Sodomy

Younger people may know him as Sam Seaborn on the popular television show The West Wing, or the eloquently speaking, super fit, Chris Traeger from the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. People over forty however, will most likely know him as a former heartthrob from the eighties that swept the women off their feet in movies like The Outsiders and St. Elmo's Fire. They will also however, remember him as the focal point in a leaked tape, who's outcomes nearly ruined his life and career. The actor…

and that they were ‘’ politically motivated.’’ On September 12 he gacy was given a psychiatric evaluation, he was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, but he was mentally competent to stand trial. In 1968 he pleaded guilty and admitted to sodomy charges and was sentenced 10 years at the Anamosa state penitentiary and his wife filed for a divorce and won, he never saw his wife or children again. He was let out on parole and again sodomizes another young man this time he murdered him…

Conover, the author of “Guarding Sing Sing”, is a journalist with a reformer 's dream, who is attempting to reform prisons due to their many issues within them. Conover in his attempt to shine light and gain knowledge from within; requested permission to write about the experiences of a recruit; also known as a “newjack.” The request was denied. So instead, he became his subject by becoming himself, a Correctional Officer. He writes about his many experiences as a CO for a whole year. This is “a…

opportunity to renew a focus on a safer and saner world for all” (p. 24, 2012). Morris (n.d) states that the lesbian, gay, and bisexual movement has worked to develop advocacy groups, vocalize discrimination issues, repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell”, remove sodomy from many state laws as it pertains to same sex relationships, and push for equal marriage…

Leonardo da Vinci was one of the greatest of the Renaissance period. Some may say that he was the epitome of the renaissance. He was famous for being a painter, architect, musician, inventor, sculptor and scientist. Leonardo Da Vinci was mostly known for his paintings and inventions back in the renaissance era and is still very much famous today from the paintings of the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. Some may also say that Leonardo was a revolutionary of his time. Many people say that because…

Incompatible? One of the most well-known pictures of the revolutionary war, painted by Emanuel Leutze almost a hundred years after, depicts a scene where George Washington stoically stands on a boat leading the troops across the frozen Delaware River. The American flag wraps around itself in the frozen wind, some troops are holding their hats, while others are paddling the claustrophobic wooden crafts. One guy even pushes a mini iceberg away with a stick so the boat can pass through the murky…

social order by administering various forms of capital punishment. While early colonial laws did not mimic those of the extreme English laws where some 200 crimes qualified for the death penalty, the colonies believed that crimes such as murder, rape, sodomy, adultery, and some property crimes were worthy of death (Acker, 2003). In colonial times, racial discrimination was extremely prevalent. Black slaves were subject to execution for attempted murder and attempted rape, whereas a white person…

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci is known as Leonardo da Vinci or even da Vinci. Leonardo is called the Renaissance man to this day. Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452 in a farmhouse in the hill of Tuscany outside the village of Anchiano, which is present-day Italy. He was the son of a respected Florentine notary named Ser Piero da Vinci. His mother was a young peasant woman by the name of Caterina. Leonardo was raised by his father and stepmothers. When he turned five, Leonardo moved to father…

whatever they are interested in seeing. Susan Knapp summarized a study about children seeing R-rated material in movies stating “These movies, all R-rated and not meant to be seen by children, contained scenes depicting such things as sadistic rape, sodomy, brutal of ritualistic murder and cannibalism. On average, these especially violent movies were seen by 28 percent of the sample” The rating system set in place is supposed to prevent children from seeing violent depictions and inform their…

What Shakespeare does in his comedic play Twelfth Night is that he deconstructs notions of gender and social class; however, he also stresses the futility of going against said social norms especially in Elizabethan society. Throughout the play, clothing is shown as a prime marker for, among other things, identity and social class. Some characters use clothing as a means of climbing up the social ladder; whereas others happen to flip the gender script by using clothing to highlight that gender…