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- 871: Racism
- ... to defend yourself against the hurt that people can put a person through, can scar you for life. We need to see what the world is doing to each other and instead of turning to violence or some other kind of defence to get even. It would be easier if we just come together as one and help the people who are discriminated against in understanding that they are not what ... own school, that the students tell racial jokes and used ethnic names but they say that they don't mean what they say it's just for humour's sake. Race hatred often leads to violence. People whom form groups to defend America from a minority takeover fall into the category of extremists. There are gangs in America today who walk the streets measuring out a perverse form of justice to ...
- 872: The Painted Bird
- ... animalistic characteristics of the towns people the boy confronts during the war. This allows the reader not to be shocked when the peasants the boy faces demonstrated an extraordinary predilection for incest, sodomy, and meaningless violence. While reading The Painted Bird , the reader gains the impression that religion seemed to be a high priority for the village people. However, Kosinski s use of conventional form to inform his readers that church ... of morals. War is horrible, and will often make people encounter many horrific circumstances. Kosinski paints a severely graphic portrayal of the effects and stresses war places on individuals. The representations are often not pleasant (violence, sadism, and incest). The Painted Bird dwells into the horrible and revealing reality of war. Jerzy Kosinski s literary masterpiece is a brilliant testimony of mankind s survival power. If the reader perceives the work ...
- 873: The American
- ... pieces like so much sand in the wind. But is that not what we should fear? From one hateful group, we spawn a thousand. In one death a thousand stand furious, determined. Will not their violence reap violence a thousand fold? And thus we will be forced to fight them all, tens of thousands, and one by one a thousand born. And should we believe that a single man could do so much ...
- 874: Jon Woo
- ... slow-motion to Somewhere Over The Rainbow, heard through child's headphones. The song was put in the represent the child s innocence, and also to show how that innocence is being corrupted by the violence around him. Woo gets upset when he hears about violence, and when he is angry and directing he thinks, lets hit the villain with more bullets, lets beat him up just a little bit more. In a John Woo movie, bullets kill people. Lots of ...
- 875: World Hunger
- ... my father would go this far, but I know there are some fathers that would reach a point to where they would even kill for food. This feed the monster we call the "spiral of violence" and helps to encourage it grow. Because we have in the long run, poor people stealing and sometimes killing for no reason. They shouldn't have to steal or kill for food, they should at ... sales: Military spending by poor countries is encouraged by rich countries that make and sell arms. Because of this, valuable money which could go to help by food is spent on weapons. The spiral of violence is also fueled by the availability of weapons, which increases repression and adds to poverty and hunger. 7) Abuse of land and other resources: The abuse of a poor country's resources leads to environmental ...
- 876: A Jew In Germany or Occupied Europe:
- ... Her ensuing tale was permeated with sorrow and anguish. "Julian" she said in a frail voice, "You must leave, they did this to me, they are coming, they drove us from our home with racial violence and torture. I can't quite explain it, the pain, the lament, the violence; they've killed him! Julian, they've killed my husband!!!" With this she collapsed in to a pool of tears. We all were effected by this startling event, our lives would never be the same ...
- 877: The Masters Of Puppets
- ... unusual band in that they achieved fame without a music video during the MTV age (Rees and Crampton). Metallica’s music regards hard-hitting images of adolescent rage, suicide, drug addiction, mental illness, and political violence (Metallica). Their lyrics take on taboos, set to the spirit of pure rock ‘n’ roll rebellion. “We were very good at the negative stuff,” explained Hetfield (Metallica). Some of Metallica's last albums, Load and ... The band had many experiences that they wish would not have happened. One of which was in late-1991 in Russia. Hetfield explained, “The energy was so amazing. The enthusiasm conflicted with the military and violence erupted. The police started beating down young men. They just don’t understand what kind of a release was in one of our concerts.” (Metallica) During a concert in Orlando on March 19, 1992, fans ...
- 878: CHILDREN AFFECTED BY DIVORCE
- ... the parents, the effects of changes in the child’s lifestyle, the capacity of each parent, the child’s maturity, sex, and background, the need to protect the child from abuse, any history of family violence involving the child, and the parents’ attitude towards the child. This system of determining the child’s best interests is very effective because it is very comprehensive as a result of the many factors which ... assaulted Mrs. O’Farrell. This incident cast doubt on the father’s right to have contact with his son because courts are reluctant to allow contact in cases where there is a history of family violence, due to concern for the child’s well being. Due to the knowledge of the stated altercation and also because the child had been living with his mother since the break-up, the judges ruled ...
- 879: History Of Greek Theater
- ... the miracles supplied by it were replace by the sudden appearance of a rich uncle, the discovery or new wills, or of infants changed at birth. Many proprieties of the Greek plays were attached to violence. Therefore, it was a rule that acts of violence must take place off stage. This carried through to the Elizabethan theater which avoided the horrors of men being flayed alive or Glouster's eyes being put out in full view of an audience (King ...
- 880: The Psychological Effects Of G
- ... orientated. The message is totally different. They model they way they dress according to their favorite musicians, actors or sports figure. Perhaps if women’s magazines were more aimed at how to protect yourself from violence, STD’s, unplanned pregnancies or how to be confident, and promote education, sports, extra-cirricular activities instead of how to know if your popular, or the must have lipstick of the fall, or how to know if he likes you, or what your favorite BACKSTREET BOY likes and dislikes, then maybe the rate of abortions, teen pregnancies, STD’s, obesity, eating disorders, depression, date rape, kidnappings and domestic violence would decrease. Whether they like it or not, society has a responsibility. They deem what is acceptable, it is time they deem what is right! There are some positive aspects of gender roles that even ...
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