Satanic ritual abuse

The world offers a multitude of influences that impact a child’s set of morals. The vast amount of contradicting values leave children grasping for moral understanding from their parents. Parents often times do not address moral issues, which offers their children no benefit. In Robert Coles’ “I Listen to My Parents and I Wonder What They Believe,” he demonstrates children’s difficulty in processing through different moral messages. Coles emphasizes the parent’s role in assisting their children…

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness is a captivating story about a 12-year-old boy Todd Hewitt who lives in a world where every man and animals’ thoughts can be heard in a never-ending stream of Noise. The Noise is chaotic because in our minds there is so many things going on you can only describe it as chaotic. It really shapes the New World because if you can hear everyone’s chaotic thoughts along with your own it would be chaos and that is exactly what the Noise is and what the New…

aged 12 to 17 claim to have received sexually suggestive nude or semi-nude photos. The film effectively questions societal morality in conjunction with social expectations. In the stories of Audrie and Daisy, there is a power to speak against such abuses and social trends; rather, the lens zooms in on how rape culture affects policy. The sheriff of Maryville, Missouri even admits that there is “pressure on young girls in our society to be pretty, to be liked, to be the popular one…it’s not fair,…

I recently attended Byron Hurt’s talk “Locker Room Talk of Toxic Masculinity”. In his talk, he spoke about the reasons toxic masculinity is being formed, and the outcomes of it. He tied in many interesting facts, and connected them to current events. One major point Hurt made was stating that we need to drastically change the way boys are raised. As boys are growing up, they are provided poor examples of what it means to be a male. Most of what is learned about being a man comes from TV, music…

Article Six Analysis: “To Save Yourself from Sextortion, Send Naked Mole Rats, Not Nudes” The New Yorker article by Alan Burdick discusses a recent Canadian campaign against sextortion by instructing teen-age boys to send a picture of the naked mole rat instead. The audience of the article is the general public, mostly parents of teens and teens themselves. One purpose is to inform people about the dangers of sextortion and a way to combat it. Another purpose is to review the Canadian Centre…

My parents were always scared. Scared someone was coming. Scared someone was going to hurt me. They wouldn’t let me go play in the snow alone, walk to school alone, go anywhere alone. It felt like I was in a house arrest. I always dreamt of playing in the snow on a cold winter's day with my friends, doing what a normal 12-year-old should do. But no, I was stuck inside, day in day out. I continuously asked them if I could go to the oval across the road to kick the football, if I could go to the…

of fights, name calling, hurtful words, wishing each other ill and pain. Growing up my mother used to verbally abuse me by calling me all kinds of names, criticized the way I looked and parts of my body. I was either too fat or too skinny but I was never good enough for her. She was very hurtful with words. Things didn’t get any better as I got older. The way she used to verbally abuse me scared me for life. It affected my self-esteem, my relationship with others, including other family members…

Andy The Apple “Hey Andy,” said Clara The Celery, “Get some friends you do not belong here.” Andy ignored her this bullying had gone on for days all because of some stupid human who had put Andy The Apple in the vegetable drawer. Everyone new that fruits do not belong in vegetables drawers. And now the vegetables all bullied him especially Garry The Green Pepper but he was also bullied by plenty by tommy The Tomato,Clara the celery, Parry The Pea, and Bobby the broccoli, these were all…

The School to Prison Pipeline is something I was previously unaware of. Crystal T. Laura’s Book, Being Bad: My Baby Brother and the School to Prison Pipeline (2014) was eye opening and disturbing. To learn that students of color, particularly male students, are being described at eleven years old as unsalvageable because of subjective behaviors is heartbreaking and infuriating. Most of all this book, the personal essay describing the story of Laura’s brother Chris, left me wondering why…

In the article “A Suicide at Twelve: ‘Why, Steve?” of Richard E. Meyer, the author narrates a whole life of a young boy whose name is Steve Dailey. Through the article, we could see the whole life of Steve from the day he was born to the day he chose a rope and bough to end his life although nobody, who lived around him, understood the reason why he had to kill himself. Therefore, the author still keeps a question “Why, Steve?” for the article. “Steve Dailey was born on July 30, 1961, in the…