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- 1101: Crime Prevention
- ... who support the idea because they believe that the community can help themselves by actually doing something to benefit them. The local community can determine their own fate by addressing safety issues such as street violence, sexual harassment, and racist violence. Anti-racist groups, block watch and neighborhood watch are all kinds of this type of crime prevention that involve the community. To look at it from a larger societal level, all efforts are directed toward ...
- 1102: Alcohol: Most Used and Abused Drug
- ... can cause great damage to their babies, this damage is called fetal alcohol syndrome, fetal alcohol syndrome can cause physical deformities and mental retardation. Women alcoholics also have a higher rate of relapse than males. Violence and Alcoholism Being an alcoholic probably means you will be under the influence of alcohol quite a bit, which increases your chances of doing something stupid or illegal more than the regular person. Alcohol causes ... seven times more likely to be involved in fatal accidents than non-alcoholics. Alcohol is also related to three out of five cases of child abuse, up to one out of two incidents of domestic violence, one out of three suicides, and up to seven out of ten deaths by drowning. What I'm trying to point out here is that when people use alcohol, especially frequently and heavily like alcoholics ...
- 1103: Stalin As A Continuation Of Le
- ... separate motivations, Stalin finished what Lenin started by gaining influence through power and using the first Five Year Plan. Lenin and Stalin were of the same personality. Both were extreme activists with an obsession with violence. This quote from A Concise History of the Russian Revolution, by Richard Pipes (pp. 104) describes the character of both Lenin and Stalin: "He knew of only two categories of men: friend and enemy-those ... aid. He used it "with complete ruthlessness and on a very large scale." (Pipes pp. 104) Through this secret police force, Lenin exterminated anyone whom he thought was not dedicated to the revolution. "Believing...that violence was an essential element in the revolution, Lenin never quailed before the need to employ terror." (Johnson, pp. 165) Stalin thought the same, that to gain as much power as possible, one must exterminate all ...
- 1104: Stephen King: Telekinesis And It’s Effects On The Innocent
- ... s abusive nature towards Carrie, which helped to aid in Carrie’s mental unstableness, was the type of home life she provided. In the White household there were many artifacts and other things that symbolized violence. Many things found in the house were portraying scenes of horrific natures that could encourage one to think dirty thoughts and begin to relish the idea of pain. One artifact in the White home that ... mouth drawn down in a groaning curve..... both hands were also drenched with blood and the feet were nailed to a small plaster platform ( King 39 ). This crucifix often gave Carrie endless nightmares that involved violence and pain. Carrie would later take her anger and fear similar to this out on her own mother own classmates. Yet another symbol of Margaret White’s mistreatment of her daughter is “the room”. “The ...
- 1105: A Breif History Of Comics
- ... on children. Parents and educators were concerned about the content. This issue was taken so far, that the Canadian Parliament outlawed crime in comics in 1949! Individual cities also passed ordinances against the crime and violence in these book. They also tried to curb the sales of these books to minors. Although the technological advances in press had allowed these comics to become popular, technology also put an end to an ... his "Keep On Truckin," "Felix The Cat", and many other cartoons Crumb captured the thoughts and feelings of many teens in the 60's. Today, comics are used to reach kids about topics like drugs, violence, gangs, etc. Some comic characters even rank among movie stars because of the now far reaching grip of television and movies. Some comics, like "Mad dog McGruff" are drawn for the sole purpose of government ...
- 1106: Benito Mussolini
- ... his own men were thrown in prison for possession of illegal arms. All the men and including Mussolini were released the next day. Soon afterwards the police didn’t even bother to interfere with fascist violence. Mussolini entered parliament in 1921 as a right wing member. Mussolini told some of his members of the Fascists to terrorize some of his colleagues. The government seldom interfered. In return for the support of ... things ended, parliamentary government was ended. Conflict and ambition gave Mussolini the desire for power. The power brought him to Fascism and became a dictator in Italy. The same conflict and ambition brought him to violence and deaths of the hands of his men. As a dictator, Mussolini’s title was "Il Duce" a.k.a. The Leader. Mussolini had all the power; he made all the decisions. He told the ...
- 1107: Censorship Of American Music
- ... to, how about you? One organization claiming to protect the children is the Parents Music Resource Center. At the center of the music labeling controversy, the P.M.R.C., "feels that current levels of violence, racism, brutality towards women, drug and alcohol glamorization in music, lyrics, videos and stage shows need to be addressed through public discussion and debate"(Hull 23). "The P.M.R.C. hopes to prohibit the ... advisory sticker, with its descriptions about crucifications, stonings, and other primal methods of punishment. One must also take into consideration that no direct link between exposure to sexually explicit material and antisocial behavior or sexual violence has ever been established or proven. Many organizations have been founded as a counter attack to the Parent's Music Resource Center. One group that works for freedom of expression call themselves, Parents of Rock ...
- 1108: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... also the primary concern of the soldiers. The message inherent in the opening scenes to the novel is that massive carnage is an everyday occurrence in trench warfare. Therefore, the participants are desensitized to the violence, death, and destruction around them.Kemmerich's death extends the criticism of romantic illusions about the war. It also highlights the fact that soldiers faced a lot of dangers, not merely enemy fire. Muller describes ... or dies. His training camp can do nothing to prepare him for the front. The real training begins with gaining experience on the front. He must learn to cope with constant fear, uncertainty, bombardment, and violence by becoming a "human animal." World War I soldiers had to face the possibility of new weapons for which they are not prepared. Poison gas was one of those weapons in The Great War. Germany ...
- 1109: Huck Finn
- ... the boat, but it could have been prevented. As many dangers exist on the water, their is just as many on the land. Since Huck has picked up the two crooks, he is regularly encountering violence. Mobs run them out of town, and then the two are tarred and feathered. Earlier, Huck’s pap beat him, so he confronted many violent actions. Life was hard for Huck and Jim, no matter ... at any time. For Jim, he had to continually hide, so he couldn’t go to the shore, because he might get caught. Huck neither wanted to conform to society nor live with the constant violence he continually saw. For Huck a life away from the civilized world was the best, and the river gave him his best chance at this ideal life.
- 1110: How the KKK, Anarchists, Phreaks Compare to Big Brother
- ... thing in common: they hate members of racial, ethnic or religious groups that are not the same as their own." (White supremacy on the rise by Mike Harpin) The main people targeted of hatred and violence are Jewish people, Hispanics, Asians, blacks and people who are Catholic Christians. The more well-known groups are the Ku Klux Klan, the Neo-Nazis, and the Skinheads. The reason why the Ku Klux Klan is separate from the Neo-Nazis and the Skinheads is because the Ku Klux Klan's hatred and violence is aimed more towards blacks rather than the Neo- Nazis and the Skinheads, whose hatred is aimed more towards the Jewish people. The Neo-Nazis, sometimes called White Aryan Resistance, is a group that follows ...
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