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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...

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...

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...

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...

Witnessing Violence

repeatedly when she thinks the girl is being insolent or "disrespecting" her (Cruz). We do know, however, that Jose beat Carmen, s...

Effects Of Violence In Media

affect the viewer (Lavers, 2002). In other words, the viewer has little or no emotional reaction to the violent acts they are view...

High Risk Family Assessment/Violence

education or less; little or not prenatal care; unlisted telephone number; low income; history of unemployment; current under or u...

The Social Issue of Desensitization to Violence as a Result of Media Exposure

view of the systems and factors that impact the development of the mind. The philosophical premise was linked to the assessment of...

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...

APARTHEID, MANDELA AND THE ANC: VIOLENCE OR NON-VIOLENCE?

not, however, was non-violence. A Brief History of Apartheid and the ANC Weve pointed out that the struggle against aparthe...

Aggression in Prisons

family and friends tend to be more involved in violence. The structure of the prison has been found to have an effect on the amou...

Media Violence Influences Teen Violence

the radar," so to speak of most parents as research indicates that once children reach high school, parents rarely check the ratin...

Domestic Violence and African Americans

to criminal activity, to substance abuse. These problems have both direct and indirect impacts on the family. A considerable bod...

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...

Wolfgang's Theoretical Perspective on Homicide

This research paper pertains to Marvin Wolfgang's theoretical perspective on homicide and focuses on his Subculture of Violence th...

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...

Social Work and the Impact of School Violence

practices that have developed within the past two decades. Latch-key kids, single- and no-parent families, emotionally absent par...

Collective Violence from a Social Psychological Perspective

In five pages this paper applies the self justification theory articulated by Elliot Aronson's The Social Animal to Holocaust acti...

Border Control and Immigration Policy

fence, but rather that remedies should address both social concerns and the realities of this social, economic and political probl...

Financial Problems and the U.S. Social Security System

possible minute to jump into action. However, there is not much more time available if something is ultimately going to remedy th...

Social Problems Experienced by Battered Women

There are social pressures and prejudices which battered women face. In this twenty page research paper that includes fourteen bib...

Drug Problems as a Social Construct

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...

Social Problems in Hard Times

Plant nothing else, and root out everything else... Stick to Facts" (Dickens 1). For Dickens, this was an atrocity of monumental ...

Linda Mooney's Concepts in Understanding Social Problems

related industries such as welfare and social workers. This theory was expanded by other theorists to cover deviance and conflic...

Canada and the Social Problem of Childhood Obesity

greater importance are the collective changes in social structures and expectations that lead to increasingly sedentary lifestyles...

Social Problems of Child Prodigies

the Tonight Show audience with a blazing solo (Jerome, Cheakakos and Horsburgh 131). At ten years old, Jacob signed a contract wit...

Homelessness and Social Problems

the main causes" (Morris, 1998, p. 241) to which women attribute their homelessness. Families with children, a population that re...

Pornography as a Social Problems

Opinions are mixed. Table-dancing or lap-dancing, for example, is something that has become popular of late (Sweet, 1998). Dr. Si...

Social Problems Associated with Interfaith Marriages

In four pages this paper examines interfaith marital unions in terms of the social problems encountered with such issues as child ...

Social Problems and the Theories of Emile Durkheim

In ten pages the theories of Emile Durkheim inclusive of anomie are applied to such social problems as poverty, homelessness, and ...