War rape

(PTSD), also known as shell shock or battle fatigue, is a mental health issue that could develop after experiencing a life changing moment in a person’s life. Most researchers theorize that the people who have PTSD have either fought in war, been a victim of rape, or have endured a life changing experience. In the United States, 70 percent of adults, approximately 223.4 million people, have experience at least one traumatic moment in their lives. One out of nine women in the world…

There is an estimate of 23.4 million veterans in the United States and about 2.2 million military service members. Due to the demanding environments of military life and experiences of combat, personnel experience some sort of mental illness at some point throughout or after their military career. Service members are faced with sexual trauma, depression, stress, brain injuries, suicide, substance abuse, homelessness, and/or involvement with the criminal justice systems. Approximately 18.5% of…

On 3 December 2015, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced that all branches of the military must open all combat roles to women within one year. This brings new urgency to the issue of rampant sexual assault and harassment in the U.S. military. Roughly 19,000 U.S. servicemen and servicewomen were sexually assaulted or raped last year while serving their country - that is approximately 52 cases per day. Their assailants by-and-large were other service members. Although roughly 80% of cases go…

Witness testimonies are often unreliable due to the nature of human memory. For this discussion, 'testimony ' will be used loosely to represent a statement, written or spoken, made by any person claiming to have seen or experienced anything relating to their respective case. The chosen scope for this discussion is cases of sexual assault because very often in such cases the only evidence presented is a testimony, either by the victim or a witness. Aside from the aforementioned, DNA evidence has…

“Summer Reading Essay: Prompt 1“ In Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, a teenage girl, Melinda, is starting out her freshmen year in high school but unlike everyone else, she has no friends at the beginning of the school. Melinda does not have any friends at the beginning because Melinda called the cops at the back to school year party and everyone was busted. Melinda is deemed the outcast at school. No one asks Melinda what happened at the back to school party and Melinda is terrorized at school…

called "rape culture," and try to demonize movies like 50 Shades of Grey, when in fact, 50 Shades of Grey is a type of fetish. No one is going to watch 50 Shades of Grey and think "Hmm, I think I should go rape some people now. It sure sounds fun!" And if for some weird fucked up reason someone did have those thoughts, they were already fucked up, to begin with. Feminist are sexist assholes because the quote “Teach men not to rape” is a horrible thing to say because guess what? Not all men rape…

society, campus rape has been a big issue and it keeps happening over and over again in the U.S. colleges/universities campuses. For example, look at the Brock Turner case. His potential sentence of 14 years in prison, but he only gotten 6 months in jail, followed by 3 years of formal probation, and to be registered s sex offender for life because the judge chose to give him leniency to Turner for the harsh impact imprisonment that would have on him. I’ve been hearing about campus rape cases on…

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…

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…

“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.…