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I read the book Trafficked by Sophie Hayes and my six word memoir is “Survivor of haunting, unforgettable, sex trafficking,” Sophie went through a lot of bone chilling experiences as a young woman, from being abused for a simple mistake and held at gunpoint to forced into prostitution by Kas, someone she considered a friend. Sophie is now haunted with unforgettable memories of all the pain and suffering she went through because of Kas. Kas abused her if she didn't do or say the right thing, a simple mistake and she would face dreadful consequences. Sophie will never be able to erase these terrifying memories, they will float around in her head and haunt her. For example, “All I did think about was trying not to do anything to make
The novel ‘A Stolen Life’ written by Jaycee Dugard is a true story about how Jaycee, at age 11, got kidnapped by two adults called Phil and Nancy. Jaycee was missing for 18 years. During those years a lot of things happened to Jaycee. She was abused, raped and had two children at a very early age. Phil and Nancy's treatment had made Jaycee grow up very fast; she had to do whatever to survive.
Over 2 million children are sold into sex trafficking each year (Global). Sold gives the eye-opening narrative of just one of them. I followed Lakshmi through her journey as she learned about life outside her small hometown in Nepal. She loved her mother and baby brother and worked hard to keep up with her repulsive step-father’s gambling habit. When given the opportunity to take a job that could provide for her family, Lakshmi accepted the offer. Unknowingly, she walked into the hands of horrible people who led her blindly on the path of prostitution. Discovering her fate, Lakshmi latched onto hope when all seemed bleak. After months of endless abuse, some Americans gave her the opportunity to escape her situation, and, thankfully, she took
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Lee Dugard is an autobiography recounting the chilling memories that make up the author’s past. She abducted when she was eleven years old by a man named Phillip Garrido with the help of his wife Nancy. “I was kept in a backyard and not allowed to say my own name,” (Dugard ix). She began her life relatively normally. She had a wonderful loving mother, a beautiful baby sister,, and some really good friends at school. Her outlook on life was bright until June 10th, 1991, the day of her abduction. The story was published a little while after her liberation from the backyard nightmare. She attended multiple therapy sessions to help her cope before she had the courage to share her amazing story. For example she says, “My growth has not been an overnight phenomenon…it has slowly and surely come about,” (D 261). She finally began to put the pieces of her life back together and decided to go a leap further and reach out to other families in similar situations. She has founded the J A Y C Foundation or Just Ask Yourself to Care. One of her goals was, amazingly, to ensure that other families have the help that they need. Another motive for writing the book may have also been to become a concrete form of closure for Miss Dugard and her family. It shows her amazing recovery while also retelling of all of the hardships she had to endure and overcome. She also writes the memoir in a very powerful and curious way. She writes with very simple language and sentence structures. This becomes a constant reminder for the reader that she was a very young girl when she was taken. She was stripped of the knowledge many people take for granted. She writes for her last level of education. She also describes all of the even...
The Tomorrow City by Monica Hughes The plot of this book centres around two adolescents, David and Caro and an evil supercomputer which aspires to control the futuristic city of Thompsonville. Dr. Henderson, Caro's Father creates the "perfect" computer designed to solve all of the problems of Thompsonville by gaining almost complete power of the city. The computer then begins to make rash decisions of it's own. It decides that humans are incapable of making decisions of there
Sally Satel, author of “Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate? Wrong,” leads us down a harrowing path of the causes and effects that lead people to addiction. It can be a choice, possibly subconscious, or a condition that leads a person left fighting a lifelong battle they did not intend to sign up for. Mental and emotional health/conditions, personality traits, attitudes, values, behaviors, choices, and perceived rewards are just a few of the supposed causes of becoming an addict.
The book Renting Lacy: A Story of America’s Prostituted Children by Linda Smith addresses the topic of the underground world of child sex trafficking. Unfortunately, it is a topic that has been purposefully neglected in our society for many years. The author presents every chapter with a real story of a sexually exploited child. The stories are intense, powerful but especially touching which makes the reader feel frustrated, desperate, and vexed. After every chapter, Smith tries to include commentaries that presents a deeper understating about human trafficking. It seems that the purpose of her commentaries is to make the reader think deeper about the problem of sex trafficking and accumulate desires to act towards this issue as they continue
As victim count continues to rise, its difficult to see how such great numbers of men, women and children are bought and sold every year. Trafficking can be found in many forms, including: prostitution, slavery, or forced labor (Harf and Lombardi, 2014). It wasn’t until the 1980’s that international human trafficking became globally noticed. With the lack of government intervention and control in several nations, and the free trade market, slavery once again became a profitable industry (Harf and Lombardi, 2014). As previously mentioned, easier movement across nations borders is one of the outcomes of globalization. It is also what makes human trafficking so easy today. It is estimated that about 20.9 million people are victims across the entire globe (United Nations Publications, 2012); trafficking accounts for 32 billion dollars in generated profit globally (Brewer, n.d). 58 percent of all human trafficking was for the purpose of sexual exploitation, and of this 55-60 percent are women (United Nations Publications,
Human trafficking is the act of coercing someone into working against his or her will. Anyone can be a victim, especially young girls who are vulnerable to the captor’s lies. Victims have been found anywhere from driving ice cream trucks to touring boys’ choir. In her talk, Noy Thrupkaew shares several examples about how people are deceived and coerced into coming to the United States and being forced to work for someone else. She focuses on how close to home human trafficking really is and how the victims don’t necessarily need saving but solidarity. In Noy Thrupkaew’s speech about human trafficking, she not only shares her own story but also the different situations regarding how the crime functions. Because the speaker
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Many think that slavery is dead, but is it really? Or is it something that just gets swept under the rug and simply goes unnoticed? When we think of slavery we think of the Civil Rights movement, we think back to The Underground Rail Road , or the “I Have a Dream Speech” by Martin Luther King, Jr. Many fail to realize that slavery still exist today as Human Trafficking. In the article “The Disturbing Reality of Human Trafficking and Children” by Allison Chawla , she focuses on how slavery still exist today and how it has dramatically increased over the years. Allison Chawla uses strong evidence of how slavery has not died but has increased due to the lack for awareness and the lack of law enforcement
Lerner, Sara. "Human Trafficking In The U.S.: One Woman's Story." NPR. NPR, 31 July 2010. Web. 21 Nov. 2013.
In Modern Slavery, Dalton explained how women and children were forced into slavery by using Terrance Yarbrough’s crime as an example. Dalton wrote “Victims testified to being beaten by Yarbrough with padlocks, crowbars and dog chains, and being burned with irons and scalding hot water in order to force the woman into prostitution.” (Daltn, 13) The women who were abducted by Yarbrough include young girls as young as only fifteen years old. Human trafficking victims were not born into slavery like most natural slaves. Human trafficking victims were forced into prostitution by the abductor. Like Aristotle’s idea of free men are not suitable of slave world and should be useful from community life, human trafficking victims were...
This occurs when one is stripped of the ability to choose (Allender 1992). Their circumstances were never wanted or invited. Given, in some cases, individuals were aware of what they were getting themselves into albeit, driven by their desperate circumstances. Not only are victims often powerless over their prevailing circumstances before trafficking, they are also powerless once caught in the clutches of trafficking. In addition to this, there is the relentless pain of the soul they have to endure. Many trafficked victims report an emptiness of the soul that cannot be filled by anything no matter how hard they try. The result of this is an internal downward path of doubt, despair and deadness. With this powerlessness comes a loss of a sense of pain, where individuals just don’t feel pain at all by denial, splitting and loss of memory. This is often accompanied by a loss of self and loss of judgment. They cannot help but tend to re-entangle themselves with people that are not trustworthy, faithful or loving.
Sex trafficking is essentially systemic rape for profit. Force, fraud and coercion are used to control the victim’s behavior which may secure the appearance of consent to please the buyer (or john). Behind every transaction is violence or the threat of violence (Axtell par. 4). Just a decade ago, only a third of the countries studied by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime had legislation against human trafficking. (Darker Side, par.1) Women, children, and even men are taken from their homes, and off of the streets and are brought into a life that is almost impossible to get out of. This life is not one of choice, it is in most times by force. UNODC estimates that the total international human trafficking is a $32-billion-per-year business, and that 79% of this activity comprises sexual exploitation. As many as 2 million children a year are victims of commercial sexual exploitation, according the the U.S. State Department.-- Cynthia G. Wagner. (Darker Side, par. 4) The words prostitute, pimp, escort, and stripper tend to be way too common in the American everyday vocabulary. People use these words in a joking manner, but sex trafficking is far from a joke. Everyday, from all different countries, people are bought and sold either by force or false promises. Some are kidnapped and others come to America with dreams of a dream life and job. The buyers involved in the trade will do anything to purchase an innocent life just to sell for their own selfish profit. Many people wouldn’t think of a human body to be something you can buy in the back room of a business or even online. But those plus the streets are where people are sold most often. There are many reasons and causes for sex trafficking. The factors behind sex traffic...
In Sophie's sex phobia therapy group, Sophie is able to realize she is not the only person in the world with problems. Together, with the strength of the other woman and her own, Sophie is able to voice with conviction that she is a "beautiful woman with [a] strong body" (202). The group gives Sophie the self confidence she needs to feel good about herself and the strength to bravely admit who her abuser is. Each member of the group "wrote the names of [their] abusers in a pieces on a paper, raised it over a candle, and watched as the flames consumed it" (203). As Sophie got stronger, she no longer felt guilty about burning her mother's name. Through this procedure, Sophie is on...