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Children need to appreciate the difference between sexual harassment and normal schoolyard taunting, teasing and flirting. "Harassment is not Harry saying to Sally, 'You look hot today.' Kids take that as a compliment," says Nan Stein, a former middle school teacher and currently director of the Project on Bullying and Sexual Harassment in Schools at Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. "Harassment is if he flips up her skirt or tries to pull down her pants. And boys can also be victims of harassment or sexual bullying." The most serious cases could involve sexual touching, bumping or grabbing...
Photographer Nan Goldin is perhaps best known for her photographic monograph "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency." In addition, her travelling exhibition "I'll Be Your Mirror" has appeared at several European museums...
According to O'Nan, the second person was originally just used for "bad guys...But people aren't bad. They're just very questioned. This guy is good. It brings the reader closer to him. He will sacrifice anything." O'Nan recognized the abruptness of his style but felt the overall intensity and involvement was worth confusing his reader for the first 30 pages. The reader's discomfort and anxiety concerning the epidemic are profoundly enhanced by the voice, by his lack of freedom of thought. His thoughts are Jake's, so just as Jake is helpless against the disease...
...Prayer for the Dying hits direct about faith and religion, not subtly or from behind. As O'Nan remarks, "Thematically it's precisely the same as all my other books. It's always about hope and despair." Because the reader senses only through Jake, he hears Jake's internal question explicitly...
...Nan leaves his reader asking himself. "You're not sure anymore, are you?" Almost all certainties have been tossed aside. The good have gone bad; all efforts have failed. Yet there is hope, there is reassurance. "Hell is yourself, in a way." O'Nan explains. "So you always want to go back to the ones you love...