Essays 361 - 390
pankration matches were held in a confined arena space with a referee presiding or few rules beyond the prohibition of eye gouging...
opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...
games are encouraging violent aggression in young people. Should video game designers act in a manner that is socially responsibl...
on the TV screen" (Levin and Carlsson-Paige, 2003,. P. 427). Violence also exists on other forms of media. Browne and Hamilton-G...
play in a variety of demographic groups. Players in the 20s, 30s, 40s and even 50s are on-line playing these interactive games. ...
his murderous attacks upon Hrothgars sleeping warriors. Hrothgar makes it clear that Beowulfs obligation is based not on ties of ...
4,400 rapes, 57% by people under 16, 3% by females, and 67% by whites (Juvenile court statistics, 2005). There were 26,000 robberi...
victims knew each other" (Hammond, 1998). He was testifying before the Columbine shooting, but it only serves as a further example...
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...
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...
to the family, children, political leadership, and sexuality" (Wee, 2006, p. 50). Links have been discovered between these violen...
arrest histories. Background In an effort to prove that the literature is biased when reporting...
But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of violence as it ...
of fiction. But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of vio...
popular comedy. The antics of Bottom and his friends, the eerie majesty of the fairies, and the mixed up relationships among the y...
of women include cosmetics, clothes, anything having to do with food preparation or childrearing. Products sold using images of me...
the Boston Bruins in the head and fractured his skull; the players had already engaged in two fights earlier that game and were su...
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 ...
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 ...
past that contact to present day. By other definitions sovereignty was something that had been delegated in some way by the Unite...
2009"). In responding to the crisis, the city government has not recognized the way in which "policies, and structural factors hav...
Therefore, a revised definition of family emphasizes not the unit itself but the quality of relationship that exists within that u...
abuse. Education drills home the fact that domestic violence is not just a family issue, it is a societal one. If we are to reso...
result in spousal violence (2). Though children under the age of 18 account for approximately 21 percent of the population, they ...
was the gladiatorial combat of hunting, otherwise called the venatio. Once gathered up from different parts of the Roman empire t...
justice to the battered victim, it is also to educate the health care industry about how to identify abuse and the steps necessary...
is considered to be one of the most important parts of intelligence." Contrary to this viewpoint is the majority who claim ...