Rape In College Essay

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I. INTRODUCTION (YOU MUST WRITE A COMPLETE INTRO. PARAGRAPH) A. Background Information: The next four years of the students’ lives after high school mark the moment they become independent. Because of the freedom, college students are more susceptible to careless actions like drinking, doing drugs, and even committing sexualt assualt. Sexual assault has been around for years and the actions to prevent this heinous crime has been minimal, especially in colleges and universities. In 2015, Brock Turner, a student from Stanford, sexually assaulted a young woman on campus. Turner claimed that because he was drinking, was with friends, and saw a “promiscuous” female student, that pressured him into committing such a heinous crime. This was because Stanford University didn’t teach its students sexual assault prevention which caused the victim to be harm and violated. By teaching college students about sexual assault prevention, it decreases the number of sexual assault cases on campus, prevents psychological damage to the victim’s mental state, and educates other students to know the signs …show more content…

COUNTER ARGUMENT A. Mention the arguments from the other side of the issue - people may think that sexual assault prevention should not be taught to students, because people think that signs and factors are easy to comprehend. Also, people may think sexual assault happen because of women are being promiscuous, or drugs and alcohol play a role which the assailant have no control over, making the assailant not responsible. B. Briefly refute the other side’s arguments Whether clothings or other environmental factors, rape is still rape. If people knew the signs and the factors of sexual assault, the number of cases would decrease; in reality, the number of cases increases each day, meaning that people still don’t know how to prevent it. Also, the number of cases and psychological damage to the victim will continue to increase if no one, especially universities, doesn’t do anything

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