Half The Sky Injustice

What really touched me about when they went to Sierra Leone was the work of the Rainbow Centre and the Family Services Unit at their local police department. The Rainbow Centre did counseling for rape and domestic violence victims and their families. Amie, who works with the International Rescue Committee, is the founder of the Rainbow Centre. When at the Family Services Unit, one girl (Fulamatu) and her mother was kicked out of the home when the little girl was raped by her uncle. Even though the uncle was not a blood relative, it was still a big deal that she was raped.

Solnit uses the heart-wrenching example of how “Corporal Maria Lauterbach was apparently killed by her higher-ranking colleague after she was going to testify that he had raped her” (6). This woman was sexually intimidated by her higher ranking officer and was eventually murdered to cover up what he had done. Solnit uses the horrific example of rape to emotionally grab the reader's attention, bringing them deeper into her essay. This is one of the most effective examples that Solnit uses in her essay to prove women deserve the right to be treated as human beings and that these serious problems need to be

The saddening thing is, that the whole scenario started because Mayella attempted to seduce Tom, and her father found out. Filled with rage, Mr. Ewell beat his daughter, he found it unacceptable that his daughter fancied a black man. Then, he claimed that Tom raped his daughter to cover everything up. There are even cases such as Tom’s happening to this day, such as the case of Miguel Angel Peña Rodriguez Vs. Colorado. The jury was corrupted by bias thoughts which resulted in an unfair trial.

However, unbeknownst to their male commanders, many women used the control they had over food and stolen money to prevent young boys and men from abusing girls (2). The women of Sierra Leone have long been exposed to appalling violations of their human rights, especially during the civil war. “During this extremely brutal conflict an estimated 275,000 women and girls became victims of sexual violence. Massive sexual violence was used not only to sow terror among the civilian population; it further served military

During her time in slavery, Shyima was mistreated. When she was moved to the U.S. on August 3, 2000, she was treated worse because she was the only worker they’d brought with them. Shyima was constantly both verbally and physically abused. “The Mom was a master at making many of the people around her feel like dirt”(72). She would yell derogatory words, like “You’re nothing, nobody”(73), and that she was a “stupid girl”(26).

(Anderson, 165). In this part of the book melinda is watching an episode of oprah and it's an episode about a girl who's been raped and melinda's subconscious wakes up and makes it seem like oprah is talking to her telling her she was raped, she just started to come to realization that she really was raped at the party and she was getting really overwhelmed and started feeling sick. She already knew she got raped, but she was in doubt and she didn't want it to be true which is why it took so long for her to

In the book ‘The Bite of the Mango’ by Mariatu Kamara and Susan Mcclelland, a group of individuals in Sierra Leone that call themselves the revolutionary united front (RUF) started a civil war to get back at the president of sierra leone. The RUF raped, murdered, and torchered innocent sierra leone people. ‘The Bite of the Mango’ is about a fourteen year old sierra leonean girls life during the civil war. Kamara describes the horrors the RUF put her and others through. Without the help of other countries she would have stayed in an unsafe environment and could have died.

In Roots, there is scene where we can see an African American women leading her daughter to Mr. Ames’ cabin. During this scene we see that the girl, who appears to be a teenager, is very jumpy and scared. Mr. Ames comes to the door, the mother gives her over to Mr. Ames, and Mr.Ames drags her into his cabin to rape her. It was very common for young African American women to be raped by their owners or overseers. In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, we see an example of sexual abuse when Aunt Hester sneaks out to meet with a man named Ned Roberts.

Another activist during this time period was Daisy Bates. When Daisy was just a little girl she had lost her mother because of three white men who had raped and murdered her. From this loss she experienced, she had so much built up anger and hatred toward those men. She used this hatred to help other women and generate a change. Daisy had become a well-known women that black victims of rape could go to.

A Thousand Splendid Suns’ was written by an Afghan American writer, Khaled Hosseini. The novel narrates the strength and resilience of two women who endure physical and psychological cruelty in an anti-feminist society. It also demonstrates how The Taliban uses fear and violence to control the people of Afghanistan, particularly females. Throughout this story the novel exposes the way customs and laws endorse Rasheed’s violent misogyny and it tells the tale of two women who endure a marriage to a ruthless and brutal man, whose behaviour forces them to kill him. The protagonist Mariam is a poor villager who lives in a remote area in Afghanistan, in contrast to Laila who is a smart, educated daughter of a schoolteacher.

A lot of instances in this book they profanely discuss women in terms of prostitution and rape. “We’re carrying on our backs the overseas sins of generations of fighting American GIs--gang rapes in Vietnamese jungles, the same in Seoul and Pusan, pregnant Englishwoman abandoned after World War II, Japanese women raped and impregnated and abandoned during the occupation, thousands of French whores filled with syphilitic cocks while the Great War raged on.” (Swofford 92) Rape has been a part of war for centuries and people decide to avoid discussing it. From what we learned throughout the semester I think a lot of this has to do with the “brotherhood” of the marines. Together, it is a form of “joint power” with all their “male aggression,” We’ve learned that in history men like to bond over disrespecting women when they are

To be in conflict with traditional society’s beliefs in 1996 is difficult for many to do; however, author Sapphire fights that battle to bring readers attention to some of the most provoking literature that shows the harsh reality of life. The novel, Push by Sapphire published in 1996 was showing the life a 16-year-old girl, African-American named Precious Jones, who was constantly being raped by her father and molested and abused by her mother. This caused both of her pregnancy at age 12 and again by age 16; later in the novel finding out she got AIDS on top of that all by her father. Sapphire has a way of showing the truth of racism through many elements in Push, displaying how Precious and many other characters struggle with everyday

In Martha Marcy May Marlene described her rape scene by saying, “The edges of the frame closing in on the face of a young woman stripped of volition, her head creaking along the floor as a powerful force behind her exercises his will.” In The Game of Thrones the scene was Sansa Stark’s husband Ramsay Bolton raping her on their wedding night. Bringing other sources that prove that other films also exhibit these types of scenes show that the author chose these specific films because it captures the awful experience women go

She would throw the baby overboard, only to jump in after her. Celianne’s family underwent physical mental and emotional pain. The remaining woman in the family was raped by the soldiers until they got tire; Danticat shows in a 2009 interview with Opal Palmer the two discuss Danticat’s early life “It’s still happening-the actual rape of girls and women by people in position of power and authority in Haiti, both foreign and local” (349). Celianne told her story of how she became pregnant from being raped by the soldiers, “. . .then

Just because a woman goes against what their husband 's or anyone in their family believe to being incorrect should not justify them to becoming horribly disfigured. Similarily, further into the novel the Pross story resonated deep into my mind. According to Nicholas D. Kristof, one of the authors of Half the Sky, Pross was kidnapped at the “thirteen” (11) and sold to “a brothel in Cambodia.” When Pross wanted to fight back and escape her situation, the “female brothel owner” punished her by taking one of her eyeballs out with a “metal rod.” The heartbreaking story of Pross is one of the many ways the individuals at a brothel break “the spirits of the young girls” (10).