Film allows individuals’ stories and struggles to come alive to the rest of the world. The recent coverage of Luis Valdez receiving one of the White House’s 2015 National Medal of Arts demonstrates the growing advancement of Chicano culture in the United States. Valdez founded El Teatro Campesino in 1965 to display the lifestyles and hardships of migrant farm workers, which included his own family. He also created the famous, yet still relevant, movie La Bamba in 1987 (Wildman, 2016). This movie tells the story of Richie Valens.
When a young person is sexually assaulted, they often do not understand what has happened and will not come forward immediately. Often their feelings and thoughts are internalized which can help to create more trauma due to not coping in a way that will promote healing. The vicious cycle of isolation is prominent in Melinda’s coping strategy. When Melinda isolates herself from her peers by hiding in the janitor’s closet, the rejection she feels from her peers is being negatively reinforced; therefore, encouraging Melinda to continue isolating herself. Isolation is not always productive because it allows for rumination which can be damaging to a youth’s self-esteem and confidence.
A person experiences trauma when they are faced with an event or incident that is traumatic or dangerous and results in long-term negative effects. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda, a victim of sexual assault, attempts to overcome the trauma she has experienced. Melinda has adapted both positive and negative coping mechanisms to cope with the hardships she has experienced. Melinda uses healthy and unhealthy coping strategies to help heal the trauma she faced. Firstly, one of Melinda's negative coping mechanisms is cutting her wrist.
Sexual assault is a hotly debated topic which often divides opinion in the criminological field. Theories surrounding sexual violence attempt to explain why individuals engage in these behaviors and ways in which they may be prevented. In this essay, I have outlined three different theories of sexual violence: the social learning theory, the feminist theory, and the biological determinism theory. The social learning theory suggests that individuals learn behaviors through observation and imitation.
This feeling of self-deprecation demonstrates the mental effect that sexual assault has on an individual. One situation
Per Reporter: According to documentation, Monica and Jay (maternal aunt & uncle) were granted temporary custody of Aubrey dated July 21, 2016. Aubrey visited with her father (Tyler) two separate times; both times returning home complaining of pain. On 10/16/17, Aubrey was seen at the clinic for painful urination. Although Aubrey had a normal urinalysis, she was treated for UTI.
The author also discussed some of the contributing factors that lead to domestic violence and sexual assault, some of which are drug abuse, alcohol abuse, and lack of respect for the opposite
People usually distract themselves from their lives when they are feeling upset or anxious about something. This is okay for the time being. However, if someone then relies on these distractions to get by, that is when an issue is formed. Emotional repression is when someone avoids emotional suffering at all costs. In the long run, this becomes a big problem.
The short story PAIN is an intriguing, yet sorrowful narrative that draws the reader towards the theme of abuse. The story is told from the perspective of a teenager, who deals with abuse from their intoxicated father. For the majority of people who are abused, they are impacted physically, mentally, and emotionally and the short story PAIN certainly describes the life of someone who is abused, which is shown through the protagonists eyes. Some people who are abused, often are physically harmed as a way of proving they have power over the victim. In the story the father used his nearly finished liquor bottle, and his belt as a way of having power over his child.
On the contrary there could be other solutions to aide would be victims of sexual assault, which could be to have a self-defense class offered or to use other non-lethal ways of defending one’s
In society and college campuses, sexual assault occurs quite frequently. According to an estimation one third of women experience a forced sexual experience at least once in their life and most of the time it occurs in colleges. Men have also been reported to be victim of sexual assaults mostly by other men. Most of the time the sexual assault is planned and perpetrated by a third person, who is known to the victim of incident. Drug and alcohol use play role in this issue and contribute to the problem as most of the time the victim and perpetrators are under the effect of alcohol or any other drug during the incident.
Maltreatment has a severe impact on a child’s current and future functioning and development regarding their emotional, social, cognitive, behavioral, and physical wellbeing.(Frederico 345). Different types of abuse, such as physical, emotional, and sexual have different consequences, but the consequences of all maltreatment, are likely to happen in three stages. Firstly, a child may have an initial reaction such as post-traumatic symptoms, painful emotions, and cognitive distortions. Secondly, children develop coping strategies that are aimed to help increase their safety or reduce their pain. Thirdly, a child 's sense of self-worth is damaged and develop the feeling of shame and hopelessness..
Sexual assault affects people’s life, both directly and indirectly. It is a crime that spans race, sexuality, religion, and affects people of all socioeconomic backgrounds and education levels. It is estimated that one in five women and one in 71 men are sexually assaulted in their lifetimes in the America. Altogether, there is more than 23.6 million humans who survive being raped of sexually
At the individual level, prevention needs to start by empowering those potential victims. One study preformed by Ohio University’s Department of Psychology evaluated the effectiveness of teaching self defense to college women as a form of sexual assault prevention. Of the women who took the class, only a fraction of them were
The inclusion of a scene of a sexually violent nature in any film or television show is always met with the debate whether the particular content and depiction is gratuitous or educational. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is with the question of necessity, and thus where opinions are split. Regardless of any predelictions, there are numerous researchers that will readily agree that the topic of rape and sexual assault is now a popular subject choice for film and television shows to tackle. For instance, in her seminal book Watching Rape, Projansky (2001) proposes that any inclusion of a rape or sexual assault plot as a dramatic device in film and television acknowledges the existence of such in the real world, and whether good or
