Essays about Violence Page 14

“Assess the view that conjugal roles, domestic labour and power relationships have changed significantly over the past 50 years (24 marks).” Different sociologists have had different views to whether conjugal roles have become equal. Some researchers have concentrated on the division of labour in the home by examining the allocation of domestic work between husband…

            Gang and group violence, while not a new phenomenon in Canada, is becoming much harder to dismiss as just boys being boys. Not only are girls seemingly becoming more involved in gang violence, but the violence of both sexes seems to be becoming more random, more vicious, more extreme. While many academics will dispute…

Baca’s “This is Number 26” and Clifton’s “Cruelty” provide an interesting contrast because they talked about different perspectives on perceptions and the use of violence – with Clifton’s persona being the perpetrator of violence, and Baca’s persona relating the story of his Pepe being a victim of violence. To the perpetrator of violence the Other…

The history of the Plains Indians and the American West is very interesting. The book Our Hearts Fell to the Ground by Colin G. Calloway really goes in depth on how life was for the Native American people, as well as the progression of the American West. I really felt that the book was a…

The current law allows for “moderate and reasonable chastisement,” but exceeding these limits may lead to legal consequences. This reasoning is grounded on the belief that other disciplinary methods, such as sarcasm and withholding affection, can have a more harmful effect on a child’s well-being. Parents have a responsibility for their children, as kids may…

Can parenting or child rearing be non-punitive? Is one of the most common questions that parentsask. If spanking is so effective, why do most people have such an uneasy feeling about it? Some how wecannot silence our inner doubts about the long term effects of physical punishment. We are a littleembarrassed by the use of…

There is every case of validity behind this truth that we are catching children’s vulnerability at every time and every phase of their lives by making them exposed to adult world. At very young age, girls are now wearing highly sexualized clothes hardly able to understand the effects of its ramifications. Children are getting trapped…

In her short article “Guns, Lies, and Video”, Karen Wright provides an overview of the issue of the relationship between media violence and real life violence. She writes that there is considerable contention on the subject, with some experts claiming there is strong evidence for a link between media violence and real aggression, and some…

Reading “A Typology of Men Who Are Violent Toward Their Female Partners: Making Sense of the Heterogeneity in Husband Violence” was quite an enlightening experience. This essay was the first exposure that I have encountered that had to do with research of the way psychological matters, such as batterers, should be analyzed and examined. There…

Analysis of Krishnan Guru-Murthy interview with Film Director Quentin Tarantino – “Django Unchained” I will be analysing the Channel 4 interview between famous film director Quentin Tarantino, and British television presenter & journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy, discussing the release of Mr. Tarantino’s highly controversial, new blockbuster movie – “Django Unchained”. From the beginning it is apparent…