Literary Monsters: The Rape of Humanity In his essay Monster Culture (Seven Theses)‚ Jeffrey Jerome Cohen outlines seven defining characteristics of the literary monster. He makes the claim that literary monsters are each possessed of these seven theses‚ which act as a common denominator across monster culture. While each of these theses is present‚ there is one aspect of monster culture that Cohen fails to discuss‚ and that is prevalent in enough different monster works that it warrants attention
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Rape as a Weapon of War Military conflicts are envisioned to be a conflict between two armies of soldiers‚ yet‚ in reality‚ most casualties of war are civilians‚ most of whom are women and children. These women and children are left vulnerable during times of war and are frequently victims of rape and other forms of sexual assault. Throughout history rape has been used as a tool to dehumanize and terrorize the enemy population. When carried out in systematic fashion during periods of conflict
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The Statistical Errors of Date Rape There is nobody out in the world that likes rape‚ in any form‚ besides perhaps the rapist themselves‚ however‚ “rape” is a word that has been given a certain disgusting stigma in our society. What comes with that stigma in our society? Fear‚ misconception‚ panic‚ and the ability to draw accusations about those who are the victims and the ones who commit the heinous crime. Camille Paglia is a anti-feminist known for her views on how feminism has done nothing
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There is no complete or certain definition of terrorism‚ which makes it hard to identify somebody by their action. Terrorism isn’t always about killing people‚ but in John Brown’s perspective‚ violence solved everything. Browns actions at Pottawatomie Creek and Harpers Ferry justify him as a terrorist. After John brown was executed‚ he is still one of the most talked about men in American History. John Brown is talked about a lot because of his big raid on Harpers Ferry. Brown’s raid was to go into
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There was a Knight in King Arthur’s time who raped a fair young maiden. King Arthur sent a decree out that the Knight must be brought to justice. When the Knight is captured‚ he is condemned to death‚ but the Queen intercedes on behalf of the Knight and asks the King to allow her to pass judgment on the Knight. The Queen asks the Knight‚ “What is the thing that most women desire?” The Knight does not have an answer. The Queen releases the Knight‚ but commands him to return within one year with an
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Rape is not only a disgusting act committed by an individual but rape leaves many people scared physical and emotionally for life. There is no right way to justify why an individual would commit the act or be able to live with the knowledge of commiting the act. In the Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini there are many different vibrant themes like redemption‚ love‚ forgiveness‚ and social class tensions. There are also many different motifs in this book like the kites‚ the brass knuckles‚ guilt‚ and
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Rape in Rwanda By: Taylor Smith May 8th 2013 A-1 When was a time you felt threatened by someone who you feared? Most people who were threatened would tell an authority figure‚ try to avoid the person or try to stop this mistreatment. This happens to many women around the world each year. During the 1994 Rwandan genocide‚ more than 250‚000 women and young girls were raped‚ tortured or killed because of their gender and inability to fight back‚ which led to the out break of AIDS/HIV and the fear
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a year; every 2 minutes a sexual assault occurs. That’s an average of 293‚066 victims every year (Langton and Truman 2). Rape cases have made headlines in national newspapers‚ and have gone viral on social media. Recently‚ the public’s reactions to these stories have become a problem of its own. Campaigns have been established to help raise awareness of this backlash that rape victims experience. Some common responses from the public after an assault are‚ “She was asking for it.” “She shouldn’t have
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Date Rape Drugs: Detriment to Society West Georgia College Professor Shepard The purpose of this paper is to analyze the growing phenomenon known as “date rape drugging”. The victims in these scenarios are being doped up beyond ability to defend themselves and being raped by an offender. This growing trend is sweeping the nation and is unfortunately difficult to prevent. The intentions of this paper are to give an overview of the history‚ frequency of occurrence‚ identify the types of substances
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Stigma of Rape Because Popular culture depicts a “typical” rape as being perpetrated by “sick” or crazy men where the rape is a “sudden‚ violent attack by a stranger in a deserted‚ public space‚ after which the victim is expected to provide evidence of the attach and of her active resistance” (Williams‚ 1984). This stereotype script frames rapists as strangers and the literature refers to such a description as the “classic” rape scenario (Williams‚ 1994). Women whose experiences do not conform to
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