Sexual assault in the U.S. military

combat. For women outside the military, it was acclaimed as a step toward true equality. Before the current objectives were raised to justify keeping women out of combat units; almost all of those objectives were fallen within the last decade. The American public hasn’t objected to women not being killed or wounded any more than…

The Negative Impacts of the War on Afghanistan Many people have different ideas about the war in Afghanistan. Some people oppose the war while others propose it. “September 11 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group Al-Queda hijacked four airlines and carried out suicide attacks against the United States targets” (“9/11 Death Statistic”). The war on Afghanistan started after these attacks on 9/11. The Afghanistan war has been going on for 12 years now and is currently…

A Right to Bear Arms The argument that “outlawing guns will leave only criminals with guns”, has been debated over and over throughout the years without a truly clear answer being reached. As tragedies such as school shootings in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and more recently Florida become more and more common place, gun control laws have become the focal point of national concern, and call for more gun control laws has gotten louder and louder. The Constitution grants American’s the right to…

Society today declares that all humans, no matter the race or gender, are equal. Anyone can do as he or wants to a certain extent. The world we live in today is congested with agony and adversity so laws and regulations are implemented to maintain order and stability to conserve the world as solemnly as possible. An important matter that has accumulated through laws is the concern of equality. Equality is pertaining to assure that every human being has an opportunity that is equalized in order…

were a staggering 22,800 violent sex crimes in the military in 2011. Female solders aged 18 to 21 accounted for more than half of the victims. Many rape victims find themselves forced to choose between speaking up and keeping their careers. So you ask me, “ Is the female victim invisible?” and the answer is yes. While rape victims in the civilian world can turn to an police force and judicial system for help and justice, rape victims in the military must turn to their commanders, a move that is…

an ongoing lawsuit against the school, in April 2005, a judge ruled “that the two women had not proven the university was ‘deliberately indifferent’ to the risk that players and recruits would assault them” and dismissed the case. Thankfully, the women were finally granted a fighting chance when the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the judge’s ruling two years later in September 2007 and sent the case back to district court for trial after “judges pointed toward sufficient evidence…

In 1995, NOW organized the first mass demonstration focusing on violence against women and drew in a quarter million people. In 2004, the March for Women’s Lives became the largest mass action of any kind in U.S. history, which brought in a record of 1.15 million people to advocate for women’s reproductive health options. NOW’s actions have brought great success in the changes that has put more women first in today’s society. NOW has six issues: Reproductive…

towards full acceptance of gay people in the U.S.( Diversity Studies Collection). Although on the military people's sexualities could have negative repercussions, your orientation is one of your basic human rights and if you serve in the military your superiors should take action to be sure you are treated as everyone else because sexuality has no effect on your performance or your cohesion with others. The Military should be welcoming gays into the military, but instead, they discriminate…

Getting to Know the Lord's Resistance Army For more than 25 years, an army of mostly child soldiers led by a man named Joseph Kony have been massacring and kidnapping civilians throughout Uganda. This conflict has since spread into other regions such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and areas of southern Sudan. Despite several attempts at meetings in addition to arrest warrants from the International Criminal Court against Kony and his troops, this war still rages on as one of the…

for their long lifespans. Okinawa was the sight of “the bloodiest battle in the Pacific” (History) and was under U.S. control for 20 years before being returned to Japan in 1972 (History of Okinawa). Okinawa is now home to 34 U.S. military bases and 1800 troops (source), and many Okinawans want these bases gone. Recently there has been major opposition to the relocation of one of the U.S. marine air bases to a more rural area of Okinawa, and increasingly more Okinawans and mainland Japanese are…