Essays 811 - 840
to the same extent (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). Saner and Ellickson concluded that violent adolescent acts are often the result of...
to a situation in which enemies fight each other in one place and make deals in another, "as is the case with the Fuerzas Armadas ...
to the family, children, political leadership, and sexuality" (Wee, 2006, p. 50). Links have been discovered between these violen...
impact of these events or trivialize them, but to point out that the media will always pay a great deal of attention to matters th...
Oliver, who placed guard at the entrance gate to the hotel. The student researching this topic should note that as far as this w...
for boyish, flat-chested women with no hips.) Leaving that aside, what does this image say to young American women? It says that ...
deviance, and personality disorders. Cultural attitudes are transferred from one generation to another, and the first generation...
further emphasized and supported through an article wherein the authors note that, "Although numerous studies have shown that play...
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...
. . For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is...
the media" (Fowles, 2001). Why is TV a stand-in for the other problems, and what are those problems? The reason TV makes such a g...
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...
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...
2008). When aboriginal women are imprisoned their families are left even more dysfunctional than before. Furthermore, reg...
play in a variety of demographic groups. Players in the 20s, 30s, 40s and even 50s are on-line playing these interactive games. ...
on the TV screen" (Levin and Carlsson-Paige, 2003,. P. 427). Violence also exists on other forms of media. Browne and Hamilton-G...
causes of different types of violence, workplace violence is attached to more specific causes. Zachary (2000) examines workplace ...
an era which witnessed the rapid expansion of stadiums and arenas under the Roman Empire" (2006). But the Romans as is well known,...
ugliness of battle and death. Homers soldiers do not die cleanly and quickly; they suffer, they claw the ground; they cry out an...
about girls of all ages and their dreams," still manages to send up, "at times with a wink, at times with a hard nudge, some of th...
effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...
backstabbing, failure to respect privacy and broken confidences" (Stanley, et al, 2007, p. 1248). Ferrell notes the importance of ...
comes to witnessing violence, there is a fear that the exposure to such things is enough to trigger violent behavior. In some inst...
easily overlooked by hospital personnel or other clinicians. Women both "initiate and reciprocate violence" (Lawson, 2003, p. 19...
that more than 50 thousand cases of domestic violence took place during 2006 ("Domestic Violence Facts: New York," 2008). What is ...
and for acceptance in social group" (Deveny and Kelley). II. By the age of 18, most American children have witnessed 16,000 simul...
his murderous attacks upon Hrothgars sleeping warriors. Hrothgar makes it clear that Beowulfs obligation is based not on ties of ...