In the book Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Septys the main character Lina and her family are captured by the NKVD. The NKVD is the Russian secret service. The NKVD took them to a farm where they lived for a while in relative comfort before the NKVD told them to sign some “confession papers” which state they agree they are criminals, agree to a sentence of 25 years hard labor, and will pay a fine of 200 rubles a year for every family member, including children. After they sign, there are special privileges such as being allowed to go to the village and being allowed to sleep through the night. If someone refuses to sign the papers then the NKVD would keep them up all night every other night and threaten them until they sign. In addition, by not signing they get sent to the far north and have to endure harsh winters in shelters made of drift wood.…
Gay gives an example of how language hides the ability of rape when she starts off her essay about a girl of age eleven who was gang raped by eighteen men in Cleveland, Texas. The news article about this event was more focused on the town and the eighteen men than the little girl. “The Times article was entitled, “Vicious Assault Shakes Texas Town,” as if the victim in question was the town itself. James Mckinley Jr., the article’s author, focused on how the men’s lives would be changed forever, how the town was being ripped apart, how those poor boys might never be able to return to school.” Gay, Roxane. The Careless Language of Sexual Violence. This is wrongful of authors to stray their focus away from the victim who was brutally raped by…
All those criminal acts that were committed by a network of criminals regardless of their own justifications and motivations are true and cannot be denied, but they cannot represent all Muslims whom are approximately one fifth of the entire human population. Statistically, those group of criminals are varied in number and we cannot know really how many they are because it is a very difficult issue to deal with. William J. Peace in his essay "Slippery Slopes: Media, Disability, and Adoptive Sports" pointed out another unnoticed group among American people that has been discriminated against saying: "People with disabilities are the most over-looked, disenfranchised and stigmatized minority group in American society”1. This has been a part…
The first main point is the fact that women today have more power even though the biological fact that male are the aggressors is true, but women have the power to make decisions when it comes to a “yes” or “no” response. With women having the power, this will confuse men about what is right and what kind of behavior is acceptable when it comes to real rape and real harassment. When it comes to real rape and real harassment, people have their own interruptions of both. His sub claim is approached by people who are characterized as normal; male-female conduct as sexual harassment then people not only identifies the relations between the sexes, but interprets true sexual harassment.…
Jennifer Thompson was a straight-A student at Elon University in Burlington, North Carolina. She had her life all planned out: maintain straight A’s, graduate with a 4.0 GPA, and marry her boyfriend, Paul. Jennifer said frightened “Who is that? Whose there?” I said, “Allowing myself to think it must be Paul, or someone playing a stupid joke” (12). Then suddenly she looked and saw a stranger in her room. Before she knew it, she was getting raped. During her attack, she made sure she paid attention to her attacker’s features and his voice. The rapist began to hiss “Shut up or I’ll cut you!” he hissed, “while clamping a glove hand down her mouth” (12). He proceeded to brutally rape her, with a knife at her throat. “I’m afraid of knives.” I told him, “I can’t relax until you put it down. Can you put it outside? On my car?” (15-16). Jennifer stayed as calm as possible, trying to remember as many details about her assailant as she could, until she managed to escape. She tried staying calm and having conversations with this man and stayed calm the entire time. When she had the chance and knew he wasn’t there she began to run and was shouting for help. As she ran screaming to the top of her lungs a nice family opened the door and let her in. They took care of Jennifer and took her to the hospital. Through an inept summary and analysis of Picking Cotton, readers will be able to understand key points throughout the book, and determine why or why not they should pursue reading the book.…
One spring day, Melinda catches a fever and stays home. While in complete solitude, she reflects on her rape and has a Oprah Winfrey show going on in her head.The evidence states, “My head is killing me, my throat is killing me, my stomach bubbles with toxic waster. I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, this thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my mind too?” (Anderson, 165) When Melinda Sordino says “My head is killing me, my throat is killing me, my stomach bubbles with toxic waste.” She is metaphorically talking about how sick she is from coping with the feelings of depression and solitude. “I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia.” She wants to forget what went down That August Night.“Anything, just to get rid of this, this thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my mind too?” What this shows is how badly Melinda being raped has such an effect on her mind. It is bruised her spirit and scarred her mind. What’s worse is…
In this world honesty and respect play an important role in the daily functions of lives. Without these two important characteristics it can cause conflicts and chaos within humanity. In the short stories “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, “The Open Window” by Saki, and “A sound Of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury demonstrates how honesty and respect is fundamental within a society. Respect and honesty are essential characteristics if you want to avoid conflicts and it's also forms you into a better person.…
Analyze highly publicized cases of child neglect or parental abuse reported by the media to determine how the statement "The way neighbors’ raised their children was their own business" is viewed in Canada today.…
Not only is violence more than just the easy to realize physical harm, it is also a major culprit in shaping and influencing identity and self-perception. In the “Selections from Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom,” the author, Leslie Bell, interviews several women asking about their sexual identities. In one instance Jayanthi, one of the women interviewed by Bell, discusses an act of violence that changed how she would sexually identify herself. In addition, in “The Power of Context,” the author, Malcolm Gladwell, talks about how the Goetz incident, in which Goetz shot four black teens in a New York City subway train, contributed and affected how New York City would deal with its crime epidemic. Furthermore,…
California will not benefit the students of California, and this will include my three school…
In the story “Masks” Lucy Grealy is battling a lethal form of cancer but her struggle through the story is her self-confidence concerning her looks. As Lucy is growing up, the teasing and her self-consciousness about her physical appearance keep increasing.…
The artifact I chose is the 2009 film, “Sin Nombre,” directed by Cary Fukunaga. In Spanish, the title translates to nameless, or without a name. The film revolves around the struggle of Honduran immigrants attempting to escape the hardships of everyday life to start fresh in ‘El Norte,’ the United States. The film revolves around two main characters, MS 13 gang member, Willy (aka El Casper), and Sayra, a Honduran girl who is traveling to New Jersey with her brother and uncle. The story of Willy is his struggle to deal with gang-life while he tries to maintain a relationship outside the gang, while in the process of initiating a young boy, El Smiley, into the gang. Willy’s girlfriend attends a gang meeting unbeknown to him, and ends up being killed by the gang’s leader Lil’ Mago. After the death of his girlfriend, Willy and El Smiley are taken on a trip with Lil’ Mago to a train area known as La Bombilla. La Bombilla is a location which illegal immigrants hide on trains to travel to the United States. Upon entering the train area with all the immigrants, Willy, El Smiley, and Lil’ Mago hold the immigrants by gun-point to steal their money and belongings. This is when the stories intertwine. Sayra, along with her father and uncle are amongst the passengers who are being held up. Willy, who is still upset over the loss of his girlfriend, notices Lil’ Mago’s attempt to rape Sayra. In disgust, he kills Lil’ Mago, and makes El Smiley get off the train. From this point on, Sayra becomes very intrigued and respectful towards Willy. One night, with the pressure of the gang coming to kill him; Willy gets off the train realizing that he is followed by Sayra. The two continue their journey towards the United States, until eventually only Sayra is successful. Willy is caught and killed by El Smiley before he too can escape. The subject I will focus on is Willy’s girlfriend, Martha Marlene. The object that she is…
The term "off the grid" is new to me. After the research, I firgure "off the grid" mean going to live by self sufficient. It means I have to live without gas, electric power, and other supply. Before, I had thought about it. I thought how can I live and try to image it. However, I never think I am going to off the grid. Before I watched the movie. I did not remember the name. The movie is about the man lived in empty island after an accident. He had to catch fish to eat, made fire by stone, build house by tree... After I watch this movie, I feel I am lucky when I can live here. It is hard to survive in the place without electric, food, water, and alone. So, I had image how the life after going off the grid look like. However, I never think…
Benjamin Mendelsohn conducted a rape study in 1940, where he interviewed victims to obtain information. From that information he concluded that most victims had an “unconscious aptitude for being victimized”. Mendelsohn also created a typology of six types of victims. Only the first type which is called the innocent type doesn’t put the blame on the victim, they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. The other five types represent the victim precipitation (which we will discuss later).…
A method of evaluating a security that entails attempting to measure its intrinsic value by examining related economic, financial and other qualitative and quantitative factors. Fundamental analysts attempt to study everything that can affect the security's value, including macroeconomic factors (like the overall economy and industry conditions) and company-specific factors (like financial condition and management).…