They faced multiple types of gender based discrimination and violence. Most epidemic form of violence is domestic violence such as honour killing, early marriages, sexual assault and psychological abuse. ... The number of cases of violence against women was 800 in 2010, 7571 in 2007. ... The incidence of acid throwing and stove burning is categorized as domestic violence in Pakistan. ... Disfigurement Through Acid Throwing Acid throwing is the most extreme form of violence against women and young girls. ...

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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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Research reports are divided on the causes of school violence. ... School violence is a subset of youth violence, a broader public health problem. ... Youth Violence typically includes persons between the ages of 10 and 24, although pathways to youth violence can begin in early childhood ("School violence," 2009).Violent behavior includes bullying, fighting (e.g., punching, slapping, kicking), weapon use, electronic aggression and gang violence. ... Violence at school often involves the use of weapons. ... Violence is an everyday part of our existence. ...

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I will relate to why violence appears to be associated with masculinity, by analysing these concepts, therefore creating a sustained argument in how these concepts pursue the idea that violence is associated with masculinity. ... Evolutionary explanations are also another concept of how violence appears to be associated with masculinity. There are many evolutionary explanations which connect both masculinity and violence together. In terms of symbolic and mediated forms of violence, such as rituals, it is hard for us to understand why violence isn't committed the same in each culture or...

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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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Other forms of mass media, specifically movies and television programs containing pornography and violence have been heavily criticized. The underlining concept to be debated here is that society is negatively influenced, specifically, by these images of pornography and the result is increased violence against women. ... One way to do that is to concentrate on what sells: sex, violence and disaster. ... Subsequently, a second point, that some may consider to be completely bizarre, can be addressed; that pornography actually reduces the amount of violence against women. ... Having discu...

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For years the British and Irish governments have sought to find a peaceful settlement for the long history of violence occurring in Northern Ireland. ... Being of British ascendance, Protestants felt that it was their duty to maintain and preserve the place of Ireland in the UK, which caused the majority to support Unionists who went to extreme lengths to retain the union. ... The RUC and B-specials were overwhelmingly Protestant and often harassed and used violence against the peaceful marchers for example in Dungannon and Derry where nationalists marched against Internment. Due to the extent...

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Other forms of mass media, specifically movies and television programs containing pornography and violence have been heavily criticized. The underlining concept to be debated here is that society is negatively influenced, specifically, by these images of pornography and the result is increased violence against women. ... One way to do that is to concentrate on what sells: sex, violence and disaster. ... Subsequently, a second point, that some may consider to be completely bizarre, can be addressed; that pornography actually reduces the amount of violence against women. ... Having discuss...

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Ignatieff (2002), on the other hand, affirms that a state fails when "the central government loses the monopoly of the means of violence " (p.118). ... According to Brooks (2005), failed states cannot provide peace and instability for their citizens, as they are unable to control violence and territories. He continued to emphasize that in such states, economic growth, good income distribution or any social goods cannot be guaranteed, but there is more often the occurrence of economic disparities and violence competition for resources. ... These obstacles can leave serious consequences, for ex...

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The degree of violence in ""Romeo and Juliet"" is also an aspect I have changed in my adaptation. Violence is both a social issue and a value of the people depicted in ""Romeo Must Die""; and it is widely accepted in the community as the ultimate way of showing strength, power and authority. However in ""Romeo and Juliet"" violence is played out only as a result of a deep hatred and rage, i.e.: when Romeo kills Tybalt; or in the case of Capulet becoming dominatingly violent with Juliet, it is played out to depict the social authority of man. The degree of violence is to the greater extreme in ...

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Rape was not looked down upon; it was a symbolism to show a warrior's masculine violence and violation1. ... Allowing Spartans to rape women as a symbol for their masculine violence and violation is also contradicting because they have a chance of producing a child outside of wedlock, and also because they should not rape anyone especially the women of Sparta that they are trying to protect. ... The young Spartan boys were introduced into a world of violence by beginning training with their fathers or other military elders, by learning basic combat and fighting techniques.8 This usually l...

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Another downside is that it encourages violence. It reinforces the idea that violence can solve problems. ... Many organizations like the Center for Media Education (CME) have protested and lobbied to reduce the level of sex and violence on television for the sake of their children. ...

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The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 and the Joint Select Committee majority report were responses to an escalating civil unrest during the Reconstruction Period of the United States. These acts were established to dismantle, or at the very least, control the practices of the Ku Klux Klan. In fact, the Klan...

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In the world today, there is a growing trend in violence, both domestically and internationally, in the form of terrorism. ... The FBI defines terrorism as, "the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives."" (http://www.terrorism.com/index.shtml) Similarly, The Mitchell Commission (which "assessed the causes of Israeli-Palestinian violence last spring-) defined terrorism as, "the deliberate killing and injuring of randomly selected noncomba...

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In American Football, for example, specialisation by position has been taken almost to the extreme with separate offensive and defensive units and over fifty differentiated playing-positions. ... Folk games involved large numbers of participants which more often than not would result in uneven numbers and generally, as Malcolmson (1973) highlights, the rules governing them gave the players a great deal of discretion with regard to levels of violence. ... This rationalisation can also be associated with an increased level of civility and a decreased level of violence within sport. ...

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A young boy about six years old in the supermarket is screaming, crying, and pulling on his mothers leg to purchase a piece of candy. His mother simply tells him "stop it, stop it, stop it or you will have to go into time out," but this has no effect on the little boy's fierce tantrum. Most parent...

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One of the major problems has been the extreme divisions between the various ethnicities living in Iraq. ... This creates a problem for the new Democratic government of Iraq because if they cannot either find a way for all of these differing groups to reach an agreement, or find some other means of controlling the violence democracy in Iraq will not last for very long. ... The presence of US troop's simple seems to incite this factional violence amongst Iraq's different ethnic and religious groups. This can be seen simply by the fact that in areas where there is strong US troop prese...

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Marlow can also be read as an intermediary between the two extremes of Kurtz and the Company. He is moderate enough to allow the reader to identify with him, yet open-minded enough to identify at least partially with either extreme. ... Kurtz, on the other hand, is open about the fact that he does not trade but rather takes ivory by force, and he describes his own treatment of the natives with the words "suppression" and "extermination": he does not hide the fact that he rules through violence and intimidation. ...

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The contrasts between sexes were so extreme throughout the period that a unified National Independent Movement was a blessing in disguise, a formal chance to fight. ... For women, subject to cosmic violence and abuse over the years, the idea of a peaceful methodology bared large irony. ... This is influential when specifying gender roles, as the large religious divides between Hindu and Muslim would lead to extreme atrocities upon women. ...

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Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. Italy was on the winning side, but the war had cost nearly 700,000 Italian lives and over $15 billion. Moreover, Italy had received secret promises of specific territorial gains during the war, only to fin...

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There seems to be a larger and growing gap between the extremes and the moderate people who seem to want peace. ... The Arabs did not approve of this idea and violence ensued and this led to Israel declaring independence after the war in 1948. ... One of the solutions that comes up with the extreme Palestinians is to get rid of all the Jewish people in that region which will then end the conflict. ...

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Drug crimes and violence went hand in hand and so anything related to drugs had far more dire consequences in the eyes of the politicians and in turn the public interest as well. ... How he does this is via his testimony on life "Inside" Santos' book takes a somewhat ethnographic-like approach because a lot (if not all) of his work is comprised of very vivid details about the social life and the relationships of American prison systems during a time where Mass incarceration was underway (think crack epidemic, increase in violence, etc.). ... On a daily, the threat of violence ...

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The illegal drug trade led to violence, a common theme seen throughout history. ... Drug trafficking usually occurs through state or foreign bribery as civilians living in extreme poverty are targeted in turn for an income. ...

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There is nothing in the Qur"an that authorized it (UN, 1994)" The UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy, reacting to the Egyptian court decision, stated: "The recognition that female genital mutilation cannot be justified under Islamic law is an enormously important element in making the case for the abolition of the cruel, ritualized form of violence against women and girls... the clarity and authoritativeness of the decision is a dramatic affirmation of the rights of women and girls that will reverberate far beyond Egypt. ...

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First, there is the extreme patriotic response that is the symbolic ritual that celebrates our American exceptionalism. ... Extreme patriotism, and the cathartic "redemption" of capturing and killing terrorists has been a common cultural ritual since 9/11, and Boston College students can be seen repeating this cultural right when they celebrated in the mod on April 19th. If this is our response to terrorist acts, how can America, as Ivie asks in Democracy and America's War on Terror, "disentangle itself from this self-perpetuating, self-defeating, dangerously escalating cy...

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