The Laramie Project should be used in the Museum of Tolerance, because of the impact it had on me and it described how the tragedy happened in Laramie. During the documentary the community have said that they are tolerant of differences but they somewhat mean it. Some of the people in Laramie have hate towards the minority group such as people who are gay, but they don't show it and keep to themselves. During day 2 of the film, one of the members asked this man on what were his opinions on people who are gay. The man was very strongly against people who are gay and he would tell his children that what these people are doing is wrong and that he wouldn't want to see his children be like that. What the man has said was a very strong opinion, also on that day there was a protest that the mayor did not like people who are gay and there were other citizens of the town agreeing with him. This shows that some of the people there in the Town of Laramie have more of a hate towards people who are gay and have little tolerance. Doc O’Connor narrates. “Matt would not want the perpetrators to die. He’d want to leave them with hope” As members of the …show more content…
Violence comes from when you have a hate towards another person who is different or goes against what you believe. Violence has been attributed to many causes including mental illness, brain damage, child abuse, and social deprivation. A large proportion of violent acts are committed by individuals whose psychology is very different to that of the general population. understanding the origins of violence remains in understanding the broader picture - the type of environment that raised the individual, the effect it had on his developing brain, and the already existing, genetic predisposition the person has towards
Bridge to Freedom provides the historical documentary behind the events that served as the narrative for Selma. Instead of a drama, the viewers receive an actual documentary that shows the confrontations between the marchers and the government. Like Selma, it highlights the violence, the deaths, and the beatings, but also goes further back in time to show society’s treatment of African Americans.
Recently, the effect that violent media has on society has been the focus of many psychological studies. According to an article published in the New York Times, research has found that: “Exposure to violent imagery does not preordain violence, but it is a risk factor” (Pozios, Kambam, Bender, 2013). There has yet to be a direct link between violence actually causing people to go on these massive shooting sprees that have been so common lately. It is natural and understandable for the
As far as the gay issue, I don't give a damn one way or the other as long as they don't bother me. And even if they did, I'd just say no thank you. And that's the attitude of most of the Laramie population. They might poke one, If they were in a bar situation, you know, they had been drinking, they might actually smack one on the mouth, but then they'd just walk away. Most of `em, they would just say, 'I don't swing that way,' and whistle on about their business. Laramie is live and let
There are many factors that lead people to use violence. They use violence when they are stressed, angry, feeling hatred, drink too much alcohol, use drug. Children are more likely to grow up as violent men if they are influenced by their parents, brothers, sisters and friends, all of whom use violence.
Throughout human history, violence, for the most part, has been a perpetual struggle we’ve faced. It does not discriminate against location, color, or creed, and it has an impact, lasting or not, on each of us at some point during our lives. Living in a Western country, many of us have become accustomed to the idea that true violence only lives in the ravaged lands of warring countries or the dilapidated streets of rundown neighborhoods, but in truth it can be found anywhere. Community center’s, schools, churches, and even the most secluded towns all encounter violence, though sometimes behind closed doors, everyone is vulnerable to it. But what prompts it to occur exactly? Violence itself stems from the causality of several different factors,
The statement suggests that those with no history of violence within their family and/or those who had a good upbringing will most likely not go on to commit violent crimes. At first this does seem like a reasonable suggestion to make. However, once we look deeper into this topic we uncover more complex explanations that are used to understand the phenomenon that is violent crime. Psychological perspectives are widely used throughout the world of criminology in order to help comprehend why crime is committed and the patterns that occur between the type of offender and type of crime. There perspectives are broken down into four main areas within psychology; Biological/Evolutionary, Social/Learning theory, Psychoanalytical/Psychodynamic and finally
There is no one causal factor, or single identifying marker that determines violent behavior in individuals. While studies show characteristics associated with violent offenders, no single variable predetermines such offenses. It is instead a number of factors that come in to play, that have shown an association to such reactive aggressive behavior. Factors such as environmental demographic (Hughs, 2008) (Barnes, 2012), biological and genetic predispositions to mental illness (Miller & Barnes, 2013), prenatal brain development (Michalska & Kinzler, 2011), abuse, psychological factors, and many other variables that somehow coincide to create a recipe for such violent actions. Strides to determine these factors, and what sets the stage for such pathology is as important as it is controversial. The closer we get to arrive at possible causal factors, the closer we are to preventing such acts from happening, and providing help and better treatments for those with such disorders early on.
Ordinary people can be violent as an act of self defense. Take Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs in which safety comes in as the second fundamental need following the physiological needs.Safety is crucial to the lives of the people and therefore needs to be obtained all the time. If humans aren’t safe, they tend to forget everything that comes after that, such as love, esteem, etc. In the study of the Hierarchy of needs, Gwayne states that “people who are deprived of lower needs such as safety may defend themselves by violent means. (Gwayne, 1999) This explains that violence comes in necessary because it is the initial reaction on
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Many experts do not accept that biology alone creates children who kill. They believe that violence is a learned behavior. Being abused or witnessing domestic violence is an environmental factor in ju...
The first research that I encountered was James Gilligan’s M.D. book (1996) titled, "VIOLENCE." Gilligan separates the "epidemic" of violence into three areas; "The Pathology of Violence," "The ‘Germ Theory’ of Violence," and "The Epidemology of Violence." His research shows that people act violently as a means to attain, what to them is, justice. Gilligan found that most violent males, on an individua...
Violence is a way of demonstration of all the other feelings inside a human being. Feelings that are suppressed and can only be let out through the pain of another. There is always a reason for violence, a motive that can be scary, or perhaps even tender. It can be physical and it can be verbal. Violence can go from an everyday beating, to a once in a lifetime regret. It can be within a home, or a whole socie...
Specifically the nurture side you can bring up children or even adults who look at things in the media or play games and become violent because of the things they see and because they want to do what they see. They are influenced by the violent acts they see which are bad because they continue the acts of violence. The things they see around them and see through the media turn them into the violent people we hear of in the world.
In psychology, the term aggression refers to a range of behaviors that can result in both physical and psychological harm to oneself, others or objects in the environment. Aggression can take on a variety of forms, including: physical, verbal, mental, and emotional. Aggression can also serve a number of different purposes such as asserting dominance, to intimidate or threaten, or to express anger or hostility. Everyone has experienced anger at one point in their lives and some of us have channeled that anger into violence, perhaps by throwing a punch during a heated argument or after too many beers at the bar. Then there's aggression on an greater scale, in the form of murder, wars and genocide. Trying to understand what fuels the different levels of human aggression, from fist fights to nation-on-nation battle, has long preoccupied human biologists.
The propensity for violence is caused by many reasons. Including the violence caused by the psychologically health, the lack of morality and the violence state under unconscious. There is an old saying in China: Like father, like son. I believe that the family education and environment is very important to children, it will affect to them for whole life just like the old saying.