No one wants to be a victim of anything. But unfortunately, it occurs a lot more than we think it does. There are several ways of being a victim, and sometimes we don't even know it. Being a victim be strong and don't show fear, don't feed into the other person or people. Victim, what does it mean? When the word victim is heard some may think that someone is in danger or trouble. The victim may make people think someone has been treated badly. Sometimes people make a lie and make themselves sound like the victim when really, they are the cause of the victim or bad person. A victim can result from anything from a crime to health issues. Victims can be anywhere anytime any age in just about any place. Sadly, people can sometimes tell or see that …show more content…
Connie is victimized by harassment and threats. Connie lived a lifestyle where her home and family life was very neglecting. Her mother bashed her for wanting to be a normal teenager like the rest of her friends. When her mother wants her to be responsible like her older sister. Connie lives a miserable life while at home. She often hangs out with her friends at the mall and the small diner across the street. They sometimes seek over to meet boys. When Connie goes out she dresses and acts how she wants versus how her mother wants her to at home. Which leads to how she becomes a victim. One night at the diner with her friends she met a guy who she talked to. While a few days later she decided she wasn't going to go to a family cookout with her family. This is when things start to get interesting for Connie. Connie was home alone that afternoon doing her own thing when she heard a noise coming from outside. It happened to be the guy and his friend from the diner in their
Ned Kelly was, as many people still think, an infamous and ruthless bushranger but he was forced to live this way. A victim is a person who suffers misfortune, maltreatment or physical attack. This defines Ned perfectly that is why he is a victim. Ned Kelly and his family were victimised by the federal authorities like the police, court judges and government. Although Ned was a bushranger he didn’t really have a choice because his whole family was involved with crime and his parents were both Irish immigrants.
Can you imagine a world in which the USA was not the multicultural nation that it is today? It would have been like this if it were not for the the Columbian Exchange. The Columbian Exchange was a major event that took place in the late 1400's and the 1500's. It brought about an exchange in ideas and raw materials between the New World and the Old World. There were pros and cons to the Columbian Exchange, the benefits being that it gave both groups new crops and animals, in addition to making the Americas the diverse nation it is today. The downsides were that many diseases were transmitted between them and and the Native Americans were mistreated.
Her mother is always giving her negative comments, never anything positive, and always finds something to make her feel bad about. Her sister is nine years older than Connie, twenty four years old, and still lives in the house, yet her mother always compares Connie to her sister, using her to make Connie feel bad about herself. Therefore, because of this abuse that Connie receives from her mother, Connie says that she “wished her mother was dead and she herself were dead and it was all over” (254). In addition to the abuse from her mother, her father is very quiet and is never really present in Connie’s life. This difficult situation at home makes Connie vulnerable because she is always seeking positive feedback from someone to make herself feel better, because she never receives positive feedback at home from her mother, and even when her father goes to pick up Connie from the mall, he doesn’t even bother to ask how it was, or what they had done. This is a big factor as to why Connie is so vulnerable in the story. Oates might use Connie’s situation at home to convey insights about people in the real world who also have difficult situations awaiting them at home. Oates tries to use Connie’s family situation to try and make a connection to others in the real world who might have parents who are divorced or any type of situation at home that is similar to Connie’s that might make life
As we learned in class last week, victimless crime can be one of many things. Victimless crime is defined as a crime taking place where there are no harmful injuries done from one person to another. Instead, the damage being done is committed by the individual who is committing the crime. Some examples of a victimless crime are, Drug use, prostitution, gambling, suicide, traffic citations and trespassing.
She has one friend named Stacy that knows everything about Nicole, they are best friends until one day Stacy is shot in a drive by and is killed. Nicole’s story is an example of marriage and family, poverty, and crime. Like Lisa, Nicole does not have parents that support their family or treat them right. Nicole’s step-dad is an alcoholic and abusive towards her. She is to the point where she has to lie to her teacher about her bruises so she does not get taken away. She feels like she is all alone and nowhere to go that is safe for her, not even school. Also, when her only friend Stacy dies in a drive-by, this is an example of high crime rates in poverty neighborhoods. In class, we talked about how there tends to be more crimes in the less wealthy neighborhood versus the wealthier neighborhoods. The kids that grow up in these very poor neighborhoods, tend to turn to criminal behavior because that is all they know. They have grown up around it their whole lives, and they have become accustomed to it. So maybe a drive by or gunshots in Nicole’s neighborhood are common for her and she does not even phase when she hears a gun shot.
When Jeannette begins school in Welch, an African American girl Dinitia Hewitt and her friends harassed and beat up Jeannette for being scrawny and filthy. She is constantly made fun of because it is apparent that she lives in poverty. The other children do not accept other that aren’t like them and Jeannette is no exception. Her worn clothes and grimy hair are like a neon sign shouting about her life in poverty which makes Jeannette an easy target to bullies. Jeannette tries very hard to stand up for herself, however, the bullying only stops once other realize that living in poverty and being different was not Jeannette’s
A victim is a person who has been hurt or taken advantage of. In the story, Angela Vicario is the biggest victim out of all the characters, because she was forced to get married to someone who she did not love and created a lie for losing her virginity before getting married.
At the beginning of the story Connie is personified as a self-centered, attention-seeking, teenage girl. She is also very narcissistic, like described in an Overview “Connie takes solace in the knowledge that she is attractive and desirable to the boys she associates with at school and in town” (Overview 3). It has also been put that Connie is an, “uneducated working-class [girl] striving incoherently for something better, yet stifled by [her] environment” (Knudsen 2). Though, Connie’s way of striving for something better, is by seeking attention from others. Connie puts her appearance above all things, which keeps her attention on looking
“ Victim” (pg: 118) Connotative: The main person Denotative: The person who is getting bullied or etc.
The subject of victimization and childhood trauma and neglect, especially sexual victimization is in desperate need of additional awareness despite the increase in the research literature over the past three decades. Youth who experience any form of victimization, whether it be sexual, emotional, and/or physical throughout their childhood are known to have difficulties in their childhood and adolescent development (McCuish, Cale & Corrado, 2015). The abuse they experience can be from their caregivers, sexual victimization by acquaintances and strangers, assaults by peers and can be exposed to violence in their neighborhoods (Finkelhor, Ormrod, Turner and Holt, 2009).
The term is often related with negative meanings of powerlessness, passivity, and some victims could be even perceived as inferiors. It is also important to note that when the word ‘victim’ is gendered, it is biased towards the female sex. Therefore, assumptions that females are passive and weak also coincide with the assumptions of victims. The alternative term ‘survivor’ is sometimes preferred, particularly by feminists, as it places emphasis on their strength and the severity of the experience with crime. In addition, groups may also be victims; usually involving a type of hate crime such as racism or homophobia.
1. I can say it is a huge difference between being victimized by someone known to the victim vs. a stranger. If it is you are victimized by an individual you personally know, it is possible that you might come in contact with that individual again and you might question yourself with the intent of the abuse. You may conceptualize why would they subject you to that type of abuse or what did you do to deserve the physical abuse. In addition, it might be somewhat challenging to report the individual for the reason that you may perhaps consider that an individual is a decent person after all. The victim will retract or just not report the abuse so they will begin to feel sympathetic for the individual as to make excuses for them by stating “they
There are certain groups of individuals that appear to be most at risk of abuse than others, and therefore more vulnerable. Vulnerable adults can be abused in different ways for different reasons.
The first victimization theory is victim precipitation. According to Dr. Marvin Wolfgang, some people may initiate confrontation, provoking the offender, which could eventually lead to his or her death or injury. (Siegel 78) During his research, he concludes that victims are not entirely innocent or blameless. Consequently, the victim sets into motion their own victimization using confrontation. These precipitations are performed in one of two ways, active or passive. Both have strengths and weaknesses.
The study of victimology dates back to the early 1940’s. Marvin Wolfgang was one of the first victimologists. To fully understand victimology is to understand what a victim is. A victim is a person that has suffered physical or emotional harm