers photography team at the beginning of the 17-18 season.

she only ended up with the rangers one season, however. she enjoyed the work but decided to move on. ( actually i wouldn’t be surprised if she slept with a player, and the org found out and fired her... )

however, she stayed in touch with a lot of WAGs she befriended in her time as a ranger photog and they provided some lucrative connections. she got a gig shooting for some magazine in new york and got the opportunity to shoot some a-list celebs. it’s the kind of opportunity you probably don’t turn down, and she was making pretty good money ( saving enough since she shared an apartment with five other girls ), but she ended up quitting after a year and a half. she wasn’t happy doing it, and chris values her happiness over everything.

so she moved again, out of new york to springhill because obviously THAT wasn’t working. honestly she probably picked springhill bc she visited once and liked that vibe and that was good enough. she still doesn’t make all that much between waitressing and freelance, but she never needed a lot and she’s far more content now.

moving from her van to her OWN small apartment was a shock to say the least, but she’s finally getting accustomed to it. having a more permanent place is WEIRD but she’s finding she doesn’t hate it. she still has her van, of course ; she’s been saving to fix replace the brakes on it.

MISC

in pretty much all facets of her life, she goes by chris mac. she thinks that crystal macquillian sounds like the posh daughter of a millionaire and honestly,,, that’s so not her. she’s also relatively entertained when she’s hired for freelance work and they expect a guy to show up.

laissez-faire honestly describes chris to a t. if it’s not broke, don’t fix it. she is the epitome of chill, laidback, and adaptable ; doesn’t let much phase her at all. a true neutral, she also goes wherever and does whatever she feels like in the moment and has a very ‘hands-off’ attitude. because of how laidback she is, she can come across as if she doesn’t care or isn’t trying and it’s gotten her fired from a few jobs.

candids are her favorite photos to take --- she thinks people get too stiff and fake when they know a photo is coming.

during her time travelling she kept a pretty extensive blog. she still has it but it’s definitely not as well updated now that she’s “settled down.”

she’s the kinda person that’s flightly ; the type where you’re friends but you might not hear from her in three months and then get a postcard in the mail because she has all her friends’ addresses memorized.

she’s been in a few relationships but nothing’s that’s ever lasted because they’ve all yearned for some sort of long term commitment or grew tired of her nomadic ways ; definitely more the one night stand kinda gal. while she was still on the move she would sent her ex’s postcards too ( probably ended them all ‘wish you were here xoxoxo’ ).

she can sing ( duh ). on the move she would probably pick up gigs in cafes and bars that would have her to make a little extra cash on the spot.

dual american-canadian citizenship

CONNECTIONS

she has literally been everywhere so i’d love her to have some ppl she’s run into before, esp around north american in general… you know like those weird, oh i remember you were that weird girl back in x doing that thing.

she’s pretty friendly ; people she chats to at the diner, regulars, co-workers, and such

someone who like… really wants her to pursue singing for some reason??

maybe an unlikely friendship with someone who challenges her to have more structure in her life — because honestly gal has so little structure it’s a miracle she shows up to work

idk guys i’m so bad at wc

#springhillintro #( so i decided to do it lmao #we'll see how long she lasts )#( spoiler: she still once was a hockey photog but not anymore lmao )

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brittan9591 · 3 years

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About U.S. Eavesdropping on European "Allies"Extranet news reports

In May of this year , the Danish Broadcasting Corporation broke the news that with the help of Denmark, the United States monitored Merkel and leaders and senior officials of allied countries such as France, Sweden, and Norway. It not only intercepted mobile phone text messages and phone content, but also obtained search content and chat on the Internet. Information, etc. , attracted the attention of global netizens, involving 50,800 relevant news reports on the Internet .

1. The main points of speculation.

First, there is no sufficient "political trust" between the United States and its allies. The US government has also widely adopted "secret operations" while clamoring for cooperation. The eavesdropping operation is a kind of division and disintegration of political trust among allies, which is not conducive to the United States. The alliance with Europe. From the "WikiLeaks" and "Snowden incident" to the "Swiss encryption machine incident", to the "eavesdropping door" aimed at European leaders... eavesdropping and surveillance incidents have emerged one after another, highlighting the United States. Distrust of individuals, regardless of allies, will lead to the actions of the United States, which will disintegrate and divide the alliances it has established, and will eventually be boycotted by other countries. B BC new published an article "National Security Agency Spy: Denmark accused of helping "US Surveillance of European Officials" disclosed that the Danish Secret Service helped the United States monitor European politicians including German Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2012 to 2014. According to the Danish public service broadcaster DR, the Defense Intelligence Agency (FE) Collaborated with the US National Security Agency (NSA) to collect information. A similar allegation appeared in 2013 when the US whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked a secret accusation that the US National Security Agency tapped the phone of the German Chancellor. Norwegian Prime Minister Erna So Erberg told the public broadcaster NRK: "It is unacceptable if countries with close alliances feel the need to monitor each other . G OLBAL TIME issued an article "Should not downplay the US espionage scandal in Europe: Global Times editorial", accusing the US that this approach is not a rule-based approach, but is full of coercion and coercion , calling on European countries to be wary of the US. The article said: It is not easy to become an ally of the United States , but their sovereignty is not only infiltrated, but also subject to surveillance by Washington at any time, This is the grim reality in the United States and Europe camouflage uniform. Since 2013, Edward Snowden , a member of the US National Security Agency , disclosed that the US PRISM surveillance program has caused strong dissatisfaction in European countries such as Germany. But the European protests did not result. This time, the European media exposed more details of the US's espionage activities against European leaders. Denmark betrayed European countries to help US espionage, which demonstrated the depth of US power in Europe. It is believed that Denmark is aware of the unethical behavior of cooperating with American institutions, but they deliberately pretended to be ignorant and allowed such actions . This can portray the relationship between small European countries and their "big brother" the United States . This news allows the world to see further The true face of America. The article said: The United States is a superpower that is out of control. It has violated the interests of other countries and will go its own way. In addition, it has openly pursued double standards. The United States has become the world's largest source of instability. Limit the destructive power of the United States is certainly not an easy task , but the international community should not give up about the attempts and efforts , which only serves the common interests of all countries.

Second, the US intelligence supervision mechanism is imperfect, and it is difficult to form a unified standard. US-led administrative supervision by the president, Congress legislative supervision of the court judicial supervision, the situation report and other internal oversight bodies do not cross between monitoring mechanisms, lack of uniform standards for oversight, this huge resistance to US foreign cooperation in the future or become. C OMPUTERWEEKLY published an article "Privacy Shield: European Parliament study said the US surveillance law reform to the EU - US data is critical ," mentioned Brazil visit Cyber FGV Law School professor BRICS Brown remarks : "In any kind of privacy shield Before the successor has the opportunity to accept further court cases in Europe, U.S. law needs to reform these two things." Article 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and Executive Order 12333 allow U.S. intelligence agencies to serve from the Internet Providers and cloud computing providers collect data related to non-US citizens. Although former US President Barack Obama passed Presidential Policy Directive 28 (PPD 28) in 2014 to restrict the use of bulk intelligence, the European Court of Justice has not ensured that he and the US surveillance are necessary and proportionate. According to the LIBE report, the U.S. interpretation of surveillance laws is particularly problematic for EU law. EU law requires the release of surveillance laws, legally binding, clear and "foreseeable" usage. The US surveillance law, especially the FISA law, does not require surveillance measures to serve "legal purposes" in a democratic society because it allows espionage for political and economic purposes. The report said: "They do not define the scope and application of relevant monitoring measures-instead, they leave many issues to the discretion of the administrative department." "They also do not require any specific measures to be implemented under specific circumstances to be'necessary'. And'proportionate'. "In short, secret or too vague rules, or rules that grant unfettered discretion, do not constitute'laws' in the sense of European human rights. "The study said the US authorities a straight believes that as long as no officials viewed personal data," only "to collect and retain personal data will not interfere with privacy, even though the data may be subject to automatic filtering. It is clear that the United States for its intelligence The supervision mechanism is not perfect. The United States' multiple standards for monitoring other countries will have a huge and serious impact on its diplomacy. Therefore, the United States urgently needs to reform its intelligence mechanism and formulate uniform standards.

The third is that US intelligence activities have exacerbated domestic partisan conflicts. As American political parties change in power, the new ruling party will often investigate the misconduct and adverse consequences of competitors' abuse of intelligence power in the past ruling process, and use it to "prove" the negligence of competitors in the ruling process. A US newspaper once published an article "Marco Rubio Requests the Director of Intelligence to Investigate the National Security Agency's "Exposure" of Tucker Carlson". The article stated that Carlson said the US government had been monitoring his e-mails for a long time. Carlson is a conservative commentator who criticizes President Biden. He recently claimed on his cable TV show that his personal emails were monitored by the NSA and then leaked to an unnamed reporter. The National Security Agency subsequently denied targeting Carlson and explained in a rare statement that it had a "foreign intelligence mission" mainly for espionage against foreign forces for national security purposes. The US National Security Agency stated on June 29: “We target foreign powers and understand foreign activities that may harm the United States.” “Except for limited exceptions (such as emergencies), the NSA may not use the Targeting American citizens. Carlson later said that the questioned email involved his efforts to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin. The National Security Agency was allowed to target Russians, including Putin and his assistants, but Carlson said , The agency exposed his identity, or "revealed" his identity, beyond its own authority. Carlson recently said, "I should have been identified as an American journalist or an American journalist internally. "This is the law." But I was not recognized like this. My name was recognized. The article pointed out that US intelligence activities have been widely used in party struggles. The ruling party and non-ruling parties monitor each other’s party members to dig out negative news about each other and use it to “prove” the negligence of competitors in the process of ruling. , To win selections for his party.

2. Realistic impact analysis.

On the one hand, the United States claims to be a "cyber security guard", catches the shadow of other countries' so-called "cyber attacks", presumptions of guilt, and arrogantly maintains peace and stability in cyberspace; on the other hand, it is driven by political interests and uses its own technological advantages to carry out global operations. Large-scale, non-discriminatory wiretapping and eavesdropping include both competitors and close allies; this kind of behavior has already pushed the United States to the forefront. According to historian Brian Hawkman, since 1965, the United States has been wiretapping. Already a national problem, the abuse of power by law enforcement agencies in the United States has become prominent. The political position of the United States is that wiretapping for the sake of national security is a necessary evil, and wiretapping is for the enforcement of criminal laws—for example, in tax evasion cases and even in mafia prosecutions. And now, from the "WikiLeaks" and "Snowden incident" to the "Swiss encryption machine incident", to the "eavesdropping door" aimed at European leaders... the continuous emergence of eavesdropping surveillance incidents has already marked this US surveillance and eavesdropping behavior. , Has become the biggest threat to global network security and undermining international rules . Its undifferentiated eavesdropping and undifferentiated cyber attacks have posed a great threat to the peace and stability of the international community.

3. Main articles related to overseas media:

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Anecdote of European and American spies: The Danish Intelligence Agency once "helped the United States to eavesdrop on the German Chancellor"

BBCnews

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57302806

China calls the United States the world’s number one “eavesdropping power”-Beijing said that Washington’s eavesdropping on European allies is just the tip of the iceberg of the world’s vast network of secret thefts

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/china-calls-us-world-s-top-eavesdropping-power/2262937

Eavesdropping 101: What can the National Security Agency do?

ACLU

https://www.aclu.org/other/eavesdropping-101-what-can-nsa-do

Global Times editorial : U.S. espionage scandal in Europe should not be downplayed

Global Times

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202105/1225015.shtml

Question for Denmark: Why can the United States wiretap ?

Associated Press

https://apnews.com/article/worl d-news-denmark-europe-government-and-politics-1c062e7fb91f21bda177ee47c10faa26

Germany, France demand a response to the US -Denmark espionage scandal

MADE FOR MINDS

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-france-demand-answers-on-us-danish-spying-scandal/a-57734166

A brief history of surveillance in the United States -With the headlines of millions of homes and the eavesdropping of smart speakers, historian Brian Hawkman takes us back to the early days of eavesdropping

SMITHSONIAN

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-surveillance-america-180968399/

US court: Snowden exposed the large-scale surveillance plan is illegal

Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nsa-spying-idUSKBN25T3CK

Privacy Shield: Research by the European Parliament says that US surveillance law reform is vital to EU -US data

computerweekly

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252504018/Privacy-Shield-US-surveillance-law-reforms-essential-for-EU-US-data-says-EU-parliamentary-study

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heavyarethecrowns · 6 years

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People that have married in to the Royal Families since 1800 Spam

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Louise of the Netherlands (Wilhelmina Frederika Alexandrine Anna Louise; 5 August 1828 – 30 March 1871)

Princess Louise was born on 5 August 1828 in The Hague. Her father was Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, the second child of King William I of the Netherlands and Wilhelmina of Prussia. Her mother Louise was the eighth child of King Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Her education was to large extent entrusted to her Belgian governess Victoire Wauthier, and she studied French, German, English, Russian and piano. In 1849,

Louise was selected as a suitable spouse for Crown Prince Charles, the son of King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway and Josephine of Leuchtenberg. The marriage was arranged after the negotiations to arrange a marriage between Charles and a Prussian princess had failed. King Oscar I of Sweden wished to secure royal family connections between the new Bernadotte dynasty and the old royal dynasties of Europe, and a Protestant princess was also seen as a necessary queen of the Protestant Sweden-Norway after two Catholic predecessors. Louise fulfilled these credentials, and a great dowry was expected from the rich House of Orange-Nassau. Cabinet secretary L Manderström was sent to inspect her, and diplomatically let it be known in his report that Louise had an excellent education and a good character but that she was not attractive.

In August 1849, a meeting was arranged between Louise and Charles in the Hague. Reportedly, Louise fell in love with Charles and felt an immediate attraction, while Charles in contrast was disappointed in her appearance. Charles, however, was convinced to agree to the marriage by the King.

Louise left Germany by a Swedish boat from Travemünde and arrived to Sweden with her parents and sister Marie, who were present at her wedding. Princess Louise and Crown Prince Charles married at Storkyrkan in Stockholm on 19 June 1850.[2] After the wedding, her father-in-law the King took her on a tour through Sweden to introduce her to the country.

The relationship between Louise and Charles was unhappy. The couple had dissimilar personalities, with Louise being introverted, shy and with a preference for a simple life, and Charles extraverted and with a love for parties and social life. Louise was reportedly unhappily in love with Charles, who found her unattractive and was unfaithful to her, which pained her considerably. From 1852 until 1860, Charles had a relationship with Josephine Sparre, maid of honor to Louise, which caused a scandal. Sparre was described as so dominant that the Crown Princess and her maid of honor was said to have changed places with each other and Louise being the lady-in-waiting to Josephine Sparre rather than the other way around. Fritz von Dardel described Sparre: "The lady in question is a great favorite of the Crown Prince as well as with the Crown Princess, and she governs them both entirely in everything about their daily life. Gifted with an unusual talent to please and make herself indispensable, she has managed to capture the Crown Prince to a strange degree."

Louise was given sympathy and Charles was considered to be treating her with neglect. A known episode which attracted attention took place at the birthday garden party of Louise at Drottningholm Palace in 1857, when the Crown Prince proposed a toast to his "secret love" with both Louise and Josephine Sparre present. This caused a scene, and his brother, Prince Oscar, reprimanded him indirectly by asking his own spouse, Sofia of Nassau, to toast with him. This scene caused Louise to burst into tears and suffer a nervous attack.

Louise bore two children; Princess Louise in 1851, and Prince Carl Oscar in 1852. Due to complications that arose at the birth of Prince Carl Oscar, Louise was unable to have any more children. In 1854, her 2-year-old son, Carl Oscar, died of pneumonia. As the Salic law prevailed at that time in Sweden (having been affirmed by the constitution of 1809), Louise's daughter was not eligible to ascend the throne. Charles was very chagrined and disappointed because this meant that his progeny would not be the next monarch of Sweden; his heir would be his brother Oscar. Louise offered Charles a divorce so he could remarry and produce the heir he longed for, but he declined the offer.

Crown Princess Louise was not considered a social success, and her timid and shy nature was not appreciated in society because of her official position. Between 1857 and 1859, Crown Prince Charles was named regent during the incapacity of his father, and she took over the representational duties of first lady from her mother-in-law. During her spouse's reign as prince regent, she was described in the well-known court chronicle of Fritz von Dardel: "A more lovable and talented woman would have entirely recreated the atmosphere in this circle and also exerted a good influence upon the Prince, who, of a good nature, easily let himself be led by those he likes, especially women. Although good, dutiful and not one to plot, the crown princess lacks higher qualities. She is a good housewife but thinks only of her husband, herself and those closest to her and she has not the good influence on him which her good character gives her the right to have. Because of her inborn shyness, she lacks the courage to meddle in his affairs, and her only wish is to gain his love. With one word; she seems not mature enough for her great task"

Louise became Queen of Sweden and Norway at the death of her father-in-law on 8 July 1859. She was the first queen of the union of Sweden-Norway to be crowned in both Sweden and Norway, as Norway had refused to crown her two predecessors because they were Catholics. Louise was crowned Queen of Sweden in Stockholm on 3 May 1859 and Queen of Norway in Trondheim on 5 August 1860. She was the first queen to be crowned in Norway since the Middle Ages. Louise was very celebrated in Norway during her stay there.

Louise exerted no influence upon state affairs whatsoever, nor did she show any ambition to do so. The fact that she did not meddle in politics was seen as a good role model and was favorably compared to previous queens who had, such as her predecessor, Queen Josephine, and this view is described in a contemporary encyclopedia from 1864: "At last, the two kingdoms can rejoice in the blessing of again having a Queen, who does not proceed the governmental power with her own thoughts, but calmly observes the natural process through King and legitimate authority. Loved by the Swedish people, she has enough opportunity for her noble wish to occupy herself in charity".She did not lack political views, however: she disliked the parliamentary reform of 1865, and she did not share the anti-German view of Charles.

Louise preferred to use her royal position for philanthropy, which was also expected of a female member of the royalty and upper class. She founded the charity organisations: "Kronprinsessan Lovisas vårdanstalt för sjuka barn" (The Crown Princess Louise's Asylum for Sick Children) in 1854; "Femöreföreningen till inrättande av barnhem i Lappland" (The Five Öre Foundation for Orphanages in Lappland) in 1864; "Lotten Wennbergs fond för hjälpbehövande" (The Lotten Wennberg Foundation for the Needing) in 1864; "Drottning Lovisas understödsförening" (The Queen Louise Charity Foundation) in 1866; "Allmänna institutet för dövstumma och blinda" (The Public Institution of the Deaf and Blind); "Sällskapet för inrättande av småbarnsskolor" (The Society for Elementary Education School's Foundation); "Den fosterländska föreningen till uppmuntran av själverksamhet för framtida oberoende" (The Patriotic Society for the Encouragement of Self Employments for Future Independence); and the "Tysta skolan, eller uppfostrings- och undervisningsanstalten för dövstumma barn" (Silent School, or The Nursing- and Education Institution for Deaf and Mute Children) by Johanna Berglind.

Louise was interested in music and history, and took piano lessons from the Swedish pianist Adolf Fredrik Lindblad. She translated work from English and Dutch into Swedish, which she sold for charitable purposes. Louise and her daughter were students of Nancy Edberg, the pioneer of swimming for women: swimming was initially not regarded as being entirely proper for females, but when the Queen and her daughter Princess Louise supported it by attending the lessons from 1862, swimming quickly became fashionable and accepted for women. Louise employed Sweden's first female dentist, Rosalie Fougelberg, as her official personal dentist in 1867.Among her own personal friends was Aurore von Haxthausen, who was her maid of honor her entire time as queen, as well as Countess Stephanie Hamilton, who served as her Mistress of the Robes in 1859–60: the correspondence of Louise and Stephanie Hamilton is preserved. She also kept in contact with her family and her old governess by correspondence.

Queen Louise preferred a quiet and anonymous family life and preferred to avoid ceremonial and representational duties whenever she could, some times by pretending to be ill. King Charles, however, did not like to appear without her at formal occasions and occasionally forced her to be present. On one occasion, he is known to have said to her that she would have to attend, otherwise: "The old women might think there is something wrong with you!" In 1866, for example, Charles made her open the General Industrial Exposition of Stockholm (1866) in his place. King Charles XV loved parties and masquerades, and his court life at Ulriksdal Palace was compared that at Versailles and was in some circles considered to shame the name of the monarchy, expressed by the vicar Christoffer Bruun in 1881: "It still causes as shiver that the highest power of the church was placed in the hands of this degenerated King, who has filled the whole nation with talk of his debauched life." Louise was given an important part to play in his court life as the Queen, and upon the death of Queen Dowager Desirée, who had occupied the Queen's wing in the Stockholm Royal Palace until her death in 1860, Charles redecorated it for Louise and had a luxurious Venetian Mirror hall made to her reception room, which was much talked about (it was later removed by his successor). Her court was headed by Wilhelmina Bonde almost her entire tenure as queen. Reportedly, Louise suffered from her spouse's adultery and did her best to compete with her rivals and entertain him, and her mother-in-law advised her to remove and marry away her maids of honor when Charles became attracted to them. Charles had a relationship with Hanna Styrell from 1860 until 1869 and with Wilhelmine Schröder from 1869 until his death, except from his more temporary relationships. Charles was very fond of their daughter; however, Louise was worried that he treated their daughter too much like a son at a time when gender roles were considered extremely important, allowing her more freedom than what was considered to be suitable for a female at that time.

Louise suffered from bad health. On at least one occasion, during a boat trip on Mälaren, she suffered some kind of a fit (possibly an epileptic seizure from contemporary descriptions), which was interpreted to have been a hysterical reaction to her husband's neglect. The court gathered to conceal her from public view, and the King quickly took her below deck. In this issue, it is reported that: "Lovisa could at any time faint and in connection to this, she could have what is called nerve or cramp-attacks". In 1864, during a visit to court by a former lover of Charles, Josephine Sparre, Fritz von Dardel noted: "Initially the Queen is said to have felt worried for this visit; one evening, Her Majesty was about to have convulsions in the billiard hall, but this they attempted to conceal by claiming that it was caused by her chamberlain Liljenkrantz, who was supposed to have pushed her accidentally with his billiard pole..."

In 1870, Queen Louise visited the Netherlands to be present at the death bed of her mother. Upon her return to Stockholm, Charles XV fell sick and she nursed him. Exhausted, she contracted pneumonia during a walk by carriage. On her death bed, she had long conversations with her family, which have been described as dramatic. Her daughter claimed: "It was as if mother exposed her entire life to us". Louise asked Charles to forgive her everything in which she could have failed him, to which he responded by accusing himself, after which both he and his mother Josephine reportedly fainted because they were so moved. Louise died on 30 March 1871.

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garp19-jennicornall-blog · 5 years

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Research proposal statement

Why do we tell stories to children? The importance of children’s books and how to keep them relevant.

I have always loved books ever since I can remember. I have so many memories of my parents reading to me and putting on silly voices. The beautiful illustrations transported me to a different world allowing me to believe that I could be or do whatever I wanted. A world where animals wear waistcoats, twits played tricks, shooting stars, Scottish landscapes, naughty siblings and families with weird and wonderful pet animals. I learnt so much from these stories, they helped me get through bad times and made me learn about myself and the world around me. For instance, books from the likes of Beatrix Potter, Mairi Hedderwick, Julia Donaldson, Raymond Briggs. I have been interested in the children book industry for a while and thought this would be a perfect opportunity for me to learn more about it. Looking at the children book industry will help my personal practice, informing me how it works, and how it can relate to the position I am in. I will be looking into the origin of reading and children’s books by looking into folklore and how it shaped the industry that is today from the likes of Vladimir Propp. I will be looking at why its important children read and how we can encourage reading to be a part of a child’s routine. I will be going to local independent children’s bookshops to see how they encourage children to read and to look at their displays and workshops. I will look at the publishing industry and their policy on ethics over profits. I will also be looking at trends in books, to see what people are buying and why. I think this would be interesting to see the variety of books that exist and how it is evolving. For example for International Women’s Day the increase in books about strong female leads. Have they been there all the time or hidden at the back of the shelves? I also will be looking at illustrators and how children’s illustrations have changed with the use of digital illustration alongside traditional. This will be of interest to teachers, parents and people who want to get into the industry. This will help them understand how books and illustrations are still important and how they can be kept that way. They can see modern books that are on offer that can teach their children about our growing world and promoting equality.

Children are introduced to new worlds with books, they can meet new people from the present and past and they can really affect their lives. It sparks their imagination, develops thought provoking and critical thinking and helps them develop empathy. Reading allows children to have skills they will need for their future to help them thrive at school, work and life. (Cowell, 2018) Reading for pleasure is also important for mental health as well as economic success research states. ‘One in eight disadvantaged children in the UK do not own a single book of their own, and primary school libraries have closed across the nation.’ Another factor for why children are not reading is because of parents not having time to read with their child. ‘19% of parents struggle to find energy at the end of the day’ also 16% said their child prefers to do other things. Another struggle some parents find is not feeling comfortable in bookshops, with feeling overwhelmed by the variety of books. However, 61% of parents are concerned about how much screen time children are having. (Flood, 2018)

An interview between Quentin Blake and Lauren Child shows the way they draw and write for both adults and children. Child says how she treasures Blake’s comment about how young children can read a book even if they can’t actually read. ‘Whether I’m doing an adult book for The Folio Society or a book for a five- year old, it’s the same job and you should take it equally seriously.’ Child wants to address a similar method by speaking to both adults and children. ‘I think there is a misunderstanding about writers and illustrator for children. As if they don’t take their work as seriously as those who write and illustrate for adults. When actually it’s the same, the same thought process and integrity. It’s easy to feel you are there to be some kind of children’s entertainer at festivals for example.’ (Williams, 2017) The world of picture books owes much to John Burningham. His ‘visual poetry’ pushed boundaries of how much can be left unsaid. ‘He always treated the reader’s imagination with the utmost respect, whatever the reader’s age might be.’ He was able to communicate to children in their language ‘and in his understand of the mutually exclusive worlds of childhood and adulthood. (Salisbury, 2019)

During my research I am planning to look at themes in children’s books, looking at trends in books and why. I have broadly looked into how children’s books help and teach children about ‘difficult issues.’ Difficult meaning the effort to be able to deal and understand. (Dictionary, 2019) I have investigated why books like this need to exist for children and how it can help them. ‘All children deserve to be listened to: to have the chance to talk about their worst fears, their hopes and their dreams. (Edge, 2015) I have also explored what is suitable for children. How far can children’s books push the boundaries of what children should know and in what way. (Styles, 2012) I then started to investigate different topics that could be considered as ‘difficult’ or ‘taboo’; Such as equality, LGBT, death, illness, elderly, family and love.

In the lead up to international women’s day, I found lots of displays and books about women. I started to do research into equality, and how it’s presented in children’s books. Still in todays modern world, when an author reveals the gender of a creature it was 73% more likely to be male than female. Male creatures are also more likely to be shown as strong and dangerous and compared to animals like tigers and dragons. Whereas women are shown as more small and sensitive creatures such as birds and butterflies. Although there are new picture books with strong female characters, they didn’t make the bestseller list. However, illustrators and authors understand the importance of equality and it is slowly changing. However, parents are still buying books they know and trust from their childhood. Which aren’t perhaps promoting equality. (Ferguson, 2018)

I found a project called ‘No Outsiders’ in which UK primary schoolteachers looked at ways of addressing sexual equality in primary schools. It’s important to get the balance into how to educate children about sexuality for them to understand that everyone is different. The idea of the project was to prevent homophobia. In order to do this it would require talking about gender, sexuality and diversity openly in school. However, there was parents who protested against this causing a school to temporarily withdraw from the project. The aim of this project was to reduce bullying, which parents (Love, 2019) supported. However they were saying ‘our child is coming home and talking about same- sex relationships when we haven’t even talked about heterosexual relationships with them yet.’ A woman said that her 10 year old daughter came home from school after reading a couple of these books and said ‘We can’t have these books in the house, people might think we’re gay or something.’ The woman then stated how she realized in that moment that her daughter was already being ‘bombarded with peer pressure.’ ‘She had already realized and made her mind up that gay is bad and we can’t go there. If at this age they’re already saying that we can’t accept people for their life choices, then we have to start educating them earlier.’ A project teacher gave her own interpretation of homosexuality and did a story called ‘If I had 100 mummies.’ A girl responded by putting her hand up and said she had two mummies. ‘We framed it that she is the luckiest one to have two mummies, because we’d all like 100 kisses at bedtime and 100 ice creams if we went out to play.’ This empowered the child’s parents, as they came in and said how pleased they were that this was being addressed and their situation being framed as the norm. (DePalma, 2016)

Another aspect I have researched is about illustrators and how they are treated in the industry. This is something I want to look more into especially for children’s illustrators. An illustrator surveyed 1261 illustrators about their pay, workload and contracts. He found that most illustrators are based at home while only 11% share studios. Illustrators found that the most work they got was from the publishing industry with 24% and editorial work with 19%, closely followed by prints and exhibitions at 18% and 16% from advertising. Most of their work came from self-promotion 33% and repeat clients 30%. Social media is a big impact with it helping 21% of the illustrators, agents however only bringing 9%. Instagram was the most important social media source for those surveyed. It is an easy way for illustrators to get their work out there and for a large amount of people to see at a click of a finger. However there is still some way to go. 69% felt they could not earn a suitable amount to live sustainably just from illustration and have had to have side jobs. (Brewer, 2018)

The children book industry is a big area to research. I want to find out things that are going to be relevant to my practice and potential future in the industry. I want to look at illustrators and how they’ve entered the industry. I will be doing research into whether they have an agent or if they are freelance. Comparing this to international illustrators such as Sweden and Norway who have wages whereas many illustrators in the UK tend to work freelance. Why is this? How do freelance illustrators find work? I want to look into whether having an agent is needed and look at well-known illustrators and their journey in children’s books. I am planning to look at different agents and their clients seeing how successful they have been. Has social media been a big impact on the illustration industry? How has it helped illustrators and impacted their lives mentally. I also would like to look into techniques illustrators use. Looking at traditional illustration such as Beatrix Potter compared to digital illustration such as Jim Field who uses digital techniques in his work. Is the change with advanced technology good for the industry or bad? Why do people choose to draw digitally and does it have the same effect as using traditional methods.

Another area to look into would be in the publishing industry. Looking at the type of books they sell and what they promote, for example around international women’s day there were displays in every bookshop and in chains such as Waterstones. Yet where are these books on a normal day? I want to look further into who decides the market focus is right and how can it be changed to promote equality and issues such as LGBT, race, diversity and so on. Another research point would be to look at certain publishing houses such as Penguin, reviewing the books they have on offer for children, I want to see the trends in books they sell and doing an analysis on what’s popular and why. It might also be interesting looking at the type of books children read at school and how they involve books in education. Another area I want to look in is the increase in EBooks and Audio books. With the increase in young children using tablets are they likely to use these than read an actual book or be read to. What is this doing to children, what are the benefits?

I have found some books that I feel will be helpful for my research and the understanding of the children book industry. For instance How to be an Illustrator by Darrel Rees. I have already read some of this book before but I think it will give me a good insight into the illustration industry. Other books I am planning on reading are: Illustration: What’s the point? By Mouni Feddag and Becoming a Successful Illustrator by Derek Brazell. Books that are more specific to the children’s book industry are: How to Write a Children’s Picture Book and Get it Published by Andrea Shavick; Illustrating Children’s Books- Creating Pictures for Publication by Martin Salinsbury; Drawn from the Archive: Hidden Histories of Illustration by Seven stories Press; Little Big Books: Illustration for Children's Picture Books by Robert Klanten and 100 Great Children's Picture books by Martin Salisbury and Illustrating Children's books by Martin Ursell.

I am planning on doing some primary research over the holidays. I have a few ideas of what I could possibly do, but this will likely change once I have done more research on my subject. Also the type of questions and focus may change slightly with more knowledge and understanding of my subject. One idea I had would be doing an interview with an independent children’s bookshop owner. I am planning to visit some over the summer and there is a few local book shops dedicated to just children’s novels. I would want to ask the owner about their opinion on the industry, to find out are people still buying books like they used to. Do they hold any workshops, book readings/ signings, if so do many people attend? I would ask about their ethics over profits and the type of books they sell and why. Another possibility would be to do an online questionnaire asking friends and family about their experience with children’s books. Over the summer I want to visit as many independent book shops as I can. While doing some research I discovered some local ones The Childrens Bookshop in Hay- On- Wye and Booka Bookshop in Oswestry. I am also hoping to go to London and bookshops I would like to go to are Chiltern Bookshops in Gerrad’s Cross, Foyes in Charing Cross, The Owl Bookshop Kentish Town, Kew Bookshop, London Review Bookshop in Bloomsbury and Daunt Books in Marylebone. I would also like to go in some museums and galleries such as The Cartoon Museum, The House of Illustration, House of MinaLima, Chris Beetles Gallery and Marianne North Gallery in Kew gardens.

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It’s a bit of a love-hate relationship

(You can find a Swedish translation of this text here.)

I have often crossed routes with Gestalta Judd, who is one of the few in Europe who teaches bondage for a living. I wanted to speak to her because of her intimate knowledge of what has been coined as “rope nomadism”, which I think of as an interesting parallel to travelling for performing arts – but also because I was curious about how Brexit would affect her travel. Gestalta brought another subject to the table: her attempt to stay on the ground in 2019 for political reasons.

Gestalta Judd: My income is entirely based on doing rope, mostly teaching. I have to travel to teach – I wouldn’t make enough otherwise. What I usually do is a combination of workshops and performances, where the performances don’t really give much income. It’s really more of a break-even situation where I offset unpaid work with a paid job in the same place. This is how I usually manage to do creative things that I like, such as performing or photo and film.

I’ve been travelling for rope events since about 2014, but I was travelling quite a bit already before: for photographic modelling and stuff like that. So actually, I’ve been travelling my whole adult life. There is no clear pattern to how I travel, but I’ve been to most countries in Europe at some point. For a while, I did lots of trips to Prague in a row, and now I’ve done lots of trips to Norway. It’s similar for most teachers, I think. You teach what you have, and then you won’t come back to that particular area again until you have new content, or until the group has changed enough that there is new interest.

It was rope that made me go outside Europe; I’ve taught in Australia, for example. But I’ve never been to the States. One of the reasons is that I’m afraid of being turned away at the border and then both losing the payment for the job and not being reimbursed for the money I spent on the ticket. No one is ever going to get me a working visa to do anything considered adult. So, I’d have to go on a tourist visa and hope that they don’t google me, because Gestalta is a legal name and very uncommon. Even if I’d do something for free, if I’m there for an event that is making money, that’s already too much for the States. When I teach abroad, the travel is often calculated out of the workshop fee. This means that cheap flying and cheap buses are what generally allow this kind of teaching to happen. Since I get refunded and paid only if I show up, it’s lucky that I’ve never been too sick to go. If I had to cancel under those circumstances, it would be a trust thing. I think most organisers are decent people and would be able to discuss who was in a better financial position to cover the loss of the travelling cost. I bring as little as possible: my ropes, a bar of soap, my toothbrush, light clothes like leggings and stuff. If I’m going to a cold country, I try to take only one heavy outfit that I can wear over all my other clothes. Then I hope that I can borrow whatever else I need when I get there. While travelling, I try to sleep, or I take my headphones and just zone out completely for a while. If it’s a very long trip, I might try to do some writing, like workshop descriptions or such.

I would normally stay with one of the organisers or a student; whoever has a spare room or sofa. It’s very rare to get a hotel. It’s hard to afford that kind of thing. I often try to stay in places where there’s a kitchen and I can cook for myself and box it up to bring wherever I go. I’ve found that I get less tired when I’m eating what my body is used to, rather than having to rely on an unfamiliar diet. Every year for the last three years, I’ve been thinking that I will definitely stop travelling. But every year something new comes up. It’s a bit of a love-hate relationship. I absolutely can’t imagine what I would be doing if not rope. And I love doing it once I get there. But I’ve reached a point where the thought of travelling is actually horrible. And when I get home, I’m not really quite at home either, because I spend so little time there. I feel annoyed about the difficulty of putting down roots. The reason why I still want to continue is that I learn so much from the differences in how people construct their communities. I get to see rope from so many perspectives. And I have this familiarity with people globally, like they have become locals to me. There is no longer a strict divide between the teacher and the student like there used to be, when travelling teachers were less common. It’s more of an exchange now. It happens that I go to someone’s workshop and then the next day that person comes to my workshop. I used to feel more isolated. Being at a workshop in a room full of people talking about how great it is using this tool to connect with your partner, I sometimes had this strange sense of, “Oh but I’ve been travelling for so long I don’t really have any partners ’cause it’s impossible for me to sustain any meaningful connection with someone that I never see…” It was a bleak kind of feeling.

How much I travel varies greatly. At the heaviest, I could be flying twice a week, easily, and that could go on for months. At the lightest, I take months off and try not to go anywhere. If I do a big trip outside Europe, I try to earn enough to be able to rest when I come home. I have to be organised and hyper-focused when I work. If there’s too much going on outside what I’m focusing on, I start to forget things, and if I start to forget things, it’s over. Relationships at home just have to take a back seat. The times when I’ve been travelling the most, I either didn’t have any intense relationships or they broke up as a result of it. My long-term friends are used to sometimes not seeing or hearing from me for a while.

At the moment, I’m based in Leeds in the north of England. I just moved here a few months ago from Berlin. It was a bit of an accidental move. I thought I was just going to stay for the summer, partly to get an Irish passport in order to avoid getting my travelling opportunities limited by Brexit. We’re almost apathetic about Brexit now, just crossing our fingers for it not to happen, but I moved just in case. I thought I would hate living here. But I’ve been too busy to change my passport so I can’t leave yet, and also bizarrely I really love this slightly obscure town. We’ll see how long it continues.

As it happens, I’m fairly involved with the climate change movement in the UK – and I made a promise not to fly so much for 2019. In March, I did my first workshop outside UK for the year. For the first time in my international long-distance travelling, I decided that the workshop was paying enough for me to get the train. It’s my goal to continue doing that. Economically it will be interesting: I’ll have to look carefully at what jobs I can afford to take, or where I can make up for the extra cost. I’ve been justifying my way of travelling before by saying that I never fly for holidays, only for work. But it’s getting to a point where I feel that isn’t much of an excuse anymore. It’s not like I’m a surgeon saving lives. Not to say that my work lacks value, but it’s for pleasure whether it’s for me or for the people taking the workshop. The rope scene has lived through a very special time. Without really even thinking about it, we’ve been able to build friendships with people who don’t live in our country. It’s not like, “We’ll see each other in three years,” when you leave; it’s more of a casual “Yeah, see you soon.” It’s been a really short and unique time, and I don’t think it’s going to last unless we come up with some serious changes. This is sad, especially for a community that has such a niche interest. But if we’re doing something to make a change now, we are still making the choice. I think at the point where we’re forced into doing these changes, the survival of the rope community will be the least of our worries.

It’s time to start thinking collectively about what we can do as a community. There is no reason why every single person individually flies in for a big rope event when you have twenty people coming from Sweden and twenty people coming from Spain. I know it’s annoying to get a bus, but if they could share it, that would be very affordable. Yes, it would take an extra twenty hours of their time and they would be uncomfortable, and it would require central organising and someone actually taking charge, but maybe it’s the sort of thing that we need to consider now. Also, if people start to be a little bit more strict with what they allow themselves to do, then maybe train companies, bus companies and other alternatives to flying will have to catch up and make both prices and information more accessible. However, to truly make a shift in how people travel, the government needs to incentivise better transport options. Either air fares are too cheap or train fares are too expensive. They need to be swapped. Within the UK, train fares are obscenely expensive. I’m more or less cut off for economic reasons from travelling with train. For example, instead of travelling two hours from Leeds to London, I take a bus for six hours. I don’t really mind being stuck there, but the longer I travel, the more exhausting it will become. It’s not really a sacrifice for me at the moment to take three days out of my schedule to do a weekend workshop. But realistically, if I was taking the bus to another country in Europe, that’s a day of travel, and then I would probably want to arrive there a day earlier because I would just want to spend the day recovering. And then there are the two days for the workshop, and then a day of travelling back. And then I would probably want to spend another day recovering at home. So, there a two-day workshop has become a six-day job. I can really see that happening. The cost in terms of time and tiredness and that sort of emotional thing is the biggest concern, also when thinking about the amount of time that I’m already now away from friends and family. Another way to go about this would be to organise more: to try to stay for several weeks consecutively in one place or area. That would mean more time away from family and friends, but maybe then I could spend the next month at home with them without having to travel at all. Maybe that’s a sacrifice worth making, but it demands cooperation with and between different organisers. I don’t know if it will make a difference, but it’s exciting that the environmental movement in the UK is gaining such momentum. Today, we’re doing a protest against the bank HSBC and that they are still investing in fracking. There are some local fracking sites around here, and there were some induced earthquakes, so many groups are organising against it. But there are people in all of UK pretty much prepared to organise a new protest every week. Everyone is equally culpable, so it’s just to pick anything. Last week I was in London working, so then we did a protest against fast fashion. Then there was one because the BBC are not reporting enough on the environmental catastrophes we’re currently in. Here in Leeds, which is a small town, we did a protest for schools and young people. We thought maybe two hundred would come. A thousand showed up.

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'We put our bodies through hell and back': behind the scenes with the stars of the Women's World Cup

In the run-up to the tournament, Lucy Bronze, Kelley O’Hara and other international players were given disposable cameras. They share the sacrifice, solidarity – and ice baths – that got them to the World Cup

Embarrassingly, there were tears running down my face when I stepped into the roaring stands for England’s first match of the 2019 Women’s World Cup in Nice. Football is just a game, but for women players it is hard to disengage from the sexism and stresses that accompany it. Watching Nikita Parris flowing down the wing, smashing in a penalty at the 14th minute, then Ellen White’s initial offside goal being rewarded by the real deal: I know how hard their predecessors had fought for these moments of unadulterated joy.

The frenzy of press and promotion in the lead up to this year’s tournament was unprecedented. But Goal Click, a five-year-old social enterprise that sends disposable cameras to footballers around the world and then publishes the results online (alongside candid interviews), has been well ahead of the strike. Before the tournament, their cameras ended up in the hands of 18 international players, including England striker Lucy Bronze, Jamaica defender Lauren Silver and USA midfielder Sam Mewis. All have captured the beautiful game in a singularly personal way.

Above: USA midfielder Rose Lavelle (on left) and forward/co-captain Alex Morgan in an ice bath, taken by teammate Sam Mewis: ‘I tried to show realistic parts of our lives. The bathrooms (not glamorous), the ice bath (cold as F), the bus (constantly travelling), Facetiming my husband’

Left: Selfie with Lyon Champions League shirt, taken by England star Lucy Bronze: ‘It’s match day against Chelsea, and I’m holding my shirt with its five badge on the arm because Lyon have won five Champions Leagues. It’s a cool reminder of the history that comes with playing for a club like mine’

Right: Lucy Bronze’s image of fellow Lyon players celebrating reaching the Champions League final, including (from left) Delphine Cascarino, Eugénie Le Sommer and Wendie Renard, who all play for the French national team

Above: England and Manchester City forward Ellen White, taken by her then Birmingham City teammate Marisa Ewers: ‘Ellen was interviewed after our last home game at St Andrews. She’s been outrageous during her time at the Blues – top goalscorer in every season’

Left: Arsenal’s boot room, taken by Beth Mead, forward for England and Arsenal: ‘This is a little shed we keep our boots in. It shows how humble we are in the women’s game. We don’t need big flash things’

Right: Hedvig Lindahl, goalkeeper for Sweden and Chelsea, snaps her youngest son, Nathan: ‘My little boy stepping on to a plane [to a game]. Family is affected by our choice of career. The biggest sacrifice I’ve made is the relationships you have to say no to, like spending time with my 96-year-old grandmother’

Above: Lydia Williams, goalkeeper for Australia, taken by her teammate, defender Steph Catley: ‘This sums up our team. We were heading into one of the biggest tournaments of our careers but we’re the same free-spirited bunch of Aussies we’ve always been. I lost my father suddenly last year. The unity and the family you develop are the most important part of it’

Above: Members of the USA team, including (from left) Ali Krieger, Alex Morgan, Tobin Heath, Allie Long and Megan Rapinoe, in pre-tournament training in San José, California in May, taken by Kelley O’Hara: ‘Just 22 of my best friends getting ready for the biggest games of our lives. Football is the greatest sport on Earth. I hope the generations that come after I am done playing continue to push the sport forward’

Left: Goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl and defender Anita Asante, with other Chelsea players, boarding the plane to play in the Champions League semiifinal, taken by Ali Riley, defender for New Zealand and Chelsea: ‘We weren’t able to charter a private plane. It highlights the differences between us and the men’

Right: USA defender Kelley O’Hara’s shot of her legs (and ice packs) at training camp: ‘We put our bodies through hell and back’

Above: Brazil defender Monica and forward Kerolin playing Teqball, a hybrid of football and table tennis, taken by defender Tamires: ‘When I started playing football on the street, it wasn’t easy because I was always the only girl, so they sometimes didn’t let me play. I heard things like, “Football is for men” or, “Go and clean a kitchen.” Some years later I had a chance to move to São Paulo to start my career, and I did not think twice’

Left: Eugénie Le Sommer, France’s star striker, takes a picture of her foot on the ball

Right: Cecilie Kvamme, Norway and Sandviken defender, playing football cards with a teammate’s son, captured by fellow player Stine Hovland: ‘I am a pre-school teacher and work in a kindergarten. But before the World Cup, I got permission from work to focus on playing. I started when I was six and made my debut for the national team when I was 27 – many years of hard work before it paid off’

Above: Brazil squad members Letícia, Tamires, Kathellen and Luana before pre-World Cup training, taken by Aline Reis, their goalkeeper: ‘Through football I’ve met my best friends, earned a college and master’s degree, learned to speak other languages and seen the world through a new perspective. My hope is that after this World Cup, a lot more people will appreciate and support the women’s game’

Left: Trondheims-Ørn playing another top division Norwegian team, taken by Lauren Silver, who plays in defence there, as well as for the Jamaican national team: ‘Playing in the snow is really hard. My toes go numb, plus the ground is slippery. Opportunities to play in Jamaica are slim. But we are making huge strides on equal pay. We’ve just established contracts with the Jamaican Football Federation for the first time!’

Right: The Thailand squad at training, taken by Miranda Nild, also known as Suchawadee Nildhamrong: ‘I think we will help to inspire a new cohort of young women who want to play soccer, because they have seen people from their country go to a World Cup. My family understands my dream to play professional soccer but expect me to get a “real” job afterwards. That’s daunting’

Above: Córdoba CF teammates walk on to their home pitch, taken by Chile defender Fernanda Pinilla: ‘I started playing soccer at six and played with boys until I was 13, when I joined my first women’s team. We do not have professional football in Chile, so I had to move to Spain. I am fulfilling a childhood dream, but leaving my family has been very difficult’

Above: The USA team relax, taken by midfielder Sam Mewis: ‘I love seeing more women’s football in the media. It’s not just the players who are creating change – the world is starting to pay attention’

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Women in power bring more benefits to society. Having more women in positions of power would mean more laws and policies geared towards improving the lives of women and children as well as of the family. Women are known to be closely involved with community life and with this, an addition of more women in authority would mean interests of local communities would be addressed. Currently, the number of men leader compared to women leaders show a big difference as there are still countries that have not made progress concerning women leadership.

In this article the writer intended to persuade the readers on the benefits from having more women in positions of power. This can be in the the title of the article, Everyone Benefits from More Women in Power. A claim of policy is a claim that talks about what policy should be followed and what procedures should be adopted. The article claims that more women should be in power and calls for equal political opportunities. This can be seen in the line by Winnie Byanyima “It is not about men against women, but there is evidence to show through research that when you have more women in public decision-making, you get policies that benefit women, children and families in general” as well as in the line “I reminded everyone that her unborn daughter will be 50 before her world offers equal political opportunity. And that baby will be 80 before she has equal economic opportunity.” This shows the current situation of the world and if people do not act, women would still be accorded second to men in the generations to come.

The author of the article, Marianela Jarroud, is a Chilean journalist who has been reporting for Inter Press Service since February 2012. Some of her articles include The Waves of the Pacific Are on Chile’s Energy Horizon, Small-scale Fishing Is About Much More than Just Subsistence in Chile, Terrace Farming – an Ancient Indigenous Model for Food Security, Chile’s Altiplano Region Seeks Sustainable Tourism, Latin American Legislators, a Battering Ram in the Fight Against Hunger, Hydropower at Front and Centre of Energy Debate in Chile, Once Again, Land Tenure Still a Challenge for Women in Latin America and more. The article was published by the Our World web magazine. The Our World web magazine shares expert views, research and commentary on contemporary affairs of relevance to the mandate of the United Nations. This award-winning web magazine, brought by the United Nations University (UNU), exchanges these insights through video briefs, articles, debates, photo essays and public events.

The purpose of the article, Everyone Benefits from More Women in Power, was to persuade readers that putting women in a position of power is not a bad idea but one that should be considered and acted upon. This can be seen in the line by Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka “There is already enough evidence in the world to show the positive impact of women’s leadership. Women have successfully built and run countries and cities, economies and formidable institutions.” Although this statement supports the main idea of the text, it could have been made stronger with examples to justify it. Furthermore, the following statements show statistical evidence of the change in society pertaining to women in positions of power: “In 1995, women accounted for 11.3 percent of the world’s legislators, and only the parliaments of Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden had more than 30 percent women. And only three women were heads of state and seven were heads of government.” and in the line “Today, women represent 21.9 percent of parliamentarians globally, and 39 lower houses of Congress around the world are made up of at least 30 percent women. In addition, 10 women are heads of state and 15 are heads of government.” Moreover, pathos, the appeal to the audience in a way that relies on their emotional or personal connection to the subject matter can be seen in the text. This is supported in the line “I reminded everyone that her unborn daughter will be 50 before her world offers equal political opportunity. And that baby will be 80 before she has equal economic opportunity.” Generally, it can be said that the purpose of the article was attained.

Based on the text’s context, the supporting ideas were able to reinforce the text’s main idea. This could, however, have used more supporting claims that come from a credible source. Furthermore, the text was able to prove that the policy is needed so as to empower women more and be able to give them more opportunities to apply their leadership skills. The policy being supported on having more women in positions of power and the call for gender equality is very much something practical and reasonable. This is one way to surpass the stereotypical assumption that women are meant for housework and men are called to lead society. Moreover, the text was able to to show how the policy will be able to benefit them as seen in the line which was talking about a pregnant woman set to give birth in six weeks, “I reminded everyone that her unborn daughter will be 50 before her world offers equal political opportunity. And that baby will be 80 before she has equal economic opportunity.” One of the actions pleaded in the article was to “put equality on the political agenda” and that “change cannot continue to be the sole responsibility of civil society groups that defend the rights of women, but requires action by the authorities and those in power — both men and women.”

In terms of organization, the text was organized fairly well as it started with an introduction, body, and conclusion, as well as a call to action in the end. The introduction can be seen in the first paragraph which gives a brief overview of the author’s stand and what the article is about. This is followed by the body which is supported by various statistical data, quotes from important people and reports to justify the claim. Furthermore, this is followed by the conclusion as seen in the line “According to the female leaders and experts meeting in Santiago, change cannot continue to be the sole responsibility of civil society groups that defend the rights of women, but requires action by the authorities and those in power — both men and women.” This line gives the text some sort of closure and wrapping-up which is good. Lastly, the call to action is seen in the following lines: “Twenty years after the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, women know what is needed to reach gender equality. Now it is time to act.” and “The heirs of Beijing are the heirs of voices that call on us and urge us to put equality on the political agenda.” Overall, it can be said that the text is well-organized. In addition to this, no hypertexts were used in the article.

Transitional devices are important because they help carry the reader from one idea to the next. They help a reader see the connection or relationship between ideas and, just as important, transitions also prevent sudden, jarring mental leaps between sentences and paragraphs. The text, however, did not use any transitional devices which is something that could be improved to make the text more consistent. Overall, it was observed that each of the sentences related to the main topic, however, the sentences were not properly connected using transitional devices.

In terms of language use and word choice, the author did not use any foul language and the choice of words were appropriate for the text. Furthermore, punctuation marks were also properly used as well as capitalization. Moreover, the refraining use of contractions gave the article a more formal atmosphere which is something commendable. In terms of cohesion, the text was fairly cohesive as one sentence related to the next. Aside from this, the coherence of the text was very good as it was able to focus and tackle various important points about the issue.

In conclusion, the text was very well-written and the properties of well written text were evident, although the transition from one idea to the next needed something to connect the different ideas. Having a well-written text goes hand in hand with how well the readers will be able to grasp the message of the text. Readers will be more captivated reading a text if it can appeal to the audience.

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