Incognito, written by Ed Brubaker, is a crime comic that heavily focuses on violence to bring back the original crime genre. Before the dark ages, violence was common in both crime and superhero comics, but after the dark ages, this changed. One of the many cartoons who tried to revitalize the form was Incognito, by placing a crime spin to a superhero comic, but kept the factors that make it an original crime animation.
Although the crime is over the top and highly stylized, Brubaker is trying to show that some comics do need this to get their point across, and sometimes to even help the main character solve it’s inner issues. He uses Zack as the protagonist who questions everything, and he uses violence as the only way to solve the
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He used her for his own pleasure, without thinking of the effect it had on her. This could be compared to the form of the 30’s and 40’s, of “she’s a slut and had it coming” mindset. This is especially prevalent on page 6, when he didn’t care what he did, “And afterward, I didn’t regret a thing”(6). One of the ramifications set by Brubaker here is wrongly promoting sexual violence because although he is trying to portray that mentality is in Zack’s nature, he is also proving to the reader that it is okay to take advantage of women. Although one could not be clearly sure of the intention Brubaker had with this as message itself, and it is a form that is 80 years old and not so much prevalent today, it still reflects the reality of some people. By this instance of rape, Brubaker this issue is not taken seriously because of the attitude that the main character has towards it. Zack knew that it was wrong, and it puts into question the moral judgment that Brubaker is placing on his characters, because he still went against his better judgment. This could be promoting that wrong is right and right is wrong, which is why it proves that sexual violence is not taken earnestly in this book. “I knew this was a mistake, too. Knew it could get me in real trouble. But I did it anyway.”(5) While Zack was telling his story, he knew that this was wrong,
Erica is the protagonist In “Virgins” by Danielle Evens and she’s involved in many altercations where men were dominate. Erica is letting men do important things to her because she thinks that’s the societal norm. “He held me against the cement and put his fingers in me, and I wasn’t scared or anything, just cold and surprised. When I told jasmine later she said he did that to everyone, her too” (74). Jasmine is Erica’s best friend and she accepts this news too calmly and instead of protecting her, she comforts her by accepting his behavior and consider it normal for a man to be dominate and get what he wants when he wants. This simply should have not have been the case instead of accepting his behavior, it should have been stopped, but because it wasn’t he’s going to continue. This is not only affecting them, but is now sending a message to the young population that this is acceptable. When jasmine and Erica are at the movies they see a group of male friends and they imminently start talking to jasmine, but ignore Erica because as she states “they
In Susan Griffin’s work titled “Our Secret”, she discusses the relationship between the present-day and the earlier life of different people. She also compares the private and public lives of other people. Her piece is set during World War Two in the 1940s. Throughout the entire piece, Griffin compares the lives of people evolved in World War Two, people who were affected by the war, and her own life. She shows how even though they lived separate lives, they are still closely related.
While interpreting Should We Ditch the Idea of Privacy? by Don Tapscott, I had found that this article was my favorite. When it comes to choosing is one should stay private or keep their information public, I feel like that is up to that individual one hundred percent. In Should We Ditch the Idea of Privacy? Tapscott went over how many people should be more open and post more information on the internet to allow others to get a sense of what is going on. He believed Facebook is a “leading social-media site that promotes information sharing” making everyone’s life an open book for everyone to read and learn from. Additionally, to help is one is struggling with any mental health issues. Tapscott believes that by sharing personal information can
characters in the play, he is trying to use her as a way of making
In a crescendo of pain, devastation and hysteria, the girl mentions her terror in reliving the rape when going through the justice system. Juxtaposed with the "jaws rasp[ing] on the naked bone", the questioning is yet another violation
Rape is beyond dispute one of the most explicit events that can occur to a person in order to harm them on a physiological, emotional and even physical level. The violation here is subverted into a domination of the “poor rapist”. However the heroine encounters a violation on a physical level, which becomes obvious, when she states:” I was inexperienced at dog-fashion fucking and had probably torn the skin of my cunt a little.” (70) There is physical pain as a result of the violation, but the way the heroine reacts and wipes the pain away by marginalizing (“a little”) the injury makes it less harmful and consuming. At first it seems, that the rape has no quality for her as the source for shame. But on the same page she also describes the way Toni and her interacted right after the rape had taken place: “Tomi glanced at me quizzically once or twice, but I managed to avoid her eyes”. This sentence is easily overlooked because she had taken everything that happened beforehand so lightly, but here there is a moment of judging a moment of trying to avoid shame. He avoids her eyes, because she
In the riveting documentary Audrie & Daisy, husband and wife director team Bonnie Cohen and Jon Shenk retrace the events leading up to the harrowing sexual assaults of three teenaged girls; Audrie Pott, Daisy Coleman, and Paige Parkhurst, and expose the agonizing after effects and exploitation of the assaults. Subsequent interviews with family members, friends and law enforcement officials give important details about the aftermath of the events, and introduce viewers to possibly the biggest villain of all, Sherriff Darren White of Maryville, Missouri. Throughout the documentary White appears smug while he states that “as County Sheriff, “the buck stops here” (Darren White), and when asked about the crimes committed by Maryville’s football star, he rebuts with “was there a crime?” (Darren White) As the film moves through the twists and turns of the cases, the settings, conflicts, and tragedies are enhanced by the use of montage, long and subjective shots, close-ups and personal sketches that submerge the audience into the victim’s point of view. At the conclusion of the film, the viewer is left to decide what constitutes sexual assault and rape, and if society and law enforcement are to blame for the today’s ‘rape culture’ acceptance and the continued victimization of young girls. It also reveals how much can be hidden from parents, and how disconnected parents become from their children in a social media world.
Acquisti, A. & Gross, R. (2006). Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook, Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Robinson College, Cambridge University, UK.
In John Patrick Shanley’s play, “Doubt: A Parable”, and Paula Vogel’s play, “How I Learned to Drive”, both have strong themes of sexuality in the forms of sexual predation and pedophilia. Although these two stories are considerably different, the message is the same. “Doubt” is a play that concerns a mystery over whether or not a boy (Donald) has been raped by a priest, and “How I learned to Drive” is a play about a woman (Li’l Bit) who reminisces about the sexual molestation and the emotional manipulation she had to endure at the hands of her uncle. Although these plays both have main theme of sexuality, they each have vastly different settings, desires, and outcomes. In this essay, I will compare and contrast the theme of sexuality in both of these plays.
The recent speeches by William Jennings, have attracted a lot of attention from the people. The recent growth of Jennings’ Populism is concerning those of us who want the United States to remain true to its beliefs. Populism proposes ideas which on the surface support the lower classes but in reality would undermine our very country.
“The Fellowship of the Ring” is a trilogy of “The Lord of the Ring” which J.R.R Tolkien, the author, presents the unforeseen good vs evil. Where hobbits, wizards, dwarves, elves and mankind have to fight evil in middle earth in order to survive. There are many incidences where bravery and taking the harder path advanced them.
Masks and alternate identity is a major theme in Mishima Yukio's Confessions of a Mask. The narrator believes that throughout his youth, he had been playing a role on a stage to hide his real self. However, contrary to what the narrator claims, throughout the novel, he is not playing the role of another personality. He is simply hiding. It is only in the conclusion, when the when the war is over, and the need for order and principle and everyday life is restored, that he finally sees the creation of his other identity the masculine figure that conforms to the society's idea of men.
The future conditions of the woman’s potential marital worth were much poorer than any punishment the violator could have received. Once a woman was raped, her virginity was no longer available for her husband to have. “‘Virginity is the ornament of morals, the sanctity of the sexes, the peace of families and the source of the greatest friendships.’ Its existence was a precondition for marriage. To publicly breach it was to compromise honor, rank, even life; a ‘deflowered’ girl inevitably became a ‘lost’ girl. . . ‘The ravishing of virginity was the worst rape of all.’” (Cite Book 1) An innocent woman had now completely lost her worth to society and her own dignity due to a man’s egocentric and merciless actions.
The digital age provides individuals with numerous ways of innovative opportunities like recording data in an effective manner, electronic banking, online shopping, by violating privacy. Despite what might be expected, the national and global security framework needs components to check programmers and outsider interceptors, who can access delicate data and information, placed in various divisions of the financial framework. These outsider interceptors can then break-in remotely to harm or get access to passwords and usernames.
sexual assault, the authors made a few assumptions about the knowledge of the reader. One