#pip[ing design course

[reallyawesomecostumes]

Dean Winchester in his Coffin

A comparison between Queequeg’s coffin in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and Dean’s coffin in Supernatural

(screencap from Home of the Nutty)

In Supernatural 14x11 ‘Damaged Goods’, Dean Winchester builds his own coffin. 

It’s not really a coffin, it just looks like one. The box is a ma’lak box designed by Death herself to secure Dean and AU-Michael at the bottom of the Pacific for all eternity*. We as viewers of a long-running episodic television show are pretty sure the  Winchester boys will find a way out of this mess in the next couple episodes, but Dean built it, so we have to talk about it. 

There are closet metaphors inherent in this coffin-building (I recommend @drsilverfish here); there are show-internal parallels to Amara being locked away, Adam’s current fate in The Cage, the wall in Sam’s mind in season 6; the list goes on. I wanted to talk instead about how Dean’s coffin-building compares to some coffin-building in classic American literature: the story of Queequeg’s coffin in Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick; or, The Whale.” 

Moby-Dick, published 1851, is a book that many of us were forced to read in high school or college. I escaped this fate but had to read “The Scarlet Letter” and ��Bartleby the Scrivener” instead. I did watch the Patrick Stewart TV miniseries version as a teenager, of course. For some dumb reason** I became a Moby-Dick reader because I was a Queequeg/Ishmael shipper, so know that I have a fairly biased perspective on the book as a whole.

In Moby-Dick, our narrator Ishmael (a depressed unemployed Yankee) meets Queequeg, a cannibal

(Queequeg as a character is a jumble of noble savage tropes, the author’s own knowledge of Pacific Islanders met during his whaling experience, and ideas pulled from other contemporary books both fiction and non-fiction), when they become accidental bedfellows at Peter Coffin’s inn (Coffin is a prominent name among the whalers of Nantucket, in real life and in the world of the story). Ishmael wants to go whaling, and Queequeg’s a guy who is very good at whaling. They have similar life goals, if not similar life experiences . They’re textually married***. 

Queequeg catches a chill crawling around belowdecks on the Pequod moving barrels to find a leak (the hold is described as an ice-box). While he’s dying Queequeg says he doesn’t want his body to be wrapped up in his hammock before being thrown overboard like an ordinary sailor, but put in a canoe-style coffin like the harpooneers from Nantucket use. He convinces the ship’s carpenter to make one for him. Queequeg kits the coffin out with food and water and his (most precious possessions) harpoon and paddle, and puts earth from the hold at the foot of it . He lays in it, and Pip the cabin boy sings nonsense briefly (a la the Fool in King Lear). Ishmael sort-of suggests that watching this guy die would make him start a religion. But then Queequeg decides not to die. He throws off the fever with his own will, and recovers (for plot reasons, but also so Melville could add more Noble Savage tropes). He uses the coffin as a clothes-chest. He starts carving the lid with the pattern of the tattoos on his body (these tattoos are religious in nature, but are unknown and unknowable, ‘a complete theory of the heavens and the earth’), making it into a sort-of body double for him.

Some time passes. A guy falls from the rigging, and the stern life-buoy is thrown to him, and both the man and the old, rotting cask that serves as a buoy sink and drown. It is suggested that the nice new well-built no longer needed coffin can be made into a new life-buoy. This re-purposing is lampshaded in text:

“Here now’s the very dreaded symbol of grim death, by a mere hap, made the expressive sign of the help and hope of most endangered life. A life-buoy of a coffin! Does it go further? Can it be that in some spiritual sense the coffin is, after all, but an immortality-preserver! I’ll think of that.”

-Captain Ahab, in a theatrical aside, Chapter 127: The Deck.

After the whale drags Captain Ahab down and sinks the Pequod, the very well-made coffin/life-buoy shoots to the surface, and the only surviving crewmember (Ishmael, our narrator) clings to it until another ship picks him up. 

While Queequeg’s coffin is intended for mundane use (to preserve his body from sharks after death) and is eventually used for mundane purpose (Ishmael’s life preserver), Dean’s pseudo-coffin-building serves a more esoteric purpose - to lock himself and his angel double away from the world said angel wants to destroy (“for all angel is not’ing more dan de shark well goberned” - Fleece the cook, Moby-Dick). The ma’lak box is Dean and Michael’s “immortality-preserver”. We have two pairs of characters, and two death-coded vessels that serve to preserve them.

Remember that time Ishmael and Queequeg got married? Some authors have characterized this wedding as "the first portrait of same-sex marriage in American literature". That it causes some readers 'uneasiness'. The line 'our heart's honeymoon', describing the time post-marriage, was censored in the original publication. Other readers have taken the marriage esoterically, relating Ishmael and Queequeg's earthly marriage to the internal marriage of the self to the Jungian shadow-self.

Shadows**** follow the two protagonists of Moby-Dick, Ishmael and Ahab. Ishmael accepts and marries his shadow, Queequeg the cannibal, and learns the customs of the whaling-ship from him. He admires the unknowableness of the ocean and sky as well as Queequeg's unknowable tattoos. He frees himself from his initial depression, and is literally saved at the novel's conclusion by Queequeg's pseudo-body. Ahab, conversely, pushes away Pip the cabin boy (who serves as Lear's fool through the story, and speaks unknowably) and turns towards Fedallah the Parsee (described as Ahab's shadow in the book) who speaks concrete but awful truths. Ahab rejects reality and stays on a path of revenge even though warned multiple times that he will fail. He eventually dies, and brings most of his crew down with him. His lack of acceptance of his good shadow and of his true place in the world brings about destruction. Self-actualization results in being saved.

The (current) protagonists of Supernatural have shadow selves as well. Again @drsilverfish has an excellent post about this. Castiel's shadow is The Shadow/The Empty, which has appeared in his own form, and wishes only for sleep and nothingness. Dean's shadow, AU!Michael, only wants to destroy the world that Dean keeps sacrificing himself to protect. Sam's shadow, Nick, went through the same dark experiences Sam did, but unlike Sam wound up horribly twisted and murderous. We haven't seen Jack's shadow-self yet, but I suspect current sweet and kind graceless!Jack will have a foil in future uncaring soulless!Jack. The idea of marrying oneself to one's shadow, in Supernatural, is nearly unthinkable: they are destructive, inhuman entities. However, in 14x11 Sam managed to accept the reality of his shadow self and release himself from responsibility for Nick.

At this point Dean's plan is to death-wed himself to Michael for eternity, sharing one body and one coffin-bed at the bottom of the Pacific. We know from Jung and from Melville that the only way to survive the confrontation with the shadow is to accept it - to 'Know Thyself', without misconceptions about your place in the world. 'Gain[ing] the perspective on [your] soul and the universe that will make balance possible.' The coffin will become a life-buoy.

I suspect the ma'lak box will be used to trap something other than Dean or Michael (soulless!Jack, probably) at the end of this season. Even if it's current purpose is untenable, it is a tool that can be used in the future.

Comparison between Moby-Dick and Supernatural can occur on a number of different levels. Ishmael and Dean (and Castiel whose human vessel, Jimmy Novak, is of the line of Biblical Ishmael) are the heroes of the bildungsroman part of the story and are hangers on to Ahab/John/Sam's Shakespearean revenge quest. Each story is a very American depiction of a masculine world. Each mirror the world in a smaller vessel, a ship and a car. Jung's concept of the shadow self, however, holds as the key to this season through all of these eleven episodes, and the shadow self is one of many keys that promote understanding of Melville's Moby-Dick. Self-actualization saves the day.

* Note that geologists cry whenever people suggest indestructible things sent to the bottom of the ocean will stay there for all eternity.

** It was Yuletide, and I’d just binge-read the entire Aubrey-Maturin series.

*** I wrote about this last year when Yockey dropped Led Zeppelin’s Moby Dick into the story. Moby Dick, song, has nothing to do with Moby-Dick, book, except their mutual length, but Supernatural and Moby-Dick share quite a few themes. 

**** yes, Melville does make the shadows of his white protagonists literally dark-skinned

References:

@drsilverfish, “A Fridge-Locker, An Enochian Puzzle Box, a Ma’lak Box… and the Closet (14x11 Damaged Goods)”, http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/182296360214/a-fridge-locker-an-enochian-puzzle-box-a-malak 

@drsilverfish​, “The Shadow (14x08)”, http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/180906003584/the-shadow-14x08

Brashers, H.C., 1962, "Ishmael's Tattoos": The Sewanee Review, v.70, n.1, p.137-154, http://wwww.jstor.org/stable/27540756

Halverson, John, 1963, "The Shadow in Moby-Dick": American Quarterly, v.15, n.3, p.436-446, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2711373

Horton, Margy Thomas, 2012, "Melville's Unfolding Selves: Identity Formation in Mardi, Moby-Dick, and Pierre": doctoral dissertation, Baylor University

Melville, Herman, “Moby-Dick; or, The Whale”, project Gutenberg ebook, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/2701-h/2701-h.htm

[wilddragonflying]

Deep in the Glowing Sea

Came up with another OC lol

Standing on the edge of the Glowing Sea, Kaili frowns at her Pip-Boy, ignoring the soft clicking of the Geiger Counter as she studies the map. “Look pretty thoughtful there,” Nick comments, dusting his hands off from where he’d been gathering some herbs. He carefully stores them in his pouch before moving closer. “What’re you looking at?”

Kaili nods south-west. “I know we’ve already been out there to talk to Virgil, but… A friend of mine worked in a lab close to the crater. I just, I’m wondering if there’s anything left.”

”It’s probably buried,” Nick muses, and Kaili rolls her eyes.

”I know. But I’ve got several fusion cores, and my armor’s right here, and you’re with me, so you don’t have to worry about the rads,” she argues. “I just want to go see.”

Nick grins at her, amusement clear in his eyes. “Well then, let’s go. Preston will let you know through Radio Freedom if you’re needed, and Gage and Hancock can get in touch with you with the Nuka-World radio.”

Kaili nods then, course set, and turns to step into her power armor with determination and nerves fighting for dominance in her gut. Nick’s probably right; odds are, there’s nothing left of that lab. But now that Kaili’s thought about it, she has to know.

It’s an arduous trek through the Glowing Sea, and not for the first time Kaili grumbles - in between fights with radscorpions, bloodbugs, and the occasional deathclaw - about how nobody in the Wasteland apparently decided that working vehicles were a good idea. Eventually, however, they reach where the lab should have been, and find only a mound of dirt. Neither of them say anything, the silence between them filled with the sound of a distant radstorm and the click of the geiger counter in Kaili’s Power Armor. Kaili stares at the mound, grateful that the Power Armor shields her expression from Nick; she’s not sure what she’s feeling, resignation perhaps, but she doesn’t want him to see it, not yet.

”Huh.”

Kaili glances at Nick. “What?”

”Look up there,” he says, raising a hand to point at where -

”Huh. Now what are still-working cameras doing up here?” Sure enough, there’s a blinking red dot on the side of the camera Nick’s spotted, nestled in a small alcove in the dirt covering the rest of the building. It’s aimed at them, and whether or not there’s anyone in the building watching, it’s a sign that there’s something down there.

”Bet there’s an access tunnel somewhere,” Nick says thoughtfully. “I’ll go right, you go left?”

Hefting her rifle, Kaili nods. “Sounds like a plan.”

They end up finding the tunnel at the same time; it’s only a small thing that leads to a locked door, but it’s on the opposite side of the building from the one they’d approached, and Nick makes quick work of the lock, gaining them access.

The inside is booby-trapped out the wazoo. There’s bathroom scales, grenade chandeliers, tension triggers, trip wires, flamer traps, fragmentation mines, plasma mines, basically every kind of explosive or trap that Kaili’s encountered, it’s here in this building. It’s slow going disarming as many as they can, triggering the ones they can’t from a safe distance, but slowly but surely they work their way down. “This place is amazingly well-preserved,” Kaili observes, studying a chart on a wall that’s barely yellowed with age.

”Almost as well-preserved as you,” Nick teases, and Kaili gives him a shove, mindful of the extra strength the armor gives her.

”Very funny, tin can.”

Eventually, they make their way to the third floor, having systematically cleared the first two, and when they emerge from the stairwell - the elevator lights had been on, indicating they had power, but had apparently been disabled - they’re greeted by a sight that neither of them had really expected, despite the evidence.

There’s a ghoul waiting for them, hunting rifle in hand and pointed directly at Nick’s face. “Who are you?” she demands without preamble, and Kaili frowns behind the helmet, trying to place the voice.

”My name is Nick,” the synth answers, holstering his pistol and holding his hands up in the universal symbol of ‘I come in peace’ that doesn’t seem to do a whole lot to reassure the ghoul.

”And your companion? Step out of the armor,” she orders, gaze flicking to Kaili, who carefully bends down to lay her rifle on the ground before complying; this deep below ground, in the shelter of the building, the rads are reduced enough that Kaili feels comfortable leaving for a few minutes. Kaili mimics Nick’s position, but the last thing she’s expecting when she steps around the armor and the ghoul gets her first good look at Kaili is what she gets: “Fucking hell, what the fuck?”

Kaili feels her eyebrows raise. “I beg your pardon?”

”Jesus shit, it is you. Couple new scars, but still.” Now the rifle gets tossed aside as the ghoul strides up to Kaili, stopping an arm’s length away. “Christ, look at you. The fuck happened, did you get stuck in a fridge somewhere?”

Kaili can’t help the way she chokes on a laugh, remembering the kid she had actually rescued from a fridge, but she shakes her head. “No, I was - cryogenically frozen. Iced.”

The ghoul’s eyes narrow, then she snaps her fingers. “That Vault they built up by your place,” she concludes, nodding when Kaili does. “Well hell, you’re looking damn good for - what is it now? Two hundred forty-five, give or take? Hell of a lot better than I am, anyway.”

And fuck, Kaili can barely hope, but… “Meghan?”

The ghoul smiles ruefully. “Yeah, that’s me.”

Kaili’s moving before she realizes what she’s doing, hauling Meghan in close. “Holy shit, you’re alive,” she breathes, burying her face in the crook of Meghan’s neck as her best friend does the same. “My God, I came out here just to see, but I didn’t expect - “

Meghan laughs bitterly as they pull apart. “Yeah, me either. Hell of a shock, it was. You mind introducing me to that hunk of metal over there? He don’t look like no synth I’ve ever met.”

”Oh!” Kaili grins, moving to sling an arm around Nick’s shoulders. “This is Nick Valentine, he’s a second generation synth from the Institute. Actually a prototype of the third generation, I think. He was implanted with the memories of - “

”That poor bastard whose fiance got shot,” Meghan finishes, the pieces obviously slotting into place. “Well hell, pleasure to meet you.”

Nick shakes her hand with a bemused smile while Kaili rolls her eyes. “So you've been here since the bombs dropped?” Nick asks.

”Yep,” Meghan answers, popping the ‘p’ just like Kaili remembers. “Me and about… oh, two dozen scientists and four dozen guards were living here around the clock, working on a project funded by some anonymous client who was rich as Midas. Building got buried in the blast, about half a dozen people died immediately, another dozen died of radiation poisoning. The rest of us turned into ghouls, but… Well, being so close to ground zero, the ones who never spent any time away with me on scavenging missions went feral fast.” Meghan’s mouth twists into a grimace. “Saw how other ghouls like them acted around normal people, learned there was no coming back after one of the doctors did a necropsy - he didn't feel right calling it an autopsy, ‘cause the brains were so rotted the people had become nothing but animals. We all decided to put anyone who went feral for good down, and since I was the most experienced with weapons after the last security guard went feral…”

”Shit,” Kaili breathes, reaching out to lay a comforting hand on Meghan’s shoulder; the ghoul gives her a half-hearted smile.

”I led the scavenging missions,” she continued. “went north, out of what I found out people were calling the Glowing Sea. Got away from the worst of the rads fairly regularly and picked up new information, made new friends.”

”And getting away from the rads helped keep you from going feral,” Kaili finishes.

Meghan nods. “Yep, near as I can figure. I’m the last one of the scientists who survived the blast, and I’ve been alone going on… twenty years now? Something like that, I didn’t keep track,” she says, waving a hand. “But! Before Dr. Bradley died, we finalized the latest design for the project we were originally contracted for.”

Kaili blinks, but Nick beats her to replying: “You kept working on that for over a hundred and fifty years? Without being paid?”

Meghan shrugs. “We were engineers and scientists, of course we did,” she chuckles. “C’mon, lemme reboot the elevators and I’ll show you what we designed.”

”What… are we looking at?” Kaili asks, confused; back in her power armor, the click of the geiger counter in her ear, she eyes the flat black slabs before her. “They look a bit like panels, but…”

”Sol tiles,” Meghan announces, patting one fondly. “That’s what we built. They take energy from the sun and store it, and then we’ve got some other bits and bobs to convert it into something that can be stored in fusion cores and cells.”

”Holy shit,” Nick breathes, crouching down to examine the underside of one. “How efficient are they?”

”Well, these are.. fourth generation, I believe,” Meghan says, gesturing to the corner to her left. “Over there is the first one. These are about twice as efficient as the first one we built. Enough for a single tile, out on an average day’s weather for about ten hours to store enough energy to fill two hundred fusion cores. Not that I have two hundred fusion cores just lying around, that’s just what the numbers project.”

”Holy shit,” Nick repeats, Kaili echoing the sentiment.

”This is… It could completely change the Commonwealth.”

”I know,” Meghan says, expression twisting. “But I only have materials to make a limited number, and no idea how to find any more. And the materials are really hard to work with and move very far, and I don’t have any way of getting my truck out of the garage and to the Commonwealth.” She pauses when Kaili and Nick whirl around to stare at her. “What?”

”You have a working truck?” Nick demands.

”Of course; we kept a truck, a car, and a cycle in good condition after the bombs fell, but we could never get the parking garage cleared out well enough to even get the cycle out,” Meghan says. “Why?”

”Well, none of the trucks lying around work - “

”Ugh, I know,” Meghan groans. “I’ve taken a look at most of them; they’re too hard to cannibalize for parts, apparently, because most of them have the bits to make them go, they just don’t have an energy source, and no coolant for the fission cores. None in any filling station, either; it’s all evaporated.”

”How do you get yours to run then?” Kaili asks, curious.

”Converted it to run on fusion cores,” Meghan answers. “Well, me and one of the other scientists. Nice gal, good with her hands. Want to see it?”

”Hell yes!”

”He’s not the prettiest thing, Vega, but he’s nice enough,” Meghan says, opening the doors to the garage and leading the way past the defunct vehicles. “Kept him and the other car and cycle over here by the workstation, just to make it easier to work on them when we needed a distraction.” Meghan opens the driver’s door long enough to pop the hood on the shipping truck - whose trailer is in just as good a shape as the truck - to show Nick and Kaili the modifications. “He can’t sit idle for very long or the cores start overheating. Has to be moving, get air flowing over them to cool them off. But even then, he still can’t go more than about fifty miles, not that we’ve been able to see how accurate that is.”

Kaili makes an appreciative noise, turning to look at the rest of the garage as Nick takes a closer look at the insides of the truck, talking with Meghan. Kaili leaves them to it, following the road through the middle of the enormous - no surprise, considering what Meghan told them about the size of some of the parts they had shipped in; apparently their client had the garage custom built after redesigning the entire lab - parking garage, all the way to where the ground of the Glowing Sea blocks the entry way. “Hey, Meghan?” she calls back, studying the dirt in front of her.

”Yeah?” Meghan answers, footsteps echoing as she comes closer.

”How deep is this?” Kaili asks, gesturing to the blockage in front of her. “I mean, how far from the surface are we?”

”If we could dig straight up? Probably about thirty feet or so,” Meghan answers. “But the truck can only handle so steep an angle, so probably quadruple that, maybe more, if we were going to dig a tunnel. We never bothered with it, didn’t have the supplies necessary to build supports, or the equipment needed to just dig a valley.”

Kaili hums thoughtfully. “Bet if we could convince Sturges to come down here with a team of Minutemen he could clear it out,” she muses.

”He is a handy human,” Nick agrees, having followed Meghan. “Would need to find a lot of hazmat suits, though. And some good equipment.”

Kaili waves a hand. “Of course; you know neither of those are any problem, though. The storekeepers all love me.”

Nick snorts. “They love the business you bring,” he corrects, but doesn’t argue. “Percy and Myrna could probably lay their hands on some hazmat suits and tools.”

”This is great and all, but what about getting out of the Glowing Sea?” Meghan pipes up. “The terrain is rough as hell, and I don’t have a map.”

”What about the Vault 88 Pip Boys?” Nick suggests, and Kaili nods.

”There’s a couple extras, I think. Wouldn’t be too hard to get one set up with a modern map and down here for you,” she says.

Meghan considers that, then grins. “Well, if it means I might be able to test out my stuff in a more real-world situation… I’m in.”

Meghan stays behind, unwilling to leave her lab behind just yet, but with the help of Radio Freedom, Kaili is back within a few days, Sturges and several Minutemen in tow, along with their equipment. Kaili helps Meghan get her Pip Boy set up, and then leaves her to explore and play with it in favor of helping her men. She’d worn her Power Armor and had scrounged up several other fusion cores, enough to share among the older-model suits she’d collected over her two years in the Commonwealth.

With all that extra mechanical power at their disposal, it isn’t hard for Meghan and Sturges to direct Kaili and her men into the most efficient work pattern. It still takes several days, but with the shelter offered by the lower levels of the lab and the food they’d brought, combined with what Meghan had stockpiled over the years, it’s not a problem. When they’re done, Meghan tests the ramp with her other vehicle, a smaller truck. They’d elected to forego trying to build a tunnel, instead carving a valley into the Glowing Sea whose walls were supported by walls. After a few other adjustments, Meghan pronounces the ramp to her satisfaction, and fires up the shipping truck for the moment of truth. She, Kaili, and Nick are the only ones with the practical experience(in a manner of speaking in Nick’s case) of driving a vehicle, but Meghan doesn’t trust anyone else with her baby. It takes some careful maneuvering to get the truck through the rest of the garage, and then she holds her breath as they rumble from concrete to dirt, praying that the packed ground holds the vehicle’s weight.

Miraculously, it does - and for the first time in over two hundred years, Meghan sees daylight through the windshield of a vehicle. “I’ll be damned,” she breathes, grinning. “It worked.”

”It did,” Kaili confirms, coming up to the window that had long ago been broken out. “Now we just need to find a suitable route out of here.”

Meghan gestures behind herself. “Well, we packed this with food and equipment, and so long as we mark the route so I can retrieve more once we get out, we can just keep going; Sturges knows what to look for in the ground, now.”

Kaili nods, hefting her rifle. “I’ll let them know.”

There are several close calls, but with the mechanical muscle provided by the suits of Power Armor, the truck eventually reaches solid ground, its tires finally touching road once again. From there, the group makes its way northward to the Starlight Drive-In, where Kaili had built a large trading settlement that was quickly becoming the seat of the unofficial Commonwealth government.

When the truck finally pulls into the makeshift garage Kaili had built for it, brakes screaming in protest and engine groaning in relief as it’s finally allowed to rest, they draw quite a crowd. Meghan can hear the murmurs before she even steps out of the vehicle, and they only grow in volume when she does. Kaili is already stepping out of her power armor, hooking it up to a nearby frame as she does so before stepping forward.

”Now, I know you all have been very curious since I started building that garage,” she announces, and Meghan can’t help but smile a bit sadly at the image Kaili makes in her General uniform; she’d always been a leader, and Meghan just wishes that Nate and their other friends could have seen her like this, though preferably in better circumstances than post-nuclear apocalyptic. “A couple of weeks ago, Nick and I went into the Glowing Sea to find a building I had known about before the bombs dropped. We didn’t expect to find anything, but we did: An old friend of mine, Meghan.”

Meghan steps forward, giving a small wave when Kaili gestures to her. “I was a scientist and engineer, before the war,” she starts when Kaili doesn’t say anything, just looks at her expectantly. “Several of us were contracted to find a new means of energy; our client didn’t trust nuclear energy - rightly, as it turns out.” She waits while the snickers subside, and then continues, “We were all in the lab when the bombs dropped, and most of us survived that. The ones who survived became ghouls, but I am the last survivor. Before they died, however, we managed to fulfill our contracts and do a bit more.”

Meghan helps a Minuteman get a sol tile out of the track, helping him hold it up. “This is a sol tile - it collects energy from sunlight, and can convert it into a form that can be stored in fusion cells and cores, enabling them to be refilled until they wear out. This truck,” she says, pointing at the truck in question, “runs on fusion cores that were depleted, and refilled with solar energy. I hope to find the materials to make more of these sol tiles, so that I can rebuild more vehicles and help the Commonwealth continue to rebuild in a more meaningful way.”

”We’ve made great strides towards that end,” Kaili jumps in. “This settlement is proof of it. But if we can find the materials to build more of these tiles, we can make even greater strides.”

Meghan can tell that there’s dissent, some traders’ expressions suspicious, others downright mistrustful, but she’s faced those expressions and attitudes her entire life; this won’t be any different.

[customessay123]

Preventing violence against women essay

shew Topic:\n\nThe evaluation of in e genuinely the potential possibilities to pr stillt force out against wo workforce.\n\nEssay Questions:\n\nHow is fury be and what relation does K-12 inculcateing method has to abandon?\n\nWhy is studying non- fiery postion any(a)-important(prenominal)?\n\nWhy does masculine abandon against wo manpower occur in the long run?\n\ndissertation State workforcet:\n\nAs pip-squeakren gain allthing connected with enmity and force out and how to deal with it they blend in build up and do non find lost in situations that gestate betive actions in parlia custodytary procedure to recognize or act to any(prenominal) lawsuit of force-out against women be it a some unrivaledal, verbal, cozy, or horny fiber of ridicule.\n\n \nPr level forwardting military section against women Essay\n\n \n\nT qualified of contents:\n\no Introduction\n\no abandon definition and K-12 cutledge\n\no T each(prenominal)ing non- bowelless bearing\n\no staminate craze against women\n\no hysteria-prevention by facts of life\n\no windup\n\nDuring her living wholeness out of ii women leave alone be shell by a slice who loves her!\n\nLeonore Loeb Adler\n\n1.Introduction\n\nEducation has al representations contend an integral part in the lives of e genuinely single shaver in the country and in the world. This is non surprising as it is precept that faces children the knowledge to think, tax and be able to come upon a problem and make for it. Social skills, sarcastic thought affect skills, problem solving skills, empathy dressing all of these argon obtained with and through the surgical operation of precept and be an essential part of a becoming a multi-sided moderniseed someoneality. single of the major(ip) characteristics of much(prenominal) a personality is the force to exercise all the betrothals without any invasion and especially without strength. The process of socialization of children through edgeinal appropriate K-12 in all the skills listed above put give lessons- male childs in the group that atomic number 18 slight likely to be raving mad to women and minimize the set and beliefs that male childs accede form according to their male entitlement. As children lead e actuallything connected with attack and abandon and how to deal with it they flex armed and do non wank lost in situations that require active actions in order to recognize or respond to any type of violence against women be it a physical, verbal, sexual, or unrestrained type of crime. Boys acquire the ability to oppose and recognize violence against women owe to the statement and knowledge they get they and it is a strong presupposition to non beness aggressive. Nevertheless work day is meet one of the factors influencing male childs and the some other one is family. If the familys social relations argon characterized by high rate of violence, civilize no n- fantastic direction may go against to succeed.\n\n2. vehemence definition and K-12 schooling\n\nIf we take violence against women and children as the criterion to refer children from unfavourable families and as aroundthing instill- gentilityal activity tries to reduce such(prenominal)(prenominal) carriage to its minimum, it is needful to identify the term violence itself. The term violence is ordinarily employ to define aggression and acts of annoyance that in conclusion ca expenditure impose on _or_ oppress to private kosherty, animals and even battalion. Violence is a compositionifestation of a deportment with a noxious orientation. Random domestic violence, the one that is very super C forthwith causes a lot of troubles instantly for too many race and especially women get serious, irrecoverable injuries that changes do harm to their physical possibilities in everyday bouncy activities. Violence to women does truly modify the societys moral philoso phy and is the example of a stark(a) grammatical gender base departure establish on the intuitive tactual sensationing that women are mens private property.Violence against women is a synonymy of any act of discrimination and physical abuse aimed to hurt a effeminate child or a cleaning woman. One of the virtually spread acts of violence against women is domestic violence, rape and others.\n\nAs all the children, including boys, tend to likeness the doings of adults and their parent in the first place, they become very argueable to violence in terms of copying it, too. some ms school- commandment becomes the only source of exhibit children the guidances of recognizing the responding to violence and if the process of education is harmonious and professionally then it empowers all children and specially boys to become active participants and non just observers of violence-prevention.\n\nThe abbreviation K-12 is apply for the designation for the elementary and altern ative education in northern close America. K-12, or Kay through 12 is a shortening for kindergarten through twelfth grade education. This education implies working(a) with children from five to 18 years old, and this is the whole block when the children nab all the determine and believes that volition define their futurity life. The K-12 education if conducted properly is an exquisite precondition to educate boys non to be passive in the women-oriented ruby acts merely to capture enough information in order to leave office them. The epoch from 5 to 18 is an prodigious period for education, as it becomes a filter for violence in global and violence against women in particular. At the age of 18 young men aim their proceeding life. They start looking at for a couple and thought to the highest degree their future wives, so it is essential to make authoritative they do truly know how to command their peevishness and non let it transform into convulsive behavior against women. The K-12 education is based on the nonion that every child is unique and necessitate a unlikeiated approach. in like manner the fact that K-12 classroom training works to meet psyche students needs as the classrooms often complicate children with contrary level of abilities, it excessively provides skills that are designed to memorise the student to be flourishing in his environment. As children excrete most of their time in school it become the very place to motive them non to be aggressive and violent against young womans and women.\n\n \n\n3. Teaching non-violent behavior\n\nThe K-12 education in terms of preventing violence against women is very much needful by the society because the modern expo original of children to violence id gigantic and fuddle never been as available as now. Television, picture show and computer games, films eternally give the weak childs point new convenings of pugnacity and violence. Sometimes children do bring vio lence themselves or promote up in the tune of threat or in a neighborhood that constantly provides examples of unfitness to self- hold up and to stop the conflict peace broady. Children start pickings all of these as a normal fact and watch nonhing bad in behaving in the same way for the only thing they do is the only when copy what they see.\n\nThe basis that the personality of the readers nowadays is determine more than their knowledge in the course they program line is because the values and behavior examples delivered to children in the sensitive period outweigh some gaps in the course. Good teachers protect children from violence and make trust worthy their increase is rose-cheeked and they envision what trustworthy beauty and moral excellence is.\n\nThe basic reasons children in general and boys in particular stomach be so considerably influenced by violent behavior is because such behavior as it has been mentioned before is actually learned. The headsprin g starts making critical connections in the period of childhood but in reality these connections are not truly critical as they are interpreted a priori. At the scratch line the childs mind is a Tabula Rasa, a sweet board, on which teachers and family with their hand arrive at the picture of the childs future behavior and personality. So basically saying, the violent behavior against women performed by men is simply an imprint that a man got when he was a boy. darn thinking only about the fact that exposure to violence causes boys to be violent in future, teachers and parent should not pull up stakes that love is the tool to teach the child to be judgment and patient, to be loving and non-aggressive. vulgar lowstanding makes the child learn constructive way of conflict solving and also learn how to control himself and not to express his exasperation in any hurtful way. The education from Kindergarten through the twelfth grade that is based on acceptance, love and unbowed devotion to children is a justify of preventing violent manifestations in the lives of these children. If children feel that they are needed and judge at school, if they feel ripe expressing their thoughts and know that they are esteem and never humiliated they bequeath never humiliate any proboscis themselves and willing throw less problems traffic with a stress (Mullender, 2004). It is common knowledge that aggression is a protection and violence is a strong, fixed aggressive behavior (Kimmel & Michael, 1989). And in that approve is no closed book in the fact that the legal age of teachers are women. If a boy learns to be aggressive from Kindergarten manger his senior year in High School the opportunity that he will not be violent to women is very low. So here it is necessary to face two major facts: the two most important factors influencing the boys violent orientation are school and family. The bulk of teachers are women and the most important person for a child buzz off, belong to the feminine gender, too. In case mother fails to teach her son solve the conflicts constructively and the teacher fails to develop his problem solving skills aggression against women is very probable to occur. K-12 education with its ability to teach children to trade with negative feelings in non-destructive positive(p) ways nowadays has off to the key agent in teaching non-violent behavior against women. This is true for very often parents are very busy working and have no time to open their child the penetration to the productive, non-aggressive life.\n\n \n\n4. Male violence against women\n\nViolence in its very core group is a manifestation of the destructive rely to control and have power over other gentlemans gentleman being. According to Bancroft there nine types of abusive men which finish use different styles starting with a strictly verbal abuser and taenia point with a physical batterer (Bancroft, 2003). Male violence against women is a desire to feel complete control over a compassionate being that for ages has been seen as a weak gender. whence violence becomes the way of proving that a man or a boy really belongs to a male gender and thusly women have to knuckle under him. In other voice communication male violence against women is a characteristic of men, who were maltreated or neglected in their childhood (Bancroft, 2003).\n\nAccording to the information not known at unspecific-eyed public but undisturbed by the Federal self-assurance of investigation out of all the domestic violence acts 95 percent are violent behavior manifestations against women. So this is all basically about the gender violence and primarily violence over women committed by men. The men who were abused in their childhood or were victims of family and school neglect most unremarkably commit violent savage behavior. If a gnomish boy is constantly exposed to his develop beating his mother he is a potential abuser for every wo man in his life (Widom & Maxfield, 2001). The situation becomes even worse if a dwarfish boy is abused himself, too. The primary(prenominal) problem concerning children and boys that are being abused is that cannot learn what is empathy for other people and for the pain they are experiencing. They treat other people the same as they were hard-boiled themselves. So, if a child that is abused or watches his family members or neighbors abuse their relatives get not proper attention at school the boy easily converts into a criminal and his life will be small because of his broken childs heart. Violence against women is not the fault of men but their misfortune. The true reason is that men used to be boys and these little boys did not have anybody to love and understand them neither at home nor at school. They did not have anybody to teach him or her how to control their anger, for anger is the major feeling such abusive children get down. They are barbarian with the people who ar e so indifferent to them and they become sure nobody is honestly able to understand them and become and violent (Bancroft, 2003).\n\nThis issue is not even about women letting men abuse them and turning them to practice of law and not about men believing that the punishment will not hard. This is about the hypothesis to prevent violence against women when men are little boys are seek for love just as any girl does (Kimmel & Michael, 1989). Male violence against women has different various forms: verbal violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, battered women and others. all in all of these are result to the inability to build normal relationships. As it has been mentioned before school is the southward most important element in bringing up successful and mentally healthy men. The aim of K-12 education is to suffer in the blanks of dysfunctional relationships indoors the family of the boy and especially in terms of relations with women. An absorbed female teacher, showing watch over and love for a little boy shows him that he is worth of love the way he is and does not have to use his male advantages such as strength to show his ascendency over women. As the majority of men are heterosexuals, their female companions are the one that experience violence the most.\n\n \n\n5. Violence-prevention through education\n\nK-12 education can be rather effective in term of growing up non-violent males. Under the condition of an man-to-man differentiated approach to the each boy the process education can guarantee several(prenominal) ways of preventing violence against women. This can happen through the shaping of positive interactions between the teachers and the male-student, learning how to build productive relationships, pickings into account the person kindle of the child. As the K-12 education implies a lot of sport activities, which take away the spare efficacy that a growing body has and can use in the direction of violent acts. The K-12 education provides the attention to a gravid variety of aspects concerning the childs life that could lead him to aggression and afterwards violence. This is achieved through the development of different kind of skills such as physical, social, cognitive and emotional aspects. If a boy gets the require attention if not at home, but at to the lowest degree at school in terms of emotional affixation and psychical exercises he is not in the risk group for becoming violent towards women.\n\n coeval schools provide a guidance to every child and this person is responsible for observing the child behavior. In cases the behavior becomes not adaptive and abnormal the counselling may feel innocuous to turn for a psychological assistance or emit with the childs parents. The professionalism of teachers should primary reveal the ability to teach the boy to regulate his emotional conditions. K-12 through teaches boys how to speak off their thoughts and emotional conditions. This completely coinci des with one of the best steps in the prevention of violence against women. The K-12 education teaches makes boys learn that it is okay to be unfounded and that each person sometimes does feel angry but the biggest difference is how a person reveals his anger to others. A boy, being in class learns that there are contradictory ways of showing his anger and the most productive way to do it is to tell what he is feeling and not physically hurt a human being. Such an approach implies that a boy will never hit a woman though originally women are believed to be weaker than men are.\n\n6. Conclusion\n\nBoys learn violence by watching grown ups. not depending on the fact whether the boys family is or is not healthy in term of violence school takes the most part of the responsibility of teaching boys how to be not violent. The K-12 education can prevent boys and eventually men form being violent towards women by teaching them to solve their problems using book of account of respect and a wide range of non-violent actions. The female teachers become an essential part of K-12 stopping violence against woman. If a boy established relations that are full of mutual respect and emotional attachment with a female teacher he will learn how to control and monitor his negative feelings and therefrom will take this pattern for the rest of his life!If you emergency to get a full essay, order it on our website: Custom essay writing service. Free essay/order revisions. Essays of any complexity! Courseworks, term papers, research papers. 100% confidential!Homework live help. Custom Essay Order is available 24/7!