Disgrace By J. M. Book Review

Anderson’s story contains a four-page description of the events that led to Melinda, the main characters, rape scene. These four pages were enough for Scroggin and Swier to challenge this novel in its entirety and hide it from students, hindering their horizons of literature.

As a political personality, Robert Reich writes a book that closely relates the deteriorating status of the U.S. economy with the greed of other politicians and the government as a whole. To some extent, Robert Reich pulls out the sense in economy deterioration with the help of pinning the major government policies. Robert Reich 's argument comes out clearly, directly, and at some point presented willfully. From the heading of the topic of the book, what went wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it, a reader can clearly picture the content of the book that is politics and the financial mess that the United States of America is in today. The book provides a clear, simple, and easy to understand information on how the author, Robert Reich relates the cause a bad financial status for the country and how the government and other wealthy people living in America contribute to causing the financial crisis.

If anyone in the United States were asked, "What is the best part about living in this country?," most people would answer "equality". The United States is built on and known for the equality among its citizens and is often referred to as the 'melting pot'. After reading Jonathan Kozol's, The Shame of the Nation, equality is nonexistent within the schools he has gone to, and has been employed through. With his travels, expert testimony and personal stories gathered from the people within the community and schools, he shows the exact opposite of equality. Minority schools being his main focus, he discusses the inequalities these students endure and truly opens up your eyes to just how awful these minority schools have it. Jonathan Kozol is successful in his writing of The Shame of the Nation, and makes himself a voice for these minority schools that are denied of their voices.

Rape has always been a problem, specifically in colleges across the US. There is also large amounts of misinformation and ideas surrounding rape. Author Jon Krakauer, who did not know much on the topic of rape before his time spent in Missoula; uncovered proof of the true seriousness of this problem. His nonfiction book set in Missoula Montana, tells the hard story of the awful experiences rape victims are forced to go through in this college town in order for justice. He uses investigative narrative to lay out a story that both informative and sensitive towards the victims. Even though he is only focusing on a few victims placed in one college town it is obvious these issues have a much larger

Rape is beyond dispute one of the most explicit events that can occur to a person in order to harm them on a physiological, emotional and even physical level. The violation here is subverted into a domination of the “poor rapist”. However the heroine encounters a violation on a physical level, which becomes obvious, when she states:” I was inexperienced at dog-fashion fucking and had probably torn the skin of my cunt a little.” (70) There is physical pain as a result of the violation, but the way the heroine reacts and wipes the pain away by marginalizing (“a little”) the injury makes it less harmful and consuming. At first it seems, that the rape has no quality for her as the source for shame. But on the same page she also describes the way Toni and her interacted right after the rape had taken place: “Tomi glanced at me quizzically once or twice, but I managed to avoid her eyes”. This sentence is easily overlooked because she had taken everything that happened beforehand so lightly, but here there is a moment of judging a moment of trying to avoid shame. He avoids her eyes, because she

Jacobs’ narrative is open and honest in its depiction of sexual harassment, describing the nature of the abuse and the tortured emotional state it leaves its victims in. Though the narrative tells of a girl’s life over one hundred and fifty years ago, it remains timely in its reminder that many suffering women do not have the ability to safely end the harassment they face every day, and yet, they continue to endure the consequential

A lack of dignity was shown throughout A Lesson Before Dying in the characters of Grant, Jefferson, Miss Emma, Tante Lou, and Vivian. All of these characters in the novel struggled with their lack of human morals which reflected on their impertinent actions towards themselves and among others. The story takes place in the1940’s small Cajun town of Bayonne, Louisiana. In this time period there was an abundance of racial segregation between african american people and a strong bias towards white people. This shouldn’t be an excuse or reason of why there was very little dignity throughout the novel. Furthermore, Ernest J. Gaines gives us plenty of examples of how these characters showed this lack of dignity among themselves and others.

The writing Shame, was taken from Nigger, an autobiography written by Dick Gregory. This narrative was about two childhood experiences that can teach a lesson on how the negative actions of a person can have a profound effect on a person’s life. Gregory tells about two different situations and how they affect his childhood, one in which he has no control over, and the other, where given a choice, he fails to respond.

Rape is an awful worldwide act of aggression that stems from oppression. The “Kite Runner” and “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” both used rape as an important motif that helped develop the book remarkably. In both the novels, the main characters are easily targeted for rape because of their low social position, they suffer in silence but they are eventually healed with the influence of a positive adult role model. In the two novels both rape victims were targeted due to being less privileged . For instance, in “The Kite Runner” Hassan was raped by Assef because of his ethnicity being viewed as worthless.

What is considered a typical response to a traumatic event? A phrase that comes to mind is “Oh my goodness! I'm so sorry!” Is this supposed to help the victim, or is it meant to make us, the speaker, more comfortable? Is this said to make the situation easier to handle?

“It was not rape,” stated the naraorator after David Lori raped his student Melanie Isaacs, David, a womanizer, satisfied his needs thru prostitution, and other inappropriate relations like the relashishp he encountered with his student Melanie Isaacs. After the incident with Melanie, he lost everything he was a disgrace. David went to his daughter Lucy’s farm where she tried to make an independent life for herself. Lucy got raped by two African American men and a black boy. Petrus Lucy’s employ turned neighbor protected of the perpetrator because he was family.

Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Ruined takes place at Mama Nadi’s brothel in the Congo where a civil war is being waged and coltan is the new gold being mined from the earth. Mama Nadi reluctantly takes Sophie and Salima into her establishment to work alongside Josephine as entertainment for miners and soldiers. Before coming to Mama Nadi’s, Sophie, Josephine, Salima all experienced rape. The word rape is so common in our society that it has lost its intensity and heinousness to a person who has not experienced it. Rape is a general term to describe what the women experienced but it does not give any hint to the struggle that comes after the event. For example, what it does to a person’s mind, the lasting scars on someone’s body, and how it can change a person’s personality. Many critics assume that rape is the tragedy in the play, but Nottage’s use of the word “ruined” emphasizes that the real tragedy is the consequences of those soldier’s actions on these women 's lives and how it affected their interactions with society.

Patricia Lockwood’s The Rape Joke is a risky composition- not because it discloses information about Lockwood’s personal rape experience, but because it does so from a comedic stance, ridiculing the unfortunate event and the events leading up to and after it. While the creation of the poem was prompted due to the sexual assault she experienced, the content and subject are not centered around the incident or the assaulter but around rape culture and the sociological concept of victim blaming, from both society and oneself. There is no such thing as a rape joke-the joke is the incredulous ways society has guided people to respond to it.

I sincerely enjoyed this book, Socrates made me rethink my own views in a different manner. At the beginning of the Apology, I was a little lost on who was speaking to who. After I read Apology and started to read Crito, then did I start to understand who was speaking to who? I enjoyed being able to read Socrates views on piety, justice and the earth in general. His words opened up my mind to think about life in a philosophical sense. I was pleasantly surprised that I had the same view on life after death and the soul is reborn like he did. Socrates was a brilliant man and spoke with confidence in what he believed in. I respected the fact he did not physically push his ideas onto others but, he did present them in a way they could choose if

“It was not rape”, David Lori a well respected professor, raped his student Melanie Isaacs. David, a womanizer, needed sexual gratification, he acquired his satisfaction thru prostitution, furthermore his addiction ultimately ended his career; when David took part in inappropriate relations with his student Melanie. After a couple of incidents with Melanie, he lost everything eventually he became a disgrace. David stayed with his daughter Lucy on her farm where she tried making a respectable independent life for herself. During his stay Lucy got raped by two African American men and a black boy, Petrus Lucy’s employ turned neighbor, protected the perpetrator his brother in law.