Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story
1. Select a film that depicts domestic violence. Alternatively, you may select a book or television show instead of a movie. Some film suggestions follow:
- A Cry for Help: The Tracy Thurman Story (1989)
- Affliction (1999)
- American Beauty (1999)
- Bastard Out of California (1996)
- Burning Bed, The (1984)
- Carousel (1956)
- Color Purple, The (1985)
- Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story (1993)
- Crimes of the Heart (1986)
- Dangerous Intentions (1995)
- Dead by Sunset (1995)
- Deadly Matrimony (1991)
- Defending Our Lives (1983)
- Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
- Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
- Enough (2002)
- Escape from Terror: The Teresa Stamper Story (1995)
- Fatal Vows: The Alexandra O’Hara Story (1994)Final Appeal (1993)
- Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
- Gaslight (1944)
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- Independence Day (1983) – (not the movie about aliens!)
- Getting Out (1994)
- Goodnight, Sweet Wife: A Murder in Boston (1990)
- Great Santini, The (1979)
- If Someone Had Known (1995)
- In a Child’s Name (1991)
- In My Sister’s Shadow (1996)
- La Strada (1954)
- Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994)
- Men Don’t Tell (1993)
- Oliver! (1968)
- Once Were Warriors (1994)
- Petulia (1968)
- Promise, The (1999)
- Safe Haven (2013)
- Shattered Dreams (1990)
- Sleeping with the Devil (1997)
- Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
- Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
- Unspoken Truth, The (1995)
- Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
- What’s Love Got to Do With It? (1993)
- When No One Would Listen (1992)
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- Identify one character (victim of domestic violence) who will be the focus of your paper.
- Compose a 6-8 page paper (not including title or reference page) which addresses the items listed in the following rubric:
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