The Rape of the Lock

Your sister or brother is the main person that you will do absolutely anything for, besides your parents. You share DNA with them and an entire childhood. They are the first friend you make and the one you tell most of your secrets too. Most people with siblings would turn their nose up to ever having any type of romantic feelings for them, but there are a few people out there who find love with their siblings. Sisters, Laura and Lizzie could be one of those few people. In Christina Rossetti’s…

An epic hero is defined as a character in an epic poem who is noble and brave and is affected by great events or admired for his achievements, during the course of this class we have read of many epic heroes; two of my favorites being Gawain and Belinda. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Gawain is one of King Arthur’s faithful knights, and embodies the nature of what a hero is. Heroes are people who are meant to uphold the greater good, and do what is right in the face of adversity;…

PSYCHOLOGY OF PRISON 2 Psychology of Total Institution and the Prison System Total institution has been used throughout the ages for reform behavior, thought process, and a common goal of individuals. Erving Goffman defined the total institution as an isolated, enclosed social system whose primary purpose is to control most aspects of its participants ' lives (Macionis, 2017). We have deployed Goffman 's theory in prisons, military training camps, and a variety of mental…

Liberation is a trend that has been sweeping the nation since it first came about. The United States became the United States by the colonists liberating themselves form Great Britain on July 4th, 1776, African American Slaves became liberated on January 1, 1863 by the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, and over the past semi-century, 50 years, women have been gaining more and more liberation as well. But what is liberation? How how does it come about? Control comes from seven different…

In Joan Didion’s excerpt ‘The Promise of the Prison’, from The People and Promises of California, Didion talks about California and the hopes residents were instilled by the building of prisons. The prisons being built were going to provide protection and a substantial amount of job opportunities for residents. Didion mentioned that by the year 2000 California had over “33 penitentiaries and 162,000 inmates,the largest in the western hemisphere.” This number has increased since then not just in…

Every aspect of the film is imbued, created and viewed through the lens of the black female spectator as filmmaker. Nana is arguably the center of the film – she’s an old wise woman and the leader of the Peazant family. She is regarded as the seat of knowledge in the family – which is already a subversion of mainstream cinema that usually gives that type of knowledge to old white men. Nana Peazant’s knowledge is ancestral and cultural, yet gives her the wisdom of any great scholar - the African…

of prison rape, in American prisons. Gopnik is mainly talking about crime and their differences, and how mass incarceration is related to a crime. Gopnik also touches the history of America. And in this article he spends a couple of pages about the history, and the past. He starts with “How did we get here?” Which is like a wake-up call to his readers. He is comparing how crime rates and its punishment were back in the day then now. To support…

victims suffer from neglect, but a few also encounter the effects of physical, psychological and or even worst sexual abuse. Physical abuse is characterized by physical injury, inflicted as a beating. Sexual abuse includes for molestation, incest and rape. Inflicting a sexual act on an individual. Neglect is an abandonment failure to be there. I personally haven’t experience child abuse from my parents, but I have experience punishment. I experience a whipping here or there and an occasional…

of a child. Daddy’s Girl is not the term most people would associate with this is not a loving relationship between father and daughter. The eleven short stories in the graphic novel discussed incest, molestation, depression, anger, domination, and rape of a girl named Lily. While Drechsler’s drawing are black and white, however the images portray more than an innocent cartoon style. There is much to unpack in Lily’s life from childhood molestation to teenage peer pressures. I focused my…

that her blackness is inherently ugly. Pecola encounters racism on a daily basis, not only from white people, but her own race as well. Her home life is hard, her father, Cholly is an alcoholic, fights with her mom Pauline and in one drunken moment rapes her. She never fights back against her tormentors, instead she imagines that if she were prettier people would treat her better and dreams of having blue eyes. “It had occurred to Pecola some time ago that if her eyes,…