Desperately trying to get away from Jakes violence, Sigrid retreats to a place where she is staying with friends. ... Relieved and also a little bit shocked, Sigrid tells Beth and John about the news. ... John has known Matt for a while and they are good friends. ... With her being a little bit lonely, she starts spending a lot of time at Matt's house looking at his paintings. ... Surprisingly he doesn't come back suddenly, but rather by leaving little clues of his presence. ...

• Word Count: 1175
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

This is a little background story of me. ... We knew the same people and had the same friends. So when my boyfriend came at me the first time with a gun, I contacted our closest friends, but they took his side on the matter and begged me not to take out a restraining order. ...

• Word Count: 1089
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Unwanted letters, cards, gifts, threats to the person, his family, or friends, unwanted emails, or telephone calls, messages, inappropriate approaches and confrontations, appearing unexpected to home, work, or place of frequent visit, damaging property, following or watching from a distance, and physical or sexual assault are all elements of stalking. ... With the awareness about stalking growing, perhaps one day, it will a little more difficult for the stalker to be very effective. ...

• Word Count: 937
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The victim feels humiliated and embarrassed when talking to family, friends, court system, and from society. While talking to family and friends, they sometimes are also not as supportive and place the blame on the victim. ...

• Word Count: 7108
• Approx Pages: 28
• Grade Level: High School

In Karen Brennan's short story "Runaways," we observe how physical abuse and infidelity leads to a family's separation and the resulting destructive impact on family and friends. ... "It dreams that someone comes, some giant god with a giant hand, a hand so big that the mussel can't tell it's a hand, and it picks up the mussel and his little shell and pries it open. ... One must understand that the decisions they make will not only affect them, but also directly affect their children and family friends. ...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

However, as many of us are middle and upper class white Americans the news reports are just topics of discussion among friends at school and work the next day. ... Try to think a little further into the things you see on the news next time. ...

• Word Count: 1284
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

It's very important to remember than when domestic violence occurs within a home not just the abuser & victim are affected, it has a serious effect on the family members, friends, co-workers, other witnesses and especially children. ... Kid Safe Alliance is a local organization that has a handful of carefully selected volunteer who bring a little joy into a child's life in a domestic violence shelter. ...

• Word Count: 1350
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

You may notice the child is good for a little while after being spanked, but then revert to their old ways. ... Instead of telling the child they have to leave their friends house at a moments notice, tell them that you will be leaving in five minutes. ...

• Word Count: 1262
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

My son is also an advocate and definitely passes on to his friends that talking down to girls is not ok. ... He is the best guy friend and protector to many female friends and family members he has acquired over the years. ...

• Word Count: 2140
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Don grabbed her by the hair and jerked her out of bed. By this time his verbal accusations had moved from her behavior at the party to the incompetence as a wife and mother. Although Molly knew this was going to get bad, she had neither the energy nor the ability to resist physically or get away. When Don started beating her with his fists, she put up her arms to protect her face and crouched down on the floor, hoping it would end soon. Don grabbed her by the hair, turned her on her back, and choked her while banging her head on the floor. ...

• Word Count: 5197
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He also explains it is very important for a parent to punish their children in the privacy of their own homes, not in a public place or among family and friends. ... If everyone would just use a little common sense about what is right and wrong, then this issue would not be as debatable as it is. ...

• Word Count: 1485
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

(Time Magazine) The media bombardment that teens are faced with in society distorts the laws of reality, and as one sociologist puts it: "adolescents show little if any concern for the physical injury or harm inflicted for their victims." ... The children that did this cold-blooded act were seen by other High School students as a little bit "different" but not "disturbed," to their knowledge anyway. Little did they know what was about to happen to them. ... (Former probation officer from Brooklyn, NY featured in Time Magazine) Parents are definitely the biggest influence on a child since they...

• Word Count: 2620
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

So Judy did escape the abuse but also had to change her typical lifestyle from little things like changing where she shopped for groceries to not going to educational conferences because Karl would be there. ... Her family and friends felt she found the perfect husband and had the perfect family. ...

• Word Count: 2266
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

In the process of the violence taking place Aaron Bosket witnessed a lot of his friends lives taken by the hands of a white man and soon enough became numb to the killings that were going on around him. ...

• Word Count: 3198
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School