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. ...

• Word Count: 1301
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 2284
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

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 ...

• Word Count: 2287
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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...

• Word Count: 1660
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

., 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. ...

• Word Count: 1318
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

.: 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. ...

• Word Count: 1793
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

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 ...

• Word Count: 2230
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

She speaks of the stories her grandmother, Nanny, told her, about how she once was a slave, and how her child, Janie's mother, was the result of a rape. This story of the rape is very significant to the aspect of control, rape is quite possibly as controlling an act as a human can perpetuate on another, with a close second being slavery. ... He tells her, "Janie, if you think Ah aims to tole you off and make a dog outa you, youse wrong. ... Tea Cake's subsequent death is a good case of someone having no control of the situation, he was so sick and corrupted from the rabid dog bite th...

• Word Count: 1902
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Animal assisted therapy is an effective way to bring comfort and protection to people with mental illness and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)- victims of childhood abuse, rape, a horrific accident, soldiers back from war. etc. ... Animal-Assisted Therapy is now very common in many hospitals where they schedule meetings with patients to work with the therapy dog or animals, especially in children hospitals. It is more likely that they work with dog therapies because studies found that the presence of a dog is more successful than a cat or a bunny- the dog is easier to train and is the ani...

• Word Count: 1802
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Time Magazine contains the following quotation by one of these countries many teenage mothers: Sitting in her parents" Louisville living room, she is the prototypical adolescent, lobbying her mother for permission to attend a rock concert, asking if she can have a pet dog and complaining that she is not allowed to do anything. ... Further questions raised by those in favor of abortion include speculation about which abortion not only in the case of minors, but what about abortion if a woman is raped, if her life is in danger, or if the child will be born with a serious disease? In these ins...

• Word Count: 1336
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

(p.190) After his bath, Robert is raped by his fellow soldiers, "His assailants, who he"d thought were crazies, had been his fellow soldiers."(p.193) This rape is symbolic of how Robert can no longer be cleansed by the water. ... (p.148) After getting raped, Robert burns Rowena's picture. ... Robert is trapped inside a barn with a dog and the horse that he set free. ...

• Word Count: 1397
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Contrary to Clara, Esteban's grief takes him to a level of savagery "little by little he let himself be conquered by rusticity- (Allende 59), to the point where his desires of the flesh become so great he resorts to the extensive raping of peasant girls. ... His wife, Leticia, was kidnapped and forced to marry him, and regards him with a coolness and chooses to punish him by spend his fortune, while the General takes his frustration of not being able to harness the feminine, which he could do only by fully possessing his wife or the beautiful girl, by going on raping rampages, similar to...

• Word Count: 1940
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Dehumanization in the form of torture can also be shown through the Rape of Nanking, when the Japanese army invaded Manchuria and destroyed everything and everyone in their path without a thought. ... The concept of brainwashing in 1984 is also present in the Rape of Nanking. ... You must not consider the Chinese as a human being, but only as something of rather less value than a dog or cat'" (Chang 421). ... The way they made the soldiers murder them was by referring to the Chinese as something that was not human like a dog or cat. ...

• Word Count: 2342
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

When Tom said in the trial that he felt sorry for Mayella (a crime worse than rape in the jury's eyes) - the lowest class showing superiority for a class above themselves. ... Both characters show kindness: Boo to the children and Tom to Mayella Both are innocent: Boo of his evil persona and Tom of the crime of rape wwcc ccw esccccs aycc ccba ncc kccc ccuk; Both are victims of prejudice Both are imprisoned and potentially vulnerable: Boo is imprisoned to protect him from prejudice and Tom is imprisoned and killed as a result of prejudice. ... Mockingbird is refered to through...

• Word Count: 1462
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Many people believe this form of murder can only be acceptable if used as a means to prevent the death of the mother, prevent extremely serious injury to the mother, or in cases of rape or incest. Approximately 14,000 women a year have abortions subsequent to rape or incest (Be Fearless). ... They argue that even at the age of one month, a human embryo cannot be distinguished from that of a cat or dog. ... Worst of all, it would condemn victims of rape and incest to carry and nurture the offspring of their rapist. ...

• Word Count: 2349
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Going with this you could say that setting mouse traps or getting your dog sprayed for ticks is murder, your still murdering a life source. ... Finally, many pro-life activists believe that rape is not justification for abortion. ... "It is wrong to discriminate against people who have been born because of the manner in which they came into the world, and it is also wrong to discriminate against pre-born people by attempting to justify abortion in cases where the mother has been raped (Alcorn 231-232). ... Christina, a student at the University of Texas, was raped by her brother-in-law one nig...

• Word Count: 1843
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

When Celie was being raped by her step-father (Alphonso) he told her not to tell anyone except God (Lewis 2). ... When she was just fourteen years old the old man she thought to be her father was raping her. She gives birth to two children, conceived while being raped by her stepfather. ...

• Word Count: 2261
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

In September 1995, Warner music group bowed to public pressure and announced it was severing its 50% stake in Interscope records; home to Nine inch nails and controversial rap artists Snoop Doggy Dog and Dr. ... Rap artists simply turned to a different distribution of network and their CDs continue to hit the stores with lyrics, which glorify guns, rape and murder. ...

• Word Count: 1312
• Approx Pages: 5

In the story "Their Eyes Were Watching God," by Zora Neale Hurston the protagonist, or main character of the story, Janie Crawford, is alienated by her society and by her culture since as long as she can remember. From the day Janie was born people looked and thought that she was going to be differe...

• Word Count: 1356
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This influence by media can cost more at time of judgment. 3.Justification By Media Media do play a role as Watch dog and brings the facts as it is there.In cases media only brings the facts coming from investigation agencies and put it infront of society,so that society can be aware of the facts happening around them.We have a tradition of independent journalism. ... In the recent past, few media driven cases include the Arushi murder case, Jessica Lal murder case, Nirbhaya rape case, Nira Radia case. ...

• Word Count: 1440
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"The Ceremony" where the conception takes place is not a form of rape - "There is nothing going on here that [she hadn't] signed up for". ... The lower class female in society, like Handmaids, do hold some type of their own power in the society, "the power of a dog bone, passive but there". ...

• Word Count: 1443
• Approx Pages: 6

This influence by media can cost more at time of judgment. 3.Justification By Media Media do play a role as Watch dog and brings the facts as it is there.In cases media only brings the facts coming from investigation agencies and put it infront of society,so that society can be aware of the facts happening around them.We have a tradition of independent journalism. ... In the recent past, few media driven cases include the Arushi murder case, Jessica Lal murder case, Nirbhaya rape case, Nira Radia case. ...

• Word Count: 1440
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Firstly, Joan's hatred and fear of the English due to her witnessing her sister's rape and murder, provides motivation for her to rebel against the authority of the English. ... Unlike Joan he does not have the privilege of a trial for he is "shot like a dog on the highway- an image that dehumanises him and suggests that society is totally intolerant of rebels. ...

• Word Count: 1469
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

When she gets home, her grandmother and grandfather (Bapi) got the wrong impression and think that Kostos raped her. Lena never said that Kostos raped her but she did not deny it either. ... I liked the language the author used in this quote to describe how special the girl's friendship was toward each other because I think many people can relate to having such a strong friendship whether it's with your dog or cat or brother you can relate to this quote in more ways than one. ...

• Word Count: 1842
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

We find out that because of scars she received from being brutally raped and beaten by her boyfriend. ... The violent cycle of breaking up and taking him back lasted three years and eventually ended when Whitney broke up with him for good and he broke into her home and raped her. ...

• Word Count: 2266
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School