Melissa Farley, in her book, “Prostitution and Trafficking in Nevada Making the Connections,” explains her experiencs after investigating eight legal brothels in Nevada and interviewing both women and brothel owners. Much to her surprise, these women did not get any better treatment than those who partake in illegal prostitution. In fact, it is a modern form of slavery. One interviewee described the place in which she was kept as a “pussy penitentiary.”…
Tamar Demby develops her position by stating that Applebaum relies too much on emotional appeal, doesn't back up her claims and doesn't support her ethos. Demby gives examples of everything she mentioned that didn't make Applebaum article and more effective. After mentioning this, Demby moves onto give examples of the writer's use of ethos by saying that she is only “journalist rather than a nuclear physicist or someone with credentials”. Next the student explains that the writer lacked a “fact based case” because instead, she alarmed the readers without facts behind the claims. Then Da=emby gives more specific examples about how the article appeals too much on emotion and not facts.…
The Bureau’s Innocence Lost National Initiative’s, Operation Cross Country, is a federal initiative carried out, in conjunction with, the National Center for Missing and Exploited children, to end the illegal trafficking of sexually exploited children. In its most recent undercover operation, 73 of the FBI’s local, state and federal child exploitation task forces including more than 500 law enforcement officers participated in a covert stings at hotels, casinos, truck stops and other locations known to be frequented by pimps and prostitutes in Atlanta, Denver, Knoxville, Alexandria, Jackson, Los Angels, Portland, Sacramento and Seattle. As a result of their efforts, 149 underage victims of prostitution were rescued and more that 150 pimps and other offenders were arrested. In an effort to assist the victims, the majority of whom were 15-17 year olds, there were 100 FBI victim specialists on-hand to provide them with crisis intervention, food, clothing, shelter and medical attention, if needed…
In this paper, I engage with the five seminar questions of the third seminar session. The first question regards the various instances of systemic racism and sexism in Sarah Carter’s article. The second question relates to the argument made by Shareen Razack about the spatiotemporal element of segregation in early Canadian settler society. The third question concerns Indigenous women’s resistance to sexism and racism. The fourth pertains to the experiences of individuals living in the downtown east side of Vancouver and the manner by which structural barriers limit individuals agency.…
1. (5 points) Explain why studying emotions is one of the most controversial topics in psychology. How would you feel about having your emotions studied? First of all there is much disagreement of emotions amongst modern day psychologists. That disagreement goes way back to the earliest philosophers, so it is nothing new.…
This article was interesting since it explored Alex’s article more in depth. She brought up another issue that most people might not be aware of. That is that regardless of what your culture is, exploitation and abuse happen no matter what. People that have a higher status economically on occasion take advantage of people considered inferior to them. They use a person’s current standing as threats to make them do what they want them to do.…
Lucy Hayek is a young person who has been sexually exploited by her father, her mother passed away when Lucy was 10. Her father brings home girls for sexual pleasures and Lucy is made to watch him and sometimes even join in. Due to the fact she was brought up like that for a few years, at 13 her father told her it was time to take the next step and told her she could have loads of money if she did the same thing as him. Therefore, Lucy’s father arranged for different older men to come and spend a night with her every weekend, Lucy began to get used to it and thought it was normal. Unknowingly she had gotten into prostitution because she started to sleep with different men every night for the greed of money, and had unprotected sex most of time.…
The author’s purpose in writing the article The article is called Childhood and Sexual Identity under Slavery written by Anthony S. Parent, Jr. and Susan Brown Wallace. The author’s purpose for writing the article is to inform their readers about how children's were impacted throughout this time period and also how they badly they were being enslaved. The author’s main thesis…
Without background information some readers may think that all of these different elements of the story shape it into a piece of literature that emphasizes the problems during the nineteenth century for women, but when they learn that there were other elements that affect the story as well the theme of this piece is…
In the article “Because She Looks like a Child” by Kevin Bales, the author is deliberating the subject of child prostitution and sex trafficking that happens in Thailand. The author discusses the influence child prostitution and sex trafficking has on children who are forced into this. Siri, a fifteen-year-old child prostitute, is the emphasis of the article. She was sold by her parents as a means of economic steadiness. Siri is conscious of what prostitution and sex trafficking can possibly do to her while deliberating her current encounters including how many men she has had sex with at the brothel, and her worry about getting AIDS, and pregnant.…
Sex; it’s always been a hot topic. It’s always been the case that humans, in their base nature, are instinctive creatures and often act on animalistic desires, especially those of a sexual nature. As one so often hears, in the media and in the world around us; “sex sells”. The phrase itself came about through the corroboration of sexual acts, both paid or unpaid, private or public. In the world of today, sex is everywhere in the media, yet paid sex, or prostitution, is so often looked down upon.…
The documentary “Very Young Girls (Tween/Teen Sex Work)” by Nina Alvarez, gives us a deep perspective of the prostitution in New York City. It shows us the lives of many adolescents that for misfortune since very young ages have been victims of human trafficking. The documentary points out that the average ages for prostitution in New York are between the ages 13-and-14 years old. The main victims as the documentary shows are African-Americans. These girls are seduced, mistreated, and sold by pimps to men who wants to have sex.…
“I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to save our lives.” Sherman Alexie says these words in an article he wrote to persuade his target audience to see how learning to read and write can be a beneficial part of education for not just the indians in his tribe but for all cultured, lower-class.…
In the film Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, it has shown me how much young girls and women in worldwide are not getting the equal opportunities compared to men. As I was watching the film, many young girls are not getting educated due to their non-supportive environments where their family traditions are for women to be working for the family as they do not believe in women getting education, and as a girl they are to be married off to or sell their body to support family financially. Before I watched this film, I knew women in other countries did not get education because their family economic situations and unsupportive family for females in the household, but these ideas were just so normalized to…
Introduction In many countries, prostitution is illegal. Even in the U.S, which is such an advanced country, prostitution is only legal in eleven counties in Nevada. However, the Final Report on the Evaluation of the First Offender Prostitution Program, prepared by Michael Shively, et al., shows that fifteen to twenty percent of men in the U.S have engaged in commercial sex at least one time (10). According to the United States Census in 2010, there are 151,781,326 males in the U.S, so approximately 22.767 million to 30.356 million men have spent money on prostitution.…