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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Prison Policy and Violence

1880s, Folsom Prison has spent decades as "a squalid, antiquated mess. But its problems have become acute in the past ten years, a...

Literature and Violence

has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...

Violence Prevention in the Workplace

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

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...

Preventing Violence in the Workplace

they may have (Grossman, 2002). Experts believe that workplace violence can be prevented if certain types of training programs ar...

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...

Process of Health Promotion in the Media vs. Peer/Family Influence for Individual Change

be argued, then, that peer and family factors play a major role in how health messages are spread to change at-risk behaviors. Pu...

A Comparison of Timex and Rolex from a Marketing Perspective

a very high level of disposable income. The range is designed for both men and women, there is no targeting of children. This is a...

The Election of Governmental Leaders in Canada

to convey the French language and the Catholic religion on the Native Americans. French Canadians have placed high value on their...

Psychologists and Social Change

earn a good deal less for doing the same job. Lips (2003) reported that the earnings gap has persisted for decades and it does not...

Pregnant Teens

discusses three aspects of teen pregnancy: statistics indicating how often it occurs; the effect of such pregnancy on the teenager...

Teen Pregnancy

then offered up how research has demonstrated that children born to such women are at a clear social disadvantage, research that s...

Teens and Abortion

means of not getting pregnant and should perhaps be the first option for teens, and anyone else who does not want to get pregnant,...

Aggression in Teens

animals "suggest the existence of distinct forms of reactive (hostile) and proactive (instrumental) aggression" (Crick and Dodge, ...

TV's Effect on Sexual Behavior

modeling and imitation (Somers and Tynan, 2006). Hypothesis in each study Collins, et al, propose that television holds the pote...

Problems of Adolescence

Drug use is common among teens today, and most say "pressure usually is the reason for their usage" (Teenage drug abuse, 2004). If...

Eminem's Music

thing, Eminem has an "intuitive sense of how to flow smoothly from the measured cadence of ordinary speech to the discursive inten...

Study on Teen Drinking and Influence of Parents

to 27.2 percent of females (SAMHSA, 2004). * 31.6 percent of teen drinkers were white; 19.8 percent were non-Hispanic blacks and 1...

Teen Pregnancy, Regulatory and Legislative Influences

Because antiabortion activists have been so successful in blocking legislative approaches toward governmentally subsidized contrac...

Reducing Teen Pregnancy Program Implementation

emotional stress that are associated with many social programs introduced in the school system, program coordinators have a diffic...

The Relationship Between Parent and Teen and Active Listening

of settings in which one wants the listener to perceive their interest and in which the listener wants to be able to control the t...

The Breakfast Club/A View of Adolescence

"poor little rich girl or the princess," and is drive to school by her father in a BMW (The Breakfast Club, 1995). Allison is the ...