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We looked into Zhaboonigan’s rape and furthered researched and uncovered that Sexual abuse against indigenous women is far more prevalent in indigenous cultures. It is also prevalent to real life and just because it happens in a play does not mean it does not happen in real life Helen Betty Osborne’s story being a prime example and connection. Highway raised awareness of violence against Indigenous women by basing Zhaboonigans rape off the true story of Helen Betty Osborne so people could make the connection that sexual violence is alive and real in today’s world and should not be

Ruined by Lynn Nottage is a powerful play that narrates the nearly normalized issue of sexual violence against women and girls in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Nottage personally traveled to the DRC and interviewed the victimized women and created a play that is based on their stories. She composed a very powerful play that made its audience to become aware of tragic situations that take place in African countries today. Throughout the play, Nottage brings the reader to raise several questions, such as why did these vulnerable women become the target of violence and what drives militiamen to commit these crimes rather than protecting them.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a country brimming with violence, rape, and abuse. Living in such a fragile country is difficult, and as a result, the Congolese struggle to be happy. In the play Ruined by Lynn Nottage, Mama Nadi is a business woman who runs a brothel in the midst of a brutal civil war. Her business provides men with alcohol, music, and beautiful women to have sex with. The play uncovers the struggle of Mama Nadi, the working women, their loved ones, and the Congolese. It also reveals their ways of dealing with issues, such as singing talking, sex, and drinking. In this play, alcoholic drinks represent the desire to numb the pain of war in the Congo.

First, this book talks about the sexuality of women. Back in those days, women were considered lower than men purely on the fact that medical doctors had the notion that women had the sexual organs of men but inside out (Wiesner, 56). Second, I chose to target the issues of rape in the past. Women rarely came forward to accuse a man of rape (Wiesner, 61). This leads to the thought that more women were raped than that came forward, directing

Patricia Lockwood’s The Rape Joke is a risky composition- not because it discloses information about Lockwood’s personal rape experience, but because it does so from a comedic stance, ridiculing the unfortunate event and the events leading up to and after it. While the creation of the poem was prompted due to the sexual assault she experienced, the content and subject are not centered around the incident or the assaulter but around rape culture and the sociological concept of victim blaming, from both society and oneself. There is no such thing as a rape joke-the joke is the incredulous ways society has guided people to respond to it.

I don't know the answers to these questions, but I'm sure that the victims of these tragedies have come up with their own. In her memoir, Lucky, Alice Sebold describes how the various reactions to her rape affect her in many ways. Mary Alice, though scared and barely sober, gave Alice a small smile and acknowledged her joke. While at the hospital a short while after the rape, Mary Alice joins Alice, and Alice says to her “Don't say I can't sober you up” (17). Alice then goes on to write “It was the first thing from my old life that I recognized on the other side.

Jacobs’ narrative is open and honest in its depiction of sexual harassment, describing the nature of the abuse and the tortured emotional state it leaves its victims in. Though the narrative tells of a girl’s life over one hundred and fifty years ago, it remains timely in its reminder that many suffering women do not have the ability to safely end the harassment they face every day, and yet, they continue to endure the consequential

Months passed, she couldn’t even sleep. She suffered from nightmares. Every time she closes her eyes, she could see the image of the raper. She couldn’t sleep alone

Through dramatic action in the play Ruined written by Lynn Nottage, a character’s nature and intentions are revealed throughout the play. A main character is complex, revealing different aspects and layers that make up the character. This essay will discuss how Mama Nadi’s conflicted nature is revealed through primary actions throughout the play that reveal her character. The essay will deal with three primary actions that reveal Mama Nadi’s character in the play through action.

Therefore, the story of a young woman named Debarah sheds light on women lying about being raped to gain access to international aid. Debarah knew that raped women had access to resources, particularly food, and money. Her neighbors knew that she had two brothers for whom she was the sole provided after the deaths of her parents. Debarah neighbors told her to go to the clinic "say you were raped and you will be supported." Warner. The Congo We Listen To. (2017).

Women between the ages of 15 to 44 are at a greater risk of rape than cancer, malaria and a motor accident (Wood, 2009). According to Amnesty International (2014), 40 women are raped everyday in South Kivu regarding the on-going armed conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sexual violence during armed conflict has historically been known as one of the legitimate spoils of war (Brown, 2011). Spoils of war result from defeating a population and claiming benefits due to its instability. Thus violence towards civilian’s asserts dominance, however the implications involved must be rooted to deeper consequences to a nation. In this essay I will argue that rape is perpetrated against women

Lynn Nottage’s Ruined is the story of Democratic Republic of Congo. To write this play, Lynn Nottage interviewed many Congolese women who told her in plain words of the treatment they had endured at the hands of the Militias. Rape and Sexual violence were all too common occurrences in a country still ravaged by civil unrest, in an ongoing war fought over women’s bodies. “Eastern Congo,” according to U.N. special representative Margot Wallstrom, “is the rape capital of the world with 48 women being raped every hour.”(1) Rape as a weapon of war is recognized as a tactic to humiliate, dominate, instill fear in, and forcibly relocate civilian members of a community or ethnic groups. This form of sexual violence against women and girls is relied upon by government, rebel soldiers, police, criminals, civilians and even husbands. Women often seen as the bearers of the culture, as the representatives of any given community, are raped systematically as an instrumentation of open warfare, by breaking down families and destabilizing communities, children who witnessed the violence are also traumatized. Nottage in an interview with HBO news channel said: “Almost all the women I

Ruined by Lynn Nottage won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play is comprised of an assortment of women who exist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These women face social and political horrors within their civil-war torn territory.

New knowledge that I acquired during this chapter involves the perspective of victim-precipitated rape. The following perspective is that of assuming the survivor is actually the blame for their rape. In an effort to clarify the meaning of this perspective, the writer included examples such as; a survivor whom was raped because of the provocative clothing she was wearing. Some seem to think she was asking for it. Or young man who flirts with his female professor assumes he wants to engage in sexual relations results in being raped at a tutoring session at the professors home.

I still remember the night my sister was raped. My mom and I were driving up I-83 to Pennsylvania and my hair was still wet from swim practice. Interrupting a discussion of the long butterfly set my coach planned for tomorrow, her phone vibrated. Since my mother was driving, I read the text.