Rivera,+Michael

My social issue project was a serious problem known as "date rape". This issue can consist of many different categories such as peer pressure of your friends, sexual abuse, and also mental abuse. The narrow issue I chose out of all of these was sexual abuse. Sexual abuse is very amiss. In this issue ether gender will sometimes try to manipulate their partner physically. Which means their partner is being manipulated, it makes the one bring hurt feel very uncomfortable about why they are with at the moment. There aren’t really a lot of solutions to stop “date Rape”, but one of the solutions to this problem is creating a club that has an experienced therapist that can provide good deep benefits for the members that go to the club. Everyone can express their issues to everyone there and they and the therapist will come up with a solution, or they can provide help for them. For example, calling the police to report the issue. I personally had many reasons why I write this project is to really help and provide different ideas of how anyone who is involved in a “date rape” relationship can open up to people for help or they can stand up for themselves as an individual. Hopefully it can improve people, give them more hope to their future, and hopefully this can help on a lead to figuring out a solution to this problem and put an end to it.

1.(print) Amazon?',, By. "Amazon.com: How to Say No to a Rapist and Survive (9780394495798): Frederic Storaska: Books." Web. 08 Dec. 2010. [].

2.(web)AUSTIN HERALD (Austin, MN) Aug. 27, 2001, n.p.

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MichaelGood job narrowing and providing a focus for your topic. You need to write a summary on each of your sources to complete the assignment.

Will a club really help prevent date rape? What is main goal for doing this paper? To raise awareness among potential victims? In that case, you might think of a different solution that will reach many more people who aren't members of the club. --Ms. D

Michael Rivera Junior English period 1 12/22/10

Date Rape

Date rape is a social epidemic that can be helped. However it will take a lot of effort from many teens, adults and generally everyone who’s willing to help the many victims of the tragedy known as date rape. Date rape is a serious problem because of it’s impacts on all. People don’t understand how serious date rape can be from the perspective of both sexes and I am willing to give a good effort to try to help the many victims, I plan to start a social network for all the victims of date rape to help them gather information about how some people moved on so that the unlucky victims who hasn’t can learn and excel in their lives. There are many problems with the social issue known as Date Rape. Date rape, this issue can consist of many different categories such as peer pressure from your friends, sexual abuse. The narrow issue I chose out of all of these was sexual abuse. Sexual abuse is very amiss. In this issue ether gender will sometimes try to manipulate their partner physically. Which means their partner is being sexually manipulated; it makes the one being manipulated feel very uncomfortable about with their partner. Date Rape is a very important issue because even if it doesn’t happen to you, people are still impacted very hard when their in the situation as someone they know has become a victim or is being a victim of this social problem. Date rape is a very big threat on women mostly. Women must be careful where ever they are in a social gathering with strangers or friends. For example a club, bar, party, or any other social gathering. I personally chose this topic because I don’t want to be in a situation like one of my friends family members or partner comes to help saying they have just become a victim to the horrible tragedy known as date rape and I am completely helpless in their situation because I’m the kind of guy who loves to help other in need and I never want to be in a position where I cant do that. I hope I’m never there either In this essay I am targeting anyone who goes to social gatherings, even if they rarely go because date rape can happen to anyone at anytime, anywhere. I am trying to help those people maybe prevent them from happening before it’s too late for them and they become a victim of the serious social problem “Date Rape”. There are many positive hopes that I want to bring about. For one I hope to help the victims of date rape in the future by exposing the catastrophe event of date rape and bringing awareness of the social problem to the people of the public. I intend to help the victims in their time of need, to completely make the social problem known around the world. I hope that the victims of date rape can move on and never look back to there horrible past time. That is what I positive hope I intend to bring about, and I will succeed. There are many causes to social problem known as date rape. One cause is that some people can not find a significant other for themselves so they tend to be the offender of date rape. Sometimes the cause of date rape is that some people tend to mix drugs with alcohol. “ Often, it's a mix of misread signals and misplaced expectations, fueled by alcohol and drug use.” (Mercie, Susan. "Date Rape: Unmixing Messages." // Love and Loss //. Mar.-Apr. 2007. Web. 18 Jan. 2011. .) There are also many effects to the social problem. For example some effects are people having anorexia( anorexia is a eating disorder) “ .HealthyPlace. "Physical Effects of Being Raped or Sexually Assaulted - HealthyPlace." // HealthyPlace.com - Trusted Mental Health Information and Support - HealthyPlace //. Mar.-Apr. 2010. Web. 19 Jan. 2011. . Another effect that people have when they become victims of date rape is that they commit suicide suicide is a successful attempt of taking ones life. often caused by being depressed. Also an effect of being a victim of date rape is having self injury “Self-Injury is deliberately harming oneself as a coping mechanism. It is caused by the emotional stress that the person is incapable, for whatever reason, of dealing with. For these people, Self-Injury is an escape, a way to relieve numbness, and an expression of pain.” HealthyPlace. "Physical Effects of Being Raped or Sexually Assaulted - HealthyPlace." // HealthyPlace.com - Trusted Mental Health Information and Support - HealthyPlace //. Mar.-Apr. 2010. Web. 19 Jan. 2011. There are many solutions that I have to solve/address the issue. One is that I am willing to create a social network about being a victim to the epidemic known as date rape. In the social net work people can discuss advice on how to get threw it. Also maybe police officers or drug store owners can monitor what they sell to the people of the public more cautions for safety matters. There are many things how I think that my solutions will bring a positive change to the victims of date rape. Hopefully my idea about making a social network it can become world wide because date rape happens everywhere and if there’s someone where they have something to say and willing to speak to benefit the people, Ill be happy. Also that if the store owners and the police officers take a little more caution about who and what they sell to the public it might reduce the crime of being date raped. The way I would distribute my ideas to the public and make it spread is by making a face book account or by distributing fliers, and hopefully it will spread. This is the best way to get my message out because mostly everyone that’s really social goes on face book often. Also because people that are driving around and stop at a red light and see my flier they can contact someone they know that is a victim of date rape if not one themselves. There are many ways that I would present my product and how it would assist me in bringing about my solution. First I would get a gathering of people as a way to be able to present my product. This would help me to bring out my solution because the more the people know about what my ideas are the more my ideas spread. Date rape is a social epidemic that can be helped. Though it will take effort from a lot of people I think it can be done, it is possible. I hope to spread the knowledge of the tragic event of date rape.

WORK CITED

1. HealthyPlace. "Physical Effects of Being Raped or Sexually Assaulted - HealthyPlace." // HealthyPlace.com - Trusted Mental Health Information and Support - HealthyPlace //. Mar.-Apr. 2010. Web. 19 Jan. 2011.

2.Mercie, Susan. "Date Rape: Unmixing Messages." // Love and Loss //. Mar.-Apr. 2007. Web. 18 Jan. 2011. [].)

3. Womens Health. "Date Rape Drugs." //Women's Health Information Center | WomensHealth.gov//. Oct.-Nov. 2098. Web. 20 Jan. 2011. .