The Hunting Ground
Documentary Analysis
Purpose And Thesis
In the documentary "The Hunting Ground", the purpose was to inform others that colleges do not help victims of sexual assault, and if they do they help as little as possible, they successfully achieved this message by using logos, pathos, and statistics.
Athlete's (Logos)
In college they are all about their teams, especially football. Jameis Winston (Florida State University) who was accused of sexually assaulting Eric Kinsman and one other. Many interviews of residents in the towns of many colleges defended the teams (players). Most saying "You don't want to mess with the team, you know the town will be against you for ruining its sport". Normally the sport most defended was football.
Andrea Pino
A survivor of sexual assault while being on campus at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Also co-founder of EROC (End Rape On Campus). Andrea with a GPA higher than 5.0 and an ACT score in the 30's, was the first in her family to go to college. One evening she was in a fraternity brothers room, pinned against the door and given a drink that didn't taste right. Minutes later Andrea was knocked out and raped. When she woke up the next morning with scratches and bruises with a note left beside her stating, "We found you by the road".
Elizabeth "Lizzy" Seeberg
Due to being raped at Notre Dame, Lizzie committed suicide. Lizzy suffered from depression. After ten days of her telling her friends and campus cops she had been sexually assaulted by a University of Notre Dame football player, rape crisis volunteers who knew she had missed counseling session found barely breathing in her dorm room. The 19 year old daughter (Lizzy) of a serious Catholics and prominent volunteers in the Chicago suburbs of Northbrook died from what turned out to be lethal dose of the anit-depressant Effexor. The football player who had sexually assaulted Lizzy was still in school and still played football with no punishment.
Erica Kinsman
Sexually assaulted by former football player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jameis Winston. Erica states in the documentary that Jameis pretended to be her boyfriend to have another guy leave her alone, then took a shot with Jameis and believes he had spiked her drink and later on that evening raping her. Jameis got away with no charges on him being able to continue playing football, although he was accused of another sexual assault from another girl.
Statistics
- More than 16% of college women are sexually assaulted while in college
- 88% of women sexually assaulted on campus do not report.
- Less than 8% of men in college commit more than 90% of sexual assaults.
- One in 5 women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted while in college
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