(2013, September 25). Knee-Jerk Prohibition of New Drugs Out-of-Step With Momentum for Sentencing and Drug Policy Reform. In The Daily Chronic. Retrieved November 1, 2013, from http://www.thedailychronic.net/2013/25695/u-s-senate-hearing-synthetic-drugs-offers-failed-drug-war-policies-past/ Price, E. (2013, May 29). Synthetic drug calls down since law passed.
Yarely Covarrubias Pd. 3 What Caused the Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692? The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 are a turning point in history, and is an event that continues to mystify our nation, as well as others. Between the months of june and September of 1692, 19 women and men were accused of witchcraft and hanged because of it. Local magistrates took the initiative when young girls claimed that women in the village were inflicting pain on them, which resulted in all the hangings and overall hype of the Salem Witch Trials.
She lived from 1879 to 1966. She was a nurse, sex educator and an activist for women’s rights particularly regarding birth control. She actually coined and popularized the term. At that time in society, discussion of birth control was considered obscene and was illegal. She was jailed many times over the course of her life for publicly speaking and writing about her beliefs.
The documentary “After the Montreal Massacre” presents us with a fragment of our society that is difficult to contemplate. When one person, acting alone can inflict so much death, suffering and grief finding a theory that explains everything is complex. The feminist explanations of crime are relevant to this case and help to explain some of what happened that day and also try to uncover what measures can be taken to prevent violence like this from happening. The cold blooded murder of these fourteen women by Marc Lepine is an extreme example of the violence women all over the world face in their lives. Domestic violence, sexual assaults, rape and discrimination, situations most women encounter in one form or another, at some point in their lives.
We were doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, professors, deans, architects, programmers, and more” (August 2003, Riverbend, p.22). This is drastically different the US’ media portrayal of Arab women before the war. Furthermore, after the war, women’s freedoms drastically decreased. James Ridgeway writes about Riverbend experiencing this change saying, “As a young educated woman who once worked as a computer “geek” and moved freely about her city, Riverbend is particularly poignant in relating what has happened since the war; the loss of her own job, the fear she and other women now feel walking in the streets without men, the risks of stepping outside with her head uncovered” (December 2004, Ridgeway, James). The media portrays that women had an awful, restricted
From the readings of Rape-Prone Versus Rape-Free Campus Cultures, I read, I gathered some very pressing issues for black women and horrible acts that they are being succumbed to such as domestic violence, and rape. In the black community in particular, there is a continuous increase of domestic violence cases, race cases, and other various sexual exploitation that is going on concerning black women. In the Vibe Magazine article, it talks about domestic violence in the music industry particularly against rappers and their significant others. The article starts off by telling the story of the relationship of Christopher and his wife Liza. Throughout the course of their 10 year relationship, Christopher also known as "Big Pun" abused Liza on frequent
• This organization has intervened in over 140 cases since it was formed in 1985, and judgments have considered such issues such as violence against women, sexual harassment, and spousal support. • They have worked in cases where there has been a denial of equality rights such as the case of Doe v. Metropolitan Toronto (Municipality) Commissioners of Police. • Jane Doe launched a civil suit against the Toronto police after she was the victim of a serial rapist who had been targeting an area in downtown Toronto where she has lived in the summer of 1986. • She successfully sued for damages on the grounds that the police, in failing to warn women in the area of the “balcony rapist” were, in effect, using them as bait to catch the rapist. • This infringed on the grounds of her equality rights under s.15 (1) of the charter, which states that everyone is equal before and under the law and has the right to equal protection… • Doe also claimed that the police had breached her legal right under s.7 “to life, liberty and security of the
Her anger exploded the day she murdered her husband. This case shows how the legal system sent an innocent victim of domestic violence to prison for killing her husband after enduring the pain for over 13 years. There is an obvious gender bias within the legal system wich decreases its effectiveness when dealing with issues related to women. Gender bias suggests that the law has been cerated by males and excludes women
The scary thing is Johnson’s case in one of possibly twenty where female soldiers had suspicions deaths. Another example of how bad its getting in the military for women comes from The Huffington post “50 Facts about Sexual Assault in The US Military, "I was repeatedly drugged and raped by several of my superior officers over a nine-month period. ...There was no one I could turn to because, like so many victims of sexual assault in the military, my attackers were in my chain of command. So I kept my mouth shut." Testimony of Trina McDonald, who was 18 when she was stationed in Alaska and assaulted.” Another example was not a girl who had been sexually assaulted but a boy, “Heath X reported that he was gang raped, told he was lying, threatened, bullied, assaulted again and tried to commit suicide all during his first month in the service.
Women have habitually been identified as the inferior gender. Over time, women have made history and struggled for the same liberty and rights as men. With the Equal Rights Amendment pushing through, women were given the chance to be alongside men in the workplace, therefore pushing the stereotypes of housewives and caretakers off of their plates. In the article “Limbo for U.S. Women Reporting Iraq Assaults,” published February 13,2008 in The New York Times, the bigoted author, James Risen, journals on the recent reports, made by U.S. women, of the sexual assaults in Iraq. It tells the story of Jamie Jones and Mary Beth Kineston.