Through this research, many of the aspects of domestic violence are better understood. ... A person of any age or sex may be a victim of domestic violence. ... The theory of Intergenerational Transmission which borrows ideas from Social Learning Theory, involves the relationship between parental violence and subsequent child violence during adulthood. ... Furthermore, Harway (1998) explains that the period immediately following the battering is experienced by the woman as one of extreme aversive arousal, together with feelings of self-blame, depression, and helplessness. ... There are a number...

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Gun Violence in America is a not a debate over the pro-gun or anti-gun culture. ... As reported recently in a Reuters publication, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, the National Troopers Coalition and the International Brotherhood of Police Officers joined Michael Barnes, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence in pushing for gun records and stricter restrictions on purchasing guns at gun-shows. ... Yet the anthem of extreme individualism of the right to be armed marches on, paralleling the path forged by the Framer's of the Constitution from John Locke's The ...

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Domestic violence has a weighty effect on children who are exposed to it. ... Infants and toddlers who witness violence in their homes show extreme irritability, immature behavior, sleeping disorders, emotional suffering, fears of being alone, and decline in toileting and language skills. ... Other studies have reported that school-age children, age 6-12, who are exposed to family violence, are affected similarly to those exposed to community violence (Houskamp 364). ... They usually blame their mother for the violence. ... Individual therapy is specified for children who show extreme symptoms...

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Domestic violence could be our nation's number one social problem. ... In order to understand the cycle of violence or prevent it, we should examine the psychological and sociological factors found in the players and roles of this tragic drama: A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE The most common factor in the developmental history of both abusers and victims is previous experience and exposure to violence. ... The psychological effects of domestic violence on children are far-reaching, and starts when they are still young. ... They feel shame, remorse, and guilt that the violence is occurring. ... ...

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Ethnic violence: Ethnic violence has been prevalent throughout the modern history, which have caused millions brutal deaths, the over-throwing of governments, the creation of separate states, genocides, and many other atrocities. ... While ethnic differences can result in violence, interethnic relations can also cause violence within ones own group. If particular norms within a group are not followed, sanctions are used to repatriate individual(s) back into the group for minor infraction, but hasher punishment like death is resulted in extreme cases. ... Today Haiti is still struggling to ...

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The only way that, as an audience we could determine the scale of violence occurring was from the offstage screams, the effect after on characters and by analyzing who was committing the violence. For this reason, I want to analyse why violence is not at the center of a tragedy by using Sophocles Oedipus the King as an example, and how "the most extreme forms of tragic violence are presented as off-stage events, out of sight but very much within the emotional reach of the audience. ... Having the representation of violence and not witnessing the bloody act as its happening can be argued as ant...

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Inside of each of these emotions lies a deeper meaning which drives many of the characters to serious extremes. The characters of Tybalt and Romeo, are examples of how extreme excess emotions lead to deadly consequences. ... Such extreme behavior dominates Romeo's character throughout the play, and contributes to the ultimate tragedy that befalls the lovers. Romeo and Juliet does not make a specific moral statement about the relationships between love and society, religion, and family; rather, it portrays the chaos and passion of being in love, combining images of love, violence, death, r...

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One cannot understand the problematics of gender violence solely by referring to the relationship of power or authority between man and women. ... In order to clarify our perspective on the problem, it is also important to note that violence against women is to be considered as being essentially related to the more general problems of women's oppression. ... Recently newspaper reports indicate that gender violence in Bangladesh is on the increase.1 a phenomena which has brought forth preventive legislative measures from the government, as well as growing concern from the general public. I...

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At one extreme of the debate are civil liberty groups that see any form of censorship as a threat to freedom of speech. On the other extreme are religious leaders and community groups that want some sort of protection against offensive content on the Internet in a desperate attempt to protect the local community standards. ... Twenty-one years later, the American Psychological Association published its 1993 report, "Violence & Youth," and concluded, "The greatest predictor of future violent behavior is a previous history of violence." ... Gratuitous sex and violence has no place in the public...

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Fascism This is the age of fear, inequality and extreme forms of government. ... Fascism tends to celebrate masculinity, mystical unity, and the regenerative power of violence, just like Islamic Fundamentalism. ... Although the motivations are slightly different, the fascists having the eugenics as the basis of their ideology, and the goal of lebensraum, and the fundamentalists had the religious basis, and literal interpretation of the Koran, the result nonetheless is extreme violence and terror. ...

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Similarly, violence on the field is not always preceded by hooligan incidents. Nor are all hooligan incidents always followed by violence on the field. This is not to say that drinking and violence on the field are causally not implicated by football hooligan fighting, but they are a series of conditions that can facilitate football hooligan violence. ... But once outside police agencies, more extreme violence occurs. ... These usually lead to violence in the stands. ...

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The one major character flaw was that he was a man driven by his fear to extreme reactions. ... tead, he ruled with an iron-fist and in his suppression of gentleness lent himself to violence. ... Okonokwa's devotion to manliness is an obsession that leads him to these incredible situations of violence and resistance with regard to the colonist and therefore is the reason for his destruction. ... Clearly, Things Fall Apart is not only an attempt to show customs and culture of the African people but also to expound upon the notion that anger and violence without compassion will, across...

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Mankind's" history was dominated by violence, whether its political war, domestic violence, social violence or personal violence, violence had abided in our culture visibly and invisibly. ... We live in a system, domestically and internationally that employs violence as a solution to violence. Beyond this violence, is the violence in our hearts. ... Extreme violence can push a person out of cultural system, because pain is in controvertible and world-erasing, registering the body pain as sensory, aversive and overwhelming, plus it causes deeper fear of the bodies" own futur...

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"Funny Games" is extremely disturbing but also very unique film and is largely said to be a critique on the amount of violence people like to see in modern day cinema. ... It often breaks down conventional plot devices, and has a powerful impact, where it could change the viewer's perception on films with overly gratuitous violence. ... The music then cuts from what they are playing in the car to a very noisy extreme metal track: "Bonehead" by Naked City featuring avant-garde musician John Zorn. ... This, combined with the sudden change to the extreme metal music suggests that the film...

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In the era of modern politics, it takes extreme circumstances for a politician to be so bold pre-trial and especially pre-election. ... The one-sided approach to domestic violence is one of the most prevalent examples of inequality within the feminist movement. ... In some cases, female violence is glorified. ... When jumping from her article praising the video of "...the feminist hero" (Morrissey) Michelle Obama to a story consciously promoting domestic violence, it is implied that these are the standard practices of feminism. ...

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Donna Cohen, in her article "Culture, Social Organization, and Patterns of Violence" shows that in the West (which includes Colorado) and South, where a culture of honor persists, there is a higher rate of argument-related homicide that in other areas of the country (the North). ... Southerners and Westerners support honor-related violence more than Northerners and also react more aggressively when insulted (Cohen 408). In addition, laws in the South and West are more likely to support those who use violence consistent with honor (Cohen 409). ... The more stable communities within these reg...

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The public has declared that there is excessive violence portrayed on television and that this violence ultimately negatively affects viewers, especially children. ... Singer suggests that television violence does not promote violence in children, they explicitly state that the issue "arises from a concern over an important contemporary social issue." ... They concluded that many studies didn't specify reasons for why correlation was made between television violence and violence in society. (Howitt and Cumberbatch, 1975) Albert Bandura on the other hand set the precedence with his stu...

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Fascism as an ideology involves, to a varying degree, some of the following hallmarks: Extreme Nationalism and super-patriotism with a sense of historic mission, cult of personality around a charismatic leader, racism and a self image as being a superior form of social organisation, attacks against both socialism and communism, repression and totalitarianism. ... From extreme nationalism and the cult of leadership grew racism, a belief in the superiority of one's own race and that the world was divided into superior and inferior races. ... In terms of both Italy and Germany, the use of...

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Overview How exactly do you truly alter a criminal's demeanor when it comes to acts of violence? ... Criminal Justice professor, and author of "Don't Shoot, One Man, A Street Fellowship, And The End of Violence in Inner-City America" believes in the second method. Kennedy has spent the last twenty years trying to stop inner-city violence, and his methods are much different from many others. ... In the different approach created in New York City, which also showed a drop in homicide rates, also known as "the broken window theory" or extreme policing, Kennedy belie...

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His account of the struggle of these people to survive extreme poverty, terrible living conditions, and political chaos that is present in the Mexican borderlands explains without a doubt the reason so many are forced to make the dangerous and illegal journey "across the wire" into the United States. ... One topic that was brought up in class that I feel was present during Across the Wire was the rise of urban slums and the violence that they cultivate. In other words, the number of these dangerous slums as been growing exponentially throughout the world and in almost every one there is an abu...

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In other words they do not posses logical thought processes, but rather a delusional one that promotes their violent and erratic behavior Arabs, in the eyes of many Israeli Jews, are also seen both as cowards and as being prone to extreme violence. ... In other words they have become some accustomed to the violence that the people actually support it. ... Only nine years old, Amal makes it obvious that there is no befriending Israelis; the only answer is violence. ... The survey shows just for integrated violence is into the culture in this area, that the new generation of children no longer ...

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It is difficult to censor without crossing the line of free speech, but in an environment where parental guidance is lacking and youth violence is increasing, control must be integrated. ... Researchers have followed the correlation between screen violence and actual violence for more than three decades. ... The code had incorporated strict standards for depictions of, among other things, violence, sexually explicit material, crime, and racism. ... Violence and sex are popular topics among many of today's music videos and CD artists. ... However, the challenge for media practitioners, in...

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Greenpeace has even taken their usual methods to the extremes by launching a blimp-like aircraft from a field along Portland's Million Dollar Highway to direct people's attention from the coal-burning power plant along River Road. ... However the reasons why Greenpeace should not protest using atypical methods is because, if they take their protesting to the extremes to deliver their message, it can kill far too many people or at least affect many people. ... I think that taking their protests to the extremes help stop climate change but there is a bad side to it too, many people are...

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Furthermore, the author argues that not only these people live in extreme destitution, but also they are live in those conditions because they are victims of oppression, repression, and exploitation. ... "The changes required by the IMF produced widespread unemployment; inflation of astronomical proportions; the suspension of the education of many people; especially girls; a dramatic decrease in access to health care; an increase in violence, an increase in violence; conflict between the country's ethnic groups; and increased class stratification"(Kline, 471). ...

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Yes, there are laws to ensure against premeditative violence against homosexuals, but that has not deterred the violence nor the fear of reporting such violence. ... I don't believe any parent can fortify a child against extreme social biases. ...

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