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Types, Causes, and Results of Rape

rapists only 17% will be strangers to their victims (the remaining 83% will fall into the later acquaintance categories (Rape 101,...

Stroke Victims and Their Rights

The generic term "stroke" refers to a cerebro-vascular accident (CVA), which may occur on the left or right-hand side of the brain...

Memo, Letter and Email Writing Exercises

There is always uncertainty in any new venture, and I found in the course of the research for this report that other cities essent...

Alternative Punishments in the Justice System

for three offenses, no matter how slight each one is. The idea behind the punishment is to deter criminals, but it doesnt always w...

Restitution in the Criminal Justice System

are victims of hate crimes. Other special victims may be disabled, gay, HIV-infected, prisoners or students (Wallace, 2007). These...

The National Organization for Victim Assistance

This 4 page paper discusses the National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA), who founded it and when, what it provides, wha...

Victims of Crime

stories, and information, without really caring what their situation is and this can leave a victim feeling very violated and dist...

Domestic Abuse: Why Don’t Victims Just Leave Their Abusers?

of both the technologically developed countries and the third world alike. This issue is, in fact, one with world implications in...

Victims and the Role of Journalists

one that truly shows the media as trying to be responsible (Cote & Bucqueroux, 1996). The examples provide one situation where it ...

Model A’s, Model T’s, and the Changing Face of America

few weeks later, the company sold its first automobile, to a doctor in Detroit (Davis). As noted above, the company produced 1,700...

The Potential benefit Of M&A's in Supporting Nigerian Economic Growth

During the early 20th century merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the United States provided one of the tools for economic gr...

Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

Tragic Hero Oedipus in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

evolves to become so much more than he, at first, appeared to be as he came to see the errors of his ways by the end of the play a...

Oedipus's Athenian Traits

In five pages this paper examines how Oedipus exemplifies the Athenian male ideal. There are no other sources cited....

His Downfall is Oedipus’s Own Fault

with Teiresias (Johnston). It seems odd to some, but the quarrel makes sense if we understand Oedipus as someone who sees things i...

Relationship Between the Plays Oedipus at Colonus and Oedipus the King

kill his father and marry his mother. He left his home so that this would not happen, but he did not know that his father and moth...

Jocasta/Maternity in Oedipus Rex

is true that Greek culture allowed infanticide via death by exposure, this custom was typically reserved for girls and babies with...

Conflict And Crime Control Models Versus Consensus And Due Process Models

crime speaks to how competition and inequitable distribution of norms and values play a significant role in why race and crime are...

Harassing Behaviors Have Negative Outcomes

One set of scholars suggested that harassment is so widespread, it should be classified as a significant international health prob...

Serial Killers Versus Mass Murderers

outcast or recently being fired from a job can trigger an individuals compulsion to enact revenge against those who may or may not...

Hamlet, Oedipus & Death of a Salesman

"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...

Fate and Enslavement in The Darker Face of the Earth by Rita Dove and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

marrying the widowed Jocasta, he inherited not only a throne but also hoped in so doing he would also earn the social acceptabilit...

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

"own kind" in terms of the patients she serves, meaning donors who were raised, as she was, at Hailsham or one of the other estate...

Jedidiah Smith’s fate, Irony and Immigration

a nineteenth century war that the U.S. initiated with Mexico. Teacher Bill Bigelow describes how a traditional history textbook c...

Does Frankenstein Deserve His Fate?

and then turns away from it" (Schellenberg). Perhaps, he continues, Shelley wants to punish Frankenstein simply because "he doesnt...

Feminist Perspectives on Frankenstein Being Symbolic of Women’s Fate

that each person compose a ghost story (Gilbert and Gubar 239). Marys story was transformed into the novel Frankenstein; Or, the ...

Frankenstein/Symbolic of Women's Fate

are equated by Frankenstein as emotionally synonymous to pursuing and conquering a woman. From this sexual conquest of nature, Fra...

Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

Fame, Fate and Destiny in “Beowulf”

believes, would seal his everlasting fame (Irving 86). The poem championed Beowulfs desire for fame as a badge of honor: "In all ...

Hamlet, the Influence of Chance and Fate

This essay pertains to the theme of chance and fate and their influence over the chance events that result in much the motivation ...