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…in the first place. Think about this real life example, a fifteen-year-old girl named Alexis is taken advantage of by an uncle she loved dearly. For seven long years she was repeatedly raped and molested. The result? She just found out she’s with child, without…

…classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. Atticus Finch, attorney at law, is set to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, who is wrongly accused of the rape of a white lower-class woman, Mayella Ewell in the Maycomb county, while the town questions the principals…

…or families. They never went out and ruthlessly hunted the Indians. Americans gave blankets and food to them, and they treated us terribly. They only rape our women and scalp them. Just as the Vietnamese only leave landmines and snipe soldiers from the safety…

…, but not telling. Also, that Tom could NOT have raped Mayella Ewell because of his disability. Yet, the jury convicted Tom of raping the Ewell. “You’re left-handed Mr. Ewell.” –Pg 177 “Atticus was trying to show, it seemed to me, that Mr. Ewell could have beaten up…

…and beliefs. Tom Robinson, an African-American man, is accused of raping Mayella Ewell; since he is an African-American, he loses the case. Tom is given a defense attorney, Atticus Finch, who is chosen by the judge. Atticus Finch is a white man and he…

…and fifty years ago, blacks and other minorities were enslaved, and lived and worked in the most disgusting and terrifying conditions. Look around today, when every day people brutally murder and rape each other for absolutely no reason. Finally, look…

…the text's major themes. Rape and Sexual Violence - Sexual violence, particularly against women, pervades The Handmaid's Tale. The prevalence of rape and pornography in the pre-Gilead world justified to the founders their establishment of the new order…

…one else was eating them. Or it wasn’t my fault I raped her but the rest of the guys on the team were doing it so I did. So the justice system is supposed to focus on prosecuting society for making men rape women by putting them on sports teams…

…friend for an unsolved murder/rape, she is trying to save her lover and she has the ghost of her sister following her, because she feels it was her fault that the killer was never found but it did cause her to become a psychologist. The other characters…

…as promiscuous. When slave women arrived in the Caribbean and/or United States they were barely clothed. White people were taught that this nakedness reflected promiscuity in the black woman. The white men used this false notion of promiscuity as justification to rape…