They may withdraw from other people and become anxious or depressed. ... Other people avoid the family because they know what is going on (the children may lose friends and find it hard to make new ones). ... Sometimes the mothers think that the best thing to do is to move with their children, even if their funds are limited . As a result of the move the children are forced to start attending a new school, and end up loosing their friends. ... Even so, children from violent families often grow up feeling anxious and depressed, and find it difficult to get on with other people. ...

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I chose this topic because I feel as though it is a very important topic to be brought up about and I feel as though many people do not realize how serious dating violence can be and how often it does happen. ... Most people feel more comfortable talking about an issue over message and not face-to-face because they do not want to show their face due to embarrassment or shame they feel after incidents have occurred. ... The problem may get solved but it is more or less just covered up and moved on with. ... Persons' self esteem can also negotiate peoples experience and observations of thei...

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Courtney didn't have to ask her girlfriend for anything because she would provide her with food, money for school, money for clothes, shower her with gifts, and eventually asked Courtney to move in with her after she completed high school. Shortly after they moved in together, Courtney began to notice her girlfriend secretly hid her alcohol and marijuana addiction over the past year that they were involved. ... Patterns of Abuse Gunner Gurwitch is an outreach coordinator at The Network/La Red Organization reported that one in four lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people is ...

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Meanwhile the governments response is too often to build more prisons, eliminate opportunities for rehabilitation and cut prevention programs which would offer young people an alternative to violent street and homes. ... God demanded genocide of pagan peoples so they would not lead the Jews into paganism. ... The theme of the book of Amos is divine judgment and its aim is to effect repentance and reformation in view of the inevitability of impending judgments unless the people amended their ways, that is why violence is shown so much in this book. ... He moves in majesty so that obs...

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Censorship is the regulation and control of information and ideas that are circulated among people within a society. ... In response MTV moved the program to a time slot four hours later. ... (Microsoft Internet's explorer) The implication is that people are passive beings easily influenced by what they see. Another implication is that all people have shared experiences and will think and react alike. ...

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Mentioning old incidents over and over always make people irritated. ... How do I tell people that games aren't like that? ... I kill people and they kill me with sportsmanship; I sell things to people and they sell it back to me. ... In life, I would have to make decisions and choices, especially in fields such as business, my next critical move can change everything or my life, at least. ... There are people who will just destroy you by playing the same game. ...

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Stalking in this case is intended for the purpose of inflicting fear to the victim and it is a wrong move. ... Racism entails the beliefs and practices which show some form of discrimination towards certain peoples' traits and qualities such as the skin color or the place of origin (Baines, 17). It is a practice that entails viewing some people as being inferior to others based on certain characteristics despite them being permanent such as the color of the skin. People are often harassed based on the race they belong to and some abusive and sarcastic remarks are made about them. The act,...

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People in an ambience of intensive violent media become desensitized to violent acts clearing a path towards and apathetic stance towards violence in our society is being made worse by so many children having a regular habit of watching violence. ... He says that " I haven't seen Red rover or Tag on the playground for years, the standard now is play-fighting', often with kung-fu moves."" ... Pearl of the national institute of mental health argues, " television tells people to be violent."" ...

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This may not seem like a problem, but TV is a big influence on people's social behaviors. ... In real life most people know that this is not true, but it is harder for the children watching to understand. ... Children are the most impressionable out of all people. ... They then act more aggressive towards the people they interact with regularly in their lives. ... If society does not want violent aggressive children then a new, less attractive, advisory system should be created or television violence should be eliminated or moved in some way so that children do not have access to it. ...

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By nature when babies first begin to learn, they do so by imitating other people's behaviors. ... There are many other examples that confirm that people imitate violence scenes on television. ... As a result, the child died from being left out in the cold because she was not able to move due to her injuries. ... Many studies have been conducted to determine if in fact people imitate or model aggressive behaviors. ... They also determined that people will imitate the violent acts seen in the media. ...

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By nature when babies first begin to learn, they do so by imitating other people's behaviors. ... There are many other examples that confirm that people imitate violence scenes on television. ... As a result, the child died from being left out in the cold because she was not able to move due to her injuries. ... Many studies have been conducted to determine if in fact people imitate or model aggressive behaviors. ... They also determined that people will imitate the violent acts seen in the media. ...

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Sadly enough this boy ended up killing his little sister by imitating one of the fighting moves. ... Perhaps it is impossible to isolate the effects television has on people. ... Just like how subjects can come to the conclusion that a researcher supports the violence he shows them, it is suggested that people can come to the conclusion that society supports such violence. ... A reminder of the film might be anything from a similar setting of the movie, to similar kinds of people. ... In fact, in many studies, the people who were reported to be non-aggressive before exposure to violent shows...

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Does media violence promote violence in young people? ... It's hard to take Freedmans side because of the influence I have see with young people around me, people I hung around or know. ... I believe children understand Power Rangers are not real, but the karate moves the do on the show are easily imitated to certain degree of entertainment for a 7 year old kid. ... I think my side is very clear in that yes I do believe television and movies companies do play a significant role in violence in young people. ...

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Most people agree that technology is a hefty contributor to the change. ... The people that live in the world today, are far beyond different from the people who lived fifty years ago or even before that time. Mankind has moved on from a modest life style to a more threatening life style. ... Trusting people is getting harder and harder each day. ... Studies have been conducted on people that contain anger problems. ...

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A state will only use excessive force when it knows it has lost all other power over the people it chooses to oppress; this has been evident in many revolutions or uprisings both violent and non-violent. ... An example of this are trade agreements that create debt and poverty, putting peoples lives at risk through denying them access to basic necessities (Bourgois et al, 2004). ... Governments in the past have made the most of this fact like in the case of Mexico when what started as a teacher strike in Oaxaca became a social movement for indigenous people, the government media outlets r...

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When a violent action is reported publicly, there is a move to blame someone or something for what has happened. ... Without a doubt, media violence does influence people. However, does media violence influence people to the point of lashing out in violence? ... Some people think so because they believe that aggression will make a child hurt someone else. ... Littleton, Colorado was devastated when events in Columbine High School left twenty-three people wounded and fifteen people dead, including the two supposedly "unstable- gunmen, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. ...

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"These people want to hurt you. ... People who have power over the events, often team owners, indirectly influence the amount of spectator violence by encouraging the factors contributing to violence, in order to benefit themselves. ... However, when people gained power or financially from the sporting events, spectator violence increased (Berger, 1990). ... Seventy-six people were arrested. ... Phillips theory is "people see how violence is prized in the boxing ring and come to believe that violence outside the ring will also be rewarded" (Davidson, 1983). ...

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"These people want to hurt you. ... People who have power over the events, often team owners, indirectly influence the amount of spectator violence by encouraging the factors contributing to violence, in order to benefit themselves. ... However, when people gained power or financially from the sporting events, spectator violence increased (Berger, 1990). ... Seventy-six people were arrested. ... Phillips theory is "people see how violence is prized in the boxing ring and come to believe that violence outside the ring will also be rewarded" (Davidson, 1983). ...

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Much of what goes on in entertainment (movies and TV) is a reflection of what goes on in the news; the media echo messages young people hear at school - in particular, themes of violence and sex are constantly reinforced" - John Merrow, 1999. ... Media are our main suppliers of information and images about events and people outside our immediate environment. ... In other words, there would be positive effects on the behavior of these people if they had opportunities to observe pro-social models. ...

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The gunmen carpeted the library with death lead, laughing while they completed their task, making sure that nothing moved when they were finished. ... By the time incidents occur and the school learns its lesson, however, it is too late for the school to respond to the situation, "It is a habit for people to react to a situation, instead of predicting that it will happen" (Leverence). ... To keep costs of security to a minimum, many schools do not monitor the entrances and exits to school grounds, do not observe parking lots for illegal activity, and fail to record the people who enter and lea...

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He drove straight to the police station, made me press charges, get a restraining order, and move in with them immediately. ... I have removed my rose colored glasses when I see people with troubled pasts. ... Educating people on the cycle, warning signs, and ways to seek help is mandatory to break up this vicious cycle. ...

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Yet when the war ended and it was no longer allowed to shoot people, rape was still occurring. ... Not only did it give all of them a chance to move on and recover, but also it gave them each a voice they never had before. ... Knowing there are so many people out there like COOPI fighting for the women in Sierra Leone, why is it that only one sexual violence case has been prosecuted? ...

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He believes that structural violence is a certain way of describing arrangements that are made within society that place people and populations in harm's way. ... Violence has become a comprising eruption of aggression that has moved over the usual borders of social interaction. ...

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