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…The story starts off with the Sheriff of Julie County answering a knock on the door. He finds out from his deputy, that a lynch mob is forming in Flowery Branch. A young white woman, Katy Barlow, is accusing a young Black boy, Sonny Clack, of rape…

…opening up to sexual behavior. She does though and is raped in the process. This is not a direct effect of her opening herself up but the combination of her weakness and the sexual aggression of the male dominated society. The opposite effect occurs…

…whit e trash. He helped Miss Mayella because he felt sorry for her. His major shortcoming was the fact that he was black. Bob Ewell, a white drunk, who was an eyesore and problem to the town, accused Robinson of raping his daughter Mayella. Atticus Fi…

…how fear can turn into murder and rape. Not just murder and rape in the physical sense, but in the emotional and mental sense as well. Not only is Bigger Thomas and the life that he lived an example but the very language that is used by the people around…

…later. Later in the story Mitch, Blanche's boyfriend, yells at her and tries raping her, but she does not let him. Afterwards, she tells Stanley that she would never forgive him because "deliberate cruelty is unforgivable" (Williams 184). Blanche also does…

…by underprivileged neighbors, prejudice, and the resentment of the outcome of the Civil War. Things have been the same way for years, but the peacefulness of Maycomb is changed when a black man is accused of raping a white girl. The lives of Scout and Jem are filled…

…their government’s judgment and start to believe that if they can be purchased at a store, drugs must not be as bad as once thought. Finally, drugs are a leading cause of violence, rape, and automobile accidents. If they are legalized, they will obviously lead…

…, especially in reference to other more serious crimes. Las Vegas for example, arrests on the average of 300 to 400 prostitutes a month. “In Boston, Cleveland, and Houston the police arrest twice as many prostitutes as they did for all homicides, rapes, robberies…

…. Another absurdity is the claim of anti-pornography activists that pornography should be banned because it "defames" women or tells men that women want to be raped. (Some pornography, of course, asserts that women enjoy sex and some censorship advocates…

…that occurred during World War II were unmerciful as well as unnecessary. During one invasion of China, the rape of Nanking, the Japanese killed 100,000 Chinese civilians. They were burned, butchered, and raped. Sometimes the Japanese would tie a big group…