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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...

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...

America and Violent Crime

violence: * More than 80 Americans die every day from gun violence (NEA-HIN, 2002). * American children and youth are 16 times mor...

TV Violence and Women

itself appear erotic to the male viewer (Marks, 2000). A report on prime-time broadcast network TV issued in 2002 by the National...

California's Inmate Population and Gang Legislation

gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...

Empirical Research Report on Violence in Schools

within the past two decades. Latch-key kids, single- and no-parent families, emotionally absent parents, working parents -- all t...

Counseling and Family Violence

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...

Women and Violence

been victims of domestic violence.4 Furthermore, there is evidence that women who are in situations of conflict and female refugee...

Contemporary Applications of the Deliberative Nursing Theory of Jean Orlando

therefore, not only an extensive history but it can be contended to be just as applicable in todays nursing practice as it was whe...

Family Violence and Nursing Intervention

positive effect in preventing future incidence of violence (Willson, McFarlane, Lemmey and Malecha, 2001), even when other referra...

Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Violence

story we are offered a look at the power of searching for ones identity, the tentative hold we all have upon life, and the search ...

Connection Between Violence and War

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...

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...

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...

Backlash from the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

school children to the workplace, from the entertainment industry to the sports world, racial stereotypes are an integral part of ...

Relationship Between Gender and Sexuality

legal gay/lesbian relationships contends that same-sex marriages do not fall into the traditional category of accepted matrimony. ...

Domestic Violence, Policing, and Feminist Response in the UK

define as well as measure. Violence and abuse is a wide ranging topic, physical violence may be seen as usually assumed to be in...

Organized Sports and the Increasing Trend of Violence

violence in sports has serious implications for the direction of Western society in general, as well as negative implications for ...

Violence and How It Functions in the Writings of Richard Wright, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck

who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...

Assessment of Domestic Abuse

as many as was reported in 1980, reflects a disturbing trend toward uncontrolled acts of domestic violence (Leigh et al, 1995). E...

FreshStart for Women

children. Domestic Violence in America Domestic violence appears to be increasing. Whether that is actually the case is no...

Aboriginal Women in Australian Prisons

2008). When aboriginal women are imprisoned their families are left even more dysfunctional than before. Furthermore, reg...

Modern Computing and PC Gaming

play in a variety of demographic groups. Players in the 20s, 30s, 40s and even 50s are on-line playing these interactive games. ...

Modern Gladiator Days

pankration matches were held in a confined arena space with a referee presiding or few rules beyond the prohibition of eye gouging...

Reducing Gang Violence In New York City

opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Violence, Nationalistic Expression, and Ethnicity

In turn, ethnicity and political makeup often determines the manner in which nationalism is expressed and in how it differs from t...