Nicholas Kristof
The article “Meet a 21st Century Slave” was published on October 24, 2015 on The New York Times opinion pages and written by Nicholas Kristof. This article talks about how a real human being survived the cruelty in 21st century slavery. The context of this article is social, cultural, and historical. It is social because this article portrays how Poonam Thapa did not have any say on how she would live her own life. It is also cultural and historical because this article provides how she was treated in India and how she was a slave in the 21st century. This article talks about a real life event that has happened to Poonam Thapa. It also talks about how her life in “modern slavery” was like when she was a 12 years old slave in Mumbai, India.
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He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College and then studied law at Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, graduating with first class honors. He later studied Arabic in Cairo and Chinese in Taipei. While working in France after high school, he caught the travel bug and began backpacking around Africa and Asia during his student years, writing articles to cover his expenses. Mr. Kristof has lived on four continents, reported on six, and traveled to more than 140 countries, plus all 50 states, every Chinese province and every main Japanese island. He's also one of the very few Americans to be at least a two-time visitor to every member of the Axis of Evil. During his travels, he has had unpleasant experiences with malaria, mobs and an African airplane crash. After joining The New York Times in 1984, initially covering economics, he served as a Times correspondent in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo. He is credible because he also covered presidential politics and is the author of the chapter on President George W. Bush in the reference book "The Presidents." He later was Associate Managing Editor of the Times, responsible for Sunday editions. Also, he has written more opinion page in The New York Times. The New York Times website is credibly because there is a lot of writers that have been part of the program, and that all the things they have published have facts and statistics and all of the pieces of writing are being published
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College and then studied law at Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, graduating with first class honors. He later studied Arabic in Cairo and Chinese in Taipei. While working in France after high school, he caught the travel bug and began backpacking around Africa and Asia during his student years, writing articles to cover his expenses. Mr. Kristof has lived on four continents, reported on six, and traveled to more than 140 countries, plus all 50 states, every Chinese province and every main Japanese island. He's also one of the very few Americans to be at least a two-time visitor to every member of the Axis of Evil. During his travels, he has had unpleasant experiences with malaria, mobs and an African airplane crash. After joining The New York Times in 1984, initially covering economics, he served as a Times correspondent in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo. He is credible because he also covered presidential politics and is the author of the chapter on President George W. Bush in the reference book "The Presidents." He later was Associate Managing Editor of the Times, responsible for Sunday editions. Also, he has written more opinion page in The New York Times. The New York Times website is credibly because there is a lot of writers that have been part of the program, and that all the things they have published have facts and statistics and all of the pieces of writing are being published