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The Dark Side of Country Music

of the same era, "Mamas in the Graveyard, Papas in the Pen". The title of that particular song needs no further explanation or cl...

The Problem of Violence in America

4 pages and 4 sources. This paper provides an overview of a potential proposal for the American Commander-in-Chief to address the...

The Theme of the Violent African American Patriarchy in The Color Purple by Alice Walker

In five pages the focus of this paper is on how women of the African American community must come together and form a unified sist...

Southwest Violence

In ten pages this paper discusses the violence that has historically been associated with the American Southwest. Nine sources ar...

Traci West/Wounds of the Spirit

71). This seems to be particularly true for black women, who get caught between the double bind of being female in a male dominate...

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...

Criminal Justice Issues

effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...

Effects of Video Games on American Culture

deviance, and personality disorders. Cultural attitudes are transferred from one generation to another, and the first generation...

The Impact of Race and Gender on Adolescent Violence

to the same extent (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). Saner and Ellickson concluded that violent adolescent acts are often the result of...

Domestic Violence and Tribal Protection of Indigenous Women in the United States

past that contact to present day. By other definitions sovereignty was something that had been delegated in some way by the Unite...

American Culture and the Media

for boyish, flat-chested women with no hips.) Leaving that aside, what does this image say to young American women? It says that ...

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...

Overview of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

some of lifes toughest questions, questions that are still asked by todays family. Those questions include family values, abuse an...

U.S. School Safety

such as the physical state of the building and other factors which impact the health of students. Furthermore, it is impo...

Addressing Family Topics

to make it clear that they are not attempting to replace the biological parent, and, furthermore, that they should be accepting of...

African American Women: Impact of Violence on their Health

This research paper is presented in two sections. The first section consists of an annotated bibliography and an outline of the pa...

Domestic Violence Areas World-Wide

This 4 page paper gives an overview of four areas of domestic violence in America and over the world. This paper includes discussi...

Domestic Violence, Cause and Effect

This paper presents a cause-and-effect discussion that focuses on domestic violence, identifying the factors believed to be the do...

Oppenheim's Media Violence and Television

to conform to these, or to rebel against them. Thoman (2003) makes the point that the American Psychological Associations survey i...

Domestic Abuse: Federal and Illinois Law

This paper describes the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which is a federal law, and also the Illinois Domestic Violence Act (I...

Domestic Violence Disclosure

This paper discusses domestic violence, the importance of screening for domestic violence and the problems associated with this is...

War and Escalation of Violence Such as Rape

committed with the intent to destroy a particular group, in this case the Tutsi. The Akayesu is interesting as well because it ha...

Social Violence

serious when school students try to express their childish reactions in a more violent way (2002). Columbine was noted, but is onl...

Children, Violence, and TV

are disappointed if it doesnt. What kind of message does this send our children? According to Strasburger (1999, 103) it sends a...

Society's Violence and Executions

the execution I felt an extreme compulsion to shower and shower and shower again. Eventually I realized that I felt filthy because...

Overview of Family Violence

non-violent/violent continuum as a means by which to determine the escalation of conflict. "Although flawed and highly criticized...

Senate Bill 1429

In five pages this paper discusses the violence prevention efforts detailed in S.B. 1329 and its Prairie View A and M University v...

Domestic Violence and Gender Stereotyping

husband. In many physical abuse situations, no one person controls all aspects of the home other than the male, including all pro...

Spiegelman, Remarque, and Wiesel: The Transformative Quality of Violence

device to thematically distill the essence of war and genocide, present its reality in a way that is more humanistic than statisti...