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    over the last several years many incidents involving military personnel and sexual assault have made headlines across the United States. Military women and men have brought to light the lack of justice for victims of sexual assault, and the prevalence of such attacks. Questions arise as to why victims do not report incidents or seek assistance when they are physically or sexually assaulted. Many reasons are due to how the system of reporting is established within the military, retaliation and further

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    separate from family. The study also showed far less snack consumption by those who reported a frequency of seven or more family meals. Strangely, there was not a statistically significant difference in consumption of saturated fats, but this might be a result of the lacking general knowledge of healthful food choices. As shown by the Neumark-Stainzer et al. (2003), family dinners encourage healthier eating habits among adolescents. It follows then that they also discourage obesity and the social

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    Another day goes by and nothing, your child has been missing for six years. You find yourself looking through the classified ads of craigslist and you come across a forum that has your child’s picture on it, it’s an advertisement for their prostitution. Terrified and anxious, you figure out how to find and re-connect with your child, but they decide to return to the sex trade almost immediately. You wonder what went wrong and why they would do such a thing. What would be their reason for wanting

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    Based on the CDA and corpus linguistics theories and gender studies, this study conducts an analysis of how the descriptions and representations of rape incidents and the offenders and victims in the discourse of rape cases have influence in the determination of rape cases in terms of the court appeal decision. In particular, this study focuses on the discourse of appeal decisions on rape cases “on processes of education, surveillance, control and discipline of social and sexual gender behaviors”

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    Forensic Epidemic Death

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    light to this mysterious death several things had to occur. Firstly the forensic team had to analyze features of bone to determine as much as possible, that includes; the person’s gender, ethnic origin, age, and height. To find out the sex of the victim the pelvis, skull, femur, tibia, and humerus measurements were needed, in conclusion the overall gender was a male. For the race determination the skull was needed, the nasal width was 20mm and the nasal height was 38mm. Some other things that were

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    size was made up of 116 males and 402 females. Measuring cyberbullying is no easy task, and using a variety of tools and instruments to measure this was necessary. One major tool used to find out the type of degree involved in a cyberbullying case was the Cyberbullying Inventory for College Students, who asked 42 close-ended questions to numerous participants. It was directed at each party involved in a cyberbullying case. There were 9 questions for victims, 8 questions for aggressors, 9 questions

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    My Rant Research Paper

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    I am going to talk about my rant. My rant is about bullies/bullying. Not only males can be bullies, females can be bullies as well. Bullies will pick on others to feel better about themselves because they do not receive as much attention at home. The victims of bullying are socially vulnerable since they have some characteristics that make them different from the majority. In my opinion, we need to stop the bullies from bullying other people. Firstly, the school should separate the bullies

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    psychological distress (as cited in Sutherland, Amar, & Sutherland, 2014). Whereas, sexual assault refers to sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the victim. Some forms of sexual assault include penetration of the victim’s body, also known as rape; attempted rape; forcing a victim to perform sexual acts, such as oral sex or penetrating the perpetrator’s body; and fondling or unwanted sexual touching (RAINN,

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    Gerkin Thomas University Exploring a Specific Crisis Situation: The Story of Melody In order to explore how a crisis worker would approach, assess, and treat a crisis situation, this paper will focus on the story of Melody, the victim of a brutal rape. Melody Swanson is a 50 year old, divorced teacher who has been living alone since her children went to college two months ago. Melody came home from a short vacation to the casino and was met in her driveway by an armed man in

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    taking place actually affects more than just the victims. Sex trafficking is closely related to AIDS, as many involved in prostitution are unable to negotiate the use of condoms. Sexually transmitted diseases have a strong presence in trafficking and because of that, client 's partaking in sexual acts with traffickers contract them and spread them within the community. As commonly seen in sex traffick communities, drugs are often used to immobilize the victim; drugs that come off the streets, requiring

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