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    “Objectification isn’t about seeing someone as a person in a box, but rather seeing the box as being the person” (Anonymous 2000). This objectification has been a particular problem for females over time, especially in the early ages. In Of S Theodora, A Virgin, Who is Called Christina (1096-8-1160), translated by Talbot, an anonymous author displays the objectification of women through the denial of autonomy in forcing Christina to marry and be trapped in a room, violability in how her unwanted…

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    Two years ago nineteen-year-old Chun “Michael” Deng, a freshman at Baruch College, died from complications of traumatic brain injury during a hazing incident. Deng suffered injuries during a fraternity ritual on a trip to the Poconos in Pennsylvania. Few of Deng’s fellow fraternity brothers will face charges including hindering apprehension, concealing or destroying evidence, hazing, and providing false information to law enforcement. Out of thirty-seven fraternity brothers involved in this case…

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    Conclusion The two victims that were examined during this paper were victims of kidnapping and child homicide. These two victims have a lot of similarities starting with how they are viewed by the media. Children as the victims are viewed as the most sympathetic victims in the Criminal Justice system. Another similarity is that the maximalist and minimalist perspective both have the same view on these victims. Maximalist believe that becoming a victim of this crime is inevitable if nothing is…

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    Imagine being coerced to marry someone that you’ve hardly had enough time to make a first impression on. Arranged marriages were a key aspect in “Marriage is a Private Affair.” People often disagree with arranged marriages because they don’t always love their spouse. “Marriage is a Private Affair” displays this when Nnaeme tells his father, “I don’t love her” (Achebe 190). Marriage is a private affair also demonstrates that arranges marriages can cause a great controversy between a father and…

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    Patty Hearst Kidnapping Patricia Campbell Hearst was a rich daughter who got abducted by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) when she was only 19 Years old. She was highly intelligent, attended college, and is now a actress. Always remained in Private Schools, four to be exact.y In 1982 she wrote a book with Alvin Moscow called ¨Every Secret Thing.¨ She was the third daughter of Randolph A. Hearst. She was born on February 20, 1954 and is currently 63. The SLA did not treat her like your…

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    DNA lead to his arrest in a kidnapping case from 1997. Kristina Hatfield disappeared from Midwest City on night in May of 1997. Hatfield was only 8 years old at the time. The police found Hatfield’s bedroom window cracked and they located her underwear in the backyard with blood on it. The little girl was never found. Police believe that Anthony Joseph Palma is to blame and that she was murdered because the body was never found. On Monday, police arrested him for kidnapping and first-degree…

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    In today’s society many people find it incomprehensible to have an arranged marriage. An arranged marriage is a marriage that is planned by the family, mainly the parents or guardians of the bride and groom, who have little or no say in the arrangement (Oxford Dictionary). Although in modern day society, arranged marriage is not as dominant as it was in the past due to social change, it still exists in many areas of the world today. Often times marriages are arranged due to religious, cultural,…

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    A marriage is a beautiful thing, but sometimes the marriage can be complicated. It is not always a marriage between two people can keep the love, and keep their marriage, as they promise when they get married. Some people are getting a divorce, and moving on and falling in love with another person. Reconciliation is a short story written in 2006 by Polly Clark. The story is about the main character Laura who is alternate between marriage and divorce. Laura is a first-person narrator because in…

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    The theme of free will and fate plays one of the dominant roles in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet love story. Fate and free will are responsible for a lot of conflicts that happened throughout the play. Shakespeare gives a hint to the audience about the doom of the couple by saying in the prologue that “a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.” (Prologue pg.23) Romeo and Juliet’s love is “dead-marked” which means that their love will bring their death. From the beginning, fate allows Romeo…

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    case: The kidnapping of three young women Victim(s): Sofia Silva, Kati and Kristin Lisk Suspect: Richard Marc Evonitz Overview: One day, Sofia Silva was kidnapped off of her front porch and found 5 weeks later in a nearby creek. Just 8 months later the same happened to Kati and Kristin Lisk who were the found floating in a river five days later. After investigating Kati and Kristin’s body, pink fibers were found on Kati’s body. Then in June of 2002, the killer struck again this time kidnapping…

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