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    lives. Mrs. Warren from Bernard Shaw’s infamous play Mrs. Warren’s Profession owns her own brothel and by doing so she is able to send her daughter to a boarding school, allowing her daughter to get a better education than she had. The views on prostitution during the Victorian Era were that is was not the job of a lady, but since it allowed women to scandalously liberate themselves and provide for their loved ones much like a man would be able to, it became widely popular for women to become…

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    constrained debt bondage, domestic servitude, prostitution or other slavery kind of practice. Human trafficking can be international, national or local. An individual might be trafficked from a little town to a big city under the same nation or trafficked to other different nation. The different between human trafficking and human smuggling are: Human Trafficking includes the harbouring or recruitment of individuals with the end goal of abuse (usually for forced labor or in the sex industry).…

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    Building Public Awareness To Prevent Human Trafficking Human trafficking is a type of modern slavery where traffickers sell people for a financial gain and use them for illegal labor, or prostitution. The source countries for human trafficking are generally ones with the poor economies. The victims are penurious and lacking an education. The traffickers are often the same nationality as the victims. Thus, when the victims offered high paid jobs abroad, they usually accept them. Once at the…

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    William Blake’s ‘London’ and Charles Martin’s ‘Easter Sunday’ are two pieces of poetry that reflect opposing perspectives of power. ‘London’ is sharp and seminal text that has been written in order to draw the reader’s attention to the persona’s observations and encounters of the conditions of London and the communal experience of its residents. The poem is a damning condemnation of a very corrupted society dominated by the power of materialism and the hypocritical paradigm that legitimates such…

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    “The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand nor appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how. “ John Wash , one of the best know parents of an abducted child, spoke out about the fact that there are no possible way to predict the way that families cope, and this is why the way of investigating these abductions can…

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    The claim that refugees have a negative impact on society has been a focus of great discussion for many years, both in Canada and throughout several other countries. Almost since time began, humankind has had difficulties when the condition in their area has altered for the worse, and they have had to make difficult decisions about where they should go next, and the dilemma has never been a more glaring issue than in today's society. It is a dispute with two distinctly diverse sides. On one hand…

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    In September of 2014, 43 students, all male, from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico went missing. They were stopped by local police, and possibly handed over to a local crime syndicate whom presumably killed them. While not only local police have been found to be involved, but also federal authorities, and possibly Iguala’s mayor and wife, whom fled once the investigation began. This may have been in response to the students’ social activism – a statement to…

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    most cruel, violent, and complex acts against humanity: sex trafficking. Sex trafficking is defined as the act of forcing, threatening, or conning someone into performing any sexual act (Cart 2). The sexual exploitation includes pornography, prostitution, and is characterized by the exploitation of a human being in exchange for goods or money. (Soroptimist 1). It has become a multi-billion dollar industry that involves young women being abducted from the streets around the world and sold…

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    Trafficking Abducted from her driveway Debbie, "a fifteen-year-old girl, is a middle child in a close-knit Air Force family from suburban Phoenix, and a straight-A student” (abc.com, 2006). “Debbie is the last person most of us would expect to be forced into the sex trafficking” (abc.com, 2006). She got a call from one of her friends saying she was outside her house, so Debbie went outside to meet her friend and greeted her with a hug as everything was okay, but instead, she was shoved into…

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    You’re lying completely naked on a cold, cement warehouse floor, condensation building up, chained and shackled to a wall with hundreds of other women and children screaming and crying around you. You’re not quite sure how long you’ve been here by now; weeks, months, years. It all blends together. Your body is bruised and sore all over. You hear the sound of a door slamming and look up. All of a sudden, you feel someone grab your hair tightly and yank as you scream in protest. No one ever…

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