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and accumulating gambling debts he cannot possibly pay, the stage is set for a bloody confrontation when loan sharks come calling....

by the influence television has upon youth is both grand and far-reaching; that TV is used as a babysitter and teacher speaks to t...

solely for blasting rap music on his boom box. A local DJ, Mister Senor Love Daddy, who operates a radio station also acts as a co...

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

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...

tolerance, and forgiveness. Indeed, many religions have a history of instilling peace in not-so-peaceful times. Buddhism...

Pr?val, 2006). It appears that the violence now wracking the island is a clash between the supporters of the two men. There is a ...

& Amato, 2000, p.660). In the end, the hypothesis is only partially supported. Authors say that their research reveals "mixed supp...

take an indirect form, such as gossip. There are also direct forms, such as name-calling; as well as range of behavior that includ...

to the specifics of the abuse. Denov (2004), for example, reports that the long term impacts of sexual abuse in children include ...

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

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

by men. Some people have argued that our society itself allows men to abuse women because of the fact that they are male. Michae...

the use or attempted use of physical force or the threatened use of a deadly weapon (Section 922 (g)[9])" (Federal Domestic Violen...

the things they see on the television they should simply turn the television off. The author indicates that some people enjoy a so...

an era which witnessed the rapid expansion of stadiums and arenas under the Roman Empire" (2006). But the Romans as is well known,...

ugliness of battle and death. Homers soldiers do not die cleanly and quickly; they suffer, they claw the ground; they cry out an...

By the 1960s blacks and women alike, of course, had freedom in a technical sense but they each had a long...

example of domestic abuse among the wealthy and prominent. Theres a myth that domestic violence is more common in the middle and l...

the physical setting and the Vasilievichs thoughts and emotions with exquisite clarity, though he doesnt tell us what Varinka is t...

gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...

society is violent and the films reflect that. Bond is also, in truth, an anti-hero. Hes supposedly a "good guy," but in reality h...

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

domestic abuse one of the most troubling problems of our society. According to U.S. Department of Justice (2005) statistics...

in films today. The protagonist at the heart of Allens films is conflicted, neurotic, and a bumbler who usually manages, somehow, ...

was apparently controversial at the time, but clearly desired. One critic, in looking back at the time wrote, in 1928, "that a hea...

in the Gun-Free School Act (McAndrews, 2001; McCune, 2000). McAndrews (2001) reported that policies were passed by state legislat...

is responsible for such behaviors as domestic violence. By exploring how women have dealt with these traumatic and exploitive occ...

these factors might be important with regard to complexity, such systems also have to exhibit stability or they could not exist (C...

who is over the age of sixteen at the time the violence takes place. Children are defined as individuals under the age of 18 who a...