Exploitation

Thomas Jefferson transcribed in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal”, that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevant - for every man is endowed with the same certain unalienable rights. This phrase independently formed the premise for modern society, its significance remaining highly present in a contemporary environment. Kate Grenville’s The Secret River adopts this foundation of society as a foregrounded theme, addressing the synchronous concern of social…

1.3.1.1 Domestic Violence Domestic violence incidences are fairly common and widespread across all over the camp. Domestic violence includes maltreatment, beaten and abuse by husbands, in-laws, and other family members. Most of the refugee women reported that men’s frustrations and experiences of violence directly affect women through domestic violence. Such men’s frustration gets exacerbated because of the gendered norms that are embedded strongly in Rohingya culture men are expected to be…

Broadbent, & Oram, 2015) exploited individual’s that suffer from PTSD can experience certain triggering sensations from a particular situation or object. In addition, the physical and psychological abuse that a victim goes through during their exploitation lingers throughout their life cycle in which generally affects their futures, relationships or aspired goals. Although many individuals may have been tricked or coerced into situations they may experience resentment from the public and…

It goes without question that Hip-Hop has played a large role throughout America’s popular culture in recent decades. Aside from the entertainment aspect, there is more to the rap industry than meets the eye. For example, Hip-Hop is traditionally dominant in black, working class populations, or rather, populations that have historically faced systematic inequality from lack of opportunity. Many Hip-Hop tracks have touched base on these issues racism, poverty, and crime along with the structures…

primary apparatus that allows the dominant economic system to reproduce itself. Some may argue that without an education, a poor person would never be able to identify that they are being wronged by the system, that they would be blind to their exploitation and therefore unable to defend themselves against it. Shorris uses an anecdote about Aristotle to demonstrate this; when a student analyzed the philosopher’s thoughts on self-indulgence, the class collectively realized that they “were all…

World” from early indigenous societies through the character of Angela Vicario, Marquez presents to us the role of patriarchy through the exploitation of women, the role of gender, class and violence and the resistance of women to adopt and build an independent space for themselves under patriarchy system. Angela’s condition raise questions of gender exploitation and the position of women under the Christian value system. Angela Vicario becomes the passive object of sexual desire of bayado,…

Lynn White Jr. offers an important assessment and critique of Western culture and its’ effects on the environment in “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis”. Throughout the short essay he brings to light the ways in which Westerner’s anthropocentric lifestyles and suppositional inherent place at the top of the food chain has had a profound and disastrous affect on the natural world in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Because the timeline of the natural world is understood…

When we think of human trafficking, we think women and girls being trafficked through Japan, India, Cambodia, Bangladesh and other neighboring countries. Huge red light districts offering thousands of women and children; some as young as 9 and 10 years old. We think of children getting abducted and sometimes even sold by their own parents in third world countries. We think men in Cambodia paying a large sum of money for virgin girls. Some of us might think back to the 2008 blockbuster “Taken”…

sustain on comes from the hands of slave labor.- Contemporary slavery is a hot topic across the globe. Well, what is slavery, you might ask. A definition of contemporary slavery is a person held against their will at risk of violence or economic exploitation. The U.S. Agricultural industry employs immigrant slaves from Mexico and Central America . Hiring illegal immigrants makes for much cheaper labor. Slavery is an integral part of our society, and goes mostly overlooked by the general…

natives for their labor and their resources for the benefit of his conquistadors and the spanish crown. The government of Bolivia is doing the same thing with regards to resources by taking the water away from the people. The film crew represents the exploitation of labor by foreigners, intentionally going to Bolivia to save money by hiring desperate natives and only paying them two dollars a day. For most of the film the government and the film crew do not care about the native grievances until…