War rape

The forms that power takes differ through history and according to place. Discuss. Power has the capacity to influence and control the human mind; it is a pandemic, which invades every crevice of our modern capitalistic society. Historically, power in its countless forms convinces and manipulates ideologies, thus the control that power provides, can benefit or harm a society depending on the minds or intuitions which choose to exercise it. The stereotypical characteristics of power, such as…

According to Oxford Dictionary, rape is defined as the crime, “typically committed by a man who forces himself onto women to have sexual intercourse against their will.” Despite all the initiatives taken by the government and non-government organisations such as the campaign against rape by Women's Movement in India and Saartjie Baartam Centre for Women and Children (SBCWC), the issue still lives among the people and has not instilled fear in rapists. Rape assault has become a common phenomenon…

According to Susan Jacoby, one of the leading causes of date rape is simply mixed signals. The articles “Rape: A Bigger Danger Than Feminist Know” by Camille Paglia and “Common Decency” by Susan Jacoby both elaborate on the topic of rape and date rape. The two writers have much to say about this topic but each reach a different conclusion. Between these articles it is obvious that the stronger article is “Common Decency,” because her argument is more effective and balanced than that of Paglia…

In this segment we are bringing attention to comfort women; the Japanese Army forced comfort women into sexual slavery during World War II. Comfort women have endured so much pain that they are requesting to receive an apology from Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe and they would like to receive an $8 million dollar compensational fund for the survivors. Many of the survivors believe that what they are asking for isn’t enough to pay for everything they have suffered. Christine Ahn states that…

Fallacies Discovered in “Rape and the Modern Sex War” She’s Guilty! Camille Paglia, Author of “Rape and the Modern Sex War” has indeed included arguments and opinions that can be distinguished as fallacies. In the article, Paglia criticizes the philosophy of the feminists who have a “naive and prudish” view of sex leading to the reason why much young women are in danger of rape today. Paglia argues her opinions, but entirely demolishes them by creating three particular fallacies throughout…

Rape has been a constant feature of warfare throughout history and in today’s society. In fact is a systematic and brutal weapon that is used mainly against women in the world. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), rape has been one of the most productive weapons of the civil war that has affected the country’s eastern provinces since nineteen ninety-eight. In this research paper, I would be discussing the prevalence and consequences of sexual violence; rape in the eastern democratic…

Garden, stupid. Gratuitous rape scene disgusting and unacceptable. It was a rocky ride that just ended. (Cillizza) After suggestions that Game of Thrones relies on rape more heavily than A Song of Ice and Fire does, Tumblr user Tafkar conducted research on how often rape occurs in both texts and found staggering results. To date, Game of Thrones contains 50 rape acts and 29 victims, whereas A Song of Ice and Fire contains four times those amounts, with 214 accounts of rape and 117 victims…

Rape culture is something that has been in the news, online, and in the media pretty regularly lately, but what is rape culture? In order to understand it we first have to define it. When you think of culture, what do you picture in your mind? For most of us it is a group of people or a society. That is not what a culture is. Culture is defined by Merriam-Webster as, “The act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education.” That means that culture is a learned set of…

could be taken advantage of. In recent years, statistics show a 25% increase in reported rape and sexual assault. It has been one of the fastest growing crimes in America and has ruined the lives of countless victims. According to RAINN nearly 63% of women have experienced some sort of sexual violence in their lifetime. Not only is rape a horrid crime but it is also one of the hardest to prove. In order to stop rape we first must understand why men do it. Why is it that the military, college…

What is rape? The definition of rape is the crime of forcing another person to have sexual intercourse with the offender against his or her will. Rape is not as black and white as the definition portrays it. Laws about what rape is and isn 't differ from state to state and even country to country. In the United States of America, it is illegal for an eighteen-year-old to have sex with someone who is 16, but in Great Britain, the age of consent is 16. Not only does it vary from country, but also…