Assignment#3

Rephrase the following excerpts from internet such that the context of the discussion
remains unaffected and the total word count remains the same or increased a little.
I’ll appreciate if you go for all of those.

After Winfrey’s powerful speech at the 2018 Golden Globes on Sunday,

even President Donald Trump weighed in on the prospect, and his daughter,
Ivanka, tried to ride the Oprah wave. An idea that a couple of years ago
would have seemed all but impossible now has plenty of political observers
asking: Why not?

Oprah certainly possesses a level of star power that rivals, even surpasses,
Trump’s. She has wide name recognition and is well-liked, especially among
coalitions important to Democrats — women, African Americans. Some,
however, are already begging Winfrey not to run. America shouldn’t be a
place where celebrity is a prerequisite for politics, they say, and we don’t need
another political novice in the White House.

Responding to the buzz, President Trump on Tuesday said Winfrey’s

hypothetical campaign would be “lots of fun.” “I did one of her last shows. ... I
like Oprah. I don’t think she’s going to run,” he said.

At least some in the political world seem to be taking the Oprah 2020 idea
seriously — showing just how much Trump’s election has rewritten the rules
of celebrities in politics. Oprah proved in 2008 that she has plenty of political
power; her Golden Globes speech has sparked debate about how she should
use it.

Oprah, a talk show host, actress, producer, philanthropist, and all-around

media heavyweight, spoke of her own career achievements but also placed
herself in a historical context of race and class and the current context of
gender and women’s rights. She recounted the story of civil rights hero.
The New York businessman-turned-politician, Donald Trump said many controversial
things and flip-flopped on a number of policy positions during the campaign.

Here, we look back at 24 of his professed beliefs.

1. The US should use waterboarding
This and other methods of "strong interrogation"should be deployed in its fight against
the Islamic State group. These methods, Mr Trump said, are "peanuts" compared to the
tactics used by the militants, such as beheadings. "I like it a lot. I don't think it's tough
enough," he said in June of the banned practice.
2. Mexico should pay for the "great, great wall"
Mr Trump has said he wants to start building the much-touted wall on the shared border
from the first day of his presidency, and that Mexico will pay for it. In some of his earliest
campaign comments, he suggested that Mexicans coming to the US were criminals and
"rapists". BBC analysis estimates the border wall could cost between $2.2bn and
$13bn.
3. Muslims should not be admitted to the US
In the wake of the terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, California, Mr Trump wrotethat
he was "calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States
until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on".
He's since gone back on the announcement, instead saying that that he would
temporarily suspend "immigration from some of the most dangerous and volatile regions
of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism".
4. Arab-Americans cheered the attacks on 9/11
Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that on 11 September 2001, there were thousands of
Arab-Americans celebrating in New Jersey after two planes flew into the Twin Towers.
He says such public demonstrations "tell you something" about Muslims living in the
US. However, there are no media reports to back up the claim.

In downtown Barquisimeto, Margaret Khawan's pharmacy is looking a bit empty

these days.

What products she does have she has spaced out along the shelves to make them look
a bit fuller.
Ms Khawan has not had any deliveries of contraceptive pills for a year.

Every day people come looking for them and every day she has to turn them away.
People are having to adapt.

"It used to be just men buying condoms but women are buying them too now because
there's nothing else," she says. "The price of condoms has gone up 200%."

Unplanned pregnancies
Across town, Darnellys Rodríguez is living the consequences of these shortages.

She had her first baby when she was 15 years old. Then she had a second baby, and
hoped that would be it, but then she got pregnant with her third.

"My first reaction was to cry," she says. "Getting contraceptive pills is really hard.
There's nothing and when you can get hold of them, the cost is beyond my reach."

Financially it is a struggle. She lives with her children and partner in a corrugated iron
shack in a poor neighbourhood of Barquisimeto.

Now she is pregnant, she says her older boys have to go without clothes and shoes so
she can pay for some of her medical tests.

"I'm making plans to get sterilised," she says. "The idea of having another baby is too
much."

Teenage mothers
According to the United Nations Population Fund, around one in four babies in
Venezuela is born to a teenager. The country has the highest rate of teenage
pregnancies in Latin America.

"It's a situation that's got worse in the last year," says Delia Mondragón, the vice-
president of the Association of Family Planning in Lara state, where Barquisimeto is
located.

"It's especially hard for young people. A box of contraceptives could cost as much as
what their parents earn [in a month], or even double that."

Every weekday, her waiting room is full of women coming for advice or medical help.
One of the other big concerns is malnutrition. Recent research suggests that three-
quarters of Venezuelans lost weight in the past year, an average of 9kg (20lb).