Reflection Of Class Reflection

In more than just the examples given in the documentary, reporting a sexual assault seems almost baffling in terms of procedure, both in military life and in civilian. It is a difficult enough prosses for a man or women to endure in civilian life. Just noting what I have witnessed in my time here at Georgia Southern University, it is a long, horrifying, and complex means to achieve justice, and even then, it is certainly not guaranteed. Even at the conclusion of this class, it is still difficult to grasp the blatant disregard for an entire section of the armed forces. The ones who are willing to make the huge personal sacrifices to serve their own country, when that same courtesy would never be reciprocated. As stated multiple times in The

Everyone is likely to experience some form of discrimination or prejudice; as is anyone capable of acting prejudiced towards others. On April 5th, 1968, a teacher in Riceville, Iowa named Jane Elliot conducted an experiment with her third grade class that dealt with the concept of discrimination; and was documented in Peters’ 1985 ‘A Class Divided’. The exercise originally took place the day after Martin Luther King was assassinated. The documentary is an eye opener to the world of racism and discrimination. Bucher (2010) describes racism as “discrimination based on the belief that one race is superior to another” (97). According to Bucher (2010) “discrimination is defined as the

I had my appointment on the previous week at the Writing center. I brought my 2nd project for ENGL 160 class. I scheduled tutor to “face to face”, because I think it is the best way to improve all of my mistakes. Before going to Writing center, I was thinking that this tutor doesn’t help me at all, but fortunately my thoughts was wrong and I enjoyed 1 hour of editing my project.

“The most shocking cover up in the United States Military is not what you would expect (The Invisible War),” reports of sexual assaults over all branches of the military have tremendously increase every since women have been allow to take part of the military. According to the Secretary of Defense, over 500,000 male and female soldiers have suffered of sexual abuse from senior peers and commanders. During the past years, many women reported a variety of cases of sexual abuse. Sadly, the victims were only ignored, blamed and punished for the events. Sexual assaults are considered a scandalous subject which our military has decided to avoid, but by doing so, the number of rapes has increase even faster. Rape is a repetitive criminal;

In 1996, the United States Army investigated and substantiated allegations that uniformed instructors at Aberdeen Proving Ground had sexually assaulted and raped female trainees under their charge. In 2003, the United States Air Force Academy substantiated claims of rape and sexual assault conducted by and against students at the Academy. In 2012, an investigative documentary entitled The Invisible War, chronicled the problem of sexual assault and harassment within the U.S. Military. The documentary sparked rage at the military’s handling of sexual assault cases, victims, and alleged assailants. The film portrayed the military as an environment in which 20% of servicewomen are a victim sexual assault: a culture that protects the alleged assailant and condemns the victim. The investigations mentioned above were not the “one of a kind” event that characterized “Tailhook.”

The United States military continues to be one of the most powerful forces in the world. Although the characteristics of the United States military has changed throughout the course of time. Traditionally the military was dominated by men until women were given the opportunity to serve their country. However, there is an ongoing problem with sexual assault against women in the United States military. Sexual assault in the military has skyrocketed throughout the years and many of these cases are never reported.

The documentary outlines some of the hard facts: 20% of service women have been sexually assaulted while serving. Women who have suffered what they call ‘Military Sexual Trauma’ have a higher rate of PTSD than men who’ve served in combat. 1% of service men have been sexually assaulted (and because of the greater number of men in the military, more men are raped/sexually assaulted than women). There’s a 4% conviction rate of the reported assaults. The Department of Defense says that 3,158 incidents of sexual assault were reported in 2010, yet they estimate that 86% of incidents are not reported; that math gets us to 22,548 sexual assaults in one year. Invisible War says that it’s possible half a million women have been sexually assaulted in uniform since 1991.

Previous to this article, sexual assault in the military was a topic that was not well-known nor discussed. The article was titled “Speaking out on sexual assault in the military”, authored by Jane O’Hara (1998) and told the stories of 13 women who came forward about their sexual assaults in the 1990’s. This article was monumental because it shed a significant amount of light on the situation and sparked military supervisors to respond to the allegations. This article not only exposed the scandal of sexual assault, it also exposed the institutional sexism within the military and the systematic mishandling of cases involving sexual assault (O’Hara,

My identity relating to sexual identity was pretty set before coming into this course. I knew even from a kid I was straight, because I was constantly looking at guys as well as talking about how cute they were. Nonetheless, I followed the pretty stereotypical roles of a girl growing up. I played with dolls and loved pink and anything with glitter really. When I was younger, my knowledge about sexual

in 2016 compared to 6,082 last year, an annual military report showed. This was a sharp jump from 2012 when 3,604 cases were reported. Few bills have been presented in Congress against the institution for fear of disrespecting those who are fighting for our country. By attacking one section of the military for injustice and abuse, there is fear that this could possibly only be scratching the surface of the issue. Protections for women in the military seem to have a bleak outcome due to the fact that more recently similar ideas surrounding sexual abuse of females within militaries have become more prevalent.

On the other hand, the last two years of school have changed my attitude toward gender and sexuality, gave me a profound understanding of feminism and sex, and prepared me to be a responsible woman. Since I had been going through a hard time when I was embracing ambiguous forms of deportment to be attractive but not too sexual, I decided to find answers in the books. I took many classes related to gender, such as Feminist Studies: Sex, Love, Romance. I learned how women were described as a weak group in terms of body, intelligence, and psychology, how these weaknesses became the excuses to legitimately exclude women from political life and made them be erroneously and slanderously classified as disabled people, and how gender was the excuse for

The Trans gender lecture was of great interest today. I am thankful that Chris could share her story with the group. Although I can empathize with the troubles and turmoil in which growing up were difficult moving to a new country and not fully understanding what was happening. I cannot image what she was going through personally knowing that somehow she was different and did not quite fit in with society. I have great inspiration for her to take the steps to find happiness and well being in her life.*

During this semester I have gained knowledge about other perspectives and insight into people’s viewpoint.

Since October, I’ve been able to focus more on what I want to take from this class. I have enjoyed learning and reviewing what sexuality is for other people and why it’s important to me. This semester has helped me figure out how much of what I have learned is opinion and how to separate that from what I learned that is actually fact. More than I expected lies on a spectrum, like gender, sexual orientation, and what kinks people are into. I also never anticipated that these things could be changing or adjusting as people develop because, for me, how I identify hasn’t changed much and even when I learn about new kinks, I find them to be more interesting conceptually than intriguing as a possible personal experience.

Using the papers in my work folder, binder, Google Classroom and as well as my report card, I’m writing this letter to you reflecting on my 3rd quarter in English. First, my 1st Semester grade I earned in English was a 86.5% which is considered as a B+. Second, what I did well on to maintain a good grade was doing really good on my vocab. packets, quizzes,and Google Classroom assignments. What affected my grades heavily was the was the Quarter 3 Book Response Project. Also, according to my report card that was mailed home, my work habits slightly need improvement and was better than 1sr semester because I sometimes showed somewhat inconsistent achievement during class. Third, somethings I need to work on this new semester was my grades and