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    in service. All of these young men and women were sexually assaulted and nothing was done about it, their rapist were not prosecuted and many of them are still in the service today getting awards and getting promoted. One women in the film said, if rape cases ever came in they were never given to the women, the men always took those because we were too sympathetic (Wells, 2012). Women who have been raped in the Military have a PTSD rate higher than men who’ve been in combat (Kirby, 2012). The…

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    Furthermore, the violent nature of men in the army, and the dislike of women leads to severe exploitation of women during wars. Approximately, “one-third of the women in the military have reported a rape or attempted rape” in 2003, but the numbers are much higher today due to the fact that female rape victims in the military are increasing (Hoppen). This point opposes the misconception that women are safe at work in the modern world since the exploitation of female soldiers is proliferating as…

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    Finn 's POV I was waiting for the newest doppelgänger to show up so I could take her to mother so she can end the abomination we call lives. When I saw the doppelgänger walk in I thought she was beautiful but I couldn 't let that distract me from mother 's plan of killing us. Most importantly I swore I wouldn 't love again after sage found another after Niklaus stuck a dagger in my heart 900 years ago. I guess love at first sight is actually real I think I found my eternal mate need to tell…

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    “6 million kids in the country live with a parent who abuses drugs or alcohol (“Prevent”).” Kids need their parents at all time through their lives, but when a parent uses drugs it is like they are not there or they make everything ten times harder than what it needs to be. Everything gets turned around and the drugs lead to chaos, the chaos leads to responsibilities, and the responsibilities lead to emotions. Every now and then parents will fight, but they are still there for their children.…

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    People should be taught not to rape rather than not to be raped. Often times, people will often deny that they have raped someone, using the excuse that, “they wanted it,” or, “they asked for it.” The dictionary definition of rape is, “unlawful sexual intercourse or any other sexual penetration of the vagina, anus, or mouth of another person, with or without force, by a sex organ, other body part, or foreign object, without the consent of the victim.” Along with this, people will confuse…

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    Rape: A Special Case Crime Sex crimes are more common than many other crimes and are one of the most underreported crimes in today’s society. In most cases the victim and offender know each other but there are a significant amount of victims that do not know their attacker. Each year, rape kits across the country are stored on shelves and are left to collect dust. It is said that ninety-seven percent of rapist will never see jail time. How a forensic technician collects, packages and analyzes…

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    attempted rape or a completed rape (“Get The Facts”). It is the most intimate crime and also a crime that has left a huge effect on how we look at women and men today. Rape is one of the most most damaging crimes done to people. It is an invasion of a person and can leave that victim permanently damaged. One of the major problems of rape is that society blames the women for getting raped when it is not their fault all. Also, the government does not do enough to prevent it. When a man rapes a…

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    come out of the dark and into the light and publicly speak about her events. Just like in the rape of Lucy Lurie, the protagonist’s daughter, due to the robbery of her home she could not fully keep quiet about the rape. She too felt disgraced and humiliated because she was used not only as a punch bag, but a scapegoat for the sins committed by whites on blacks. Melanie was practically raped and many rape victims do not want to be on public display for everyone to see. Melanie’s fate was subject…

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    their victims, primarily if the initial target is a child related to the offender. While it does not seem to be the definite reason, it seems logical to speculate that offenders will begin with a lost risk victim, such as a family member. In cases of rape, it is in the best interests of the rapist to offender someone known to them, primarily a family member as the risk of discovery is relatively low (Vaughan, 124). There is a similar situation as in many cases family members are not aware of the…

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    Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD as it is commonly referred to, is an anxiety disorder that develops following the experience or the witnessing of a traumatic life-threatening event. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, “the defining characteristic of a traumatic event is, it’s capacity to provoke fear, helplessness, or horror in response to the threat of injury or death.” (Yehuda, 2002) This event could be living through military combat in wartime, surviving a natural…

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