Restraining order Essays

  • Restraining Orders

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    A restraining order is a court document that restricts, or eliminates, contact between two people. Restraining orders are usually associated with victims of domestic violence, but can be obtained by victims of any form of harassment. Essentially, a judge decides how far a the defendant must stay away to keep you safe. In extreme cases, a judge will order no form of contact, including telephone, letters or even emails. Violating a restraining order is tantamount to violating any other court order and

  • The Crime of Stalking

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    would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested, and that actually causes the victim to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed, or molested. Basically this is saying that in order for there to be stalking, a person need to feel like their life is in danger, they are unable to lead a normal life cause of another person that won?t leave them alone. There are three main types of stalkers. The first one is the simple obsession

  • Cruelty Towards Women

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    Introduction The phone calls usually come late at night, near the end of my shift. Barley audible, a voice packed with emotion asks, "Is there room in the shelter," she is in danger and needs help. "Have you called the police," I know before she can answer, she has not. They never want to call the police; there is usually a reason, fear, children, or time. "[A]s many as 50 percent of homeless women and children are fleeing domestic violence,"(UNITED STATES v. MORRISON 2000). This assignment offers

  • Jessica Gonzales: The Temporary Restraining Order

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    1999 Jessica Gonzales filed for and was granted a temporary restraining order against her estranged husband Simon Gonzales. (The state trial court granted the temporary restraining order.) Simon Gonzales was served with the temporary restraining order on June 4th, 1999. A revision of the order took place in the state trial court in which the temporary restraining order was made permanent on June 4th, 1999. The terms of the restraining order stated that Mr. Gonzales was not to be within one hundred

  • Domestic Violence Restraining Order Case Study

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    Another solution to suicide gun violence is Gun Violence Restraining Orders (GVRO). According to a study on GVRO, past tendencies of violence are a better detector of future gun violence than mental illness (Frattaroli, McGinty, Barnhorst, & Greenberg, 2015, pp. 292-293). Domestic Violence Restraining Orders (DVRO) inspired the idea of GVRO; DVRO allow people to get a short-term restraining order from their partner who may harm them. GVRO prevents someone from getting or using a gun or ammunition

  • Analysis of Understanding Family Resilience by Joan Patterson

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    (Patterson, 1988, 1989, 1993). In order for a family to be resilient, it ... ... middle of paper ... ...der to surpass the stress experienced by the whole family. It is continuously staying strong and supporting each family member in the changes that might take place in order to respond to the internal and external forces. In brief, developing a resilient family does not solely depend on just those part of the family, everyone has a significant role to play in order for a family to cope with the

  • Hamlet

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    Polonius, the pompous Lord Chamberlain, suggests that Hamlet may be mad with love for his daughter, Ophelia, Claudius agrees to spy on Hamlet in conversation with the girl. But though Hamlet certainly seems mad, he does not seem to love Ophelia: he orders her to enter a nunnery and declares that he wishes to ban marriages. A group of traveling actors comes to Elsinore, and Hamlet seizes upon an idea to test his uncle's guilt. He will have the players perform a scene closely resembling the sequence

  • Intertextuality In Ken Kesey: S One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

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    The Blurry Truth Asylums hold the position of residency for all people that do not fit into the mold of “socially acceptable”. From birth one must abide by certain standards of dress and action in order to avoid a slot in the asylum of life. This set of guidelines impressed upon people by society at large does not frequently face challengers. Society prefers to reign without people astray—without people breaking out of their boxes. References to the structure of society are present in a large quantity

  • Lord Of The Flies Theme Analysis

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    the story are two boys named Jack and Ralph. Jack represents the chaos on the island while Ralph represents how society acts when order is present. Along with the ideas that Ralph and Jack are symbolic characters, Brook uses the conch shell and the theme of loss of innocence to show how the transformation the boys go through is similar to how society transforms. Order is constantly being

  • Compare And Contrast A Rose For Emily Short Story

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    impression on the audience. In the short story, A Rose for Emily, the outstanding differences take the viewer on a ride they didn’t experience when reading the story. The biggest alteration is how the story’s chronological order takes a twist as they place the events back into an order in which they happened. Even though it is easier to follow, the original version left the audience dazed and confused for a reason. It made it less predictable, and allowed the reader to guess why Emily did those things

  • Pretrial Brief

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    Defendant filed Cross-Motion to preceding motion on September 18, 2013. On the return date October 3, 2013, (a) Order for Defendant to pay Robert W. Mayer $5,000.00 retainer was denied without prejudice, (b) Order to freeze all accounts of Gary H. Rappold was denied, (c) Order to exempt Defendant’s checking account from being frozen to pay all monthly and day-to-day expenses was granted, (d) Order for Defendant to pay pendente lite alimony to ... ... middle of paper ... ...ility. 24. The Defendant's

  • The Personification of Death in Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus

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    The first scene in which the viewer encounters the princess, she orders Cegeste, Heurtebise, and Orpheus. This is the first time that the princess is ever seen by Orpheus and the first words that she speaks to him are very harsh and demanding. The Princess is accompanied by a young poet named Cegeste, and when Cegeste is killed by the motorcyclists she orders Orpheus to help her and to come as a witness. She then continues her orders by ordering the chauffer, Heurtebise, to not go to the hospital

  • Antigone

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    Antigone lived in, it was considered foolish to simply go against a man’s orders, let alone the Kings. Not to mention that Antigone was related to the King, making the situation even worse. She committed a supremely precarious action, especially for a woman. Not only does she bravely follow her morals, but she does a great job of justifying them in her arguments. Antigone was a civil disobedient by disobeying Creon’s orders and accepting the consequences, but she did a great job of justifying them

  • moralant confant Conflicting Values in Sophocles' Antigone

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    when in respect to family. Creon has a very strong opinion about the laws of the city and the laws passed by him. His method of enforcing them is very strict. Creon orders that Polyneices will not be buried because of his dishonor towards Thebes. Furthermore, if anyone is caught burying him they will be killed for disobeying his order. Polonieces is Antigone's brother. He is being punished because he attacked Thebes and betrayed Creon and the people of Thebes. Creon's harsh punishment on those who

  • Ads

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    it should be illegal! Illegal? It is also packed with scorching photos that are too hot for them to show! As I read on I am instructed that I will not believe it till I see it! And I must act now to receive a complimentary poster for the first 100 orders. I thought to myself that perhaps they should have offered a free cold shower because that what I needed after I goggled at the ad for a minute or two. This of course is a typical ploy of marketers according to Jeffery Shrank in "Why you buy-how ads

  • Philosophical and Political Aspects of Lord the Flies

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    Philosophical and Political Aspects of Lord the Flies Is easy enough to make a broad generalization about philosophical, political or even religious interpretations on each book ( even if we consider religion in some way vinculated to philosophy), but in reality the issue is an extremely complex one. It would be so comfortable to reduce a story to a mere source of external references and to lose all the nuances that make literature a special phenomenon; I´m not saying literature is only style

  • moralant Free Antigone Essays: Do the Right Thing

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    Antigone: Do the Right Thing Antigone did the right thing by defileing Creon's strict orders on burying Polynices because the unalterable laws of the gods and our morals are higher than the blasphemous laws of man. Creon gave strict orders not to bury Polynices because he lead a rebellion, which turned to rout, in Thebes against Creon, their omnipotent king. Antigone could not bare to watch her brother become consumed by vultures' talons and dogs. Creon finds out that somebody buried Polynices'

  • Form and Function of the Colosseum

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    us take a look at some of the orders, the wall-like structure and the vaults of the Colosseum as part of its form and functions. With reference to the Illustration Book Colour Plate 19,28,72,75,76 and 78, and Block 2 The Colosseum Figure 6.1 and 6.2, the Colosseum evidently uses five orders: ‘Doric’, ‘Tuscan’, ‘Ionic’, ‘Corinthian’ and ‘Composite’. The function of these orders is to provide a framework for the divisions of the whole building. A different order is used for different levels

  • Exploring Free Will and Decision Making in Albert Camus' The Guest

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    decision making? Balducci brings the Arab to Daru's door, informing Daru that "I have an order to deliver the prisoner and I'm doing so," (90) thus freeing Balducci of the responsibility over wherever the Arab ultimately ended up. Balducci didn't want the responsibility of the Arab possibly escaping, and by doing only as was expressly required of him (delivering the Arab to Daru's door and giving the orders of the Arab's destination to Daru), he was also setting the story so that any decision Daru

  • The Goal: Summary

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    discover the division vice-president, Bill Peach, showed up unannounced to see the status of a specific customer order number, discovered the order was incomplete, barked orders at employees to assemble the products, and finally informed Mr. Rojo he has only three months to improve his plant's performance before it's closed because the plant cannot get orders out the door on time. In fact, the order Bill investigated was already seven weeks late and the product not even assembled. After Bill departs, Alex