...Runninghead: Domestic Violence Domestic Violence in African American Women Jennifer Rhoad The College of New Rochelle Abstract According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition, domestic violence is: "the inflicting of physical injury by one family or household member on another; also: a repeated or habitual pattern of such behavior." Domestic violence, also known as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family violence, and intimate partner violence (IPV), is broadly defined as a pattern of abusive behaviors by one or both partners in an intimate relationship such as marriage, dating, family, or cohabitation. Domestic violence, so defined, has many forms, including physical aggression or assault (hitting, kicking, biting, shoving, restraining, slapping, throwing objects), or threats thereof; sexual abuse; emotional abuse; controlling or domineering; intimidation; stalking; passive/covert abuse (e.g., neglect); and economic deprivation. Alcohol consumption and mental illness can be co-morbid with abuse, and present additional challenges in eliminating domestic violence. Awareness, perception, definition and documentation of domestic violence differ widely from country to country, and from era to era. Domestic Violence: A Survivor’s Perspective Domestic violence and abuse isn't limited to obvious physical violence. Domestic violence can also mean endangerment, criminal coercion, kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, trespassing...
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...activities done for pleasure which require physical and skill effort; however, violence in sports has become extremely violent. Athletes are involved, but coaches, referees, and spectators are also involved. In recent years, there has been an increase in the frequent and seriousness of acts of violence, and are most prevalent in team contact sports, such as football, ice hockey and soccer. Violence in some sports has also become a part of the entertainment arena. There are many casualties of violence in professional sports. Football is one of the most popular sports in the world, but it can be a very brutal sport. Players are hitting with the intent to injure or intimidate players, it may be part of a strategy developed by coaches or players, but with those intention come consequences. In recent years, the head injuries involved in football have been disturbingly high. Because head injuries can result in tragic effects sure as concussions, permanent brain damage including memory loss and depression; many rules have had to be enforced for player safety. Ice hockey is a very physical sport it is one of the most notorious sport for excessive violence. There are physical abuse of officials, player fights, and deliberate injuring of opponents. Ice hockey is known to have a fight on regularly occasion, and referees take their “sweet time” to break them up. This is one reason people watch hockey to see players fight. Violence in ice hockey has also resulted in players...
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...com/this-day-in-history/first-divorce-in-the-colonies). Nevertheless, “divorce is the termination of a valid marriage contract” (Knox, 2014, p. 252). There are many factors that cause divorce. However, abuse will be the reason for divorce discussed in this paper. As we all might already know there are numerous types of abuse, physical and emotional abuse is very common in the world, nationally and internationally. All types of abuse are detrimental to each individual person and to every relationship. (Knox, 2014). “Physical abuse is the intentional infliction of physical harm by either partner on the other” (Knox, 2014, p. 236). Power and control are the reasons why physical abuse occurs in the majority of relationships. Physical abuse happens in any and all races of life, and the age of the person does not even matter. Physical abuse destroys many families locally and globally. Physical abuse inside families affects every one in the household, especially the young. Once physical abuse has started in any relationship, the abuse more than likely will escalate both in the amount and the abuse will become more brutal each and every time. Violence in the residence leaves its indication on the imminent, including all the children living in the abusive home environment. Family...
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...Death Race 2000 where rivals in the Annual Transcontinental Road Race cut down walkers for focuses. In 1982 "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" was discharged. The characters on this amusement were playing like the characters in the film. In 1983 the diversion name "Halloween" was discharged and it to depict extremely itemized like of the blood and guts film "Halloween."1988 "Splatterhouse" was on the contention board due to the exasperating nature, and additionally its religious/religion topics. "Woflesnstein 3D and Doom" was discharged in May of 1992. This amusement was exceptionally questionable as a result of its Nazi-related symbolism and swastikas and pictures of Hitler. "Mortal Kombat" arrangement was discharged in 1992. It's a bloody brutal battling diversion that caught numerous individuals due to the completing moves, and the mercilessly to murder your rival in exceptionally stunning and shocking way. "GTA/Grand Theft Auto" the arrangement which was discharge in 1997. This diversion advanced gunning down criminals and guiltless individuals, running over walkers with autos and obliterating property. GTA is still an amusement that individuals take a gander at most as an ideal example case of rough gaming because of what numerous would call its unneeded presentation of viciousness and dubious substance. "Manhunt" is another amusements arrangement that was discharged in 2003. This diversion is spotlights on executing and tormenting of individuals in extremely irritating ways...
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...and Violence in Sports Abstract Aggression and violence Violence in Sports Violence and aggression have always gone hand in hand with sports. Even sports in ancient Greece were based on malicious warrior sports like chariot racing, wrestling, and boxing (Coakley, 2009). Death matches were a regular with the Mayans and Aztecs. During the medieval times tournaments were created for war training and often the end result was death. Extreme violence was common in sports the same way it is common in today’s sports world. This quote by Lynn Jamieson, associate professor at Indiana University describes the acceptance of violence in sports: "Sport tends to reflect society, and we live in a violent era," she said. "We have a violent society where people use violence to solve problems instead of using other means." Eric Dunning (1999) notes that violence still exists in the modern day sports because their goal is to “create tension rather than relieve or discharge it.” Aggression and violence are often confused as being the same thing. Aggression is “an intentional behavior aimed at causing either physical or psychological pain” (Lee, 2009, p. 78). Violence is “the use of excessive physical force, which causes or has obvious potential to cause harm or destruction” (Coakley, 2009, p. 196). Many people associate violence with actions that are illegal or unsanctioned, but in some societies violence is encouraged and a part of life. Aggression often involves violence, but...
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...expanded to include verbal attacks and attacks on a person's way of life; this was done by integrating speech into the mix, in doing so it escalated and broadened the effects of the harassment. In doing so it allowed for people to spread rumors about one another, the spreading of these rumors is a fundamental psychological aspect of the harassment and lead to severe and long-term, sometimes even permanent impact.(Sherrow) There are many effects and responses to bullying, of which can include the following: confidence problems, trust issues, lack of assertiveness, hard to handle aggression, isolation, and suicide. (bullying behaviors) The severe ramification of the imperious actions of others are mainly suicidal thinking, or speculation of brutal and savage vengeance. In accordance to data released by a “National Vital Statistics Report” self-destruction is the third dominant source or root of disease within young adults ages ranging between 15 and 24. And evidence suggests that the initial feedback to the imperious actions...
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...knights with the most famous tales about Arthur and his knights of the Round Table. However, as a matter of fact, knights in the Arthurian legend are brutal and their actions are not justified. Brutality and inappropriate behavior of knights are demonstrated through jousting tournaments. In The Once And Future King by T.H. White, King Pellinore and Sir Grummore joust, and their savagery natures as knights are revealed: “With a blood-curdling beat of iron hoofs the mighty equestrians came together. Their spears wavered for a moment within a few inches...
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...Once Were Warriors Report by Sean Collier Once Were Warriors had a different reception internationally towards the didactic message of the violence in the film. Once Were Warriors directed by Lee Tamahori grossed over $6 million in New Zealand passing Jurassic Park on the New Zealand Box Office. New Zealanders praised the film with most reviews receiving a high rating. When opened internationally it grossed over $2 million with reviews also achieving a high rating. Although most international reviews fail to see the message from the violence compared to local reviews, they seem to view the violence as nauseating and unnecessary while New Zealand sees it as strong message to the public. Strong examples of this are Mark Tierney, Lizzie Francke and David Stratton from New Zealand, and Kenneth Turan from America who had a strong opinion on the movie’s brutal violence leading him to give it a bad review therefore missing the didactic message of the film. Once Were Warriors is a film based from the novel of the same name, about a Maori family living in Auckland after moving away from tribal elders over a disagreement over their marriage. The main settings are the Heke’s house and the local bar both housing drunken violence. Beth Heke (Rena Owen) is the victim of domestic abuse from her husband Jake Heke (Temurea Morrison) leading her to question the relationship and stand up to Jake while also trying to sort family relations. There are many sub-plots in the film which affect the...
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...Why Women Should Not Have Combat Roles in the Military In January of 2013, the ban preventing female soldiers from having combat roles in the military was lifted (Harris). As of today, women are fighting on the front lines of war alongside men during a time when war is more brutal now than ever. As a soldier in the Army, it is my plan to one day go overseas and fight against the enemies of the United States. However, it frightens me to know I will be fighting alongside mothers, sisters and daughters, who are all sacrificing their lives to do a job that men have been doing since the beginning of time. There are many important jobs done by women in our military, and I know that is what makes our country special, but I do not think women should be allowed combat roles. The main reasons behind my argument are women are not physically or mentally suited for combat, the amount of tension and sexual abuse that results from women in combat, and the amount of other jobs that women can have in our military besides combat jobs. Women are simply not as physically equipped as men are for combat. A contributor to studyhealth.com said, "Men are over 30% stronger than women, especially in the upper body. Although many feminists cannot face this fact, females simply do not have the strength or endurance necessary to be, for example, effective combat soldiers." A combat soldier is required on average to wear between 88 to 102 pounds of gear, depending on the weather, on almost every...
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...Macklin Brown 11/21/2012 The Balance of Power and Domestic Violence Domestic Violence is hard to talk about. Neither the perpetrators nor the victims are likely to be forthcoming with the details. Domestic abuse and violence incidents are extremely traumatic and leave emotional and physical scars that last a lifetime. It is transferred generation to generation by association. Sexual abuse in the household is a form of violence; this is along the same vein as the fact that rape is considered a violent crime. There is a large amount of evidence that suggests that domestic violence and abuse have strong correlations to poverty and power. The violence is widespread and affects far more Americans than you might imagine, or want to… One of the websites I visited looking for information belonged to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. They give a working definition for Domestic violence which is: “Domestic violence is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior perpetrated by an intimate partner against another”. This definition can aid us in our understanding of what exactly Domestic violence is. There is some additional information that I gathered from their website that provides insights into the problem of domestic violence. One such statistic is that “most cases of domestic violence are never reported to the police”. I intentionally put this statistic first because it affects every ever statistic to...
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...Part 1 Richard Slotkin The notion of Regeneration through Violence is not new to the American cultural concept, nor is the intensive use of myth. Richard Slotkin’s book meticulously accounts how the use of violence has been integral to the construction of a distinctly American mythology. Slotkin argues, “In American mythology the founding fathers were not those 18TH-century gentlemen who composed a nation at Philadelphia. Rather, they were those who tore violently a nation from implacable and opulent wilderness”. As a result regeneration ultimately became the means of violence, and the myth of regeneration through violence became the structuring metaphor of the American experience. In describing the evolution of the myth of regeneration through violence, Slotkin describes North America as an empty, unoccupied wilderness where resources are rich and land is free for the taking, or if not exactly free, the land becomes the rightful spoil of war for those representing the interests of civilization and progress. The symbolic landscape of the frontier narrative is marked by boundaries and by the encounter of opposites; civilization and savagery, man and nature, whites and Indians, good and evil. These encounters are characterized in terms of conflictand violence as the protagonist struggles against the harsh environment, the unknown and potentially hostile Indians, and the savagery of the empty land. As Slotkin argues, European American encounters with the wilderness produced...
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...woman occupies a vital position and venerable place. The Vedas glorified women as the mother, the creator, one who gives life and worshipped her as a ‘Devi' or Goddess. But their glorification was rather mythical for at the same time, in India women found herself totally suppressed and subjugated in a patriarchal society. Indian women through the countries remained subjugated and oppressed because society believed in clinging on to orthodox beliefs for the brunt of violence—domestic as well as public, Physical, emotional and mental . Male violence against women are worldwide phenomenon. Fear of violence is an important factor in the lives of most women. Fear of violence is the cause of lack of participation in every sphere of life. There are various forms of crime against women. Sometimes it is even before birth, some times in the adulthood and other phrases of life. In the Indian society, position of women is always perceived in relation to the man. This perception has given birth to various customs and practices. Violence against women both inside and outside of...
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...The organization, Invisible Children will be closing their doors. People have helped raise more than $30 million. In just five days, the Kony 2012 video attracted over 100 million views. The group’s leaders have said that they have accomplished many of their goals. They put this statement out, “Invisible Children has seen incredible strides toward the achievement of its mission- a permanent end to LRA violence. While Kony is still being pursued by regional security forces, the unprecedented political momentum galvanized by Invisible Children dedicated activists has helped secure and maintain an international coalition, working toward ending the LRA’s violence and bringing Kony to justice. As a result of these collective efforts, three of the five ICC (International Criminal Court)- indicated senior LRA commanders have been removed from the battlefield in the last three years, and LRA-affected communities in central and east Africa have experienced a significant improvement in safety and...
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...traditional rivals of each other on sectarian basis, they fought their actual battle in Pakistan. The issue is not new to us, the root cause of the problem is the Sunni interpretation of Islamic laws, and Sunni oriented educational curricula, emergence of separate areas of residence and a public discourse that Shias are not true Muslims. Several extremist groups were made on basis of these concepts and they started to function the conflict through excessive use of power. The conflict exists between the Muslims but the difference is that it is very violent now which led the displacement of people, breakdown of local support system and brutalization of social attitudes. The state has failed to play an active role in peace building, stopping violence, providing relief and bringing criminals to justice. The relations between Shias and Sunnis are worse than ever and the underlying conflict has not been resolved. Conflict brings to the surface ideological forces with great mobilizing potential. We can say that it is wider phenomenon of movement between tectonic plates. Zia ul Haq’s era gave rise to this curse of sectarianism when he tried to legitimize his rule by Islamizing laws, institutions, economics, politics, morals and manners, as well as education which led to Sunnification of...
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...Terrorism has been defined as ‘the use of violence or intimidation to achieve a desired end.’ (Donohoe, 2004). Terrorists have used these methods over time to change the political sphere of a country, sometimes for the greater good, and other times to advocate minor causes or causes that do not align with the values of broader society. Although terrorism had existed as a concept before the 1970s, it was at this time that terrorists began to act outside of their home territory, either singularly (known as acting as a ‘lone wolf’) or as part of a terrorist group. The first known example of this occurred in 1972 when a group of Arabian terrorists launched an attack on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, killing eleven people. Since this time,...
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