Slowly and surely, Irving uses times to follow the tragic event to convince the reader that Franny is actually raped or Lilly actually kills herself. ... Sorrow is put to sleep the day that Franny is raped and Sorrow is the only living being that can comfort Franny after what happens to her. ... Ironically, the search groups find the sunken plane by a floating dog, Sorrow. ... The form following Sorrow the dog is Susie the Bear. ... John and his siblings are able to move on, finally, from the deaths of Sorrow, their mother, Egg, Freud, Lilly and the loss of their father's sight, the closu...

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He shows courage when he agrees to defend Tom Robinson, a Negro man convicted of rape. ... Another act of courage displayed by Atticus is when he shoots a dog with rabies for Heck Tate the Sheriff of Maycomb. ... Tate after hearing Calpurnia's frantic message about a mad dog roaming around on the street. ... "I"d feel mighty comfortable if you did now,"(pg95) Atticus took the gun, and shot the dog with rabies using a single bullet. ... He showed courage by doing the right thing, and defending an innocent Negro man in court who was convicted of rape. ...

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His dog is his most important companion in life and the death of the dog symbolizes loneliness. ... Candy didn't want to shoot his dog because he knew that he would become alone once the dog died but Carlson did it anyways. ... "I oughtta of shot that dog myself, George. ... Candy and his dog had a companionship until Carlson shot the dog foreshadowing Lennie's death. ... Lennie is accused of raping a girl after grabbing her dress and is obligated to run away. ...

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Also when Prot talked to the doctor's dog about the kids sneaking up on the dog that the dog did not like that and the dog told him that which he talked to the kids about not sneaking up on the dog from the left side because he was hard of hearing in that ear. ... Robert was assumed dead after someone raped and killed his wife and child. ...

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Atticus Finch is deeply respected by many citizens of Maycomb for his quiet courage; Atticus preservers against all odds and injustice in his country to legally defend a black man accused of rape, Tom Robinson. ... Defending the black man accused of raping a white woman is met with a majority negative response from all white citizens of Maycomb; including neighbours, friends and other clients of Atticus. ... Heck Tate, urged Atticus to shoot the dog. Under pressure to pull the trigger and put the dog to rest in one blow, Atticus delivered by ending the dog's life with one shot to the head...

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When Tom Robinson, an African-American man, is accused of raping Mayella Ewell, Atticus is appointed as the defense attorney. ... The children view their father as frustratingly staid and bookish, until he is asked by the sheriff to shoot a rabid dog that is roaming the street. ... Atticus further suggests that it was Bob, Mayella's father, who beat her, and that, in fact, no rape occurred. ... However, after two hours, the jury returns with a guilty verdict, sentencing Tom to be executed for rape. ... The rabid dog that threatens the town has been interpreted as symbolizing the menace ...

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For example the white supremacy group the KKK, would go around and lynch (hang) black men for looking at a white woman (this would get turned into that he had raped her). ... Candy is an outsider because he is old and crippled, and when your are old and or crippled you are useless, your employer will not want to employ you so you are gotten rid of, this is show in the part of the book where they shoot Candy's dog because of the same reasons. ... Because he is crippled (he has no right hand) he cannot work like the other men, he had to be on his own sweeping out the bunks with his long tim...

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They left their previous job by a rape accusation, in Weed, on Lennie. Candy, also known as the Old Swamper, has a dog that is rheumatic. ... Candy has a dog that is rheumatic. ... In the next chapter, Carlson bullies Candy in allowing him to shoot his ageing dog. ... Carlson shot the dog while Slim made a pit for him. ...

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There the victim becomes the dog, sacrificing for the woman and the girl until his struggle ceased and the bubbles rose silver from his fur. ... It seems that Sally's betrayal is as painful as the rape that resulted from the disloyalty. Grandma also undergoes a wound as she "rocked the dog like a baby, like a dead child, rocked slower and slower and was still." ... Finally, she gives up the poor little animals life because the dog wouldnt hush. ... Yet if the choices were between Sylvie and the dog, Sylvie would perhaps become the sacrifice. ...

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She lost her mother, was raped by her step-father (whom she thought was her real father), had two children at a very young age which were taken away from her, and her first relationship with a man was filled with verbal abuse and an unhappy sexual experience. ... The first time Celie ever showed dignity in herself was when she approached Mr. ________ and said, "You a lowdown dog is what's wrong It's time to leave you and enter into the creation. ...

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This changed when both children witnessed Atticus Finch shoot the Mad Dog with deadly accuracy. ... Scout and Jem had a complete change of mind when they witnessed Atticus shoot the Mad Dog. ... Jem and Scout saw that it was unfair to convict a black man of rape when there was little to no evidence to prove it, and even when it was clear that Bob Ewell was the real offender. ...

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Atticus ends up defending the black man Tom Robinson for being accused of raping a white woman. ... For an example, when he shot Tim Johnson the dog right Infront of his children. That incident had nothing to do with respect but then again the dog was sick so he helped him not suffer the pain. ...

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This allows the Ewells to make whatever claims they wish and Tom is charged with rape. ... The appearance of a mad dog in the street is the first occasion where this symbolism of the mockingbird occurs. As Atticus prepares to shoot the dog, Scout comments that "the trees were still (and)the mockingbirds were still" (p. 105). ...

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They talk about murder, rape, and assault as though they were okay. ... Dre, and Snoop Dog came up with a chorus which said, "I just want to f*** you." ... Then in 1996 rapper Snoop Dog was arrested in Colorado after a concert because there was three ounces of marijuana found on his tour bus. ...

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In his two works on mindrape, A Rape in Cyberspace and My Dinner With Catherine MacKinnon (And Other Hazards of Theorizing Virtual Rape), Julian Dibbell points out that in an online setting, the player's identity is ambiguous. ... The character Raiden is the player "he has the player's name, gender, and blood type on his dog tags to prove it (Document, Ending 4). Yet, he also asserts his independence from the player in the game's ending, casting the dog tags aside and vowing to form a self of his own choosing. ...

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This can be seen in the Belgian film "Man Bites Dog" (1992), directed by Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel and Benoit Poelvoorde. ... This is thought up until the scenes where first Ben kills a family, including a child, which made me feel uncomfortable, and then in the scene in which Ben and the film crew participate in a rape and murder again made me feel uncomfortable. ... To me, this would mean that rather than go out and kill people because I had developed a kind of bond with the Ben chartcer, the bond I had had been broken after being shocked by his actions towards the child and during the ra...

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., a parent is frequently harmed by a partner, a man who raped the child still lives nearby or is a constant presence, living in extreme poverty, parental neglect or other forms of abuse, consistent torment or ridicule from a sibling, peer, teacher, neighbor, etc.), have realistic expectations of danger and ongoing threats. ... For example, a child who is afraid of dogs after being attacked by a dog would come gradually in contact with a dog. First, the child would be in the same room as the dog and get closer to the dog and eventually touch the dog. ...

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Freeman ends up raping her. ... She went to the only dentist in Stamps but he wouldn't treat her cause he said, "He would rather stick his hand in the mouth of a dog than the mouth of a "nigger." ...

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What Julie received from Jim was this poor little Great Dane dog, which in the beginning Julie that to be a pitiful excuse for a dog. ... Then we skip to four years later, Singer a full grown dog and this is where Julie encounters her biggest decision in life. ... Between the time Julie had left and the time Richard followed Officer Gandy down to the beach, Richard had slaughtered and raped one of Julie's coworkers, Andrea. ...

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Lennie was accused of raping a woman at a ranch in Weed, when all he did was touch her. ... Also, Candy must kill his dog in this chapter. Carlson another character introduced in this chapter shoots the dog in the back of his head with his Luger. ... Lennie pets the pup so hard he kills the small dog. ...

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The first time (in the novel) the redskins visit "an old dog had its belly ripped open. [The villagers] stared at that dog, and thought about a story Gilbert's father had brought from further up the coast where most of the fighting was going on. ... Matilda, like the other islanders, has become so accustomed to this type of brutality that seeing a dog ripped open is something that can be spoken about calmly. ... She wonders to herself "would my rape have been such a high price to pay to save the life of my mum?...

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God, Morality, and Meaning in Cormac McCarthy's The Road Erik J. Wielenberg Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is, among other things, a meditation on morality, what makes human life meaningful, and the relationship between these things and God. While the novel is rife with religious imagery and ideas...

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.: After 11 years in prison for rape Kerry Kotler cried tears of joy becoming one of the first convicts in the United States to be freed by DNA technology. ... Posing as a police officer he forced a 20 year old college student off the highway and raped her. ... Also, dog hairs on the victims clothing matched hairs from Kotler's German shepherd. Kilter, 37, is free on $25000 bail and could get up to 50 years in jail if convicted of rape and kidnapping. ... Semen from rape victims can be compared to the suspects semen. ...

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Tsotsi's positive stimulus that he lost was his mother and his dog. His dog was perhaps the only friend he had during his childhood. ... When Tsotsi ran outside, he witnessed his father kicking his dog. He attempted to stroke the dog when his father instructed to leave it alone; at that point he took off in a run and never looked back. ...

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Alex, the antihero, and his three "droogs" (friends) are a gang of youngsters who goes around in the dangerous streets of London, fighting, raping, pillaging, and all the basic doings generally associated with anarchy. ... "It was not the intention of his State manipulators to induce this bonus or malus: it is purely an accident that, from now on, he will automatically react to Mozart or Beethoven as he will to rape and murder." ... Rape, being one crime usually associated with violence, was one of Alex's favorite past times, next to, "kicking litsos [faces] in," (Burgess 181) with "real ...

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