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'The Collector of Treasures' by Bessie Head

Her husband has only used her sexually for that is his nature, and is representative of the oppressive patriarchal culture. But, s...

Summary of John Ashcroft's Consideration of Granting Abused Women Asylum

she were to return to her native Togo her clitoris would be cut off(Swarns 2004). Lastly, there is the case of Mrs. Alvarado who i...

Ursula K. LeGuin's 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas'

tend to our own affairs, doing what has to be done and then relaxing as reward or for regeneration enabling us to repeat the proce...

Turner's Theory and the Use of Text in Film as Interactive Social Practice

the change - dwindling audience numbers, and the need to cope with more complex narrative structures, for instance - were the outw...

Domestic Violence and Law Enforcement

In fourteen pages this paper examines domestic violence, law enforcement, and the various conditions and issues pertaining to them...

Violence and Religion

were able to live cooperatively. What was "good" was whatever perpetuated the interests of given society and what was "bad" was an...

Research Question on Legalizing Drugs

Magazine. Retrieved March 4, 2004 from: http://www.drugsense.org/mcwilliams/www.marijuanamagazine.com/toc/drugsand.htm DuPont, R...

Ineffectiveness of Zero Tolerance School Violence Policies

toward school violence, rather than helping the situation, appear to have altered a beneficial trend. In fact, incidences of serio...

Sociological Intervention Tactics in There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotliwitz

fictional. Indeed, this book vividly portrays the harsh reality which so many of us have refused to acknowledge. The same factor...

Violence Prevention in the Workplace

ex-employees who killed their boss doubled (pp. 43) Information from the National Safe Workplace Institute states that: "... viole...

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...

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...

Prostitution Deviance and Theories of Sociology

exchange for money and in the absence of an existing social relationship is deviant in comparison with the normative culture. But...

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...

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...

2 Essays on Social Work and the 'Worthy Poor'

(Trattner, 1999). Accordingly, leaders in the field of social work began to urge a pro-active stance toward the nations mounting p...

Institutionalised Social Inequality

This 4 page paper looks at the shift to institutionalised social inequality in prehistory and the way this occurred along with the...

Religious And Racial Stereotyping: Causes Many Problems In Today's Culture

categorization. Inasmuch as racial and religious stereotypes are both unreasonable and erroneous, such predisposed opinions about...

Public Service And Professionalism

many people and industries alike; however, Althen et al (2002) note how it is by way of such an objective that one becomes labeled...

Trying Juveniles In Adult Courts

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

Lanford Wilson/Rimers of Eldritch

A 3 page research paper/essay that discusses Lanford Wilson's play Rimers of Eldritch, which, on the surface, concerns a murder ...

Homegrown Terrorism: Violence in the Pro-Life Movement

methods used by Islamic fundamentalists. That is, each faction uses bombs. Sometimes, assassination is used as well. There have be...

The Social Impact of Gangsta Rap

down the street. We needed to talk about stuff that other people are scared to talk about" (Shank, 1996). It wasnt an attempt to b...

The Role of Gender in Domestic Violence

abuse anyway? Does it mean beating another human being exclusively or can other physically violent acts qualify? In studying this ...

Censorship is Necessary in a Civilized Society

law, or in various school systems around the nation, or on executive boards, decisions are made to censor material. The FCC for ex...

Journalists in the Age of Bloggers and Other Non Traditional Journalism Forms

this latter definition of the way that publishing is taking place may be seen as more controversial, while some blogs and publishe...

Is Shell an Ethical Company?

and BBC Wildlife Magazine has also been argued as hypocritical, hiding the damage that the company causes to wildlife (M2 PressWIR...

Media Violence and Aggressive Behavior in Children and Teens

2006). The media is in fact a catalyst for violent expression on more than one societal front (DuRant, Champion and Wolfson, 2006...