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- 861: Facism
- ... French social philosopher who had a major influence on Mussolini. Sorel believed that societies naturally became decadent and disorganized. This decay could only be slowed by the leadership of idealists who were willing to use violence to obtain power. Nietzsche (1844-1900) theorized that there were two moral codes: the ruling class ( master morality) and the oppressed class (slave morality). Nietzsche believed the ancient empires were developed from the master majority ... of its members if the need should arise. This could be money ,shelter, food, or any other need that might come about. The ideology of Fascism has been identified with totalitarianism, state terror, fanaticism, arranged violence, and blind obedience. Adolf Hitler established his own personal ideology, Mein Kampf, which means My Struggle. The book was written while Hitler was in prison and not yet in power. Mussolini fashioned his ideology after ...
- 862: Gender Differences
- ... for granted such as being able to freely go out and not get in trouble, when I was a boy. Another thing I would be concerned with, if I was a girl, is sex and violence. Since females are on average smaller than males they are more prone to sexual attacks such as rape. In one of my psychology courses, I was surprised when the professor asked her students to raise ... and touching because they do not know how or when to draw a line in order to say stop. Not knowing how to say "no", I think, makes a female more prone to rape and violence. One of my friends had confided in me of her incident while on a field trip. Her rapist came into her tent to borrow a butterfly net held her down, choked her and raped her ...
- 863: Binge Drinking
- ... injured or hurt (NCADI 2). Administrators at many of the larger college campuses may consider action on such a serious issue by taking several actions. They can establish a zero tolerance policy for alcohol-related violence, control the conditions of alcohol use on campus, work with the community to limit student access to alcohol, and eliminate alcohol advertising on college campuses. Violent behavior isnt always caused by alcohol. However, students who drink are more apt to get into fights and act out their violent feelings (Kaufman 2). Alcohol makes people feel as if it is ok to act on these feelings of violence. It makes people loose their common sense and it damages their judgement (Kaufman 2). Death is also a possible consequence of binge drinking. Driving under the influence of alcohol is one of the leading causes ...
- 864: SEX...as It Is(kind Of Long But Worth The Read)
- ... in Florida who impregnated a comatose woman); or who use "date-rape" drugs like Rohypnol fall into this category I suppose. But there's also an undeniable link between male sexual lust and sadism and violence (something undeniably predatory about sex). In locker rooms, men refer to sex as "fucking", "banging" and "nailing"; not "making love". Some violent men are domineering and abusive to both men and women; but some are ... of reality! However, this is a very common attitude, esp. among the most violent members of society like drug and biker gangs. Also, hardcore pornography, whose audience is overwhelmingly male, wallows in sexual sadism and violence against women. Just like pro-wrestling (all fake) and Hollywood action movies pander to male power fantasies (e.g., "lone male wipes out all opposition in a blaze of gunfire") to sell tickets. Porn is ...
- 865: Martin Luther King
- ... voter-registration drive in Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama in March 1963. King inspired and planned the poor peoples campaign, a march on Washington DC, in 1968 to show the relationship of poverty to urban violence. But he did not live to take part in it. Early in 1968 he traveled to Memphis, Tennessee to support a strike of Poorly paid sanitation workers. There, on April 4, he was assassinated by ... do the things that he did life aswe know it probably would be a lot different from the way that it presently is. King also showed us that there was another way besides the traditional violence to get things changed, I think that its a shame that a man of such greatness had to die at such a young age, today we could only imagine the other things that he ...
- 866: John Wade A Character Study--I
- ... is this obsession with control and order that lies alongside the central idea of the novel; that John Wade does not really know what happened to his wife. His blackouts and tendency towards spurts of violence highlight the chaos that lies beneath the surface of his life. The image of the mirrors demonstrate this aspects of John's life; the mirrors represent both his attempt to control his world as well ... It is here that the images of the mirrors, brought into existence from childhood, come into their own; the horrors of the war can be temporarily held at bay. Subsequently, in periods of chaos and violence, Wade's need for outer order and secrecy increases. This source of mental refuge gives Wade a distinct advantage over the other soldiers. At Lake of the Woods, years later, John is confronted by what ...
- 867: Review of "Saving Private Ryan"
- ... purpose. I finally came to a conclusion. This sequence is rightly praised for its' grim depiction of the chaos and casualties of the invasion of Normandy. Spielberg's approach is to portray the confusion and violence of battle on a personal, not a tactical level. There are no establishing shots or god's-eye views of the beach. We never know how the battle is being played out because the hand ... be protected because she puts the mission in jeopardy. No constant neither individual survival not the salvation of the world can justify all these calculations. I believe this film raises the level of acceptable graphic violence in mainstream movies. Soldiers are disemboweled, decapitated, and blown to bits on screen. Perhaps the most difficult scene is the German soldier slowly and gently stabbing a GI in the heart. This is real. One ...
- 868: Todays Hip Hop
- What is hip hop and is it influnceing listeners to condone violence and drugs. First off to set the record straight, this is the truth nothing outside of this is true and if you agree great if you dont agree thats your bad. But I am tired ... an admission of defeat . . . [but] for some of us, our lives aren't all bright and sunny (Ro 1996, p. 76). It is difficult to deny that Chuck is right. Drugs are not only creating violence, but they seem to be destroying our society. To many people, mostly children and teens, the forty ounce is a symbol of "manhood, rebellion, ghetto chic -- even a career choice" (Ro 1996, p. 74). It ...
- 869: Justice In Herodotus And Aesch
- ... The Oresteia. The justice presented by Aeschylus is not the justice of Solon, where God strikes down the powerful. Rather, it a sort of retributive justice, as the gods attempt to close the circle of violence that has engulfed the House of Atreus. At its heart, The Oresteia is about the inadequacy of the old system of justice, which called for kin to avenge their relatives. The trilogy shows the transformation ... of the son of Atreus, Agamemnon. When Agamemnon finally dies at the hand of Clytaemestra, the sin of Atreus is apparently avenged. However, the murder of Agamemnon is merely another step in the cycle of violence. The murder of Agamemnon, justified or not, calls out for vengeance. Revenge falls on the shoulders of the son of Agamemnon, Orestes. However, now the current system of justice begins to become inadequate. Is it ...
- 870: Russian Revolution
- ... The czar, seeing this as a challenge to his power, massacred them all in an act known as Bloody Sunday. This aroused much public opposition against the czar. This caused the Russian revolution to explode. Violence and thievery erupted all over the country. Steps three and four of the revolutionary cycle occurred next. To help control this violence, the czar attempted to appease some of the citizens by promising "freedom of person, conscience, assembly, and union", and appointing a national assembly, called the DUMA. This was a quest to carry out a method ...
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