Shipler Reading Assignment Response #6 - Ch. 6

Ron Hillier

Professor Wetzl

College Writing I

3 November 2009

Shipler Reading Assignment Response #6 – Ch. 6

Chapter 6 was obviously not the most fun chapter to read from the Working Poor. Although it was full of statistics, It was probably the most shocking, depressing, and disheartening chapter to date. Within the first few minutes of reading I learned that 12 out of 13 of those girls were sexually assaulted, that is unbelievable. Another stat Shipler gives us is that one in five women in America will be raped…are you serious? Not only is this shocking it is also sickening. This chapter really made me open my eyes to this problem. Everybody knows that sexual assaults and abuses happen, but until it is thrown in our face, not many people think of it on a day to day basis. Most people have the idea that “it won’t happen to them.” This is common and somewhat reasonable, but these stats clearly tell us a different story. We know that the victims of these attacks face many negative emotional factors for the rest of their lives, and I cannot imagine what that would be like. I don’t know how I could truly trust anyone ever again, and I don’t know how I could ever life a happy, fulfilled life with a spouse. These numbers are ridiculous, and I think the American people need to come together to put a stop to this issue. We need to raise public awareness to start, and secondly