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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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Buddhism and Conflict Transformation

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

Domestic Abuse

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

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...

How Children are Impacted by Media Violence

In five pages this research study proposal on how children are impacted by media violence includes an abstract, a hypothesis, lite...

'Birthright' and Domestic Violence

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the film Once Were Warriors is considered within the context of domestic violence as a birthright...

California's Watts District and Racial Violence

In 5 pages the demographics of Los Angeles, California's Watts district are examined in an overview that considers the reasons beh...

Law Enforcement and the Impact of Stress

They do not see society on its best behavior. They are not able to have the joys that some occupations have. "Its not amazing th...

Problem of Violence in Schools

a report; "Violence and Discipline Problems in U. S. Public Schools" was generated from the national poll. More than twelve hundr...

Pennsylvania's House Bill 1959 Domestic Violence Health Care Response Act

In five pages this paper discusses a PA legislative assistance act designed to help healthcare workers response to domestic violen...

The Problem of Violence in America

4 pages and 4 sources. This paper provides an overview of a potential proposal for the American Commander-in-Chief to address the...

Situations of Domestic Violence and Changing Responses

on the subject is that the woman is in danger, there are also cases in which the man is battered. In the O.J. Simpson case, for ex...

Domestic Violence According to Susan Murphy Milano

In five pages the text Defending Our Lives Getting Away from Domestic Violence by Susan Murphy Milano is discussed in terms of co...

Cultivation Theory, TV, and Youth Violence

The cultivation theory of George Gerbner is applied to the connection between youth violence and television in five pages. Five s...

Teachers' Perspectives on School Violence

In 7 pages this paper discusses U.S. schools and dealing with growing violence with zero tolerance policies and peer counseling am...

Cases of Domestic Violence and Couples Therapy

In six pages the issues associated with domestic violence are examined in terms of various counseling techniques and theories that...

A Child Called 'It' by Dave Pelzer

In five pages this research paper examines Pelzer's account of his horrific childhood with an application of current theory on fam...

2 Journal Articles on PTSD

In five pages this paper discusses 2 articles based upon Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as it relates to natural disasters and nei...

Zero Tolerance Policies - Do They Work?

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

Intervention/Treatment Programs For Domestic Violence Offenders

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

Chaos Theory and the Virginia Tech Shootings

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

Cronenberg: "A History of Violence"

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