In the article “Die Trying”, Katie J.M. Baker points out the difficulties of being a rape victim in Alabama and nationwide. The article “Die Trying” talks about a student named Megan Rondini who attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa who accused T.J. Bunn Jr. of rape. The events that led to sexual assault happened in July 1, 2015 at night where Megan Rondini went to Innisfree Irish Pub with a couple of her sorority sisters and drank five cups of beer. After drinking the beer Megan Rondini blacked out and found herself in T.J. Bunn’s car with his friend going back to his house.
The Duke lacrosse case implicated criminal actions of: first degree rape, first degree sex offenses’ and kidnapping charges against three Duke University lacrosse players; Collin Finnerty, Reade Seligman and Dean Evans (North Carolina State Bar v. Nifong, 2007,p.18-20). According to Mosteller (2007) the case started with “gang rape allegations” by Crystal Mangum, a black exotic dancer who was also a student at North Carolina Central University on the morning of March 14th, 2006 (p.1337). The alleged rape occurred during the Duke lacrosse teams’ party at 610 North Buchanan Blvd (North Carolina State Bar v. Nifong, 2007,p.1). Suspiciously Mangum could not make any identifications of her attackers even after viewing most Duke lacrosse team members including the names mentioned above and the lacrosse team members who actually lived at 610 North Buchanan Blvd (Mosteller, 2007, p.1407). Mosteller (2007) also mentions that Mike Nifong had to know that
In Steubenville, Ohio, a sixteen-year-old girl was attending a local high school party with her friends. The girl was more intoxicated than others and refused to go home after the party was shut down. She then joined a group of guys who were going to another party and when they get there, the girl was too drunk to remember anything else. Two of the boys that were with her were Trent Mays and Malik Richmond. Both of them were football players at Steubenville High School, which was a big deal in small town Steubenville.
A few short months following the rape, Brzonkala filed a complaint against the respondents under Virginia Tech’s Sexual Assault Policy. During the conducted hearing at Virginia Tech, Morrison confessed to having sexual contact with Christy, even though she had told him “no.” twice. With much consideration, Virginia Tech’s
In the article “Cole Case,” the author, Jena Williams writes about Timothy Cole, a falsely accused man charged with 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Known as the Texas Tech Rapes, four women were raped from 1984 to 1985. As police searched for the rapist, Cole ran into an undercover cop on campus and told her his name and where he lived. Although not suspected to be the rapist, police ran his license plates and discovered Cole recently filed it as being robbed. Claiming to help him by investigating the robbery, police took Cole’s photo and placed it in a lineup of other mug shots.
The Owen Labrie Case Police When the young girl was assaulted on May 30, 2014, she did not come forward right away. She waited a while. This young woman then called her mother sobbing, so the mother went to the school immediately and figured the situation out. Not only were the police investigating the possible assault, but they were also looking at the ritual that these boys had planned for so many years (Shworm, 2015). The senior boys at St. Paul High School would try to have sex with younger girls, particularly freshmen, before they graduated.
In the January 29, The Stanford Daily editorial Stanford, California, it debates the different essential of the principle of morality and identified Brock Turner had applied a use of force in raping an unconscious woman behind the dumpster. Furthermore, the young man attended Stanford University and participated in his college swim team dreamt of partaking in the Olympus. The victim heartfelt statement during the trial is disregarded because he comes from a class of privilege and is a man. Not to mention, Brock Turner’s father wrote a letter to expressing the universalizability to court saying, “my son’s life shouldn’t be ruined over 20 minutes of action (Dreher,Rod).” Therefore, Aaron Persky who is a California judge implemented an ethical decision that contemplated the clarity around both the specific choice and decision then declared a six months sentenced ruling.
In December 2012 a freshman reported to the Florida State University police that she had been raped by a stranger after a night of drinking at a bar. She had bruises on her body and tests would show semen on her underwear (Bogdanich, 2014). She first told police that she didn’t know who her attacker was but gave them a description. In January 10, 2013, she left a voicemail for the investigating detective that she believed that her attacker was Jameis Winston and that he was in one of her classes (Dahl, 2013).
In 2012, Allison Huguet and her friend Keely Williams went to a party at their childhood friend’s house, a linebacker for the University of Montana Grizzlies, Beau Donaldson. After a night of drinking and partying, Allison spent the night on Beau’s couch where she awoke to Beau raping her. Terrified and violated, she didn’t tell anyone except Keely who admitted she also had been a victim of acquaintance rape when she was too drunk to go home. Although she refrained from reporting the crime, Allison got Beau to admit he raped her through a recorded confession, and she instead succumbed to the psychological trauma rape victims often endure. Her reckless and harmful behavior replaced her studious and dedicated personality as her drinking increased
From the article “Larry Davis”, on the morning of january 11, 1993 two men broke into a home in Washington and sexually assaulted the victim. They blindfolded her and took off all of her clothes. From this evidence, one can conclude
On January 18, 2015, two graduate students were biking at Stanford University when they saw a man raping an unconscious, half-naked woman behind a dumpster. The man saw the bikers and attempted to run away, but the bikers chased him down and tackled him. They called the police and the man was arrested. The man was Brock Turner, a freshman swimmer at Stanford University. He was intoxicated but told police he remembered everything.
The Case against Davis On May 15, 2006, a woman’s nude body was found outside Bates City, Missouri. The woman had been raped, beaten, and choked, and was later identified as Marsha Spicer. After hearing this news, an old friend of Spicer’s, Lorie Dunfield, paid a visit to the police. Dunfield reported that three months earlier, she had been sexually involved with Richard Davis and he asked her to participate in his “sexual fantasy.”
Literary Analysis of The Swimmer Thesis: Cheever uses symbolism, imagery, and tone to convey the theme of narcissism and suburban emptiness during the 1960’s. Symbolism Pools Storms Seasons End of youth
Life, Enjoy it All In the Swimmer by Johns Cheever, the life of a man, Neddy from the suburbs, is being portrayed from being normal to loneliness and then to isolation. Suburbia is often perceived as a lifestyle where it people live in homes that look very similar, cookie cutter homes, just outside the city within commuting distance. This story shows a more defined consider the downward fall of Neddy Merrill’s life through the time travel via summer events. Going back to nice summer day, with those privileged individuals who can afford to not work and hang out by the pool yapping away about having “drank too much” (Norton, p.2363).
Life experience has taught me that perseverance is integral to keep a community progressing towards its goals. Perseverance is at my very core. My life has been dominated by competitive swimming for the last fourteen years, filled by long, hard, lonely practices for two to three hours at a time. Looking at the same straight black line at the bottom of the pool, except for an occasional reprieve to look at the ceiling when doing backstroke. What sane person would subject themselves to what appears to be torture?
