Several events varying from late babysitting checks to rumors of Sylvia’s promiscuous sex life brought Gertrude to despise Sylvia and punish her. This punishment started getting more and more severe resulting in on-going torture. Gertrude’s children and their friends, following in her footsteps, began torturing Sylvia as well. Sylvia could expect being burned by cigarettes, being thrown down stairs, getting bathed in boiling water, beaten, cut, having objects inserted into her vagina, and being forced to eat her own feces on a day to day basis not only from Gertrude but also her children and other neighborhood teenagers. This torture lasted for months.
Maureen got addicted to alcohol and would cut school to drink. She had been drinking at different people’s houses when their parents were away. Maureen has been arrested for impaired drinking and was sent to an halfway house. She realized that alcohol has ruined her life so she made the decision to stop drinking. Maureen also gives advices to teens about drinking.
Enough to help someone who wants to commit suicide, or someone who’s been sexually assaulted, or abused, and for those who’ve lost a loved one. You can see me at school with a smile on my face and a bunch of friends surrounding me, but there’s more to me. This is my story. How I was lost, sexually assaulted, hurt, depressed, went through grieve, and finally how I recovered. I was the first born and was the only child till I was six, but during those six years I witness my mother getting hit by my father and him being drunk every day and never home.
Brooke Murphy Literary analysis for Speak How would it feel to walk into your first year of high school and have everyone give you a hard time? In Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino is a freshman at Mayweather high school who was raped at a party in the summer. She calls the police for help, but they arrive to find a teen party with alcohol. Everyone thinks she did it on purpose because nobody knows the truth. Melinda sees The Marthas as an exclusive group of girls with bad attitudes, while the teachers see the exact opposite.
(Brown 2) Anne decorated her narrow room in the “Secret Annex” with pictures of movie stars. (Gale 4) At first Anne thought of hiding as an adventure, but soon later she found that among her family and friends they were always arguing. There was also a common fear among them, getting discovered. They went undetected for twenty-five months. (Brown 2) Then August 4, 1944 someone tipped off the police and the Frank’s, Van Daan’s, and Mr. Dussel were all sentenced to attend the Bergen-Belson concentration camp in Germany.
Professor Dionne Taylor an expert in criminal law stated “....skimpy outfits and sexual dance moves are ruining the self-esteem of girls. The explicit dance moves and foul-mouthed lyrics fuel negative attitudes towards women and affect women’s confidence, education and even their employment prospects. It is blindly ignorant.” (Cox, 2013) Ever since the launch of YouTube in 2005 the consumption of youth watching provocative music videos has increased and “In August 2008 Teachers reported a rise in sexualised behaviour in children aged seven. “(Jones, date unknown) In July 2013 Walkwood Church of England Middle School in Redditch became the first to ban skirts for girls aged nine. The ban comes as increasing numbers of young girls copy the 'sexy schoolgirl' look popularised by celebrities such as Rihanna and Brittany Speers.
In the CNN.com article “#YesAllWomen took off on Twitter” by Emanuella Grinberg, we learn just what the hashtag is all about: No, not all men channel frustration over romantic rejection into a killing spree. But yes, all women experience harassment, discrimination or worse at some point in their lives. That's the message at the core of an ongoing Twitter conversation that emerged after a rampage last week that left six students from the University of California, Santa Barbara, dead and wounded 13 others. Elliot Rodger, who apparently shot and killed himself, left behind a robust digital footprint detailing his plan to "destroy everything I cannot have," blaming the "cruelness of women" for leading to his "day of retribution." His comments inspired Twitter users to tweet the hashtag #YesAllWomen: They shared examples of what "women must fear" even if "not all men" engage in those behaviors, according to the person believed to have created the hashtag Saturday.
• Child marriage still exists, a woman by the name of Huda had to get married at the age of 12, her husband forced her to have sex with him since her wedding night. He used to beat her, verbally abuse her, she used to think that this was a normal relationship between a man and a woman. She divorced him, but she still lives in fear, from her ex, as well as from society not accepting her issues, for the sake of her kids. • A woman cannot travel abroad, without the approval of her male guardian. • Honor killings still
When his weekly sexual relationship with the “honey brown”, Muslim” prostitute named Soraya ends (Disgrace 1,3), he has what he thinks is “an affair” with s student thirty years younger than him, Melanie Isaacs (the “dark one,”). (Disgrace 18) The “affair” leads to a widely publicized disciplinary hearing and ultimately to Lurie’s resignation. Lurie’s own account of the proceedings, which self-consciously evoke South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its media coverage, emphasizes his contemptuous refusal to accept the terms of the disciplinary committee’s requests due to “reservations of a philosophical kind” (Disgrace 47). He justifies his behavior by claiming allegiance to “the rights of desire” (Disgrace 89), scoffs at the committee’s demand for a written confession, and goes to live with his daughter Lucy, a post-hippie earth mother lesbian, on her Grahamstown farm. In the novel's second rape scene and most controversial scene, two black men and a boy arrive on the farm and attack
Amanda Michelle Todd committed suicide at 15. Amanda met a guy on the internet one year prior to her death. She was still an innocent girl that doesn’t even know there a thing called “wrong” so how will she recognize it from the right she was Thinking that this guy is her fairy tale prince, she posted some nude photos to satisfy him. Later on, she got a call from the police warning her that her nudes were all over the internet. This guy was like a real boogy man under her bed he haunted her, He cyber bullied her to where she lost all her friends and beloved ones.