Girl's Ranch Summary

In the Documentary ,Girl Trouble, the lives of three girls are recorded over the course 3 years. During those three years the lives of the girls were evaluated while they were incarcerated in the San Francisco’s’ Juvenile Justice system. According to youth advocate Lateefah, and other delinquent advocates, the prison system is not adolescent friendly when it comes to girls. Lateefah insists that there is a worldwide misconception about bad girls, being that there is no meaningful way to rehabilitate, which results to the system throwing away children lives forever. In order to shy away from this misconception, Lateefah and other lobbyists for at risk youth gets girls like the three in the documentary, to attend rehabilitative centers such

The story is told in second person, which gives the reader a sense of being in the story, at the same time being an observer. It begins with telling you where you stand in the socio-economics’ and in the eyes of your peers. “If you’re white, and you’re not rich or poor but somewhere in the middle, it’s hard to have worse luck than be born a girl on the Ranch. It doesn’t matter if your father is the foreman or the rancher – you’re still a ranch girl, and you’ve been dealt a bad hand.” (551)

The story “Ranch Girl,” by Maile Meloy, is darkly symbolic and full of disobliging introspection. The main character struggles to find meaning in an uneven and arbitrary existence. Via willful ignorance or merely the tribulations of a woman less fortunate than she herself believes, her internal conflict is unveiled as illusion. Yet she remains confined. While her ultimate goal is the modest life with her wanted cowboy, she is perpetually unable to reach her dreams, and unable to change them. The starkness of her self-wrought prison lends a certain sad ambiance to her world, reflected through characters that paint the setting. Her dreams flutter and settle unfulfilled, like dry dust, stirred by the story’s cattle.

A woman and her child decided to go out for a small date. She is shopping around and all of the sudden she feels herself being pulled away with her daughter. Her and her child are in a dark van not knowing where she is going. When she arrives at the location you are forced to do unimaginable things, the child included. Now this may not be a reality for you, however this has been for over 20.9 million people. That is people 800,000 a year (Do something Para 5).Young girls are especially targets right now. Not many people are aware of this horrible business but today I plan to make you aware of the horrors of sex trafficking. Sex trafficking needs to be stopped because it has a negative effect on people in the society.

Imagine being trapped in a box and having things and people thrown at you. You cannot get out and you have no control of who or what comes in. That is the life of a young girl who is trapped in sex slavery. On average over 100 adolescent girls are being used in sex trafficking every night in Atlanta, and most of those girls are with at least three men. Sex trafficking mostly consist of people taking control of the lives of young girls. They take their bodies to make money: in fact, this industry makes over thirty billion dollars per year. They destroy their emotions by trapping them from their freedoms. Those that are taken into the system are often innocent girls who are walking in Atlanta which should be a save city. Girls are threatened or beaten if they try to escape and forced to do things no one wants to do. Many girls who do get out end up getting back into the system because they feel that they cannot do anything else to support themselves, or because they aren’t looked after and they get taken back in. Sex trafficking in Atlanta has become a huge issue and more action should be made to stop it and help those who are trapped in it.

Human trafficking is one of the largest growing criminal activities. The commercial sexual exploitation of children, also known as CSEC, is often perceived as a hidden atrocity that occurs in an international setting. However, this manifestation of sexual abuse has increased and has become a recognized health issue in the United States. You may hear this problem to be known as domestic minor sex trafficking (DMST). Domestic minor sex trafficking is defined as the “recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act” where the person is a citizen younger than the age of 18 years by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. This includes sexual acts like survival sex, prostitution, and stripping, where the child is the victim of criminal exploitation in exchange for remuneration in the form of money, food, shelter, or other valued entity. Approximately twenty-eight percent of US minors living on the streets are reported to exchanging sex for drugs or money. The estimation so far is that 150,000 to 300,000 children are falling at risk of being victimized each year, and the average age at which they are recruited is twelve to fourteen years of age. By raising awareness we are avoiding children suffering from long-term health consequences such as severe sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. By raising awareness a family may not lose their little boy or girl to human trafficking. Consider how many young women have been kidnapped, drugged, tricked or even sold by

In order to qualify for the program, the youth had to be between the ages of seventeen and twenty-three and a half years old, unemployed, and citizens of the U. S. They had to be over sixty inches and under seventy inches, and not less than one hundred and seven pounds. They also had to be single, pass a physical exam to ensure good health, and be able to produce a birth certificate or baptismal record revealing the occupant’s age, and sign up for a six month minimum service. They were at this time willing to donate $25 of their $30 per month towards their family. Applications in Houghton County could be picked up at the Laurium

Jeannetta McCrary, 41, told lawmakers how she went from being a straight-A cheerleader in a middle class family to a life of sexual exploitation and prostitution as a victim of child trafficking in the 1980s. She started hanging out with older friends and, when she was 11, she went with some of them to a party at an apartment in Tulsa. She said she was drugged and awoke naked on a dirty mattress in a room she did

The audience for this paper is an educated public and specifically those who influence or make policy regarding trafficking, most specifically in Colorado. The dominant discourse around human trafficking centers on sex trafficking, and I hope to encourage a more holistic view.

Many life changing stories have been publically announced through Covered. Their advocacy has shown the need for more education, awareness, and assistance in the area of sex trafficking; this is where the health care profession can play our part. Studies show that women often end up in a medical facility where nurses have the opportunity to identify and intervene to help make a difference (Konstantopoulos et al., 2013). Nurses have multiple capabilities to advocate and provide care for this demographic.

She explains how human trafficking is more than sexual acts. It is also sweatshop work, organ transplants, and agricultural. Most women did not look like they do in the media: beaten, bruised, and with a black eye. She said this trip was a very humbling experience. She had to build trust with the people there, especially because she was different than them. Human trafficking is looked at in many ways; for example, globalization, economics, gender, human rights, and organized crime. On one of her trips in 2011 she collected women’s stories. Many women live in poverty but that does not mean that they were all trafficked. One quote that really stands out from her is “We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process to change the world…” . Sister Angela Reed’s speech reflected Mercy Week’s theme of Make Mercy Real because she talked about how we as students can make a difference, or show mercy to those in need. Although I only went to two events, they all correlate with each other because of the theme, make mercy

Human trafficking doesn’t happen in third world countries only. It doesn’t just happen to poor people and it certainly doesn’t solely happen to women. It is present here in the USA but it is hidden, and even worse, so are their victims. They are everywhere yet invisible. They are silently crying for our help through their eyes and smiles. According to Polaris, “…the prevalence of sex trafficking in the United States is still unknown, we do know that women, children, and men are being sold for sex against their will in cities and towns in all 50 states”. Human trafficking can happen to anyone even to Theresa Flores, the author of “The slave across the street”(“Sex trafficking” 2015). An average 15 year old American girl, coming from a privileged background and a respected family became a victim of sex trafficking and through her book, she convinces us that human trafficking doesn’t have a specific demographic.

This source offers personal stories of two women who survived modern-day slavery. Holly Austin Smith and Barbara Amaya retell the horrific and dehumanizing experiences of the child sex trafficking industry. Both overcame adversity, and now actively campaign to bring an end to human trafficking

Though sex slavery can not be stopped over night, projects and advancements are being put in action to combat it. According to The Trafficking in Persons Report 2016, the government is currently and will continue to investigate allegations of sex tourism. Citizens against this slavery should not sit back and merely watch the government try to handle the issue. People need to support the government and other organizations against the fight of sex slavery by raising awareness, donating money, and giving their support to the cause. Groups should rescue, restore, protect, and empower former victims (“Child Sexual Exploitation and Slavery”). The rescuing of victims should not be the end. After suffering trauma and being enslaved, the former victims lives will never be the same. It is the job of different groups to provide education, supplies, and necessary recovery help. The most important part of the solution is spreading the word of how serious sex slavery is in Houston. With the support of citizens, help of the government, and determined minds, an end will be put to sex slavery in

When some people hear the expression “child sex trafficking” inevitably unspeakable thoughts come to mind, others are unaware this is even happening. Sex trafficking is a serious criminal issue taking place within the borders of the United States, but on the outside of these boarders this crime stands as a reliable source of income for those who participate. Although child sex trafficking is a local crime it is obvious that multiple nations have different viewpoints on the topic. The problem at hand is meeting in the middle where this situation can exist without creating a riot with residents and eliminating the destruction of young children’s lives. Though this topic is a sensitive one, there are ways to allow it to coexist in everyday