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- 1621: Serial Killers 3
- ... Seltzer 18). This cooling off period is the critical factor that separates the serial killer from mass and spree killers. A serial killer usually emerges from the pain and suffering of a life riddled with abuse, neglect, hormonal imbalances, and other numerous situations. Serial murder is a disease. There are valid explanations that help society realize that these individuals experienced events so traumatic in their early lives that they have become ... murders he had just committed (Crime Library). John Wayne Gacy had a police radio in his home. What causes a human being to commit such heinous acts? Many serial killers were often exposed to childhood abuse. Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler, was sold off as a slave by his alcoholic father. Others have lived abnormal adolescent lives. Ed Kemper beheaded his sister's dolls while playing execution games (Crime Library). Daydreaming ... of this syndrome in children are the first steps in preventing the spread of serial murder." (Crime Library). Many serial murderers have intense, smothering relationships with their mothers and often these relationships are filled with abuse and sexual attraction (Furio 21). After a fight with his mother, Ed Kemper, stormed out of his house and vowed to kill the first good-looking girl he saw (Egger 11). Henry Lee Lucas ...
- 1622: The Scarlet Letter: Roger's Character Stereotyped As An Abusive Person
- ... A stereotype is an oversimplified conception, opinion, or image of a person, fitting them into a certain category. Chillingworth is abusive because he knowingly treated people wrongfully and hurtfully. There are three examples of the abuse he caused in the novel. The way he emotionally abused Hester Prynne is one example. The neglect he showed towards Pearl Prynne is a second example. The third example of abuse is the way he physically and mentally abused Arthur Dimmsdale. He abused Hester emotionally. As soon as he returned to the city and found that his wife had an affair, he told her not to ... his heart and nurture his daughter. He voluntarily detached himself from her life. It was because of his stereotypical neglect that Pearl suffered in ways she didn't have to. The most severe instance of abuse Chillingworth inflicted upon anybody was that of Arthur Dimmsdale. He abused Dimmsdale physically and mentally. Physical abuse came when he gave him medication. He purposefully gave him drugs he knew would hurt him in ...
- 1623: Media Violence
- ... last time you heard something positive on the news as opposed to civil war in Europe, the death of an inner-city youth by a rival gang, or the brutal rape and murder of a child by their parent? Perhaps the news contributes more than just an insightful knowledge of events. Perhaps Columbine copycats and school bomb threats may never have arisen if the entire world hadn't witnessed the blood-soaked terrors via cable television. An early study performed by Liebert and Baron in 1972 concedes that the willingness of a child to harm another child is increased by the intake of violence-charged television programming. Cartoon superhero contributors of this belligerent behavior include the seemingly unlikely Superman and Batman. Differentiating between fantasy and reality remains especially perplexing for children ...
- 1624: Lack of Love and Frankenstein
- ... goodness of the parents. In the novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley portraits a life lacking other’s concerns and filled with the utter loneliness, perhaps similar to her own experiences. There are significant changes in a child’s mind when he builds his world around the lack of love that everyone deserves. Mary Shelley has been compared to Frankenstein from the beginning of its existence. Her remarkable life is somewhat imprinted in ... If the creature entered a village with his creator at his side, how different the reactions, not only of the people but his own as well, would be! The worst feeling ever felt by a child, is the knowledge that nobody loves or cares for them. A recent study shows that the most important part of a newborn’s life is the first three months. This is the time when the ... occurs. Therefore, it is the most urgent time for parents to touch their creation often, talk to him softly, “and remind him who he belongs to”. (Parents Magazine, Jan.‘99 issue). Without these actions, the child develops a new set of feelings- rejection, depression, and hate. “Though the being [creature] has the physical characteristics of a monster, it is only after he is repeatedly rejected by society that he adopts ...
- 1625: The Scarlet Letter 2
- ... business in Amsterdam. Hester does not hear from her husband for two years, and many people conceive of his being lost at sea. Hester then falls in love with another man and they have a child together. She is found guilty of committing adultery and is sentenced to stand holding her child before Boston on a scaffold for three hours. She is interrogated as to who her fellow sinner is, but she remains strong. Many women of the town believe that Hester s penalty is not harsh ... who is the father of her daughter, Pearl. Eventually, Hester settles down with Pearl in a small cottage and leads a basically normal life as a seamstress. Pearl turns out to be a very peculiar child with a disobedient attitude towards life. She is imp-like in appearance and many people believe that she could be a bad influence on their comfortable Puritan town. With hearing talk that Pearl may ...
- 1626: Hardships Of Southern Sharecro
- ... any of the other states in the nation (4). A factor that contributed to this was their excessive mobility, which inhibited many children from going to school (Corder 27). It is common knowledge that any child who constantly moves around will not be able to attend school on a regular basis, and even if they go to a school when they get a chance they will be so far behind they would have a difficult time catching up. Another factor that impeded on a child’s attendance at school was the fact that they never went to school when there was cotton to be picked (Walker 8). This may not seem like a large task, but some times it could take weeks to pick all the cotton. These few weeks that a child spent picking cotton was valuable learning time, and missing it could put a child too far behind to catch up. Another reason share croppers didn’t get the education they needed was because many ...
- 1627: Grapes Of Wrath
- ... listens to Jim and his views on life, the soul of man, and the fellowship of mankind, the less he focuses on himself and his needs. He then begins to focus on the plight and abuse of the homeless farmers. He starts to realize that in order for the migrant workers to survive and succeed they must unite. He knows that if they band together as one, they can demand that ... she is carrying that she does not realize that her family is falling apart. She whines and moans her way through most of the book until her baby is born dead. The death of her child seems to transform her. At the very end of the novel she breast feeds a dying man. To me this is symbolic of drinking from the milk of human kindness. She gives of herself to ...
- 1628: Gimple The Fool
- ... have the limits, which inhabit human nature. Gimpel proved he was capable of emotion during the absence from his wife Gimpel "felt it all very bitterly. A longing took me, for her and for the child" (103). Gimpel loved his child as his own and loved his wife for that. The emotions Gimpel felt prove he was human. However, he was to half-witted to realize he was not feeling all the consciousness inherent to his ... not feel remorse for Gimpel’s misconceptions but instead wants "to go clean to my Maker" (106). On the evening of their union Elka did not even wish to consummate the ceremony, yet bore a child four months later. Elka performed her duties as Gimpel’s wife only by providing him with children. Unfortunately none of which belonged to him. Even a person secure in his relationship with a woman ...
- 1629: College Hazing
- ... severely beat with paddles or even bricks. Since hazing takes many forms, it is hard for the public to realize that these “pledges” are actually being harmed. It is especially hard to see the mental abuse aspect of this situation. At times, “pledges” may be forced to wear humiliating items such as dog collars or diapers. It may look like an innocent prank, and may actually seem humorous, but stunts like ... a suicide hotline because of the mental anguish that was caused (“Former Student Wins $375,000” 23). The hurt and confusion of a victim of mental and physical hazing can remain for years after the abuse. Yet, even after all the abuse, members of these organizations continue to feel that because they had to suffer through this act of initiation to get into the group, their successors must also be fall subject to these activities. Naturally, ...
- 1630: Violence In Our Academic Insit
- ... conflict in the family, as well as mentoring programs for young people. The parents should be held responsible for the children who repeatedly break the rules and parental involvement should be made mandatory when a child is showing signs of violent behavior. The parents should be forced to take more interest for the well being of the child. Teachers and school faculty should be better trained to notice potential problems developing in students. A support system should be put in place for students so when an individual child feels threatened; they have someone they can approach in confidence. It's too late to save some teenage violence victims, but its not to late to save future victims of teenage rage and violence. ...
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