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She Is Too Young Crisis Analysis
Identify Crisis and Precipitating event The crisis identified in the movie She is Too Young, school has an outbreak of syphilis. The precipitating event is due to teenagers’ engaging in unprotected promiscuous sexual activities. Hannah who is one of the main characters falls for the attentions of one of the schools popular guys, Nick Hartman. Nick has had countless number of sex partners and casually ignores the risk of his behavior. He successfully pressures Hannah to fellate him on their second date, and then unsuccessfully invites her to an orgy for their third. Dawn, another one of Hannah’s friends and, one of Nick's recent sexual partners, confesses that she's contracted syphilis, which leads to a investigation by public-health officials. Later, Hannah discovers she has also contacted syphilis along with dozens of infected students.
How the Crisis was handled One the out break is discovered, the public health department begins testing all the students who
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Hannah’s mother wanted to make sure the parents were informed. She began talking to the parents in the community which had a negative affect on Hannah, there once solid relation declined as Hannah withdrew further away from her. Dawn and her mother discuss the crisis briefly after Dawn to her she had the STD. She was outraged and blamed the school for the epidemic. Dawn’s mother attended the meeting which Hannah’s mother put together to find out more information. Like Dawn’s mother, Becca’s parents blamed the school for the crisis. Although still oblivious that her daughter had contacted the STD, Becca’s mother and father decided to send Becca away to another school so she wouldn’t be infected with the STD. In contrast, Nick mother took no action or interested in the crisis. Her attitude was “boys will be boys” and she was more concerned with Nick getting into a prestigious college than his sexual

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