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- 51: The Turn of the Screw: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation
- ... to establish the nature of psychoanalytic criticism. By using psychology according to Freud "we can appreciate literature on a new level" (p208). This can be done by considering the concept that repressed, unconscious material, usually sexual desires, can appear in creative activities, such as literature. It is generally believed, by those who use the Freudian method, that these repressed desires appear in the form of symbols that can be understood through ... Screw can bring about many questions. Primarily those concerning the ghosts, the sanity of the governess and the goodness of the children. A psychoanalytic reading of the novel reveals that the governess is a mad sexual hysteric, which, in turn, leads to the ghosts being read as hallucinations or projections of her sexual fears brought about in hysteric fits. This has been proven to be a feasible reading of the text for many reasons, one being that James' sister had been classed as a sexual hysteric. On ...
- 52: Are Things Equal Between The Sexes In College Sports?
- ... number of female athletes rising, the problem of inequality still exists. Now that it is known that a problem exists, the next step in solving the problem is to figure out who is affected by sexual discrimination in sports. Contrary to popular belief, female athletes are not the only people affected by sexual discrimination. Male athletes, female athletes, and society are all harmed by sexual discrimination in sports. First of all, the most noticed and the biggest group of people that have brought this problem to everyone's attention is the female athlete. Female athletes have struggled for years ...
- 53: Sex in Black, White and Mulatto
- ... sex, normally it is as a pleasure. Unfortunately, for slaves in antebellum America, this was not always the case. Rape, slave breeding, married slave couples being split up at slave auctions were all forms of sexual tensions found on nineteenth-century American plantations. Their owners did not often treat slaves as people, but instead as property. If they were treated as people, then the slaves could be seen as equal to ... with them. This included having sex with them. If sex did not include consent, then it included force, or rape. There were no laws present in America at this time protecting female slaves against the sexual advances of their masters.1 Slave owners then had the opportunity to take advantage of their slaves without having to worry of prosecution. Without laws that would allow these enslaved women to resist, there is ... 2 This, of course, is not true. Not all slave women were so compelled to give into their owner's demands. For some slaves the only way they could resist the advances of an oncoming sexual predator was through resistance. Such an example is Jermain Loguen's mother. When attacked, "she picked up a stick and dealt her would- be rapist a blow that sent him staggering. She stood her ...
- 54: Child Abuse
- ... to the laundry room and try fruitlessly to get the bloodstains out of your clothes. What you have just experienced is one type of abuse that occurs millions of times every year across America – child sexual abuse. According to the Merriam – Webster’s dictionary, abuse is defined as “a corrupt practice or custom, or physical maltreatment.” It is the wrong or incorrect use and treatment of someone or something, which causes harm, either physically, and/or mentally. Abuse can take place in three different forms: physical, sexual, and mental. In our society today, the act of abuse is a common factor in everyday life. Estimates of abuse range wildly depending on the source of one’s information. The statistics on rates of child abuse and neglect are controversial. More often than not, the incidence goes unreported in all industrialized and developing countries. The most widely accepted estimate of sexual abuse is that one in four girls and one in eight boys will be abused before age 18. There is no clear answer to the question “what exactly is child abuse?” Seeking a proper ...
- 55: Sex Marriage
- ... importance to public policy whether or not homosexuality is predetermined. Some now believe that homosexuality is genetically predetermined by a gene on the X chromosome. If this is the case, then gays cannot decide their sexual orientation, for it is predetermined. Hence, not allowing those who are genetically inclined to prefer the same sex to marry leaves homosexuals with three choices. The first is to remain celibate their entire lives so ... heterosexual couples. "By the simple public act of marrying, men and women achieve a substantial package of rights and duties which, collectively provide support and predictability to their marital relationship: 1) legal recognition of their sexual union, 2) legal enforcement of their mutual obligation to financially support each other, 3) automatic guardianship and custody of the children of that union, 4) improved ability to adopt the children of others, 5) legal ... in same-sex partners. They sued on the grounds that because the Board of Education did not give them the same benefits as married heterosexual couples, they were being discriminated against on the basis of sexual preference(Newsweek 1992). In 1862, Charles Darwin wrote that, "We do not even in the least know the final cause of sexuality. The whole subject is hidden in the darkness." In more recent years, ...
- 56: Child Abuse
- ... to the laundry room and try fruitlessly to get the bloodstains out of your clothes. What you have just experienced is one type of abuse that occurs millions of times every year across America child sexual abuse. According to the Merriam Webster s dictionary, abuse is defined as a corrupt practice or custom, or physical maltreatment. It is the wrong or incorrect use and treatment of someone or something, which causes harm, either physically, and/or mentally. Abuse can take place in three different forms: physical, sexual, and mental. In our society today, the act of abuse is a common factor in everyday life. Estimates of abuse range wildly depending on the source of one s information. The statistics on rates of child abuse and neglect are controversial. More often than not, the incidence goes unreported in all industrialized and developing countries. The most widely accepted estimate of sexual abuse is that one in four girls and one in eight boys will be abused before age 18. There is no clear answer to the question what exactly is child abuse? Seeking a proper ...
- 57: Issues Of Sexual Morality And
- In Toni Morrison’s Sula, the society of Hannah and Sula is divided over each character’s sexual choices. Even though they both engage in the same activities, they are each judged for these actions differently. Society has no qualms with the sexual choices of Hannah. Her character sleeps with many men throughout the novel, and all the while, society never objects. This is because she was once married. After her husband died she longed for the touch ... old ones. Those who don’t play by the rules, like Sula, are viewed as outcasts. In most societies, sex is an uncomfortable topic of conversation. It is difficult to distinguish what characterizes a healthy sexual relationship and one that is unhealthy. One person can think that sex is and should be considered a horrible thing that should never be practiced. Another person can view sex as a beautiful thing ...
- 58: Sexual Offenders
- Sexual Offenders Sexual offenders have been the subjects to debate in the Criminal Justice system for many years. The guidelines to prosecute the offenders have been vague and very unclear. Stricter sanctions have to be enforced to insure the offenders get the justice they deserve and the victim feels they can go on with their life. Sexual offenses have only been a topic of crime for a short period of time. Decades a go sexual offenses like, rape and pedophilia, were never seen as a crime against society. People never thought ...
- 59: Child Abuse: An Exposition
- ... three girls will have been sexually molested and one in six boys will have been molested in that same time frame. (WWW site). Although, throughout this paper we shall discuss not only the effects of sexual abuse but abuse in all its forms. These include Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Mental Abuse and Neglect. We will also Touch upon the basic question of this report, and that is, "How has child abuse changed over the last 100 years and what effects has this had ... is needed today than before Many experts think that terrible pressures on today's family are partly to blame for the excess of abuse in today's families. (Dolan p.9) Physical abuse is termed sexual abuse when it involves the display or touching of genitalia or anything which is not a comfortable part of a normal person to person contact. This brings us to our next form of Child ...
- 60: Child Abuse
- ... three girls will have been sexually molested and one in six boys will have been molested in that same time frame. (WWW site). Although, throughout this paper we shall discuss not only the effects of sexual abuse but abuse in all its forms. These include Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Mental Abuse and Neglect. We will also Touch upon the basic question of this report, and that is, “How has child abuse changed over the last 100 years and what effects has this had ... is needed today than before Many experts think that terrible pressures on today’s family are partly to blame for the excess of abuse in today’s families. (Dolan p.9) Physical abuse is termed sexual abuse when it involves the display or touching of genitalia or anything which is not a comfortable part of a normal person to person contact. This brings us to our next form of Child ...
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