Abdulaziz, The Broken Half. Sexual assault is detrimental to a victim’s mental health, health, and their life. But what is sexual assault? It is unlawful to harass a person (an applicant or employee) because of that person’s sex. Harassment can include “sexual harassment” or unwelcome sexual advances, request for sexual…
separate noncontinuous acts with evidence of a continuing purpose. Emotional distress is constituted significant mental suffering or distress that may, but necessarily, require some medical or other professional treatment as well as counseling. Then harassment means the conduct directed towards the victim…
African American females that grow up in disadvantaged neighborhoods will face many unpleasant realities and are susceptible to becoming a victim of harassment, abuse, assault and/or crimes (Peterson, 2008). Many of these young girls will experience different types of harassment and assault. These can range from verbal, sexual or gender-based harassment, physical and/or sexual abuse, such as rape and even something as horrible as being gang raped and they may also experience intimate partner…
Incivility is everywhere. It is commonly visible in everyday conversations, in debates, and online. With online incivility, anonymity is often targeted as the reason why there is online incivility. Both online incivility and anonymity encompass arguments that are for and against keeping them or banning them. Those who advocate for anonymity, such as Cornell Clayton, believe that anonymity provides a voice for the minority group against the majority majority and to protect individuals’ privacy.…
In the story, All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury, takes place in a dystopian life where kids live with their family on planet Venus. This may sound super fun, but on the contrary, it rains and rains and rains and rains. Every seven years the sun shines down on planet Venus for just one hour. Most kids do not remember the sun since they are so young, but Margot is different. She has come over from Earth fairly recently. She grieves the beautiful sun everyday, and this grieving can be observed by…
The story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury is a riveting piece of work. The story is about a girl Margot who has recently just moved to the planet Venus, from Earth, where the sun shines for one hour every seven years. Margot misses seeing the sun everyday from her house in Ohio. Instead, everyday, she sees rain just pouring down and never stops. But Margot is not the only kid missing out on the sun. Other kids on Venus, who were born there, have never seen the sun or even remember what it…
In my life there have been multiple major events that have taken place that have impacted me. While they are not major to others or may not seem so substantial to them they strongly influenced the person I am now and how I grew up. The most influential event I can think of were my experiences in middle school. This is a brief story of my time there and my experience with nonstop bullying. In the start of middle school I was a good active kid trying to make the grade and make a few friends at…
Ray Bradbury’s story, “All Summer in a Day,” takes place on the planet Venus, where it rains heavily all the time. The protagonist, Margot, recently arrived to Venus from Earth. Margot remembers what all the other children living on Venus can’t, the sun. Because Margot is the only one who remembers the light and joy the sun brings, the children grow jealous of her. One lesson that this story suggests is that if you get caught up in your own jealousy, you can end up hurting others. In the…
In the short story ¨All summer in a Day¨ by Ray Bradbury, Margot moved from earth to venus 5 years ago, where it has been raining since she came. Her experience with the sun separates her from the rest of her peers, for they have forgotten about the warmth of the sun. This fact makes the kids turn against her and lock her in a closet as the sun peers out for the two hours that margot is in there. Margot is always the odd one out with her longing for the sun. When happiness is taken away, people…
parents do not feel the need to monitor social media accounts so their kids do not even need to think twice about posting whatever they feel appropriate and necessary. It is because of this, that many adolescents unconsciously participate in cyber harassment. Just because they are unaware of the harm they are inflicting on the victim does not mean they are not going to be found guilty. Once one negative post is uploaded to the internet, others begin to chime in without realizing the damage that…