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Revenge and the Law in Beowulf and Njal’s Saga

his murderous attacks upon Hrothgars sleeping warriors. Hrothgar makes it clear that Beowulfs obligation is based not on ties of ...

Video Games and Social Responsibility

games are encouraging violent aggression in young people. Should video game designers act in a manner that is socially responsibl...

Modern Gladiator Days

pankration matches were held in a confined arena space with a referee presiding or few rules beyond the prohibition of eye gouging...

Reducing Gang Violence In New York City

opportunities for city residents (Soglin, 2006). This author reports that studies consistently show an inverse relationship betwee...

Negative Effects of Media on Young People

and for acceptance in social group" (Deveny and Kelley). II. By the age of 18, most American children have witnessed 16,000 simul...

Television Articles

the things they see on the television they should simply turn the television off. The author indicates that some people enjoy a so...

Increasing Violence in Sports

an era which witnessed the rapid expansion of stadiums and arenas under the Roman Empire" (2006). But the Romans as is well known,...

Similes of Violence

ugliness of battle and death. Homers soldiers do not die cleanly and quickly; they suffer, they claw the ground; they cry out an...

Lateral Violence in a Nursing Workforce

backstabbing, failure to respect privacy and broken confidences" (Stanley, et al, 2007, p. 1248). Ferrell notes the importance of ...

Gender, Violence and Infotainment: Issues in the Entertainment Industry

about girls of all ages and their dreams," still manages to send up, "at times with a wink, at times with a hard nudge, some of th...

Television and Its Negative Effects on Children

comes to witnessing violence, there is a fear that the exposure to such things is enough to trigger violent behavior. In some inst...

Impact of Youth Violence on Communities and Social Work Prevention

victims knew each other" (Hammond, 1998). He was testifying before the Columbine shooting, but it only serves as a further example...

Youth Violence in the United States

4,400 rapes, 57% by people under 16, 3% by females, and 67% by whites (Juvenile court statistics, 2005). There were 26,000 robberi...

Argument: Television Violence Does Not Harm Children

the media" (Fowles, 2001). Why is TV a stand-in for the other problems, and what are those problems? The reason TV makes such a g...

Social Bias

particular group, ethnicity or other social connection by virtue of the behavior or situation of only some in that population. Bla...

Stricter Gun Control Leaves People Vulnerable

that the average citizen is allowed to own a gun they are wary of breaking into peoples homes, or wary of committing crime in some...

Sex and Violence on Television

content that may be objectionable. As an example, this particular writer/researcher has a daughter who is 11 years old. The tele...

Effects of Video Games on American Culture

deviance, and personality disorders. Cultural attitudes are transferred from one generation to another, and the first generation...

Violence and Video Games

further emphasized and supported through an article wherein the authors note that, "Although numerous studies have shown that play...

The Continued Need for Civil Disobedience

. . For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is...

American History X the Film

his way is not going to solve anything and will only lead to more death. The film deserves a few words as...

Film and Social Violence

Ann Beard, in her essay The Fourth State of Matter, illustrates how a young man, Gang Lu, becamse so disgruntled with life and wit...

Violence and Pride: Ellison and Morrison

a sense of innocence. "I had begun to worry about my speech again. How would it go? Would they recognize my ability? What would th...

Women, AIDS and HIV in the District of Columbia

2009"). In responding to the crisis, the city government has not recognized the way in which "policies, and structural factors hav...

Impact Of Video Game Violence On Children

is considered to be one of the most important parts of intelligence." Contrary to this viewpoint is the majority who claim ...

Family, Violence, and Social Work

Therefore, a revised definition of family emphasizes not the unit itself but the quality of relationship that exists within that u...

The Impacts of Dentistry on Family Violence Intervention

result in spousal violence (2). Though children under the age of 18 account for approximately 21 percent of the population, they ...

"Bullet In The Brain" And "The Lottery" Violence

was the gladiatorial combat of hunting, otherwise called the venatio. Once gathered up from different parts of the Roman empire t...

Cultural Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Troubles

Ulster to belong to the United Kingdom can be broadly aligned with their religious associations (Tonge, 2001). In Northern Irela...

Violence at Work: A Problem for Nurses

In a paper of six pages, the author writes about research on the problem of workplace violence against nurses. The studies used i...