Repeated sexual abuse lead Mitsuko to see the power she wields by using her body as a sexual object. She sees men as being ruled by their sexual desires and has learned to manipulate them because of this. An example of Mitsuko’s manipulative prowess can be seen when she tricks Yuichiro Takiguchi into untying her and then her sexual manipulations when she tries to seduce Tadakatsu Hatagami. The nature of her sexual abuse being rape and molestation was incredibly damaging…
The title of the movie is Awakenings. It was directed by Penny Marshall and produced by Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker. It was based on the life Dr. Oliver Sacks portrayed by Robins Williams as Dr. Malcolm Sayer. He was finding a cure for patients who survived from an encephalitis epidemia and became catatonic and unresponsive for years. The movie started when a Doctor named Dr. Malcolm Sayer worked in a hospital named The Bronx in New York City wherein it was full of catatonic patients.…
Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things revolves the event known as “The Terror” in the lives of the Ipe Family. Due to the fact that the story is told through a series of nonlinear flashbacks, the audience learns of the effects of the Terror long before the narrative reveals its causes. As the story progresses, the reader is able to piece together not only the events which directly lead to the deaths of Sophie Mol and Velutha, but also the historical and societal systems at play which informed…
Pretty Little Liars: A’s Final Revelation Pretty Little Liars has been all the rave for females since 2010, people have eagerly waited for Tuesday’s at 8 o’clock just to see who in the world the mysterious “A” was that is haunting Aria, Hannah, Spencer, and Emily. The first revealed “A” was a mysterious leading character Mona Vanderwaal who suffered from personality disorders, or at least says the psychologist that Mona is seeing throughout the show; however I believe she could also suffer from…
Herman argues that the symptoms of survivors that endure perpetual, chronic trauma are far more intricate. This intricacy comes in the forms of characteristic personality changes in addition to relationship and identity issues. In terms of childhood abuse survivors, they too suffer from these problems, along with their susceptibility to self-harm as…
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study The largest, most important public health study you never heard of The study I chose focuses on Adverse Childhood Experiences (A.C.E). I want to give you the technical details about the study. I wish to first introduce the class especially those with health major to the background behind this study. I feel it’s important because it might the patient sitting in front of you that has had an A.C.E. affecting their health. What is surprising is that the…
come together despite their differences. But what if those in charge are the ones abusing their power and instead of protecting its people, they are causing a disservice and putting them in horrendous situations. In “U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies”, the author, Joseph Goldstein digs deeper inside the war that is currently going on with Taliban where the American government became allies with the Afghan local policemen to fight the Taliban. But instead of…
stages of children gave cause for rethinking possible biasing due to personal experiences. Therefore, the query within is: How can a professional of the MIND, personality, and behavior ignore a child’s cry: Then, explain away the possibilities of said abuse, freeing the perpetrators, and jailing the victim for such thoughts or accusations? A most unfortunate time for Jung, that Freud would discredit his expansion of human behavior and personality (Friedman & Schustack, 2012). Common knowledge…
offend family members. DSM-IV define Pedophilia as recurrent sexually arousing fantasies, impulsive desires, or behaviors involving sexual acts with a child and that occur over a period of at least six months. (Neuroanthropology, Cole and Cochran 2010) In most cases the pedo is at least 16 years old and 5 years older than their victim. Those labeled as such desire to abuse children. Many people do not understand the likes of pedophiles and I am here to educate. There are several ways to…
Spotlight – Sociologial Theories 1 “When the Boston Globe’s tenacious “Spotlight” team of reporters delves into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover up at the highest levels of Boston’s religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world” (Road, n.d.). Spotlight is a movie based on real-life events that occurred in 2001and it shows the viewers the obstacles that these…