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- 361: NATO Airstrikes in Kosovo
- ... sequence of the Kosovo crisis. In 1989 Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic cancelled Kosovo's autonomy for Albanians who constituted the majority population in Kosovo wanted to independent. The Kosovo assembly approved this measure and street violence began to break out. In Feb. 1990 in order to put down the more and more serious violent clashes in Kosovo, Yugoslavia sent troops, tanks, warplanes and 2000 police to Kosovo. In July, ethnic Albanian legislators in the province declared independence. Milosevic dissolved Kosovo's assembly. In 1991 the Bosnian War broke out. Neighbouring Albania's parliament recoginzed Kosovo as an independent republic which encouraged Abanian separatists . The violence between Albanians and the police and army became more and more serious. In 1996 the secret separatist group Kosovo Liberation Army admitted the reponsiblity for a series of bomb attacks for the first time. This ... gave Milosevic the last notice. Milosevic ignored NATO's warning and NATO began airstrikes on Yugoslavia to force Milosevic to accept following conditions: 1. a stop to all military action and the immediate ending of violence and repression 2. the withdrawal from Kosovo of the Yugoslav military, police and paramilitary forces 3. the stationing in Kosovo of an international presence 4. the unconditional and safe return of all refugees and ...
- 362: A Clockwork Orange
- ... idea, brothers. They like forced me to do it"(Burgess 74). Betrayed by his cohorts Alex is beaten by local officials and confesses to all the crimes. As a point to retribution a sergeant states, "Violence makes violence"(Burgess 80) and proceeds to through Alex back into the cell. All the while Alex detests the treatment and conditions of the local jail, " So I was kicked and punched and bullied off to the ... the smallest attacks on his character. Another error the state had provided is the use of music in the treatment of Alex. Not only does he feel physically sick when he thinks or looks at violence but also when he hears classical music. "It was that these doctors bratchnies had so fixed things that any music that was like for the emotions would make me just sick like viddying or ...
- 363: How the Media Can Effect Children
- ... more and more children are watching television so they can learn from it because parents are giving them the attention they need. “Forty years of research conclude that repeated exposure to high levels of media violence teaches some children and adolescents to settle interpersonal differences with violence, while teaching many more to be indifferent to this solution. Under the media’s tutelage, children at younger and younger ages are using violence as a first, not a last, resort to conflict,” (Levine, pg. 3). As a child grows, he/she always mimics what a parent does. When a child is learning to speak, the words that ...
- 364: Internet Censorship
- ... Randall Lockwood, vice president of Training Initiatives for The Humane Society of the United States, states that “Researchers, as well as the FBI and other law enforcement agencies nationwide, have linked animal cruelty to domestic violence, child abuse, serial killings, and to the recent rash of killings by school-age children.”(2) I found yet another web page listing some reports from police case files. I was astonished! These are a ... threw a kitten into a lake until the kitten drowned from exhaustion. Killed a young girl. Then, after serving 15-1/2 years in prison, he killed 11 more women." (4) *** Dr. Randall Lockwood stated, “Violence directed at animals by young people is a sign that something is terribly wrong, and often acts as a warning of future violence, even killings directed against humans.” (2) In the in the past 18 months, we have seen seven school shootings. In each one, it was learned that the perpetrators had abuse, tortured, and killed animals ...
- 365: Censorship of Music in the Media
- ... cannot be tolerated. Don't censor our creativity. Keep music free. We need to focus on the problem not the symptom. I think that censorship is part of a larger denial of where the real violence of children's lives falls. Senator Lieberman and his political allies cry crocodile tears over violence in children's media and proceeded to vote to cut down welfare funds for young children, encourage us to try juveniles as adults so that they're thrown into adult prisons, vote in favor of taking illegal immigrants' children out of public schools, and do relatively little about the financial support that ‘deadbeat' fathers owe their children. We have a whole culture of economic deprivation and domestic violence-and, and these are the real problems confronting children. But it's easy for politicians in the midst of doing all of this other damage to the lives of children to throw up a ...
- 366: Uniforms in Public Schools
- ... enormous amount of pressure of parents with school-aged children. Uniforms can make schools safer. In Memorandum for the Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley, President Clinton stated, “If student uniforms can help deter school violence, promote discipline… then we should offer our strong support to the schools and parents that try them. We should applaud parents, teachers, and school leaders when they take courageous action to make our schools safe and free of gangs, drugs, and violence” (1). The evidence that uniforms reduce violence also exists. In Long Beach, California, the progress is outstanding. Scott Jensen, a Representative of Wisconsin, gives the following statistics, “School crime has dropped 36% in the first year after a mandatory uniform policy ...
- 367: October Crisis/War Measures Act
- ... not prepared to wait for democratic change. Their feelings were very strong, and they felt if they waited patiently for their government, the government would delay them, or just put them, “aside”. There was no violence outbreaks however until both separatist parties were beat out of the 1962 Quebec provincial election. (Ben, 760) Thus began the violent separatist goals of the, “Front de Liberation du Quebec (F.L.Q.)”. The F ... were a radical and violent fringe of the separatist movement. (Ben, 759) The group was founded by George Shoeters among Francophone students at the, “Universite de Montreal” in 1960. (Ben, 760) The first occurrence of violence by the group wasn’t until the March of 1963, when they adopted the strategy of, “retaliation”. (Ben, 760) This, “retaliation” is what they French thought was necessary to get back at the government who ... a shock of the nation, the government realized they had to do something before this went any further. Following the arrest of eighteen F.L.Q. sympathizers in June of 1963, for various acts of violence, the radical faction went underground. (Ben 760) As the violence of the F.L.Q. rose, so did the watch of the government. The only option the F.L.Q. had, was to act ...
- 368: Child Abuse
- ... the parent, the child and the environment. Most of the time parents who abuse their children, were also abused as children and that their experience of being parented often included a high level of family violence. There is a link between domestic violence and child abuse. In many families where spouse abuse occurs, children are also victims of physical violence. American studies indicate that about one third of adults who abuse their spouse also abuse their children. Australian research suggests that this figure may be higher. F thermore, children are likely to be at ...
- 369: A Violent Illumination of Salvation
- A Violent Illumination of Salvation Flannery O'Connor uses violence to return characters to reality and prepare them to accept their moment of grace. The New Encyclopedia Britannica defines grace as the "spontaneous, unmerited gift of the divine or the divine influence operating in man for his regeneration and sanctification" (401). At any cost, a soul must find salvation. O'Connor states, "In my own stories I have found that violence is strangely capable of returning my characters to reality and preparing them to accept their moment of grace" (qtd.in Bain 407). Dorothy Walters, Associate Professor of English at Wichita State University, believes O'Connor ... part and she discovers herself on the bottom steps of Heaven's stairway (Walters 107). With the intervention of the divine grace, Mary Grace, Mrs. Turpin accepts the truth and discovers humility. The use of violence is necessary for O'Connor to remind readers that they cannot begin to understand God's grace, but acknowledging graciousness, however shown, and understanding that all are equal in His eyes is the onset ...
- 370: A Violent Illumination of Salvation
- A Violent Illumination of Salvation Flannery O'Connor uses violence to return characters to reality and prepare them to accept their moment of grace. The New Encyclopedia Britannica defines grace as the "spontaneous, unmerited gift of the divine or the divine influence operating in man for his regeneration and sanctification" (401). At any cost, a soul must find salvation. O'Connor states, "In my own stories I have found that violence is strangely capable of returning my characters to reality and preparing them to accept their moment of grace" (qtd.in Bain 407). Dorothy Walters, Associate Professor of English at Wichita State University, believes O'Connor ... part and she discovers herself on the bottom steps of Heaven's stairway (Walters 107). With the intervention of the divine grace, Mary Grace, Mrs. Turpin accepts the truth and discovers humility. The use of violence is necessary for O'Connor to remind readers that they cannot begin to understand God's grace, but acknowledging graciousness, however shown, and understanding that all are equal in His eyes is the onset ...
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