The goal of this project was to create a space where the community could re-imagine the lyrics of their favorite Regional Mexican song to emphasize why and how are these songs problematic (sexist, racist, violent). This kind of music is traditional and popular in Mexico. People who follow this trend tend to be from rural communities, low-income, and have low educational backgrounds. The Regional Mexican Music industry is primarily dominated by males, resulting in sexist lyrics. Furthermore, since
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The validity of an individual’s perspective on the truth regarding situations, events and personalities throughout their lifetime is subjective. Conflicting perspectives arise when two individuals experience the same situations, events or personalities, but take meaning from these experiences in opposing ways. Because of these contradictory views, we –as the audience – must challenge our assessment of the truth. We can do this by analysing the viewpoints presented by Ted Hughes’ confessional poems
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Prostitution should be illegal in Canada because of various reasons. Just some of the reasons would be for Moral and Ethical reasons, to try to decrease the high rate of sex trafficking, and to put workers of this profession away from the dangers of violence, drugs, STD`s and even murder. Taking morality and ethics into consideration, it`s wrong in every way you can think of. The fact that is has been practised for a long time now, from when the world was just growing or I guess developing should
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hopes of building up a certain trust level which would lead to easy access for the predator to attack the young teen. Having access to victimize the individual can lead to many outcomes. Those outcomes includes date rape, kidnapping, and sex trafficking. The way the predator would go about committing one of those outcomes is by asking the teen to meet up somewhere as a friendly invite. In the end their intention would be to harm the teen. The predator can also the threaten or blackmail the teen
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Prakash (2013) claims that prostitution is the oldest occupation in the world. It occurs when an individual assumes material or monetary compensation in exchange for the performance of sexual acts. This has been observed since the beginning of the formation of relationships between men and women (p. 1). Despite this, selling sex as a profession remains illegal in most places except in Las Vegas, Amsterdam, New Zealand, Austria, and the Netherlands to name a few. On the other hand, the selling of
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According to Business Insider, “Humans are being bought and sold at modern-day slave auctions in Libya, according to an investigation by CNN. The news channel found evidence of two separate auctions, held after dark at undisclosed locations in the war-ravaged country, which has become the epicentre of the ongoing migrant crisis. Footage showed men… being auctioned off by local slavers for 600 Libyan dinar each -- roughly equivalent to $400” (Corcoran 1). No human being should ever have a price on
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In the 1900's authorities faced a lot of issues with finding a lot of stolen artwork and documents. In the story Isabella Stewart Gardner heist:25 years of theories you follow the story of a reporter who works at the Boston herald in that story it talks about he's struggle to want to help the F.B.I but they don’t want he's help. The artwork is worth $500 million dollars so you could see why the F.B.I are struggling so much to try and find it. It was also very hard for authorities back in the day
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Introduction While prostitution is the oldest profession in the world, it is also one of the most stigmatized forms of work amongst other positions in the sex industry. Radical feminists argue that any type of sex work is “inherently exploitative to women in a patriarchal society” (Brooks 2010, pg. 70). It is argued that women are subjected to the control of men and thus, preventing them from exerting their agency. Instead, women are victimized and controlled by the desire of the heterosexual
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Right away, Jose introduced me to two other men: Brain and Zack. After Jose introduced me to them I never saw him again. Brain and Zack were pimps, who formed part of the human trafficking society that I had become a victim of. They apprise me that if I wanted my freedom back I owed them a total of 80,000 and that would only be paid off if I became a prostitute for 5 years in the streets of New York.They told me that they knew
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Trafficking is an ever increasing issue, and for years it has been seen as a solely 3rd world problem, but recently it has crept onto American soil and into the attentions of the general public. The International Labour Organization estimates that there are 40.3 million victims of human trafficking globally and that it is worth a $150 billion dollars worldwide. The U.S. Department of Labor has identified 139 goods from 75 countries made by forced and child labor. In New Jersey human trafficking
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