Rape_Essay

Rape Essay The Tragedy of Rape: Putting Faces to Numbers In the article, “The Possibilities and Limits of Telemedicine: Self-Treatment at the South Pole,” Sara Taub and Kayhan Parsi begin by stating, “it has been said that the death of one person is a tragedy whereas the death of a million is a statistic.” One daily occurrence where this can be applied is rape. Over 240,000 fall victim to rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault every year in the U.S. Although this a daily occurrence, many people do not realize how serious the issue truly is until they’ve heard a personal account of it; like many things, it isn’t recognized as tragic until real names and stories are placed to the statistical number. To help illustrate my point I will be using a few articles of the many on the subject. One of the articles examined, “Escaping Hades” by Lis (no last name given) is a story of one girl’s personal struggle with being the victim of rape. The second article is a statistic chart for rape provided by RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National rape, one, story, tragedy, personal, number, victims, raped, being, tragic, statistic, numbers, article, victim, things, struggle, statistical, someone, real, rainn, people, over, life, just, daily, young, within, viewed, value, until, truth, terrible, tell, stories, statistics