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Solitude and Isolation Themes Expressed by Violence in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

the imaginary town of Macondo in Columbia. The characters experience a cyclical pattern of revolutions and exposure to outside con...

Violence and its Sociological, Biological, and Psychological Roots

is almost a learned behavior, not socially speaking, but psychologically speaking. It is the human minds reaction and perhaps solu...

U.S. and Domestic Violence

only the persons, place, or things the violence is inflicted upon, but also victimizes the witnesses to such occurrences. With ...

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison and Conflicts

after Macon hit her, hed see his mothers hand cover her lips as she searched with her tongue for any broken teeth...and that on th...

Social Workers and Violence

and gagged her and pulled a plastic garbage bag over her head before leaving her in a locked bathroom. Putman suffocated. As a r...

Video Games and Violence

have been more willing to help people in need. Now, they shrug off horrific events. For some, this is evidence of desensitization....

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Violence

and others that underscore the connection between violence and urban life. "Data gathered by the Center for Disease Control (1995...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Family Culture of Violence

in the educational setting. The introduction outlines the problem, existing research and the underlying purpose of the study, to ...

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...

Violence and the Role Models of Professional Sports Figures

enjoy playing sports, to adults who love sports and perhaps dream of being a professional athlete, professional athletes serve as ...

Poverty, Political Violence, and Global Terrorism

(Wilkinson, 1996, p. 12). Terrorism is a reaction against something, usually political oppression, and although it received its n...

Overview of Prison Violence

in the prisons is blindly accepted. Clark (2003) states that "Prison administrators and guards have witnessed the violence--or at ...

Impact TV Violence Has on Children

million and that the number of violent crimes committed by juveniles will more than double by 2010 (Briscoe, 1997). Unless action...

Preventing Domestic Violence

in that it brings a measure of security to those threatened by family violence, but police involvement does not fall into the real...

Formulating Policy on Teenage Violence

501K3066), and insists that the answer lies in the communitys response to the problem: "We have to get smart on crime, not tough"...

Soccer, Drugs, and Violence

the current status of the problem of associated violence within this sport due largely in part to drugs and/or alcohol. Soccer S...

Prospect of Global Democracy

by critics, encouraging readers to conjure up huge armies divided by race, language and religion, moving forward across thousands ...

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...

Violence Against Women and the Media

(Kilbourne, 2004). Many people do not like to see women exploited on television, but they reason that it is not all that bad, an...

Domestic Violence Approaches

seen as fully individualized human beings. Medical Intervention One way to approach this problem is through medical interventio...

College Campus Safety and Violence

in violence, it remains a major issue that must be dealt with not only by teachers and other adults of authority, but also in the ...

State Legitimacy of Haiti

make use of a dozen political, social, economic, and military indicators for internal instability ("The Failed States," 2005). The...

Children and Media Violence

games and the computer, it rises up between 35 and 55 hours a week (Gentile et al., 2004; 1235). Through this much media exposure ...

Evaluating Domestic Violence Research Methodology

is about methodology. In a study using quantitative data, Ramsay & Richardson (2005) examine the effectiveness of screening fo...

Plastic Surgery, Footbinding, and Violence Targeting Women

broken properly (Ping, 2002, p. 3). The practice existed in China for over 1,000 years, and spread from the imperial dynasty to ...

Social Work Case Study on Task Achievement Scaling Intervention

to at an earlier time. Though assignment of levels 1 - 4 is subjective in that it is not solidly based on measurable results, the...

Abuse and Family Violence

behavior. This concept of "mother blaming," then, has influenced the view of low-income families, single-parent families and the ...

Gays, Lesbians, and Domestic Violence

become intimate with other men, and found himself in trouble, that it sparked her interest (McClennen, 2003). It seems that while ...

Women Fighting Domestic Violence

by her stepfather (Talvi, 2005). As is perhaps often the case with young women who are victims of domestic violence, Valerie took ...

Urban Life and Violence in America

people remember many strong disagreements with their first families. Battles during toddlerhood and adolescence are common and wil...