Monica Lewinsky Research Paper

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Monica Lewinsky; this name may bring thoughts of disgust to many. Her affair with the president of the United States (Bill Clinton) was spread around the internet like rapid fire. Lewinsky was humiliated to no ends by being used as an advertising method: audio messages which were shared without her consent, inappropriate pictures plastered every inch of space, and her image being destroyed. She was disgraced due to her actions that did not correlate with the majority's beliefs. People bashed on her because that's what humans tend to do: point out others faults so that they don't have to deal with their own. Although it takes two to make an affair, she was more discriminated against than Clinton because she was a woman. Just like the early Puritans who believed women were a sin and men were victims. This is exemplified in The Crucible by…show more content…
Recently a 16-year-old named Jessica Ahlquist sued her high school (Cranston High School in Rhode Island) for exhibiting an 8-foot-tall prayer banner in the school gymnasium. Ahlquist stopped believing in God at age 10 because she found it inapplicable to herself: “I had always been told that if you pray, God will always be there when you need him. And it didn’t happen for me, and I doubted it had happened for anybody else. So yeah, I think that was just like the last step, and after that I just really didn’t believe any of it.” Walking in school every day, she felt incensed with the banner and felt as though she had to do something about it. This arose a lot of hatred towards this 16-year-old. The people of Rhode Island were forgetting their heritage of Roger Williams declaring freedom of religion with separation of church and the government. In doing so, these classmates and faculty members who disagreed with Ahlquist, reverted to the judgemental Puritan ways of discriminating towards a person for his/her different religious
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