What Does Amihan Mean

“Again he fell into that strange mood of speculation that was so foreign to him. If faces were different when lit from above or below--what was a face? What was anything?” (pg. 78)

Everything around me began to blur, including the line between reality and something strange, a place where nothing exists. I could feel myself detaching, but there was nothing I could do to stop it. I was unplugged and could not find the cord to reconnect myself, my thoughts were screaming over one another and it became impossible to single one out. Everything was fake in that moment, my memories, my feelings, my family, my friends, it was all a hoax that I was stuck in, that I had to be released from. Feeling deceived and unhinged, I remained inert and supine in bed. I covered my face, which was daubed with my tears, and listened to my thoughts all telling me the same thing. I sat up and began to wobble towards the stairs. I heard my sister call out, “I’m leaving Emma!”, and my anxiety intensified. Everything blurred into a combination of panic and tears as my sister tried to calm me down. It took hours to bring me back to

You feel an intense, out-of-the-skin awareness of your living self—your truest self, the human being you want to be and then become by the force of wanting it. In the midst of evil you want to be a good man. You want decency. You want justice and courtesy and human concord, things you never knew you wanted. There is a kind of largeness to it, a kind of godliness. Though it’s odd, you’re never more alive than when you’re almost dead. You recognize what’s valuable. Freshly, as if for the first time, you love what’s best in yourself and in the world, all that might be lost. At the hour of dusk you sit at your foxhole and look out on a wide river turning pinkish red, and at the mountains beyond, and although in the morning you must cross the river and go into the mountains and do terrible things and maybe die, even so, you find yourself studying the fine colors on the river, you feel wonder and awe at the setting of the sun, and you are filled with a hard, aching love for how the world could be and always should be, but now is

How would one feel if one 's daughter was kidnapped and ended up being a victim of child prostitution? Of course you would feel sick and disgusted. In the book, Somebody 's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America 's Prostituted Children and the Battle to save Them, Julian Sher explains that prostitution affects young women in America who are usually runaways. There are multiple situations of different victims being sex trafficked all over the United States; however, they are treated as criminals rather than victims. All through the book, Sher clarifies that, child prostitution is an important awareness that we the general population should put a stop to

He sees himself far beyond his peers, and continues to maintain this pace, believing himself to have mastered this passion, or to merely have the physical endowments for it. Before he has passed the sixth bend, however, his lack of form immediately shatters, he drags himself in exhaustion. Once he sees the crowd he passed overtake him and jog out of sight, only then has he realized the necessity of restraint, of sobriety, of symmetry, and, above all, of form.

Author, Alisa Jordheim exposes the growing problem of child exploitation in the United States. This book includes a series of personal narratives. Five (5) adults, who were taken captive as young children and exploited in the commercial sex industry, tell their individual stories and how they survived. This is an honest and accurate portrayal of a horrific and shocking industry prevalent in our modern society. Children, in particular, are an easy prey for human traffickers.

A young African girl, Gracie, was persuaded into having sex with strange men and packaging illegal drugs, all under the watch of child traffickers. Gracie’s family was murdered when she was eleven years old; shortly thereafter, an older man claimed to be a friend of her deceased family. This man brought her to a home where Gracie was forced to engage in sex with men she’d never met; “sometimes it was 3 or 4 men a day” (NSPCC).

The pornification (or alternatively pornographication) of the social world has created lasting effects in the lives of people that they must deal with every day (Dines 1998, p. 164). Pornification is the process by which the social and cultural world is sexualised. This occurs through the expansion of media technology and the pornography industry, as well as changes in media regulations and restrictions which allow pornographic imagery to intrude into public spaces (Tyler 2011, p. 79). This essay will offer explanations for why the pornification of the social world is occurring, how the phenomenon differs from a freedom of expression issue and is instead considered a sociological issue, what consequences and harm arise from these explanations, and will offer social measures that can be adopted in order to deal with the issue. Pornification has occurred in almost every realm of the social world, including in its unaltered form on the Internet, social media, marketing, advertising, music, fashion, sport, and art. However, this expansion of easily accessible pornified content is a stark and confronting challenge for our social world.

As humans dehumanize one another, sex trafficking is constantly evolving. The primary targets of sex trafficking are young girls and women, who are given opportunities by wealthy men. Young girls are taken from their families and put into a society where they do not fit in. They are unaware of the idea that they soon will be sold to someone else and a profit will be made. One’s need for cash causes someone else to feel less of themselves. Eventually, girls become vulnerable to the situation that they are in since their life is being controlled by someone else. Adolescent girls are terrified of their trafficker, so they result into child pornography as a way to keep him or her pleased. This is demonstrated in Margaret Atwood’s “Oryx and Crake.”

In the censorship arena, there are variety of controversial, hateful and inappropriate topics debated for subjectivity. Yet, child pornography became the “leading rationale for censorship” and was outlawed in 1982 by New York vs. Ferber (Mintcheva, p.167; Adler, p.228). Children are one of the most exposed demographics in society because they don’t have autonomy and are reliant on adults. Thus, the child pornography law aimed to prevent sexual abuse and molestation. Amy Adler, contributor to Censoring Culture, argues that child pornography law is self-indulgent and further exacerbates the problem by bringing it into the public eye (Adler, p. 229). She also cites taking on the “gaze of the pedophile” as part of the problem. By stooping to the level of a sexual predator, courts and policy makers are making the problem worse. In an arena like the arts, where nudity and vulnerability are king, this controversy over what is pornography is especially delicate.

Prostitution is known as the “world’s oldest profession” and involves the sexual exploitation of women or children. Many victims of the horrible business are forced to “sell” their bodies to men and women for sexual relations. Over a hundred years ago, sex trade was tolerated and was allowed on the streets of American cities. Today, this practice is done throughout the U.S., despite it being illegal in forty-nine states. However, many violators of this law are never arrested for the crimes they committed. They kidnap or recruit women and adolescents for this industry, because these are the most vulnerable. There are different reasons why these individuals are pressured into morbid acts like this.

Twelve years ago as I walked pass an abandoned house on the way to my father’s workplace after school, a man standing in the doorway of the house exposing his penis, tried to lure me into the house. Fortunately, I was able to escape unphysically harmed. However, the psychological impact will always linger. For that day, I realized how willing some people are to pray on innocent children, without any reservations regarding the physical and mental consequences they will inflict. This encounter also gave me the ultimate goal to direct my business career to anti-human trafficking endeavors.

As a society, we are confronted daily with pornographic images, they feature in our newspapers, on our film screens, and even in our novels. This voyeuristic obsession the media holds has for a long time been desensitizing us to depictions of violence and sex, but has it also disabled us in being able to see the difference between what is carefully constructed satire and what is merely pornography?

Emily Dickinson’s poems frequently refers to the caverns and corridors (J777, F877; J670, F407), windows and doors (J303, F409; J657, F466), even cellars (J1182, F1234) of the mind. Because her beyond life was lived within one, then another, house in Amherst, Massachusetts, and, as the years continue, within one room, her bedroom, it is appropriate that she employ this particular set of resemblance correspondences to describe the other place in which Dickinson’s lived.

Good morning ladies and gentlemen, youth from across the globe and members of the public. Today I will be discussing the multifaceted issue of human trafficking, a universal issue still frequent within today’s society. According to the US State Department, approximately 800,000 people are trafficked each year, with currently over 30 million victims. Through a diverse range of texts, the issue of human trafficking is generally perceived as a violation of human rights and is almost always portrayed negatively. This representation within contemporary media remains relatively accurate to the reality of the issue. However, the genre of media and the socio-cultural context in which the text is created heavily influences the depiction of the issue