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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Growing Incidences of Violence in Sports

In five pages this paper discusses what can be done to deter the increasing violence in athletics. Ten sources are cited in the b...

Courtroom and the Importance of Psychological Knowledge

The use of psychological knowledge in the courtroom, however, is becoming somewhat more common, even though physical knowledge, or...

Workplace Violence Minimizing

scene is a fictitious one but not many would think so. The scene has been played out all too often in the last few years as workp...

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...

Domestic Violence, Children, and Department of Social Services

of language during their toddler years creates overwhelming pressure when their parents train them to use expressive communication...

Statistics on Violence in U.S. Schools

Act. The data re for the school year 1998-1999 and reflect the percentage per 1,000 students. The data is from the U.S. Department...

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...

Domestic Violence and Criminal Investigations

country on a regular basis, the good news is that many concerned people are trying very hard to fix the system. And, it is throug...

Violence and Deviance

that when ones family are starving, working for the money is what becomes paramount. One cannot feed ones family on soviet rhetori...

Domestic Violence and Protection of Women and Children

The argument was that childrens safety was usually - although not always - largely dependent on their mothers"(Schechter, 2002). ...

Men as Victims of Domestic Violence

is seen as the justified act of an irate female instead of violence against men (Parker, 2002). And, what about the mens reaction...

History and Current Situation of Domestic Violence

What is Domestic Violence? Domestic violence, or battering as it is sometimes called, is "a pattern of behavior used to establish ...

Program to Prevent Violence in Schools

Childrens Defense Fund places gunfire as "the second-leading cause of death among Americans ages 10-19" (Anonymous, 1996, p. PG). ...

Work Related Violence

ones privacy, telephone harassment, as well as other acts. Violence in the workplace is a very serious issue and it is one that ...

Global Violence Explored

set in other nations they affect us, the United States, as well. Admiral Jack Shanahan has stated that "American Security is depe...

Theoretical Perspectives on Juvenile Violence

sociological or environmental forces. His statement that biology constitutes the only important factor in causing criminality set ...

A Domestic Violence Analysis

men, about 95% of reported domestic abuse cases do involve women (Hyman, Schillinger, & Lo, 1995 as cited in Erickson et al., 1998...

Anonymous Therapist Interview Regarding Domestic Violence

stop it. Q. How important an issue has domestic violence become in recent years? A. As domestic violence has reached...

Connection Between the Abuse of Substances and Domestic Violence

violence is something thought of as being proliferated against women, but it can occur against men in both homosexual and heterose...

Teens and Music's Influence

Manson is perhaps the most controversial performer today, with his flaunting of sexuality and attention to violence. Manson is ...

Children's Programming and Violence

life, meaning that the early concepts and temperament of a child are solidified during those first seven critical years. What goes...

The Impact of Media Violence on Children

analyse what they see in the media, and consider whether it offers a valid option or not, children do not have the same level of d...