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- 1051: The Police Exception and the Domestic Abuse Law
- ... Proponents of reinstating the convicted police officers and abolishing the amendment have not fully considered the circumstances that provoke such measures. The law does not apply to those people whom have been charged with Domestic violence. The law applies to those officers (and citizens) that have been convicted of the crime. This means that the action had to be so serious that someone pursued a lawsuit against the alleged criminal and ... mind that produced the rage to commit the crime still exists, it's hard to put faith it the ability of that criminal to protect citizens from bad guys. Spouses who are victims of Domestic Violence probably experience one of two different types of abuse. The first, and extremely rare, is the isolated incident where the abuse only occurs once. The second type is the repetitive and continual occurrences. In the ...
- 1052: Romeo And Juliet - Examples Of Love
- ... girls more attractive than Rosaline. This was highlighted when Benvolio said "Compare her face with one that I show, / And I will make thee think thy swan a crow." ( I. ii. 86-87). Later, when violence was prevalent, Benvolio watched out for his friends and relatives, encouraging peace. He spoke against fighting when he said "I pray thee, good Mercutio, lets retire. / The day is hot, the Capulets abroad, / And, if ... and said death would come to anyone from either house if they were caught fighting in public. However, both families still thought that they had to show superiority, and future fights because destined. The constant violence led to the accidental killing of Mercutio by Tybalt. In his last minutes, Mercutio realized the immaturity of the families' feuds, when he said "A plague o' both your houses!" (III.i.90). In a ...
- 1053: Lord Of The Flies, Piggy -
- ... adopted at first, it quickly loses its power as the novel processes. This is because the boys are changing. They changed from what use to be a civilized society, as represented by the conch, into violence and savagery. This event shows how evil and violence are hidden in everyone. Secondly, the break up in the tribe also enforces this point. They break up because, for many, they do not want to be civilized. By the mislead from Jack, they have ...
- 1054: The Issue of Slavery in the Westward Expansion
- ... in 1854 Senator Stephen Douglas proposed a bill and stuffed it through congress. The bill became known as the Kansas- Nebraska Act. From here on in the confrontations would cease to simply be verbal, physical violence would become more common. Under the Kansas-Nebraska act the Missouri Compromise was declared null and void, and that popular sovereignty would be used in Kansas and Nebraska. This broke the established thirty-six degree ... majority of the voters in the territory anti-slave. To ensure this he drove out pro-slavers by armed force. His southern counterparts also saw this and responded likewise. This led to the first physical violence that would lead to the War of the Rebellion. In 1857 the Supreme Court ruled against Dred Scott, who had brought a case before the Court. Basically the decision declared that slavery was legal everywhere ...
- 1055: The Harmful Effects Of Discrimination And Segregation
- ... treatment, and excuses. Because of their actions the subordinate group develops feelings of fear and dislike for the dominant group. Through the subordinate groups fears and dislikes for the dominant group it may lead to violence in order to overcome the limitations of segregation. Another form of fear relating to segregation and discrimination is when the subordinate group attempts to overcome segregation. The dominant group then fears that they will loose power and it may result in violence as well. Anger is yet another result of discrimination and segregation. Anger is felt by both the blacks and the civil rights leaders who helped in the case. When one is treated unfairly it is ...
- 1056: Corporal Punishment Is Physical Abuse
- ... In modern schools there are many opportunities for physical exercise and its nonsense to imply that depriving a boy of this is physically harmful. The infliction of c orporal punishment on a person who regards violence as a means of achieving his ends is not likely to have any correct action; on the contrary, past experience has shown that it will lead to a deeper feeling of hatred towards authority and ... teaching of children so they can become social, productive and responsible adults. Punishment is a method of disciplining and corporal punishment is only one aspect of punishment. Parents and teachers who lower themselves to physical violence and aggression in order to control children are setting an example that children may try to follow (Bandura, 1967). This is the hypocrisy of Do what I say, not what I do, but the actions ...
- 1057: My Last Duchess 3
- ... her behavior by explaining that her actions caused them discomfort and pain or they would react in anger, accusing the Duchess of being unfaithful. A thin line separates the Normal from those that resort to violence as a means to and end. An even thinner line exists between those that react with violence and those that push things just a little too far and commit crimes. There is little value to the type of jealousy the Duke was experiencing. Jealousy in itself is a destructive emotion. It leads ...
- 1058: Steinbeck's "In Dubious Battle": The Power Struggle Between Owners and Workers
- ... become spiritual. The strikers misused their power as the growers did. They tried to use their force to make the scabs come over to the side of the strikers. The strikers used the threat of violence, actual violence and caused the death of a couple scab workers to emphasis their willingness to use this force. Throughout John Steinbecks novel In Dubious Battle there was a power struggle between the mighty owners and the ...
- 1059: Marigolds by Eugenia Collier
- ... innocence and ignorance. Innocence involves an unseeing acceptance of things at face value, an ignorance of the area below the surface. As a child, even an act of destruction is seen as innocence. During childhood, violence seems to come so normal to children, as if second nature. They tend to think it's their only way of letting go and forgetting their problems in life. They don't know what harm ... change the way they live the rest of their life. As their feelings become intertwined, they are left with difficult decisions and no way to deal with them. This is when many children turn to violence as their way of making the problem stop. As they realize their mistakes and come to find what is right, they learn a lesson. During childhood you are taught and learn so many important life ...
- 1060: Decriminalizing Prostitution
- ... against prostitution. It is legal only in the state of Nevada. The rationale for its continued illegal status in the United States rests on three assumptions: prostitution is linked to organized crime, prostitution leads to violence, and prostitution is the cause of an increase in sexually transmitted diseases. Organized crime is any group having a corporate structure whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities, often surviving on fear ... order to make earnings as quickly as possible. The United States Officials believe that the easiest form of organized crime is prostitution due to the number of men/woman willing to be customers to prostitutes. Violence is one of the major problems for women and prostitutes. Sixty percent of abuse to prostitutes is caused by clients, twenty percent by the police and another twenty percent due to domestic relationships. The involvement ...
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