Word: essays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...offer the Chinese rulers a disturbing mirror image of themselves? Did Ju Dou's child -- twisted, ruthless, utterly inhuman -- remind the authorities uncomfortably of the '60s Red Guard? Maybe the film was deemed too sexy for Chinese viewers. Though not much flesh is exposed, Ju Dou is a powerful essay on sexual longing, grounded in time-honored dramatic elements: fire, water, pain and lust...
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...unfair and inappropriate for Morgan to use that essay as fuel for his argument. Because I left out most of the details of what happened, Morgan was able to draw his own unfounded conclusions. But for Morgan to use a first-person reflection out of its context in support of his offensive editorial only demonstrates the weakness of his logic...
...STATE in my essay that ignorance about acquaintance rape is dangerous. But Morgan's informed and warped view is even more scary. Morgan says that it is a woman's responsibility to make herself "understood" in situations like this; he suggests that if an acquaintance rape occurs the woman merely has not played the "verbal and nonverbal games" of "courtship" well enough. This kind of attitude is chilling. Morgan must realize that at a certain point, "courtship" ceases to be a game...
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