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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 ...

Video Games and Violence

have been more willing to help people in need. Now, they shrug off horrific events. For some, this is evidence of desensitization....

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Violence

and others that underscore the connection between violence and urban life. "Data gathered by the Center for Disease Control (1995...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Family Culture of Violence

in the educational setting. The introduction outlines the problem, existing research and the underlying purpose of the study, to ...

Issues of Social Justice from a Historical Perspective

quo (Ruddell and Urbina, 2004). In his analysis of the history of incarceration in the US, Vogel (2003) charts a relationship be...

Violence and the Role Models of Professional Sports Figures

enjoy playing sports, to adults who love sports and perhaps dream of being a professional athlete, professional athletes serve as ...

Urban Life and Violence in America

people remember many strong disagreements with their first families. Battles during toddlerhood and adolescence are common and wil...

Laura's House - An Interview

case management for between 18 and 22 women and children. Shelter is offered for 30 to 45 days. 2. Counseling and resource center ...

Children Exposed to Domestic Violence and Group Intervention

as one of the manifestations domestic violence in the child that has witnessed that violence. She points out that PTSD is now:...

Article on Violence, Terrorism, and Justice

will consider for even a moment. The authors begin by trying to separate the characteristics of terrorism from the idea of the ri...

A Criminology Overview

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

Overview of Prison Violence

in the prisons is blindly accepted. Clark (2003) states that "Prison administrators and guards have witnessed the violence--or at ...

Women Fighting Domestic Violence

by her stepfather (Talvi, 2005). As is perhaps often the case with young women who are victims of domestic violence, Valerie took ...

Abuse and Family Violence

behavior. This concept of "mother blaming," then, has influenced the view of low-income families, single-parent families and the ...

Gays, Lesbians, and Domestic Violence

become intimate with other men, and found himself in trouble, that it sparked her interest (McClennen, 2003). It seems that while ...

Program Proposal on School Violence Prevention

an end to these violent episodes? One of the most logical deductions is that of the new-fangled child rearing practices tha...

Issues Pertaining to School Policy Formation

to commit themselves to achieving academic excellence within the boundaries of their abilities and teaching and support staff are ...

State Legitimacy of Haiti

make use of a dozen political, social, economic, and military indicators for internal instability ("The Failed States," 2005). The...

Evaluating Domestic Violence Research Methodology

is about methodology. In a study using quantitative data, Ramsay & Richardson (2005) examine the effectiveness of screening fo...

Plastic Surgery, Footbinding, and Violence Targeting Women

broken properly (Ping, 2002, p. 3). The practice existed in China for over 1,000 years, and spread from the imperial dynasty to ...

Social Work Case Study on Task Achievement Scaling Intervention

to at an earlier time. Though assignment of levels 1 - 4 is subjective in that it is not solidly based on measurable results, the...

Community Policing and Violence in Schools

topic, a student will find a slew of information on the subject, thus providing information related to many of the questions posed...

Relationship Between Gender and Sexuality

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

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 ...

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...

Subculture Violence Theories

of others" (Brannigan, Gemmell et al 2002, 119). Aggressive behavior would not be such a concern in children if it was a natural...

American Social Violence, Racism, Sexism, the Vietnam War, and Stanley Kubrick's Film Full Metal Jacket

human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...

American Society and Violence

most unflattering terms: violence (67 percent), power (66 percent), inequality (49 percent), and racism (42 percent)" (51). Lacorn...

Health Issue of Violence

global problem as it is estimated that over 40 million children worldwide are abused each year. Violence within the family and edu...

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...