Violence
Violence. Mentioning the word conjures up images of assault, abuse, and even murder. In today's American society, violence is more prevalent now then ever. Annually, we see violence statistics rise and are left to wonder why.
Each year 1 person out of every 40 is the victim of a violent crime. Everyone wants to find an answer a problem that is in great need of solving. But where do we look to find the answers? What causes people to behave in a violent fashion? There are several factors that will cause people to act violently.
Maybe if we explore the reasons for the behavior, and address these issues, we will win our battle with violence.
Drug and alcohol abuse in this country has always been around, but recently numbers are hitting all time highs. From 1992 to 1995, drug use among teenagers almost doubled. Drugs and alcohol are both mind altering agents which cause people to do things that they would not normally do or intensify the emotions that they feel. I believe that many violent acts are due to people being under the influence of some type of narcotic or alcohol.
In a survey conducted in the University of Tennessee for the Department of Health, the effects of drug abuse on violence were studied. It was found that almost 56% of drinkers also used drugs while drinking. Interestingly, white males were found to be more abusive than black males. The study showed direct links...
In this essay, the author
- Opines that the highest drug abuse numbers are seen in the teen year's age group.
- Analyzes how the type of behavior a person was exposed to had an impact on their behavior.
- Cites a study done in 1987 on children, ages 4 to 11, staying in domestic environments.
- Opines that to combat this problem, we need to teach women, or men, as the solution.
- Opines that children should also be educated on it at an early age so that they too can pick.
- Opines that many people have died for the right to be accepted, and many have been killed.
- Explains that each year 1 person out of every 40 is the victim of a violent crime. everyone wants to find an answer, but where do we look for the answers?
- Explains that boys who have been exposed have 17 times more behavior and emotional problems later on in life.
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- Violence and Three Theoriesopinion essayThere are three major theories to violence and how that occurs within our world. First, biological theory studies the body and what factors go into creating violence within a person. Theories believe that someone who has more muscle and less fat, would be more likely than the versa. The manner in which someone holds themselves may also contribute to this theory. If you look at someone in the wrong way, you may provoke that person to become violent towards you unknowingly.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that biological theory studies the body and what factors go into creating violence within a person. the manner in which someone holds themselves may contribute to this theory.
- Explains that a social theory looks at how individuals engage with other people within their culture and/or society.
- Explains that psychological theories of violence study the mind, and what the thought process is that will make an individual act violently.
- Explains that religious violence in the middle east comes to mind when they think about these theories in relation to an act of violence.
- Analyzes how biological and psychological theories go hand in hand with the way an individual views and commits violence.
- Opines that the social theory contributes to the violence in syria because of many factors, including the political war and need for control of the country.
- Opines that religious violence is a factor that is occurring. christians are being sought out and killed by radically islamic religious groups, while jews are wage war in an attempt to keep their land.
- Opines that just because your genetic make-up has a violent history, doesn't mean you will. they have four brothers, who were violent growing up.
601 wordsRead More - Communication through Violenceanalytical essayCommunication through Violence One of society’s greatest issues would be the influence of violence in this generation. The world has used violence to communicate more than any other form of communication. The violence rate in the United States has increased for the second year in a row. The 2012 National Crime Victimization Survey by the Bureau of Justice Statistics stated, about 26 of every 1,000 people in America have experienced some type of violent crime. The survey also stated there was a 15% increase in people who have reported being victims of rape, robbery or assault.
In this essay, the author
- Compares how a psychologist from iowa state university, christopher barlett, played "mortal kombat: deadly alliance" for 15 minutes and was physically and psychologically aroused.
- Explains that society has environmental factors that cause violence through communication. the article "long-term effects of domestic violence" states that domestic violence affects the youth psychologically, making them aggressive, disobedient, and have low self-esteem.
- Argues that society communicates through violence because of its psychological state of mind, cognitive functioning, and long-term effects.
- Argues that society has many factors that play important roles on how we communicate through violence.
1114 wordsRead More - The Brain and Violence: An Unhealthy Combinationopinion essayEveryday on the news one hears stories of crimes and murders such as the one above. Murders are committed every day; stores are robbed every hour; crimes are committed constantly. The truth is that violence has sadly become a common and prevalent occurrence in society today. In essence, one must ask himself whether or not these violent tendencies have any biological relation whatsoever. Is violence caused by disruptions or damage to the brain? Is there a genetic correlation? Or is violence brought about by something else, such as economic difficulties or social or cultural differences? And one must ask himself an even broader question-whether a cause for violence even exists.
In this essay, the author
- Narrates how jack was walking down the street enjoying a snack when he smiled at the stranger coming toward him while continuing to eat. the stranger stabbed jack, but bystanders pulled the knife away.
- Opines that violence has sadly become a common and prevalent occurrence in society today. one must ask himself whether or not these violent tendencies have any biological relation whatsoever.
- Narrates how phineas gage, a railroad worker, was working when an iron rod impaled his skull, damaging the front part of his brain. although he survived, his behavior severely changed.
- Explains that gage's accident probably resulted in damage to the prefrontal cortex, which is crucial for the orchestration of emotion, arousal, and attention.
- Explains that the prefrontal cortex is responsible for self-restraint, deceitfulness, impulsiveness, lack of emotional depth, and antisocial behavior.
- Describes how richard davidson analyzed brain imaging data from a large, diverse group of studies on violent subjects and those predisposed to violence to find any connections between the brain and violent tendencies.
- Explains that davidson and his colleagues found common neurological trends among many of their subjects in the brain's inability to properly regulate emotion.
- Explains that molecular geneticists suggest that multiple genes may interact to prime individuals to this behavior.
- Argues that davidson's study correlates genetics and prefrontal damage to increased violent tendencies, but can one actually say that this is the only cause of violence?
- Opines that the correlation between brain damage to the prefrontal cortex and violence needs to be discussed before anything else can be done.
- Explains that the paper reflects the research and thoughts of a student at the time it was written. it is not intended to be "authoritative" but rather to help others further develop their explorations.
1397 wordsRead More - gang violenceargumentative essayMany communities have been the victim of many gangs moving into their once safe neighborhood, causing major downfalls and preventing the citizens from living their daily lives in peace. Guarino elaborates how Chicago still outpaces other big American cities in crime rates due to gang violence (Guarino1). There’s a lot of given reasons to why there is much gang violence in the city but the solutions are not as prominent. In the article, “Chicago Tactics Put Major Dent in Killing Trend” written by Monica Davey, she goes on to explain, “that more than 500 people were killed in Chicago in one year, many of them young men shot to death amid the hundreds of gangs that flourish in Chicago neighborhoods” (Davey). Davey continues on to say that in recent months, police officers have been working overtime and dispatched to 20 small zones that are considered the most dangerous in Chicago (Davey). Due to the high activity of police activity, Chicago homicides and gang violence have declined.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how chicago still outpaces other big american cities in crime rates due to gang violence, but the solutions are not as prominent.
- Opines that chicagoans would like to see more solutions when it comes to ending gang violence.
- Proposes a solution to reduce gang violence by providing more funding to schools for permanent anti-gang prevention programs during school or after school.
- Explains the positive benefits of implementing a permanent gang prevention program in the community.
602 wordsRead More - Violence In Societyanalytical essayActs of violence are usually seen as being detrimental to human emotion and the conscience. When exposed to too much violence, a person’s perception of society and even themselves becomes altered. However, just as violence is disadvantageous to people, it can also be seen as a major advantage as it causes citizens to realize that change needs to occur. In “Great to Watch,” the author, Maggie Nelson, discusses how society, especially Americans, have become desensitized to violence. Nelson also goes into depth to explain how society has become accustomed to violence because people become exposed to it. In addition, Beth Loffreda discusses and explains the effects that a violent hate crime had on the town of Laramie, Wyoming in her essay “Selections
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how violence is detrimental to human emotion and conscience, but it can also be seen as a major advantage as it causes citizens to realize that change needs to occur.
- Analyzes how new yorker's shrugged off violence because of the magnitude of crimes that occurred around them. the goetz incident was the primary reason for the city to combat its crime epidemic.
- Analyzes how maggie nelson agrees with the notion of violence or an event needing to occur to unmask and make people realize that change needs to happen.
- Opines that our conscience is not affected by violence because it tells what is right and wrong.
- Analyzes how nelson's conscious led him to see the cold-hearted murders as incorrect. humans are not just cruel individuals that overlook the violence occurring around them.
- Explains that violence can cause citizens of a community to become desensitized or immune to the chaos occurring around them, but the consciousness is still not affected.
1494 wordsRead More - gun controlanalytical essay52% of Americans will be the victim of an attempted or completed violent crime more than once in their lives.
In this essay, the author
- Opines that 42% of americans will be the victim of a completed violent crime in the course of their lives.
- Explains that 40% had decided not to commit a crime because they "knew or believed that the victim was carrying gun."
- Explains that "gun control facts", by james d agrestic and reid k smith, was updated on 2/11/2013.
- Explains that in the wake of shootings over the past year, much controversy has risen about the need for gun control.
- Explains that 52% of americans will be the victim of an attempted or completed violent crime more than once in their lives.
- Argues that our attentions are directed to events by special interest groups, whose purpose may be political, greed or simply scared individuals owning firearms.
829 wordsRead More - Varities of Violenceanalytical essayThe books Child of the Dark by Carolina Maria de Jesus and Testimony by Victor Montejo describes the lives of two individuals from different societies. In both of these societies there was much hardship and violence. The two main characters who wrote these books describe life through their point of view and explains the hardship and challenges they had living in a society filled with violence.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how the books child of the dark by carolina maria de jesus and testimony by victor montejo describe the lives of two individuals from different societies.
- Explains that victor montejo lived in a poor village in guatemala, where he was the schoolmaster.
- Analyzes how victor's testimony shows that people weren't much better off outside of the village. there were guerillas who fought to bring a new government and change to the guatemalan society.
- Explains that carolina maria de jesus lived off in a worse society than victor montejo even though there were some similarities.
- Compares the living standards of victor and carolina in tazala and sao paulo. both societies were poor, while in favela people would steal or pick up trash to make ends meat.
- Explains that victor montejo lived in a very violent society, with attacks from guerillas and in the case of his testimony the government's army.
- Narrates how the villagers thought they were being attacked by guerillas, but the army ended up winning the battle and killing and beating many of the civil patrol members to make a point.
- Describes how carolina maria de jesus and the people of sao paulo lived with a different type of violence. they had to steal, sell themselves for money, and put down each other to improve themselves.
- Compares how victor and carolina grew up in violent societies, but the type of violence they delt with was different. victor lived and worked in a society where there was constant fear of war.
- Opines that the political atmosphere of victor and carolinas' time may have reacted to them totally differently and taken them as a help to society if they were from higher economic areas.
- Analyzes how carolina's journal published in the papers had an impact on her society and from others around because it showed what it was like to live in slums and raise children from a insiders perspective.
- Explains that victor and carolina lived the same lives when it came to violence, society, and political issues in their lives.
- Compares how victor and carolina grew up in a society where there was constant fear of war with guerillas and in some cases wars with the government.
- Explains that victor and carolina had to deal with the same type of problems in society but only in different ways. the society challenged them both in many ways, yet they both seemed to find a way to succeed.
1300 wordsRead More - Violence in Americaanalytical essayViolence in America Beginning with the urban drug wars and the Rodney King riot all the way up the spectacular lynchings in Texas and Wyoming, and now the mass murder/terrorist strike by teenagers in their own high school, the 90s is a decade made numb by civil disorder. In between came the incidents at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas, involving dubious law enforcement assaults on separatists, which led to the terrorist bombing at Oklahoma City — the single worst terrorist act in American history. Since then, law enforcement agencies have thwarted twenty-four major domestic terrorist attacks. Shootings and bombings at abortion clinics, the slaying of abortion providers by right-wing fanatics and racial disturbances, some of which involved flagrant police brutality, added to the mix.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that settlers developed a fierce tradition of what theodore roosevelt later termed rugged individualism. hackney wrote about violence on the southern frontier was typical of violence anywhere in america.
- Explains that americans were heavily armed. their lives depended on their skills with the long gun. the british in north america eventually used these arms to secure their liberty.
- Analyzes how the 1990s were made numb by civil disorder, including the lynchings in texas and wyoming, and the terrorist bombing at oklahoma city.
- Argues that the cyclical rise in crime and violence will get worse as baby boomer babies get older.
- Explains that the new world was a tabula rasa, ready to be molded any way the european colonists and their african slaves cared to. only its vastness and anger of the native people offered any hindrance.
- Analyzes how slavery exacerbated our proclivities for violence. slave societies have a low threshold of violence for two reasons: the need to hold the slaves in bondage and protection from them when they resist.
- Explains that the cult of honor through violent self-assertion was pervasive in the south.
- Argues that the militia movement is an important american form of collective violent repsonse.
2581 wordsRead More - Violence in Americaexplanatory essayThere are five kinds of violence right now in the world, sexual, physical, psychological, emotional, and domestic violence. We have been affected by violence since the beginning of time. In some parts of the world violence is worse than in others, like how we can see that there is more violence in Venezuela than in Australia. This example can help us to realize that there is more violence in the “Third World countries” than in the “First World Countries”. In America, violence has increase over the years but not just in the “third World countries” but in the United States one of the riches and strongest countries in the world.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that there are five kinds of violence right now in the world: sexual, physical, psychological, emotional, and domestic violence.
- Explains that violence in the united states affects the society because of the many violent video games being sold on the market.
- Explains that domestic violence affects the american society, where women and children are the most affected ones.
- Explains that drugs affect the brain and affects the behavior of the person, like hallucinogen drugs that make them see objects and things that does not exist.
519 wordsRead More - Violence and Video Gamesanalytical essayViolent video games and violent adolescent behavior, is there a connection? Millions of violent video games are sold around the United States, millions more are sold overseas, but the numbers of violent crimes, that could be associated with violent video games is low. Assault, robbery, burglary, rape and murder occur daily. The drug industry accounts for the majority of these crimes. The cases not related to drugs, fall into a number of categories, including Psychological Disorders. Disorders that can cause violent behavior are psychotic or anti-social behavior, depression, schizophrenia, delusion, disassociation, and any others recognized by a Psychologist.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how the attorney jack thompson blames the video game grand theft auto as having trained devon moore to carry out the murders.
- Explains that a teenage brain isn't fully developed, which combined with moore's troubled upbringing, and shuffled between broken homes and foster care, led to this tragedy.
- Argues that while psychological studies show that games increase aggression, there is little to no evidence of studies linking violent, disruptive, and dangerous behavior related to video gamers.
- Analyzes how schechter's book savage pastimes argues that violence in media allows individuals to feed their darker natures.
- Analyzes how schecter argues that aggression in adolescent boys may actually be normal everyday play. the majority of boys know the difference between fighting and playing, and video games are more sedentary than cops and robbers.
- Describes doctor david walsh's book, why do they act that way: a survival guide to the adolescent brain, which discusses the downside of media for teens.
- Analyzes walsh's argument that media is a matter of quality and quantity. he argues that if individuals focus on some form of media, they are not focusing on schoolwork, chores or family time.
- Explains that walsh suggests that moderation is the key to dealing with an addicted adolescent, limiting the amount of time they play the game, and ensure that their priorities are taken care of, school work, chores, or family time.
- Describes david walsh, savage pastimes, henry schechter, cbs, michael ward, video games, violence, and crime as survival guides to the adolescent brain.
- Opines that violent video games and violent adolescent behavior are linked. the drug industry accounts for the majority of violent crimes.
- Explains that the majority of people who play video games can distinguish game play from reality; however, some individuals cannot disassociate the game world from the real world.
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