Timothy J Gallant HUS318/SSC318: Adolescence, Sub Abuse & Crimi (Summer 2013) Women Behind Bars Silja J.A. Talvi UMA Campus 7/1/2013 The book influenced my opinion on women in prison because; I learned that the incarceration of at risk women does nothing to help them but does everything to help damage our American society and infrastructure. It should be a matter of great concern that almost two and a half million children have a parent in prison. This confounding statistic points to a growing normalization of correctional supervision and the forced dependency it perpetuates. Moreover, these children are set up for failure because of the denied access to federal benefits many of their mothers will incur due to the
Not only does it point out the natural inclination of people to feel pain as a ripple effect rather than all at once, it foreshadows the suffering that Hester and Arthur Dimmesdale will undergo throughout the course of the novel. It also explains how Hester is able to handle such terrible things as public shaming without crumbling into herself. His use of words such as torture, rankles and extremity increase the sense of drama in this passage. Chapter 4 “The Interview” Page 30 “We have wronged each other,” answered he. “Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay.
This overwhelmingly unwelcoming reception that greeted Gerard creates the intimidating environment that the character is experiencing for the first time. Amidst the chaos and gloom of the prison, Hare shows us a small glimmer of humanity in the character of prison officer Raymond Beckett. Although Beckett is presented as a hard headed prison officer who has dealt with thousands of hardened criminals over the years, after hearing Gerard has not been in prison before he shows him some compassion and sympathy. He gives advice on how to survive his first ‘stretch’ in prison. We see evidence of this when Beckett said: ‘you better learn, I’ve seen people go
Prompt: Violence does not resolve conflict; it only creates more conflict. Conflict occurs everywhere and violence does not stop it from happening. Throughout the film Paradise Road by Bruce Beresford there are numerous incidents where violence occurs and merely creates more conflict then there was at the beginning. We see conflict in Paradise Road from the soap incident between the English and the Dutch, and how racism was a very key element that had pushed violence to occur out of such a simple conflict. Another example of how violence increases the amount of conflict then there was originally is when Adrienne hit the Japanese soldier, even though she was seen as a leader and role model to some female prisoners.
In the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kasey starts off with one of the patients Chief Bromden whom is narrating the events that take place in the ward. The whole institution is controlled by Nurse Ratched a bitter, hostile women whom is revolting towards the patients. The novel leads off with a new patient McMurphy entering the ward who has a major impact on the patients. Being said he encourages the men to go against all the rules dictated by Nurse Ratched. He then starts to place a bet with the patients how he can crack Nurse Ratched without getting displaced and being sent for electroshock.
The reader has now observed what traits and behavior is being conveyed based on the conversations from Hester and Chillingworth of said chapter. We have now learned through Hawthorne, and the dialogue he set for Chapter IV, is that about Hester’s past, for the most part; is unknown. She is a strong-willed and haughty woman whose actions are done with passion (as seen when she was standing in the scaffold in the beginning of the story). However, she seems to get intimidated by Chillingworth during their conversation. Her sudden change of personality gives the reader an insight on how intimidating Chillingworth really is to Hester, and possibly others.
The families experience fear, especially the children and wives, when there are break-ins and scares of intruders coming to turn them into the Nazi’s. They experience despair when months pass without any progression and a continuous lack of food and other necessities, but never lost their hope and looked forward to the radio announcement advertising the position of their county against the Nazi party. Although the families were undergoing hard times, they kept their heads and courage up, even in times of great trouble. The diary of Anne Frank has taught an enormous mass of people great lessons about her life and life during hard times such as the holocaust. This diary is a primary source and excellent example of how living really was during this time for an average teenager.
I myself really enjoyed this memoir. This may be because I can relate in a way to Suzanne’s story. Suzanne’s story helps the readers to be aware of the type of people who are really out there in the world and the disgusting things that could even go through their minds. To me people that could even think about doing such things to children or even women, makes me sick in the stomach and they deserve to suffer and rot in prison. Suzanne, when you read this I just want to tell you that you have inspired me to never be silent about anything/anyone that tries to hurt me again and because of you I am going to make sure I go for everything I dream for in
Each inmate has a story and a past that equally goes along with that story, my job is to see past all that baggage and scar tissue and find the soar and try to help comfort them through all the pain. Before my own incarceration I liked down on those who lost their freedom due to their stupid acts, but when it became my turn I realized that sometimes we make those bad decisions out of emotions which can only lead to misguided judgment. Having the opportunity to share my story with the inmates has allowed them to see past me as being a stranger to them, if anything they see me as one of them, someone who relates to their loss and roller-coaster of emotions that are experienced daily while waiting on someone else to decide their fate and
The boot camp is just like in the Military, it consist of 6 weeks of hard physical exercise and keeping up with the duties in their dorm and anything that the military does, after that the State will knock the sentence down, if the inmate messed up such as fighting, cussing, letting the bed and dorm go dirty they will be sent back to the Prison and have to serve their full sentence. I think that if you have hurt someone like sex crime on a woman, man, they should not be allowed to go though the boot