When you go into college many of us always believed that these years are supposed to be the best years of our lives. What happens if you go out one night, get belligerently drunk, and the next morning you wake up to find that you have been sexually assaulted? This happens all too often on … Read more
Over the years women in Egypt have been battling with violence in their homes and even in the streets. Many efforts to help end this problem have been made, but not much change has occurred. Egypt began to criminalize sexual harassment for the first time last year, but recent reports state that not much of … Read more
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/24/female-breadwinners/2015559/ Not only does this article provide real life examples of a change in gender roles that have positively portrayed many women of the household as the new breadwinners, it also provides stimulating statistics about an increase in women or mothers working full time and the percentage of women who are top earners for their … Read more
College Freshman at High Risk of Rape When entering college many girls do not think of the risk they could be under with experiencing the possibility of rape. A study was done at undisclosed college in the Northern United States. In this study 483 students were asked if they had been a victim of rape … Read more
Stay With Or Leave the Abuser
creative project For my creative project I targeted the problem of domestic violence and the change that many individuals who are domestic violence victims may see in their spouse or partner. I try to convey the thoughts of a person who is in love with an individual, but they cannot find the person that they … Read more
On March 7th of this year a new law went into place where Native American justice systems could prosecute non-Native prosecutors who commit domestic violence. It has taken Congress more than 30 years to put this law into action. In 1978 there was a Supreme Court case that ruled that tribes could not prosecute non-Native … Read more
So for my “Op-Ed” piece I found this really interesting study that answered some questions regarding sexual assaults and american students who study abroad. The researchers had several hypothesis before starting the actual study. Some things I thought of were how sexual assaults happening in other countries would compare to the United States and did … Read more
For my Creative Project I decided to write a small Haiku about the struggle women feel when dealing with Domestic Violence. When I was younger I was in a relationship that involved a lot of emotional abuse, and though it never got seriously violent I feel as if I know what it feels like to … Read more
For my creative project I decided to do paintings on sexual violence on campuses. I felt like this was a topic that was important to me as a college student and evoked a lot of emotion from me. Along with the two paintings I have written a poem to go with each piece. The poem … Read more