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Sex and Violence on Television

many viewers find objectionable. It has been described as "wall-to-wall violence scored to gratingly loud rock with the occasional...

Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Violence

is basically unchanged for a long period of time (years) could be considered successful, thus, the American Revolution is particul...

How the Media Reflects Violence in Society

benefit of such shows as Ricki Lake, Maury Povich, Montel Williams, Jenny Jones or Jerry Springer is to corrupt the fragile balanc...

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 ...

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...

Japanese Schools, Violence, and Bullying

defining the roles they are expected to play as adults. Bullied students who suffer from tokokyohi complain of debilitating fatig...

American Society and Violence

most unflattering terms: violence (67 percent), power (66 percent), inequality (49 percent), and racism (42 percent)" (51). Lacorn...

Subculture Violence Theories

of others" (Brannigan, Gemmell et al 2002, 119). Aggressive behavior would not be such a concern in children if it was a natural...

American Social Violence, Racism, Sexism, the Vietnam War, and Stanley Kubrick's Film Full Metal Jacket

human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...

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 ...

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...

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...

Counseling and Family Violence

to understand that it has also been a very real part of American society since the early days. In a review of the book "Domestic 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...

Health Issue of Violence

global problem as it is estimated that over 40 million children worldwide are abused each year. Violence within the family and edu...

Solitude and Isolation Themes Expressed by Violence in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

the imaginary town of Macondo in Columbia. The characters experience a cyclical pattern of revolutions and exposure to outside con...

The Media and Aggression

this encompasses cartoons and comics, sports, soap operas and films through to snuff videos. The portrayal of violence n cartoons ...

Formulating Policy on Teenage Violence

501K3066), and insists that the answer lies in the communitys response to the problem: "We have to get smart on crime, not tough"...

Soccer, Drugs, and Violence

the current status of the problem of associated violence within this sport due largely in part to drugs and/or alcohol. Soccer S...

Impact TV Violence Has on Children

million and that the number of violent crimes committed by juveniles will more than double by 2010 (Briscoe, 1997). Unless action...

Violence and its Sociological, Biological, and Psychological Roots

is almost a learned behavior, not socially speaking, but psychologically speaking. It is the human minds reaction and perhaps solu...

Poverty, Political Violence, and Global Terrorism

(Wilkinson, 1996, p. 12). Terrorism is a reaction against something, usually political oppression, and although it received its n...

Social Workers and Violence

and gagged her and pulled a plastic garbage bag over her head before leaving her in a locked bathroom. Putman suffocated. As a r...

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and Violence

fight for justice and serves as a vehicle for exposing mans inhumanity toward man(Weeks 2002). Violence erupts on the scene fair...

Video Games, Sex and Violence

but it is highly encouraged" (Farrales, 2004). This argument is that there should be regulations insisting that such labels always...

Resistance and Violence in Richard Wright's Native Son and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

belly pulsed with fear...and the rat emitted a long thin song of defiance, its black beady eyes glittering" (Wright, 10). ...

Causes of Violence in Schools

less lethal forms of violence0 are able to escape from the school environment (Thinking the unthinkable, 2001). They become habitu...

Public Values and How They Are Influenced by Special Interest Groups Regarding Video Game Violence

"numerous secrets hidden within this dark and intimidating game. And in an added twist, not only did combatants spew puddles...

Societal Impact of the Media

then, after a time, actions follow (Waliszewksy and Smithouser, 2001). The human brain, they note, doesnt need that "garbage" (Wal...