Random Acts Of Senseless Violence Analysis

Yunior is a hyper-sexual, athletic male, who was “Fucking with not one, not two, but three fine-ass bitches at the same time and that wasn’t even counting the side-sluts I scooped at the parties and the clubs… who had pussy coming out of his ears” (Díaz 185). His descriptions show how little he cares for these women, and that he only sees them as his conquests. Women, to him, are a notch in his belt, a sign that he is as masculine and he is expected to be. The ideas that women are sexual objects and a man must conquer as many as possible to be masculine is an ideology sustained in the Dominican Republic and ingrained in the minds of its people. Even when faced with the woman he could truly love, Yunior could not let go of the practice of proving his masculinity by having sex with multiple women, “One day she called, asked me where I’d been the night before, and when I didn’t have a good excuse, she said, Good-bye, Yunior” (Díaz 324). He chose to lose Lola because he was too stubborn to let go of his habits. This book is misogynistic because of the lack of respect for women expressed through characters like Yunior, and the ideas expressed through him that one’s sexuality is dependent on one’s attractiveness to the opposite

You’re driving with your girlfriend and child, on your way home after a long day. You suddenly get pulled over by a cop. You do as the cop says, in addition, you decide it’s not best to argue back. You speak calmly and do as the cop says, yet they are afraid of you and think you will try something horrific. As soon as you’re about to show them your license, it is suddenly too late. You are shot and are no longer alive. It took 40 seconds for an ordinary traffic stop to turn deadly. This occurred to a man named Philando Castile. He was fatally shot by a cop when he was reaching for his license. Philando Castile informed him beforehand that he legally had a firearm in his car before they decide to shoot or arrest him. However, the cop said that he

Perhaps a more frightening example, the boys in the gangs are harassed by the police. They are told that they are useless, hated, and inhuman. “Being fed a spoonful of hatred everyday” makes it hard not to start to believe these comments (Peralta, 2008). Once the individual begins to believe these comments, they begin to behave in ways to support these titles. This is how the young boys who vow to never participate in gang violence end up

who always been deprived of father-figure, she feels the need to acquire attention from boys in

amount of the violence. My children at times were abused for defending me. I knew

The author creates themes of commonality that are relatable to many in this story story. There is a crucial moment in rebellious child’s lives that pushes them to act out. For Lola this happens to be her mother and her battle with breast cancer, “with her cancer there wasn’t much she could do anymore” (Diaz 5). Lola,

The term violence brings to memory an image of physical or emotional assault on a person. In most circumstances, the person affected due to violence is aware that a violent action has been performed on that person. There is another form of violence where the affected individual, in most cases are unaware of the violence inflicted upon them. These types of violence are termed as structural violence. Structural violence is a form of invisible violence setup by a well-defined system, to limit an individual’s development to his full potential, by using legal, political, social or cultural traditions (Winter and Leighton, 1).

What has America come to? Although the articles, “We’re No.1(1)!” written by Thomas Friedman, and the article “Violence is Who We Are,” by Steven Crichley, have different overall subjects, they have a similar arguments. The world isn’t as great as it used to be, we are lacking good leadership, and we happily invite wrong doings into our lives.

This can be seen through Oscar’s sister and Yunior’s on and off girlfriend Lola, along with Oscar’s two major love interests Ana and Yvon. Lola is a complex character; she is very independent, stands up for herself, and refuses to let men walk all over her. Yunior explains that Lola is different from regular Dominican girls. He vaguely mentions how she was raped in the sixth grade and, after that, she became tough. Her and Oscar are close and she often gives him advice about girls and about life. Lola challenges the social standards by basically doing whatever she pleases. She is the epitome of a rebel within the story and is definitely a strong female character — instead of falling apart after she was raped, she learned how to build herself up and become her own independent person

The social stratification of people can be affected by many things. In most cases people are affected by economic factors. In class we watched documentaries that shows different economic struggles and other structural inequalities. The documentaries were Violence Next Door: Growing up in the Favelas and The Other Side of Immigration. They both showed different economic factors from different places.

Do you live in or ever heard about an area where there's gang violence, turf wars, shoot outs, and drug dealing? Well you can compare that modern day violence to some of the violent history of America. In this essay I will compare the troubling senseless violence of America today to the violence during America's westward expansion, and the war of 1812,

Chapter 4 informed me about Institutional Violence, what it means, and the types of institutional violence and how this form of violence affects society. Institutional violence has many aspects such as intimate partner violence, child abuse, educational, religious, corporate, media and environmental violence. I found the section on family violence interesting and I also learned a lot of new facts and disturbing details about dangerous consumer products that either cause major and widespread illness or even death. I was able to learn more in depth about the characteristics of corporate violence and who the founding father of corporate crime is, Edwin Sutherland, thanks to this man corporate violence was brought to the forefront and acknowledged in the corporate world.

In the United States alone, Muslims make up at least 1% of the population; which is 3.3 million people (Pew Research,2015). Since America is noted as a free and accepting country, any individual from outside the U.S, would easily come to the conclusion that all Muslims in every corner of the United States are being treated the same as everyone else. That is, unfortunately, not true; Attacks and discriminatory actions have become common in the lives of some Muslim adolescents that are currently living in the United States. Since the 9/11 terror attacks, discrimination against Muslims (predominantly adolescents) have wildly increased, and more Americans (typically older) are becoming anti-Muslim. Anyone can simply view this as normal since

Picture this. Your husband comes home from work and immediately heads to the liquor cabinet. As one drink turns into two, and then into four, the aggressive side you know is hiding behind the mask he puts on is waiting to be unleashed. What seems to be some small incident, such as a dropped glass or spilled milk, soon turns into an altercation. It starts off with some name calling, but quickly turns into more physical violence that leaves you with a black eye and marks up and down your arms. As he heads to bed reminding you that this was your fault, and that you deserved it, you almost begin to believe it. The next day is full of apologizes and promises that it will never happen again, which you want so badly to believe is true. Until it

how much of a man he was. After he hit his father, he felt a sense of pride as if he won a prize of some sort. The act was more selfish than selfless being that he was not thanked for it. After the incident, he looks at his sisters for validation for his actions but he has never seen the difference between them or separate the roles of them from their mother. His misogynistic views are passed down from his father and this is due to his immaturity and lack of exposure to the independent world.