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Mother Died Color Purple
412 wordsAt the tender age of fifteen, Celie, the main character in Alice Walkers The Color Purple is raped by whom she knows as her Pa. Pa forces himself upon Celie and she gets big or pregnant, not once, but twice. When Pa takes the children away, the first a boy and the second a girl, Celie believes that he kills them. The reader gathers from her letters to God, that she is not very educated, and she seems a little on the dumb side. She does not like, or fully understand the idea of her children being...
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Oprah Winfrey Sexual Abuse
1,966 wordsOprah Winfrey has always been an achiever. As a child she was a victim of sexual abuse. As a teenager she became Miss Black Nashville. Now, as an adult she is the worlds black millionaire in a white, male-dominated world. Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Her name was believed to be Oprah from the Book of Ruth; however, the midwife got mixed up and so she wound up being Oprah on her birth certificate. (Adler 1) When Oprah was five years old she wished tha...
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Tea Cake Janie Life
551 wordsThere were several characters in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God that played pivotal roles in Janie's development. Nanny Crawford, Jody Starks, and Vergible Woods (Tea Cake) are the three main characters that play as major influences in Janie's life. Nanny Crawford played an important part to Janie. For example, when all the kids annoy Janie about living on white folks property, she moves to another house. Nanny didnt love tuh see me wid mah head hung down, so she fingered it would be mo ...
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Rape Victims Unprotected Sex
740 wordsWhen having unprotected sex you are taking a risk, a risk to conceive a child. Every action taken has a consequence, and when a couple has unprotected sex, they must deal with the consequences. A woman who is old enough to conceive a child should take the responsibility to raise the child: abortion should not be an option since she took the risk. A woman should not have an abortion because she wants to; she needs a solid reason to do it. A reasonable instance for a women to get an abortion would...
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Color Purple Major Theme
520 wordsHave you ever felt like you could not survive without a certain person? Have you ever felt as if you have been taken away from the only person that has ever meant anything to you? If you have ever felt any of this, then you have felt love. The novel The Color Purple, By Alice Walker, and the movie The Color Purple, directed by Steve Spielberg, are stories about love and the survival between two sisters. The obstacles that the sisters have to face are very life risking. Although the novel and the...
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Sex Or Subordination Violence And Pornography
1,115 words... orography available to adults. The courts assess that to ban or censor the material would be infringing on the public's First Amendment Right (Carol 28). Maureen O'Brien quotes critics of a congressionally terminated bill, the Pornography Victim's Compensation Act, as saying "That if it had passed, it would have had severely chilling effects on the First Amendment, allowing victims of sexual crimes to file suit against producers and distributors of any work that was proven to have had 'cause...
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Supposed To Be Submissive Step Father Celie
1,558 wordsThe feminism components are more main stream than the racial issues. The women at the start of the story are expected to cook, clean, and lay down when told to. They are beaten when they do not obey their husband or man. The men act as if Women are there to serve the man. Celie is forced to have sex with her step father and her husband because she is not strong enough to say no to Albert or her step father. "He just climb on top of me and do his business" says Celie. As if the women are there ju...
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Sexual Aggression Sexual Violence
1,068 words... ver recognized: fat women, flat women, hairy women, aggressive women, older women, you name it' (Carol 25). If we could all decide on just exactly what pornography is and what is acceptable, there wouldn't be so much debate over the issue of censoring it. The bounds of community standards have been stretched by mainstreaming movies, opening the way even further for the legalization of more explicit fare (Jenish 53). In most contemporary communities explicit sex that is without violent or deh...
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Rape Myth Modern Society
1,134 words... ot; , and are asked 'if they work out?' . More often than not, they are told 'to take off [their] shirts', and then asked 'Do you feel nervous?' (36). These youngsters honestly don't know when too much is too much, and what they don't know could put them in serious danger. Calvin Klein, once known for being a reputable clothing designer, is now known for his racy ads using teens. Some feel he crossed the line when he chose this type of advertising. Jewish observes that these advertisements '...
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Shell And Nigerian Oil Uti
1,084 wordsShell Oil and the Exploitation of Nigeria Nigeria has been a country in political turmoil for a long time. The country was created in 1914 under British colonial rule and at that time it was considered a protectorate. It was not until 1960 that Nigeria received independence from the United Kingdom. One of Nigeria's problems politically is that it has over three hundred different ethnic groups. The three largest of these are the Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, and Yoruba. At the time of the independence of N...
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Year Old Girl Morally Wrong
880 wordsShe was only twelve, only for a walk on the street right by her house when he got to her. The experience was terrifying and all she wanted to do was forget about it, forget about him on top of her, making her do things that should only be done with someone she loves. The rape is finally over and he lets her go after making her promise not to tell. A few weeks after the rape she still hadn't told, but started feeling woozy and nauseous in the morning; she went and consulted in her mother. After w...
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Four Characters Nov 2004
1,155 wordsRashomon of Akira Kurosawa Rashomon, filmed in 1950 by famous Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, was the first Japanese movie that attracted widespread international attention and received worldwide recognition. In 1952 it won The Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. The plot of the movie is based on four different perspectives on an incident, which occurred in 11 th century in a lonely forest grove: a woman was raped and her husband, a traveling samurai, was killed by a bandit. This tragic episode ...
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Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
566 wordsMaya Angelou, the author to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, writes about a girl who is confronted with sex, rape, and racism at an early stage in her life in detail in her novel. When she is three years old, her parents have a divorce and send her and her four-year-old brother Bailey from California to Arkansas to live with her grandmother in a town that is divided by color and full of racism. They are raised by her grandmother and then sent back to their carefree mother in the absence of a fat...
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Quot Quot Roman Empire
1,975 words? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Boudica's Revolt in AD 60 was perfectly justifiable. Britain was invaded by the Romans in AD 43 under control of emperor Claudius. The Iceni's at this time were under control form King An tedious. The Iceni kingdom made a treaty with the Romans making the Iceni a Client Kingdom. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? A client kingdom is a kingdom under control of the Romans. The king of this kingdom remained in throne but the king had to answer to the Romans. This meant that the king had ce...
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Websters New World Dictionary Catcher In The Rye
1,028 wordsWebsters New World Dictionary defines rape as the crime of having sexual intercourse with a person forcibly and without consent. Rape is a problem in modern society because it remains a commonly practiced crime. Despite the severe consequences and the fact that it is morally and ethically wrong, the number of cases are growing. It is assumed that rape has been around since the beginning of time. The only thing that has changed is how society views the crime. For instance, in ancient times the la...
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Thought She Was Ugly Celie Children
416 wordsAt the tender age of fifteen, Celie, the main character in Alice Walker? s The Color Purple is raped by she knows as her Pa. Pa forces himself upon Celie and she gets? big? or pregnant, not once, but twice. When Pa takes the children away, the first a boy and the second a girl, Celie believes that he kills them. The reader gathers from her letters to God, that she is not very educated, and she seems a little on the dumb side. She does not like, or fully understand the idea of her children being ...
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Death Penalty Cold Blooded
566 wordsIn Death Penalty Death Penalty In our society there are many criminals that get away with no punishment for their crimes. Some of these people are walking around our cities with no remorse and waiting to strike again. When you walk down the street and you see a man walking on the opposite direction, you probably dont think that he could be a cold blooded killer and if someone asks you right this minute if you are pro or con death penalty the answer would most likely be con. Now think about this,...
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Mother Died Color Purple
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Rules And Regulations Abortion
539 wordsSHOULD ABORTION BE OPPOSED OR NOT? We, human beings, are social animals, which can not live alone. We all must live in a group because each of us depends on each other. Not only that, living in a group, you need to have rules and regulations in order to keep social stabilities and orders. There are many kinds of rules and regulations, some result in physical punishment and some result in social punishment in the form of peer disapproval. Where do they come from? In fact, they came from the decis...
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Story Of A Young Native Americans
843 wordsPeople Pocahontas Response to Pocahontas People today tend to scrutinize every aspect of anything that crosses the silver screen. The Disney company is always questioned on the reality of their films. Some see racism, bias, or ignorance toward history. Now for a cartoon that? s supposed to entertain children, Disney does it the best. They do it so well that some argue that the people who criticize Disney are the one? s who have the problem. But when Disney makes a film they have to keep one thin...
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