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1、movie: Desert flowermovie: Desert flower Director: Sherry Hormann Director: Sherry Hormann Zhang yifanNew wordsNomadic 游牧的游牧的 游牧生活的游牧生活的Circumcision 割礼割礼Embassy 大使馆大使馆 大使馆全体人员大使馆全体人员Billboard 广告牌广告牌Prestigious 有名望的有名望的 声望很高的声望很高的Silhouette 影子影子 轮廓轮廓 atrocity 暴行暴行 残暴残暴 This is the inspiring true stor

2、y of Waris Dirie, an extraordinary, proud and brave woman whose bestselling biography Desert Flower touched the hearts of readers worldwide. Born in the Somalian desert in 1965, Waris Dirie rose from a poverty nomadic life to the fashion catwalks of New York. When she was three years old, she was fo

3、rced to accept the most brutal and ignorant female circumcision which took her sisters life . As a desert nomad, Waris Dirie was sold to marriage at the age of 13 to a man old enough to be her grandfather as his fourth wife . So she fled the Somalian desert by foot. Waris trudged through the desert

4、that seemed endless. She lay down in the cold wind during the darkness and had a break, she pick up the leaves to fill her stomach when the food was run out. She almost raped along the journey . Finally she find her grandma, and spent several years with her grandma.Then she worked for one of her cou

5、sins in Somalia Embassy in London , where she started a new life. A few years later She was forced to leave Embassy and encountered a ballet dancer ,and they become roommates . This grile helped her find a job served as a cleaner in a restaurant. Gradually ,she found it incredible that girls were no

6、t “cut” (the rite of circumcision) at a young age there.In this restaurant a prestigious photographer who want to search new faces spotted her perfect face with a nice silhouette .Then the photographer helped her become one of the worlds top models in the 90s.learn to walkWallaces pictures appeared

7、on the prosperous city center billboards and fashionable magazines. First fashion showHowever, circumcision bring her the physical and mental pain for the rest of her life. In order to make other women like her are no longer suffering this cruelty custom, she chose to show her wounds and suffering to the public. Waris Dirie is the first people to fight the horrific practice of female circumcision . In 1997, Mr. Kofi Annan the Secretary-G