Essays 511 - 540
he, dare each other to brave the open battlefield to gain access to a well on the other side. "Thunder! I wisht I had a drink. Ai...
within the past two decades. Latch-key kids, single- and no-parent families, emotionally absent parents, working parents -- all t...
as many as was reported in 1980, reflects a disturbing trend toward uncontrolled acts of domestic violence (Leigh et al, 1995). E...
gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...
itself appear erotic to the male viewer (Marks, 2000). A report on prime-time broadcast network TV issued in 2002 by the National...
to understand that it has also been a very real part of American society since the early days. In a review of the book "Domestic T...
been victims of domestic violence.4 Furthermore, there is evidence that women who are in situations of conflict and female refugee...
violence: * More than 80 Americans die every day from gun violence (NEA-HIN, 2002). * American children and youth are 16 times mor...
most unflattering terms: violence (67 percent), power (66 percent), inequality (49 percent), and racism (42 percent)" (51). Lacorn...
human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...
defining the roles they are expected to play as adults. Bullied students who suffer from tokokyohi complain of debilitating fatig...
who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...
school children to the workplace, from the entertainment industry to the sports world, racial stereotypes are an integral part of ...
define as well as measure. Violence and abuse is a wide ranging topic, physical violence may be seen as usually assumed to be in...
violence in sports has serious implications for the direction of Western society in general, as well as negative implications for ...
victims knew each other" (Hammond, 1998). He was testifying before the Columbine shooting, but it only serves as a further example...
4,400 rapes, 57% by people under 16, 3% by females, and 67% by whites (Juvenile court statistics, 2005). There were 26,000 robberi...
particular group, ethnicity or other social connection by virtue of the behavior or situation of only some in that population. Bla...
that the average citizen is allowed to own a gun they are wary of breaking into peoples homes, or wary of committing crime in some...
content that may be objectionable. As an example, this particular writer/researcher has a daughter who is 11 years old. The tele...
easily overlooked by hospital personnel or other clinicians. Women both "initiate and reciprocate violence" (Lawson, 2003, p. 19...
and for acceptance in social group" (Deveny and Kelley). II. By the age of 18, most American children have witnessed 16,000 simul...
that more than 50 thousand cases of domestic violence took place during 2006 ("Domestic Violence Facts: New York," 2008). What is ...
games are encouraging violent aggression in young people. Should video game designers act in a manner that is socially responsibl...
his murderous attacks upon Hrothgars sleeping warriors. Hrothgar makes it clear that Beowulfs obligation is based not on ties of ...
further emphasized and supported through an article wherein the authors note that, "Although numerous studies have shown that play...
Ann Beard, in her essay The Fourth State of Matter, illustrates how a young man, Gang Lu, becamse so disgruntled with life and wit...
. . For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is...
a sense of innocence. "I had begun to worry about my speech again. How would it go? Would they recognize my ability? What would th...
comes the condition of alcohol or drug abuse, a condition that is usually pursued in order to alleviate the stress of being poor. ...