...Behind Closed Doors It has been said that love is unconditional especially when concerning one’s children. What’s more precious than our children? So innocent and carefree, what is there not to love about children? A part of me may have believed that as a child, but as time went on, the unconditional love that my mother was supposed to have for me soon escaped me and led me to believe that my life was hopeless. I very seldom allow myself to look back to where I came from or spend time wondering how I got to the point that I am today. However, looking back now, into the dark corner of my mind, I can plainly see a great multitude of dysfunctional behaviors that leaves me wondering how I got as far as I have. Although the statistics are astounding, regarding the outcome of victimized children, I for one, realized the misconduct of the abuser, and focused on me and how I could make my life better. However, the road to my victory of overcoming the victim of circumstance was not without failure. My earliest memory draws me back to when I was a mere five years of age. The incident occurred on a Sunday morning when I was unable to find my “going-to-church shoes.” My father was big on church and was never late for the morning sermon. I was ready, as was my mom but I could not find my shoes. I sought out my shoes as if they were an important mission sent out by God himself, but to no avail. My father took notice of my unfortunate distress and chased me from behind as if to somehow...
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...The sensible comment by the Minister for Women and Child Development [a very rare occasion] about legislating on 'marital rape' has, expectedly, raised a storm of protest, especially in the print media. A national daily recently carried a comment by its regular columnist who claims that "marriage itself is often devoid of consent in any real sense." "Why should marriage" he asks "give licence to a man to force himself on a woman against her will?" The problem with such journalists is that they intervene in a public discussion without understanding the question. The opinion piece is titled: "A Question of Consent." This column displays ignorance about the cultural as well as the contractual aspects of marriage as a social institution. The questions asked reveal an immature understanding of marriage as it has existed in India for millennia. He asserts (falsely) that "The marriage itself is imagined as a form of blanket consent. For a woman, the exercise of consent before marriage is denied, (sic) for any consensual sexual contact on her part is considered taboo, and after marriage it is seen to be unnecessary for the act of getting married is seen to be a form of consent to all that is to follow. The reason why sexual violence is so embedded is because individual consent on an everyday basis has never been part of the deal in the first place."(sic). The sheer inanity of this argument is so obvious that it is surprising that it is advanced in the first place. When...
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...Essential Conflict in Behind Closed Doors In the gripping thriller Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris, Grace navigates through the problems of trying to escape the hold of her psychotic husband, Jack. Paris utilizes the character versus character form of external conflict in this novel. At the beginning of the story, Grace, the protagonist, reveals that the man she just married is a psychopath who intends to harm Grace’s sister, Millie, to feed off her fear. Jack, the antagonist, works against Grace’s motives to escape, as he claims he will always be one step ahead of her. This conflict destroys Grace’s mental state as she cannot bear her new way of life, a maniac controlling her every move. Grace describes, “I cry even harder, thinking...
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...The American Court System Behind Closed Doors America first established its judiciary system around the same time the 13 British Colonies became established as individual territories. When it came down to it, Federalist battled Anti-federalist over the writing of the Constitution of the United States. The Anti- Federalist were opposed to the idea of a one centralized government while the Federalists on the other hand were all for a centralized government. What came next was the establishing of the Judicial Branch known as Article III. The start of the first court system came along with Congress passing, The Judiciary Act of 1789. The act established the United States circuit courts which were also known to be United States federal courts and were located in each of the federal judicial districts. The act also established the United States Supreme Court and its justices. It wasn’t until 1912, that the district courts became exercised and became the new federal trial courts replacing the circuit courts as original jurisdiction. Circuit courts became known as federal court of appeals. They no longer have the right to try a case first, which is now the district courts role in the judicial system. With 13 circuit courts and 93 federal judicial districts the two courts make up most of the judicial system in our country. That’s why it is imperative that we know the differences and the similarities between each court. After observing both courts for about 5 or so hours, I really...
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...One halloween, I was going camping with my dad. There were many attractions, as in, hey rides, fake graveyards, shows, ect. and the main attraction , the house of terror. I did almost every ride that day except for the house of terror at about 10:30pm. I walked up to the house of terror and It said ¨CLOSED OPENS AT 12:00 PM!¨and there was still a huge line, So, I got in the line. Finally, at 12:00pm they started letting people in through different doors, one at a time.Once it was my turn ,they let my dad in the door on the far left, and me in the door on the far right ; It was a huge maze with flashing lights,every corner I took either had, a person with a syringe or chainsaw, a wall, or another lost person. It wasn't very scary until I saw one of the people dressed as a zombie pick up the curtain wall and go under it and...
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...However its methods have been brought out of the shadows more in the recent years, and what has been uncovered does not sit well with many people. Some of the main contributors to the leak of information on the subject has been from documentaries, ones like Cowspiracy, Food Inc., or Earthlings. Each showcase the brutal mass murderings that occur behind the closed doors of the industry. From Slaughterhouse, a book written by Gail Eisnitz about the meat industry describes the punishment of the cow in a snip-it from her book, “ ‘All animals fear when they’re going to die,’ he said. ‘If he don’t want to go, if he falls down, they beat him with pipes, kick them, hit them with pieces of wood, stick them with knives, if he still won’t move, you wrap the cable around his neck and drag them in with the hoist. You drag them while they’re still alive. Choke them to death.’ ’ (138). This quote, which is graphic, tells what happens behind the closed doors of some plants. This, sadly enough, is not the worst that happens behind the doors, some instances have been caught on tape and shared with the media, for example, a small farmer who beat the cattle with a metal rod for...
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...Workplace Surveillance Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Employees can be monitored through telephones, computers, the internet, voicemail, telephone conversations, instant message and surveillance. The employee will want to pay close attention to the company policy on privacy and electronic usage as much of these items are unregulated as stated on the privacyrights.org website. Your employer can listen, read and monitor most of your workplace communications. Even if the policy is paid attention to the employee will need to ensure they understand the implications of the privacy policy as it can be hard to say how a judge might decipher the policy which became clear to me during our reading of privacy in chapter four of our text (Halbert 2009). It is important for the employee to know when the communication crossed the line from being private to being property of the company. A big issue these days is how email and internet usage can be monitored and an employee can potentially lose their employment over misuse. It is said that some 28% of employers have fired their employees over misuse of internet as stated on the privacyrights.org website. Phone calls are also monitored when employees have conversations with customers. It stands to reason if an employee has communications with customers the business would have a right to monitor these calls. If an employee has a personal conversation the employer is required to stop...
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...“Christian Gentry.” a lady in a white coat called my name. Mom patted my leg as she rose and whispered “Let’s go.”I trudged along behind her, shuffling my feet, through the hallway door and directly to the right into a room marked “Office.” “Please, sit down.” said the lady, and she smiled, settling herself into the black, leather chair behind the desk. “Hi, Christian. I’m Dr. Armstrong, but you can call me Dr. Ashton if you’d like,” she reached across the desk to shake my hand and smiled, “I’m just going to talk to your mom for a few minutes, and then we’ll go into another room and talk for awhile.” I absentmindedly shook her hand and met her gaze, expressionless. She turned to my mom; I half listened while staring at my feet. “So, Christian...
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...exit through the old wooden double doors. Old lady Lisa and her bubblegum popping granddaughter Holly, sheepishly approach the young pastor. Miss Lisa taps Jonathan on his broad shoulder to catch his attention; “Father Jonathan, that was a beautiful sermon-” “Beautiful” Holly interrupts, whilst clinging to the priest arm. Miss Lisa raps Holly over the head with her navy blue, gold trim paged, limited print, as seen on TV bible. Holly let out a mousy yelp and releases the Shepard's arm. Miss Lisa quickly gets between the two and continues her rudely interrupted conversation, “Yes, beautiful, but I actually came over to inform you about a shady figure going around town knocking on people’s doors. I- We are all aware that you stay here alone, with the lord of course, but if you would like; some of us...
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...to keep with the times. The judicial branch of the government is the branch that is elected by the President and confirmed by the Senate ("Judicial branch," 2013). Federal courts are in place to interpret the law ("Judicial branch," 2013). They cannot make, or enforce the law; they simply interpret it as the social trends dictate ("Judicial branch," 2013). For instance, in the early 80s, when society was afraid of same sex couples and what happened behind closed doors, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of upholding the original ruling in Bowers v. Hardwick. This ruling stated that it was constitutionally correct to uphold a charge of sodomy between two consenting homosexual adults behind closed doors ("Bowers v hardwick," 2013). Later, when it was more acceptable to be homosexual, the Supreme Court reversed its position in the case of Lawrence v. Texas. Like the state of Georgia, Texas had a law that stated there was to be no sodomy of any kind. It did not matter if it was between consenting adults behind closed doors. Since this case happened in 2003 when the Gay Rights Movement was gathering publicity and...
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...paint-dried walls continued into long winding halls. The floors were of wood, rotting, like the rest of the establishment. Shadows freely walked beside the four foggy glass windows the building had. Doors were never left open, as if the sharp silence would weave out into the halls like the sound of stitching wounds. Tombs surrounded the orphanage – some clean, some defiled. The two-story house seemed frighteningly awake, watching people pass by, with the bones of the past slowly tearing it apart. The roof always met the black sky, and the only way you would distinguish it from the darkness was the single candle placed on the topmost window. The evening sky was overcast, the moon casting light in the unfamiliar darkness. A black sedan pulled to a stop on the side of the street. A brown-haired man struggled out of the car's driver seat, not bothering to cover himself from the penetrating rain. The wind blew at him, hard enough to make him stumble back. Glancing around, he locked his car and walked up to the shadowed building he had parked in front of. “God, what kind of weather is this?” he muttered to himself as he straightened out his buttoned shirt and knocked on the wooden door. It felt hollow, the door, as if time had eaten through it. Lightning cracked as the door creaked open. A pair of white eyes peered from the opening. “Yes?” The voice was fragile and old. It was easily drowned by the wind's howling and the rain's drumming. The man gave a timid wave and...
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...located at 3225 W. Gibson Lane, Phoenix, AZ 85009. I was working in the housing unit Control Tower. At approximately 1541 hours, Inmates Hogan, Reginald T329108 and Pereya, Steve T344308 of cell 12 were in the dayroom of A Pod for their one hour of dayroom access. At approximately 1542 I opened cell 6 via the control panel for Inmate Rudzinski, Joseph T356179, cell 6, bed 2 to come out for a legal visit. Inmate Rudzinski walked out of cell 6, Inmate Perez, Santiago T329108 pushed the cell door wide open and stood in the doorway. I ordered Inmate Perez over the PA system to close the door. I observed Inmate Rudzinski walk back towards cell 6 and push the door closed. Inmates Perez and Hogan then engaged in a mutual fight in cell 6. I immediately made a radio call to Security Control indicating there was an inmate fight in D-3, A Pod. I also made an announcement over the PA system for the entire housing unit to lockdown....
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...are critical to the counseling profession, uniting professionals in common beliefs, values, and actions and thus, promoting a collective professional identity while ensuring that individuals who belong to the profession engage in behaviors that place clients at the center of service delivery. The field of counseling has progressively expanded its efforts and focus on ethics, especially in the areas of scholarship related to ethics education (Corey et al., 2007). Calley explains that each professional counselor has an enormous responsibility to uphold the public trust and must seek high levels of training, education, and supervision in the ethical application of counseling practices, in particular because counselors often practice behind closed doors with little oversight. She displays this with the Ethics into Action Map which is a useful tool. She adds that human service organizations may find the tool particularly useful in addressing the complexities related to work within specific systems, attending to the multiple stakeholders directing services, and supporting professionals from varying backgrounds (i.e., counselors, social workers, psychologists) that have various ethical codes. Finally, the tool might prove helpful...
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...replied with a sneer look on my face. The Chicago Bulls beat the Charlotte Hornets by two points. “I knew you’d miss the last shot,” I added. “Shut up! I’ll get you next time,” Jor said furiously. He raged away from the TV, dropping his controller. He walked into his room completely frustrated and slammed the door behind him. I was pleased and carried on with my game. It was an unusual day. The sun was nowhere to be seen and the sky just kept on crying. It had been raining since I woke up. I could feel a rush of wind every now and then. The coldness made my breath visible. It was 6:30 in the morning and I was still on about the game. I was so focused on being the best. Or so I thought. I was interrupted by intermittent irritating barks. I paused the screen and investigated what my adorable tamed dogs were up to. I looked through the window pane and saw them barking and running into a frenzy. I noticed that my dogs were stepping on water. I realised that it was flooding and the water had reached the front yard. The sky kept on pouring water and it showed no signs of stopping. Unfortunately, I had to stop and act quickly. I opened my front door and ordered my dogs to come in. As soon as the three went in, I rushed and barged into my brother’s room. “Hey, look outside! It’s flooding and the rain isn’t stopping, the water just reached our front yard. What should we do?” I nervously said. “I don’t know, but we have to inform Dad what’s happening,” Jor replied...
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...November 26, 2013 Many celebrities, including the First Lady Michelle Obama, have been attacking obesity as an epidemic. The definition of an epidemic says that it is a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community. Many television programs target young children who are watching their cartoon channels with sugary snacks. Should people in today’s society make someone's weight a topic of discussion, or should this be a conversation kept behind the doors of a person and their doctor and family? People should not be judging others when it comes to a topic that can be hurtful to others. Obesity is a problem that should be kept within the confines of the home or a doctor’s office. With the research provided, we will also answer the question of how obesity should be handled in today's society. Television has become a stepping stone for children who are obese. Obese children who have been bullied will sit in front of the television because they do not want to be harassed by the children they are in school with because of their weight. When you add this into the commercials being shown during these children’s shows about sugary snacks, these children will ask their parents...
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