The author opens the story with “Mandy stole my boyfriend, Tiny.” The first sentence already sets the story’s conflict and lets readers understand the plot right in the beginning. The story takes place on the streets of south Minneapolis and deals with the rough lives of Southeast Asian gangs in America. Focusing on the girls in those gangs, the author takes a step away from stereotypical male gang violence stories and places the audience in shoes of an Asian woman. Vang’s descriptive writing is depicted when the two black girls were mugged, “Nikki, my best friend, did a pretend karate kick she saw in a movie just to scare them as we approached cursing and threatening. She loved to perpetuate the myth that all Asians knew Kung Fu.
He grew up around people that struggled with physical and emotional abuse day in and day out. The other singer can identify with these three girls also because she experienced the same kind of child abuse. Mary J. Blige in the song says, “I know how you feel/ I’ve been there.” When Mary was just a little girl, her father would beat her mother, and then one day he abandoned their family. During that time Mary also experienced being sexually abused by one of her relatives. This goes hand in hand with the two little girls’, Lisa and Nicole, who Ludacris sings about in his song.
Kristina then in turn meets the wrong type of people and begins to experiment with a multitude of drugs. Endless nights of drug abuse eventually leads to her rape and pregnancy where she eventually decides to call her mother and attempt to get
The narrative “No Tears for Frankie” by Gena Greenlee uses multiple rhetorical strategies to illuminate how bullying and sexual harassment can occur between kids in their tween years. The narrative tells a short story about a when she was a little girl was sexually harassed by a boy named Frankie. When he dies in a sudden accident she recalls the multiple incidents of harassment done by Frankie leading up to his death and why she feels no remorse. Greenlee effectively uses comparison, description, and classification to help get a better understanding of the pain and despair she felt as a little girl in her days of being harassed by Frankie. Greenlee uses comparison to show the differences between her and Frankie and how maybe these differences made her an easy target for Frankie.
Prostitution Slavery Could you believe that there are children young as nine years old working in the sex industry? Trafficking of women and children is one of the biggest problems in the world today. Children young as nine years old are snatched up on the streets and forced into prostitution. Once children and women come into the sex industry they can not leave it anytime they want to. They are either thrown out of the sex industry, killed or die from sickness and diseases.
What is Megan’s law? And how can this seven-year-old save you and your family from becoming a statistic? Megan Kanka was a seven-year-old second grader with a candid smile and pudgy cheeks, who was violently raped and killed by a known child molester who moved across the street from her family (crime.about.com/od/sex/a/megans_law.htm) along with his roommates who were also known child molesters. Back then child sex offenders could leave prison and quietly slip into the anonymity of any neighborhood without raising an eyebrow, their checkered past remaining a well guarded secret from unsuspecting neighbors (www.pennlive.com/news/express times/stories/molesters5_main bar.html).
Women and girls are trafficked internally for commercial sex. Children are subject to involuntary servitude as factory workers, domestic servants, beggars, agricultural workers and many times they are also sexually abused by their owners. No crime can be worse than this (Human Trafficking Statistics, 2010). What is human trafficking? Human trafficking is a form of modern day slavery and is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world (Human Trafficking into and within the united States: A Review of the Literature, 2013).
They have a tendency to imitate the ones that they look up to. Children can know only what their guardians have taught them. Patty is a classic example of this. She began stealing to get what she wanted, started abusing several different drugs, had sex with men for money, had children at a young age, and was diagnosed with HIV from having unprotected sex. She ended up in about the same situation as her mother.
Human trafficking is also endemic within Indonesian society. Men, woman, and children are usually trafficked into the commercial sex trade. The latter case happened to a woman in Bandung. She forced to be a prostitute at a nightclub in Bandung. Tragically, she was “sold” by her mother.
Men are also victimized into emigrating and selling their labor force. Young African women and children are being sent to Europe and the Middle East for commercial sex exploitation. It’s unfortunately a very common method of taking victims from their homeland to a place that they know nothing about, making them now even more isolated and lost. They are often misled by false promises of steady employment as “housemaids, shopkeepers, seamstresses, nannies or hotel service positions and attendants in the major European countries and are eventually forced into prostitution on getting to the destination” (Africa Files – Ade Adenekan). These unfortunate victims have their passports and other documents that would otherwise allow them to travel are taken once they arrive in their destination area so they have no chance of getting on the next plane, boat, or car to get back home.