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Deviance Across Cultures: Girl Gangs Around the World

feud between rival families of the Camorra crime syndicate" exploded in a small town outside Naples (Israely, 2002, p. 32). The le...

Bullying and How to Address It

other fatal acts. Various efforts have been launched around the nation in an attempt to eradicate bullying. Those that h...

American Psycho/In Bruges

A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares American Psycho (2000, directed by Mary Harron) and In Bruges (2008, directed by Martin...

Women in Ancient Greece

conceive was thus a serious problem" (Women in the Ancient World). Now, of course one could also argue that this was a patriarch...

Current Prejudices against Women in the U.S.

stereotypes about lesser female competence" (Swim et al, 1995, p. 199). Modern sexism, however, is characterized by "the denial of...

DOUBLE STANDARD BY ELLEN WATKINS HARPER

girl, outcast, forlorn/as thrown her life away?"). But the poet is adamant that both parties, the man and the woman involved in th...

An Argument for the Death Penalty

another. That, however, is precisely the point that a strict adherence to the death penalty would bring home to potential crimina...

Censoring Television Content is Wrong

to violence and to increase such adverse societal phenomenon as drug use and drinking. Those that support censorship of American ...

Is the UN Effective?

again determined that something had to be done to prevent further conflicts, and thus the United Nations was born. It began in 194...

Why Violence IS So Prevalent In Sports

very heart of causal processes (Bandura, 1986). Emphasizing the notion of learned expectations, this theory is closely associated...

MEDIA, VIOLENCE AND CRITICAL ISSUES

a consistent pattern or linkage. What are at least two opinions presented by each side of the critical issue? Singorielli...

Women and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain

underpinnings for decision and action, nonetheless real for being symbolic. It is my contention that such constellations of enshri...

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...

Fight Club/Injured Male Egos & Dystopia

film is much more complicated than the "how." On the day that Tyler emerges from Jacks subconscious, the airline loses Jacks lugga...

Spartan Civilization

Lakedaimon, a king himself, named his country after himself. The capital of that country he named after his wife. Lacedaemon, of...

Women in Caribbean History

women did more than this, and perhaps provided a great deal of the food consumed by families. Figueroa (1996) states that the wome...

Writing Exercise: Autobiography

like an angel because she was so caring and helpful, and I couldnt get her, or nursing, out of my mind. I soon realized that nursi...

In Support of the Death Penalty

that contend that it is a gruesome and uncivilized option for our society, those that contend that we have advanced to the point t...

Malcolm X and an Interpretative Question

In three pages this paper asks an interpretive question or one that can be answered in two or more ways based upon The Autobiograp...

Criminal Justice System and Plea Bargaining

In six pages this essay argues against the option of plea bargaining for sex offenders and violent criminals with the Megan Kanka ...

Argument Against TV Violence

This was further supported by research conducted by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which concluded that, "Heavy exposure to t...

Effects of Violence in the Media

According to that particular definition, finding a body in a pool of blood would count while Kramer bumping into a door on the Sei...

A Content Analysis of the Evening News in 1995

This four page report presents the results of a study conducted in 1995 that analyzed the evening news for inclusion of sexual and...

Insight into the Black Panthers

businesses can operate on Sundays.4 The two types of rights have become so intertwined with each other that they often appear...

Technology and Minorities

In five pages this paper examines the field of technology and the biases that impact upon the involvement of women and blacks....

Esther and Ruth Biblical Analysis

In four pages this essay contrasts and compares these biblical books and the women that are featured in them....

Film Director Sam Peckinpah's Life and Work

In five pages plus an additional thesis and outline page this paper considers the controversial filmmaker's life and violent appro...

'The Odyssey,' 'Epic of Gilgamesh,' Violence and Heroism

This essay consists of six pages and in a comparative heroic analysis of Gilgamesh and Odysseus presents the arguments that despit...

Overview of the Molly Maguires Group

In six pages this paper examines the violent post Civil War labor history of the Pennsylvania coal mines in this overview of the M...

Life, Works and Style of Author Flannery O'Connor

to be left to her own pursuits, which involved studies in painting, art and writing-both poetry and prose-while at Peabody" (Anony...