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American Society and Violence

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Daily Lives and the Intrusion of Violence and Murder

mean that parents no longer truly raise their children? In all honesty the parents do raise the children. In some ways by allowing...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Family Violence and Nursing Intervention

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

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...

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and the Portrayals of Violence

in school show happy white children. Pecola surmises that happiness comes from being white, or acting white. Being beautiful meant...