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Sex and Violence on Television

many viewers find objectionable. It has been described as "wall-to-wall violence scored to gratingly loud rock with the occasional...

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and the Portrayals of Violence

in school show happy white children. Pecola surmises that happiness comes from being white, or acting white. Being beautiful meant...

School Violence Prevention and Profiling Controversy

wrong. If for example a crime was committed by a black gang, it would be wrong to profile blacks for all crime. While that is a ...

How the Media Reflects Violence in Society

benefit of such shows as Ricki Lake, Maury Povich, Montel Williams, Jenny Jones or Jerry Springer is to corrupt the fragile balanc...

Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club and Violence

story we are offered a look at the power of searching for ones identity, the tentative hold we all have upon life, and the search ...

Connection Between Violence and War

he, dare each other to brave the open battlefield to gain access to a well on the other side. "Thunder! I wisht I had a drink. Ai...

Family Violence and Nursing Intervention

positive effect in preventing future incidence of violence (Willson, McFarlane, Lemmey and Malecha, 2001), even when other referra...

Assessment of Domestic Abuse

as many as was reported in 1980, reflects a disturbing trend toward uncontrolled acts of domestic violence (Leigh et al, 1995). E...

California's Inmate Population and Gang Legislation

gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...

Empirical Research Report on Violence in Schools

within the past two decades. Latch-key kids, single- and no-parent families, emotionally absent parents, working parents -- all t...

Counseling and Family Violence

to understand that it has also been a very real part of American society since the early days. In a review of the book "Domestic T...

Women and Violence

been victims of domestic violence.4 Furthermore, there is evidence that women who are in situations of conflict and female refugee...

Relationship Between Gender and Sexuality

legal gay/lesbian relationships contends that same-sex marriages do not fall into the traditional category of accepted matrimony. ...

Backlash from the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

school children to the workplace, from the entertainment industry to the sports world, racial stereotypes are an integral part of ...

America and Violent Crime

violence: * More than 80 Americans die every day from gun violence (NEA-HIN, 2002). * American children and youth are 16 times mor...

Contemporary Applications of the Deliberative Nursing Theory of Jean Orlando

therefore, not only an extensive history but it can be contended to be just as applicable in todays nursing practice as it was whe...

Subculture Violence Theories

of others" (Brannigan, Gemmell et al 2002, 119). Aggressive behavior would not be such a concern in children if it was a natural...

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...

Prospect of Global Democracy

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

Health Issue of Violence

global problem as it is estimated that over 40 million children worldwide are abused each year. Violence within the family and edu...

Japanese Schools, Violence, and Bullying

defining the roles they are expected to play as adults. Bullied students who suffer from tokokyohi complain of debilitating fatig...

American Society and Violence

most unflattering terms: violence (67 percent), power (66 percent), inequality (49 percent), and racism (42 percent)" (51). Lacorn...

Violence and How It Functions in the Writings of Richard Wright, William Faulkner, and John Steinbeck

who would stretch the definition to include all living beings, but then that would open the interpretation and debate to include a...

Domestic Violence, Policing, and Feminist Response in the UK

define as well as measure. Violence and abuse is a wide ranging topic, physical violence may be seen as usually assumed to be in...

Organized Sports and the Increasing Trend of Violence

violence in sports has serious implications for the direction of Western society in general, as well as negative implications for ...

Causes of Violence in Schools

less lethal forms of violence0 are able to escape from the school environment (Thinking the unthinkable, 2001). They become habitu...

The Many Impacts of Domestic Violence

issues (Young, 2001). Many have multiple problems. Gahr (2001) explains that "juvenile crime is decreasing in some categories--li...

Resistance and Violence in Richard Wright's Native Son and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

belly pulsed with fear...and the rat emitted a long thin song of defiance, its black beady eyes glittering" (Wright, 10). ...

21st Century and Violence in American Schools

would come out of nowhere and usually in rather rural or safe areas. People were shocked. Then, after Columbine, there was perhaps...

Anna Fogerty Case and Massachusetts 209A Protective Order

rights. This qualitative study of the issues applies the concept of government and neoinstitutionalism to one application ...