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pankration matches were held in a confined arena space with a referee presiding or few rules beyond the prohibition of eye gouging...
opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...
games are encouraging violent aggression in young people. Should video game designers act in a manner that is socially responsibl...
play in a variety of demographic groups. Players in the 20s, 30s, 40s and even 50s are on-line playing these interactive games. ...
easily overlooked by hospital personnel or other clinicians. Women both "initiate and reciprocate violence" (Lawson, 2003, p. 19...
his murderous attacks upon Hrothgars sleeping warriors. Hrothgar makes it clear that Beowulfs obligation is based not on ties of ...
ugliness of battle and death. Homers soldiers do not die cleanly and quickly; they suffer, they claw the ground; they cry out an...
the things they see on the television they should simply turn the television off. The author indicates that some people enjoy a so...
an era which witnessed the rapid expansion of stadiums and arenas under the Roman Empire" (2006). But the Romans as is well known,...
backstabbing, failure to respect privacy and broken confidences" (Stanley, et al, 2007, p. 1248). Ferrell notes the importance of ...
comes to witnessing violence, there is a fear that the exposure to such things is enough to trigger violent behavior. In some inst...
causes of different types of violence, workplace violence is attached to more specific causes. Zachary (2000) examines workplace ...
effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...
on the TV screen" (Levin and Carlsson-Paige, 2003,. P. 427). Violence also exists on other forms of media. Browne and Hamilton-G...
comes the condition of alcohol or drug abuse, a condition that is usually pursued in order to alleviate the stress of being poor. ...
Ann Beard, in her essay The Fourth State of Matter, illustrates how a young man, Gang Lu, becamse so disgruntled with life and wit...
deviance, and personality disorders. Cultural attitudes are transferred from one generation to another, and the first generation...
further emphasized and supported through an article wherein the authors note that, "Although numerous studies have shown that play...
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...
. . For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is...
that more than 50 thousand cases of domestic violence took place during 2006 ("Domestic Violence Facts: New York," 2008). What is ...
and for acceptance in social group" (Deveny and Kelley). II. By the age of 18, most American children have witnessed 16,000 simul...
4,400 rapes, 57% by people under 16, 3% by females, and 67% by whites (Juvenile court statistics, 2005). There were 26,000 robberi...
victims knew each other" (Hammond, 1998). He was testifying before the Columbine shooting, but it only serves as a further example...
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...
content that may be objectionable. As an example, this particular writer/researcher has a daughter who is 11 years old. The tele...
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...
denied tenure, the woman pulled out a gun and began shooting. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Biological Scienc...
parents" and this factor has tremendous influence on whether or not a child feels safe and secure (Gewitz and Edleson, 2004, p. 3)...
effect of exposure to violent video games has been determined to be 0.2, which is more than the effect of asbestos on cancer, home...