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Essays 1891 - 1920

'The Collector of Treasures' by Bessie Head

Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...

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...

Canada and Gender Violence

a semblance of a reason why a man might turn into a monster, and it just might be that domestic violence and substance abuse are r...

Black Literature and Violence

eras and toward different genders. The slave narratives of Douglass and Jacobs Douglass Narrative is the best known first-hand a...

Street Gangs and Racism

disintegration exists and how it exists so that effort can be focused to prevent the conflict arising and ensure that there is int...

Violence Prevention in the Workplace

ex-employees who killed their boss doubled (pp. 43) Information from the National Safe Workplace Institute states that: "... viole...

Flannery O'Connor's Moment of Grace in 'A Late Encounter with the Enemy,' 'Greenleaf' and 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'

and their three children. Hearing of the escape of a dangerous Florida killer known only as The Misfit and his band of thugs prov...

An Examination of Violence Statistics

were robbed in the workplace. Between 1994 and 1996 violent victimizations in the workplace decreased by 21 percent, paralleling a...

Media and Film Documentaries in China

which provided free education, pensions, and social services to the people and peasants. Instead, the self-sacrificing citizen of ...

Domestic Violence and its Societal Impact

hesitant about coming forward to name their abusers, because the system did not seem to either believe them about the scope of the...

Peace and Violence According to Johan Galtung

of Peace Research at the University of Oslo from 1969-77, during which period he also helped to found the Inter-University Centre ...

Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Violence

is basically unchanged for a long period of time (years) could be considered successful, thus, the American Revolution is particul...

Violence and Ethnicity

violence in society and how ethnic conflicts arise. Today, ethnic conflicts and in particular ethnic cleansing is a part of the re...

Sex and Violence on Television

many viewers find objectionable. It has been described as "wall-to-wall violence scored to gratingly loud rock with the occasional...

Incidence, Response, and Prevention of Work Related Violence

to occupational injury and death". In addition, "homicide has become the second leading cause of occupational injury death" (NIOSH...

In Support of the 1996 Federal Stalking Law

Survey stated that some form of stalking also occurred before the relationship ended (Tjaden and Thoennes). The majority of stalk...

Global Problem of Women as Victims of Violence

These lost days, lost days that have the potential to represent some twenty percent of a womans life, leave many psychological and...

Exploring Three Different Philosophical Dilemmas

in such a case: 1. They can tell the child what happened. 2. They can pretend that they dont know what happened. 3. They...

Societal Impact of the Media

then, after a time, actions follow (Waliszewksy and Smithouser, 2001). The human brain, they note, doesnt need that "garbage" (Wal...

Poor Communication and Negative Reciprocity in Domestic Violence Situations

area, but the men. Schechter states that "Groups like Mentors in Violence Prevention, which prepare male athletes to speak as non-...

Anna Fogerty Case and Massachusetts 209A Protective Order

rights. This qualitative study of the issues applies the concept of government and neoinstitutionalism to one application ...

21st Century and Violence in American Schools

would come out of nowhere and usually in rather rural or safe areas. People were shocked. Then, after Columbine, there was perhaps...

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and Violence

fight for justice and serves as a vehicle for exposing mans inhumanity toward man(Weeks 2002). Violence erupts on the scene fair...

Video Games, Sex and Violence

but it is highly encouraged" (Farrales, 2004). This argument is that there should be regulations insisting that such labels always...

Hinduism, the Bhagavad Gita and Violence

seem to state that the goal for all initiates is to come to the place where the desires are eliminated, not by ceasing the actions...

Violence and Frederick Douglass's Narrative

In six pages this paper examines how the Narrative depicts violence as being sexually and slavery gendered. There are no other so...

Violence in the Narrative of Frederick Douglass

he had no real knowledge of his actual age ? "Having never seen any authentic record containing it" (Douglass, 2001). According to...

Murder and the Dark Side of Domestic Violence

Through various case studies, Schechter found that many women were hesitant about coming forward to name their abusers, because th...

Impoverished Children and Violence Effects

Both of the Rivers brothers have regularly seen their friends and relatives die from simply being in the wrong place at the wrong ...

Personality and Aggression

In a paper consisting of twenty one pages personality as a predictor of aggression is examined through reviewing pertinent literat...