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. ... On the other hand, a witness to torture/violence, can only stand at the edge of that "pain", that no-man's-land of unimaginable, unspeakable horror and terror, that their mind to some degree have not ever touched or assimilated before. ... Because rape makes the victim invisible, it does this literally, the perpetrator " covers " her, and figuratively, the rape d...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

She married a man who was wonderful to her in the beginning, and then slowly, over time, something happened. ... The invisible scars caused by emotional and psychological abuse make it more difficult to identify and report, leaving victims in a state of unstable helplessness. ...

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The traditional idea of a 'man' had been taken away, which was creating false expectations, and when these expectations aren't met, they take control of their life in terms of violence, attempting to show masculinity in a different way. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Up until the late 1800's, a man in this country had the right to chastise his wife until the practice was declared illegal in two states (Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence Manual, p. ... Various researchers have theorized the causal mechanism behind domestic violence, have studied the characteristics of both the female victim and the male perpetrator, and have researched the effects on men, women, and the invisible victims of domestic violence: the children. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate