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Television and Its Negative Effects on Children

comes to witnessing violence, there is a fear that the exposure to such things is enough to trigger violent behavior. In some inst...

Businesses Are Responsible for Workplace Violence

causes of different types of violence, workplace violence is attached to more specific causes. Zachary (2000) examines workplace ...

The Role of Gender in Violence

by men. Some people have argued that our society itself allows men to abuse women because of the fact that they are male. Michae...

King’s Premise of Non-Violence: Applications to the Women’s Movement

By the 1960s blacks and women alike, of course, had freedom in a technical sense but they each had a long...

Intervention/Treatment Programs For Domestic Violence Offenders

is responsible for such behaviors as domestic violence. By exploring how women have dealt with these traumatic and exploitive occ...

Chaos Theory and the Virginia Tech Shootings

these factors might be important with regard to complexity, such systems also have to exhibit stability or they could not exist (C...

Domestic Violence Advocacy

example of domestic abuse among the wealthy and prominent. Theres a myth that domestic violence is more common in the middle and l...

Tolstoy: "After the Ball"

the physical setting and the Vasilievichs thoughts and emotions with exquisite clarity, though he doesnt tell us what Varinka is t...

Community Profile: Juvenile Threat

gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...

James Bond and Violence from Connery to Craig

society is violent and the films reflect that. Bond is also, in truth, an anti-hero. Hes supposedly a "good guy," but in reality h...

Domestic Violence: Is Income a Factor?

domestic abuse one of the most troubling problems of our society. According to U.S. Department of Justice (2005) statistics...

Jack London’s Call of the Wild

was apparently controversial at the time, but clearly desired. One critic, in looking back at the time wrote, in 1928, "that a hea...

Cronenberg: "A History of Violence"

in films today. The protagonist at the heart of Allens films is conflicted, neurotic, and a bumbler who usually manages, somehow, ...

The Lottery by Jackson: Violence or Tradition?

she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...

Reducing Playground Violence

take an indirect form, such as gossip. There are also direct forms, such as name-calling; as well as range of behavior that includ...

Impact of Youth Violence on Communities and Social Work Prevention

victims knew each other" (Hammond, 1998). He was testifying before the Columbine shooting, but it only serves as a further example...

Youth Violence in the United States

4,400 rapes, 57% by people under 16, 3% by females, and 67% by whites (Juvenile court statistics, 2005). There were 26,000 robberi...

Stricter Gun Control Leaves People Vulnerable

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...

Sex and Violence on Television

content that may be objectionable. As an example, this particular writer/researcher has a daughter who is 11 years old. The tele...

Argument: Television Violence Does Not Harm Children

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...

Social Bias

particular group, ethnicity or other social connection by virtue of the behavior or situation of only some in that population. Bla...

Revenge and the Law in Beowulf and Njal’s Saga

his murderous attacks upon Hrothgars sleeping warriors. Hrothgar makes it clear that Beowulfs obligation is based not on ties of ...

Negative Effects of Media on Young People

and for acceptance in social group" (Deveny and Kelley). II. By the age of 18, most American children have witnessed 16,000 simul...

Partner Abuse

easily overlooked by hospital personnel or other clinicians. Women both "initiate and reciprocate violence" (Lawson, 2003, p. 19...

Domestic Violence in Today's World

that more than 50 thousand cases of domestic violence took place during 2006 ("Domestic Violence Facts: New York," 2008). What is ...

Police Discretion and Domestic Violence

if they will make an arrest it is apparently the case that they do not need to witness the crime, but can make their own judgments...

American History X the Film

his way is not going to solve anything and will only lead to more death. The film deserves a few words as...

Domestic Violence and Tribal Protection of Indigenous Women in the United States

past that contact to present day. By other definitions sovereignty was something that had been delegated in some way by the Unite...

Women, AIDS and HIV in the District of Columbia

2009"). In responding to the crisis, the city government has not recognized the way in which "policies, and structural factors hav...

Violence and Pride: Ellison and Morrison

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...