Blog 14

Blog 14
What can a woman do to reduce her risk of assault?

I think that this is a hard topic for woman to realize, because we tend to have the “it wont happen to me”, attitude. I think that taking defense classes would really help a woman in case it does happen to her. There are also safety tips that woman should know about. There are some interesting facts about woman and assaults from Plattsburgh State University of New York:

“One in for college woman have been the victims of rape or attempted rape. ”

“90% of the victims know their assailants.”

85% of more of sexual assaults involve alcohol.”


I think the more education woman have of this topic the better. I think that every college should have seminars on what to do if you are assaulted.






Work Cited
(2009). Sexual Assault: Safety Tips, Resources and the Law. April 15, 2009 from
http://www.plattsburgh.edu/offices/admin/universitypolice/sexualassault.php.

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I think that woman think it is a sign of weakness, but I do not think it is a sign of weakness. I think that it is the opposite. I think that it takes a really strong person to admit that they have a problem. And then it takes even a stronger person to do something about it. I have some people in my family with drug/alcohol problems and I wish they would want to change and fix their problems. It is hard to see someone you care about go through the ups and downs of substance abuse. The best thing you can do for someone with a drug/alcohol problem is just be there for them. They will only change their lifestyle when they are ready!

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About 6 months ago my grandmother was diagnosed with bipolar disease. It’s really weird to hear about diseases and then see one of your family members go through it. It started about a year and a half ago. She started acting really strange. She started doing things that she usually wouldn’t do. She started being really ADD. It was like she couldn’t just sit down and relax for ten minutes without getting up and cleaning, or doing something. She also never slept. She would only sleep for a couple of hours and get up at like 3 and start cleaning or cooking. I remember my dad calling me one and telling me about how she was acting. My grandmother was staying with him for a weekend and one night at about 3 am he was woken up by a sound in the kitchen. He went into the kitchen and found her in there. She had taken all the glasses, pots and pans out of the cabinets and was cleaning them. This is a very serious disease. She wasn’t a severe case but the whole family could tell that she wasn’t herself. Before this I thought that bipolar was just a emotional disease. Where people were happy one minute and then said the next, but it isn’t. It also deals with being really ADD and then crashing. My grandmother would also take naps during the day which was also unusual for her. She would also fall asleep at church, which to her is very disrespectful and something she would normally never do. Thanks to doctors and medicine she is fine now. We just have to make sure she stays on her medicine.

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I do think that we would live differently if we knew what our future held for us. If we knew that we would fail and be a bum then I don’t think we would try so hard to succeed, and vis versa. When we are young we are taught that we can be whatever we want to be. So we spend the next 20 years trying to make our dreams come true. However the truth is that not everyone “makes it”. And I think that if those people knew that they would make it they would live their lives differently. That’s the negative effect on knowing what our future will look like. If we knew that we would succeed, people who are afraid to try would work harder and become something. Or if someone was going to die young, this would defiantly change the way they spend the rest of their lives. This could be a bad or good thing, depending on the person. Me, however, I am glad that we do not know what our future holds for us. Living life everyday is a gift and I think that if we knew what was in store we would take more things for granite and we would appreciate things.