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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Mar 24, 2020 16:51:43 GMT
Kevin You'll be surprised at what we can achieve in other countries. In India the rape laws were very lax. I remember this awful case in Dehli where a young woman was savagely raped by a group of men. The young woman died. Well we signed petirions, wrote letters and bombarded the government to tighten up the law regarding rape. Even outsiders can put pressure on Governments and organisations to bring about change,. The laws on rape have been considerably strengthened in India. Maybe we played a part in that decision. I saw this headline recently. Four Indian men convicted of the gang rape and murder of a student in Delhi in 2012 have been hanged. (BBC News 20 March 2020)
I could name so many other instances where our petitions, etc have helped bring about change abroard.
Odd that no mention has been made of your group's endeavours, that it was the country's woman, and some men, who decided enough is enough, woman and some religions, are not second-class citizens, or belongings. But then again, countries should realise that the world is now watching them, and almost everyone has a smart phone with a built in cam and internet. The internet also now shows people that what they put up with is not always the norm across the world.
It's a bit like the fall of the Berlin Wall. Russians knew very little about what happened outside their county, until the invention of the fax machine.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2020 19:24:12 GMT
Kevin, I belong to several groups. Which group do you say I belomg to? I also sign lots of petitions on issues I care about. Yes I am not saying that the country's women didn't play their part, but our petitions started way before and our actions played a strong role in raising awareness of the rapes going on in India. Other countries are effected when millions of people contact them or present petitions signed by huge numbers.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Mar 25, 2020 3:15:59 GMT
I have no idea. Which groups do you belong to that the regimes of other countries take notice of?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2020 7:50:40 GMT
Kevin I must explain the role of the many groups I belong to and the countless petitions I sign. (Now that I am so old my part is more passive) Our role is not only to pester those organisations and governments that we feel must change their policies, but we also raise awareness among the locals of that country, particularly the young. When people become aware of certain unfairness or wrongs in their country they will often group together in order to bring about change. Take what happened in China recently. Young people are becoming increasingly aware of the Chinese habit of eating dogs. An advocate against killing dogs for meat spotted a truck full of dogs for slaughter and others of a like mind started following it. Eventually they stopped the truck and 2400 dogs were rescued.
Raising awareness gets people acting and brings about change. Our more active members will visit countries and mobilize others. My concerns are not just for compassion in world farming but issues like the unfair situation of women in Saudi and other countries, the wrongness of child marriages etc. That is why my eBooks such as the Stolen series (inequality in Saudi) The Pig Child (Animal rights) The Holocaust and Beyond (let it not happen again) are free. Of the hundreds of downloads that I've had, maybe some people will read the books and see the injustices. Perhaps the books, the poems and articles I write that are published in newspapers etc. will raise awareness and help bring about change. I can but hope!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2020 7:57:49 GMT
To return to publishing. I thank all those who encouraged and helped me in my attempts to have my children's picture book published. I've sent it off to several publishers specialising in Children's books. Some people have said that because of the subject matter it will not be taken up by a traditional publisher but I can but try. I will self-publish it in Lulu if I am unsucessful. Once again THANK YOU to those here who helped me.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Mar 26, 2020 11:37:22 GMT
To return to publishing. I thank all those who encouraged and helped me in my attempts to have my children's picture book published. I've sent it off to several publishers specialising in Children's books. Some people have said that because of the subject matter it will not be taken up by a traditional publisher but I can but try. I will self-publish it in Lulu if I am unsucessful. Once again THANK YOU to those here who helped me. You never know, moderns these days in many cases appear to be developing a higher level of social consciousness. Publishers often tend to print what reflects the interests of the readers, and showing members of a new generation a more humane way to view the world around them is an interest many parents hold.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2020 12:46:19 GMT
I'm not religious Sphinx-Cameron but there are some good bits in the Bible (which I know very well.) "And a little child shall lead them."
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Post by ronmiller on Apr 1, 2020 21:16:54 GMT
Back to the original subject, more or less...
I recently got back the edited MS for the YA science book I am working on. It's about 25,000 words. There were a couple of hundred corrections, comments and suggestions...the former mostly trivial fixes in spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc...and many of those were to just get the text in line with the house style.
The main point I will be making is to dispel yet one more old wives' tale, one that drives a lot of people to self-publish. And that's the fear that an editor will re-write their book. Which is just nonsense.
Many of the things I had to do only I could take care of. For instance, expanding or adding an explanation to make an idea clearer. But the majority of fixes were trivial, as I said. These were all marked by the editor but I was the one who had to make the changes. Although it would have been dead easy for the editor to change words, fix misspellings, add commas or rearrange sentences, it was left to me to do those things. There were a few places where the editor made one or two global changes, all of which were to keep the book in line with the house style, but these were pointed out to me and had to get my OK---they were not done without my knowledge. (And it was fne with me, since it saved me a lot of time that I could use to better purpose.) Besides, there were more than a few places where I disagreed with the editor and a few places where I found a better way to fix something than the way he suggested.
The point is that it is not the job of an editor to rewrite books. That's what the author is for. An editor may be working on several books at once, he or she doesn't have time to fix things that the author should take care of. And there is also the very good reason that a book should be entirely in the author's voice.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Apr 1, 2020 22:33:46 GMT
Hopefully one day I'll be able to enjoy the same experience, though I'm not certain how one can expand on a '76 year model Studebaker Armored Car, unless it's engine size and horsepower.
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