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Essays 1981 - 2010

Gender, Violence and Infotainment: Issues in the Entertainment Industry

about girls of all ages and their dreams," still manages to send up, "at times with a wink, at times with a hard nudge, some of th...

Television Articles

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

Similes of Violence

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

Increasing Violence in Sports

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

Reducing Playground Violence

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

James Bond and Violence from Connery to Craig

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...

Domestic Violence: Is Income a Factor?

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

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...

Community Profile: Juvenile Threat

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

The Lottery by Jackson: Violence or Tradition?

she was saying many bad things about America and Americans. There were many others who were simply confused by the story and appar...

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, ...

Jack London’s Call of the Wild

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

Tolstoy: "After the Ball"

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

Ineffectiveness of Zero Tolerance School Violence Policies

toward school violence, rather than helping the situation, appear to have altered a beneficial trend. In fact, incidences of serio...

A Clockwork Orange and 1984

Burgess poses basic questions regarding the...

Research Question on Legalizing Drugs

Magazine. Retrieved March 4, 2004 from: http://www.drugsense.org/mcwilliams/www.marijuanamagazine.com/toc/drugsand.htm DuPont, R...

Violence and Religion

were able to live cooperatively. What was "good" was whatever perpetuated the interests of given society and what was "bad" was an...

Issues of Violence Committed by Teens

have been "planted" by police detectives, meaning they discussed knowledge of the facts of the case rather than determining what t...

Hondo by Louis L'Amour and the Connection Between the Masculine Social Construct and Violence

activities. Sometimes this encouragement is overt but sometimes it is very covert and they receive it from practically everyone th...

School Violence in Russia, China, and the US in Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18

for the unleashing of such aggressions, are often a "source of criticism and rejection" (De Wolfe et al, 1995, p. 315) where child...

Violence at Schools/Research Issues

color as well as students with emotional and behavioral disorders" (Austin, 2003; p. 17)? Can educators achieve better results by...

Classroom Discipline and 10 Problem Statement Questions

models that have been shown to decrease the incidence of behavior problems in the classroom? Cooperative learning, for example, ha...

Immigrant Social Workers and Domestic Violence Implications

result in stressful family conflicts over role expectations and individual behaviors" (Bhattacharya, 2002; p. 175). Acevedo...

Martin Scorsese's Justification of Violence in Films Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, GoodFellas and Casino

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

Domestic Violence and Law Enforcement

In fourteen pages this paper examines domestic violence, law enforcement, and the various conditions and issues pertaining to them...

India Honor Crimes and U.S. Domestic Violence

pp. 96-97) and the likelihood she will endure some level of domestic abuse. In association with this finding, it has come to ligh...

The Relationship Between Mass Media and Violence in Society

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...

Cultural Violence and 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

against Mrs. Hutchinson, and they only wanted to get through quickly so they could go home for lunch" (The Lottery: Shirley Jackso...