I believe the most significant part of the Tess of the D’Urbevilles is located within the last few pages of the novel. The murdering of Alec promotes a feminist approach to writing which Hardy attempts to undertake in places throughout the book, empowering Tess. This contrasts with the in depth detail he usually acquires, which is not apparent in the description of the murder. The reader neither reads how Tess murders Alec or what the murder scene looks like, in order for Hardy to maintain Tess’s ‘purity’. Additionally, it is likely that the fact Tess murders was enough of a controversial subject, without Hardy having to describe it, to shock the readers.
The defendant doesn’t have to foresee harm to the victim. An example of this is R v Savage where a woman had the Mens Rea for assault/battery when throwing beer onto another woman. The glass slipped out of her hand and the victim suffered from ABH. This has been criticised for seeming unfair in that the defendant didn’t intend to cause harm and so shouldn’t be punished for what they didn’t intend or foresee happening. The proposed reform for this in Draft Bill 1988 was to change the Mens Rea so that the defendant has to have seen a risk of the injury that they caused.
Often people who hear the term date rape will dismiss the seriousness of the crime believing it was consensual because they perceive that the victim had an attraction to the person since they agreed to the date. Rape, regardless of who commits it, is a sexual assault that leaves the victim injured and traumatized. Victims of rape, especially when committed by an acquaintance, often feel a sense of responsibility for the attack and therefore seldom reports the crime to police (RAINN, 2009). Rape is defined as a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent (Webster’s Dictionary, 2012). Rape is a misunderstood crime.
3) Fault; In order to determine fault of a public figure (Marilyn) we must look at Actual Malice In a legal sense, "actual malice" has nothing to do with ill will or disliking someone and wishing him harm. Rather, courts have defined "actual malice" in the defamation context as publishing a statement while either • knowing that it is false; or • acting with reckless disregard for the statement's truth or falsity. Smitty took pictures of Marilyn and sold them to the tabloids and Jakes Gym. In each incident Smitty provided a lie stating Marilyn had given her endorsement and consent for Jake, and she had been engaged in a sexual relationship with her coach. Smitty is at fault for those statements and is liable.
Rhetorical Analysis of “ Get Out of My Face” Have you ever heard the “puffy face” of Ashley Judd before? Lots of social media and reporter saying that Ashley Judd totally has done with her plastic surgery on her face and which is very obviously to figure out. However, Ashley wasn’t taking this laying down, instead she wrote an essay and published on The Daily Beast to strike back. In the essay “Get Out of My Face”, Judd tries to persuade people not to live under the control of patriarchy, and she tells people not to judge other`s appearances especially women. Anyway, Ashley Judd`s reliance upon reasonable evidence is most persuasive as the base for claim of fact that she didn’t had a plastic surgery at all and claim of value that people should not judged woman body all the time because it would reduce our personhood, voices, potential and accomplishments, sufficiently backing the our bodies that become a source of speculation, ridicule and invalidation.
She decided that Freud’s theories were inaccurate as men could also experience womb envy. Horney refused to believe people were instinctively driven and that behavior was derivative of repressed sexual needs or tendencies (Women's Intellectual Contributions to the Study of Mind and Society, 2011). Horney did still value Freud for his perceptive insights but overall she felt his observations were not entirely accurate and were lacking the emphasis needed on both genders and cultural and environmental influences (Feist & Feist, 2009). All in all Freud influence Karen Horney in the respect that his theories were both the flame that ignited her interest in psychology and the motivation to branch out and explore. Freud’s influence initially captured her to be
October 31, 2011 Taming Shrew To Whom It May Concern: After reading the Taming of the Shrew and watching your film of 10 Things I Hate About You, I have some observations that you may find valuable regarding your updates on character. The first character that it portrayed is Katherine (Kat), who is obviously as shrew as excepted to be. The play describes her as shrew, but there is no reason explaining why she is mean through the entire play. Contrarily, your film describes Kat to have a reason for her nastiness. In the play, Hortensio describes Kat to Petruchio in order to explain how rude she is after telling him how much money her family has, “Her name is Katherina Minola, Renowned in Padua for her scolding tongue”(55).
Society deems it acceptable to openly shame promiscuous women, or even a woman who dresses in revealing clothing, if a woman provides any type of sexual image for herself, she’s asking for it, and any time where she is physically taken advantage of is dismissed as a slut being a slut. The issue here is innocent victims being blamed for the actions done to them. If we, as a society of intelligent and compassionate individuals were to focus as much energy into preventing the issue of rape as we put into judging and slut shaming, the issue of rape could possibly no longer be such an issue. By no means am I implying that getting drunk enough to the point that you lose control is in any way a smart or responsible decision, but, it does not excuse the fact that a woman was forced, by another person, to have sex. In any way it happens, rape is rape, whether it is a random ambush on a dark street, a close relative or boyfriend, or even, as hard as it may be for most people to believe, a drunken night at a party or a club.
The idea that “The Fall of the House of Usher” is in part an investigation into sexual motivation and sexual guilt complexes has often been hinted at but never critically pursued as the dominant theme in the tale. But such a reading is at least prepared for in important essays by D. H. Lawrence and Allen Tate which make the essential recognition that “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a “love” story. (1) Lawrence and Tate, however, mistakenly attempt to purge the love concerned of all physical meaning. What they see Usher wanting is possession not of Madeline’s body but her very being (Lawrence, p. 86). Theirs is essentially an anti-biological reading of the tale in which the Poe hero tries in self-love “to turn the soul of the heroine into something like a physical object which can be known in direct cognition” (fate, p. 115).
I believe that it begins at conception, and that we are illegally killing innocent people. Abortion is an issue that I believe is a crime. Lawmakers in Congress keep abortion legal because they argue that it is a right to privacy which is also in the Constitution. These people neglect the fact that other parts of the law are being broken in this act. Only in special birth complications should an abortion be performed, for example one where the birth of the child could severely harm or kill the birthmother.