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American Culture and the Media

for boyish, flat-chested women with no hips.) Leaving that aside, what does this image say to young American women? It says that ...

FARC and the Drug Wars in Colombia

to a situation in which enemies fight each other in one place and make deals in another, "as is the case with the Fuerzas Armadas ...

Article Review on Domestic Violence

years, but it is difficult due to the different methodologies employed. What seems to be the case is that it is not easy to know h...

Police Discretion and Domestic Violence

if they will make an arrest it is apparently the case that they do not need to witness the crime, but can make their own judgments...

American History X the Film

his way is not going to solve anything and will only lead to more death. The film deserves a few words as...

Oglala Sioux Tribe Domestic Violence Code

abuse. Education drills home the fact that domestic violence is not just a family issue, it is a societal one. If we are to reso...

The Impacts of Dentistry on Family Violence Intervention

result in spousal violence (2). Though children under the age of 18 account for approximately 21 percent of the population, they ...

"Bullet In The Brain" And "The Lottery" Violence

was the gladiatorial combat of hunting, otherwise called the venatio. Once gathered up from different parts of the Roman empire t...

Tougher Laws Needed To Address Domestic Abuse

justice to the battered victim, it is also to educate the health care industry about how to identify abuse and the steps necessary...

Family, Violence, and Social Work

Therefore, a revised definition of family emphasizes not the unit itself but the quality of relationship that exists within that u...

Violence In Sports

the Boston Bruins in the head and fractured his skull; the players had already engaged in two fights earlier that game and were su...

The Impact of Race and Gender on Adolescent Violence

to the same extent (Saner and Ellickson, 1996). Saner and Ellickson concluded that violent adolescent acts are often the result of...

Impact Of Video Game Violence On Children

is considered to be one of the most important parts of intelligence." Contrary to this viewpoint is the majority who claim ...

Domestic Violence and Prevention

In eight pages this paper presents an overview of the domestic violence issue in a consideration of how it can be reduced through ...

Homicide and Domestic Violence

comes the condition of alcohol or drug abuse, a condition that is usually pursued in order to alleviate the stress of being poor. ...

Film and Social Violence

Ann Beard, in her essay The Fourth State of Matter, illustrates how a young man, Gang Lu, becamse so disgruntled with life and wit...

The Continued Need for Civil Disobedience

. . For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is...

Violence and Pride: Ellison and Morrison

a sense of innocence. "I had begun to worry about my speech again. How would it go? Would they recognize my ability? What would th...

Effects of Video Games on American Culture

deviance, and personality disorders. Cultural attitudes are transferred from one generation to another, and the first generation...

Violence and Video Games

further emphasized and supported through an article wherein the authors note that, "Although numerous studies have shown that play...

Stricter Gun Control Leaves People Vulnerable

that the average citizen is allowed to own a gun they are wary of breaking into peoples homes, or wary of committing crime in some...

Impact of Youth Violence on Communities and Social Work Prevention

victims knew each other" (Hammond, 1998). He was testifying before the Columbine shooting, but it only serves as a further example...

Youth Violence in the United States

4,400 rapes, 57% by people under 16, 3% by females, and 67% by whites (Juvenile court statistics, 2005). There were 26,000 robberi...

Sex and Violence on Television

content that may be objectionable. As an example, this particular writer/researcher has a daughter who is 11 years old. The tele...

Argument: Television Violence Does Not Harm Children

the media" (Fowles, 2001). Why is TV a stand-in for the other problems, and what are those problems? The reason TV makes such a g...

Social Bias

particular group, ethnicity or other social connection by virtue of the behavior or situation of only some in that population. Bla...

Partner Abuse

easily overlooked by hospital personnel or other clinicians. Women both "initiate and reciprocate violence" (Lawson, 2003, p. 19...

Domestic Violence in Today's World

that more than 50 thousand cases of domestic violence took place during 2006 ("Domestic Violence Facts: New York," 2008). What is ...

Negative Effects of Media on Young People

and for acceptance in social group" (Deveny and Kelley). II. By the age of 18, most American children have witnessed 16,000 simul...

Modern Gladiator Days

pankration matches were held in a confined arena space with a referee presiding or few rules beyond the prohibition of eye gouging...