Two Views of Violence

Society has been subjected to many violent acts over the course of its history. Although violence is immoral and wrong, somehow people everyday condone and commit violence for countless reasons. Many Hollywood films glorify mindless violence to their advantage and captivate audiences through its entertaining shock value and rake large box office profits. Car chases, crashes and glorified gladiator sword fights are all familiar scenes in which violence is portrayed in an unrealistic glamorised manner.

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.

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

Over the last thirty years, significant scholars of American (particularly southern) lynching such as George C. Wright, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Stewart E. Tolnay and E. M. Beck, Christopher Waldrep, William D. Carrigan, Amy Louise Wood, and Manfred Berg have written at length about the social structure and cultural context of the collective violence, much of it racially motivated, that plagued the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States. With the exception of Wright's and Waldrep's work, lynching scholarship (including my own) has tended to focus more on the structure and context of lynching violence than on its impact on African American communities. Focusing on the violence itself as well as those who perpetrated it, scholars

“Violence- look, we live in a violent world, man. This country was founded on violence. Who’s kidding who?”, complains Bruce Willis. The world is a very violent place. In the media, they only really depict the physical violence. In literature, violence takes on a whole new role with two different forms. Thomas C Foster explains these two forms in How to Read Literature like a Professor. Coincidentally, these two types of violences are shown in Steinbeck’s novella. In Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, both types of literal violence are shown through Crooks and Lennie’s life experiences.

Violence in the real world Violence is a huge issue all around the world. In the great Gatsby there was violence everywhere. World war one had just gotten over and there was around 37 million casualties involved in that one war. The idea of violence is explored in key pieces of American literature and can be compared to the portrayal of violence in modern-day school shootings, the wars in the Middle East, Terrorist groups and domestic violence.

In the first article by Thomas Teo called Epistemological Violence he talks about this concept called Epistemological Violence which he states the concept is using empirical evidence in either research articles, books, chapters to imply that one group is inferior or a problem group despite their being better explanations available. This concept angers me because I know it has been used and still very might be still be used today to claimed outrageous claims that whites are the superior race because they rigged or spun the experiment to make it seem this way. For instance, a lot of people claim that African Americans are the problem group that is why they live in the worst neighborhoods, uses drugs, teen pregnancy, poor education, gang activity so when a test comes between a white male and a black male the white does better they can say by nature whites are smarter and they can so call back up their claim with their study.

In a world that is continuously changing in every aspect of its existences, there has arrived a controversy involving prehistoric societies and modern societies. Some scholars believe that prehistoric societies were more violent than the present modern societies; whereas other scholars on the opposite side of the argument believe that today human beings are living in a far more violent society than those who preceded. The two sides of the ongoing debate have published several books and articles defending their standpoints. They both present very compelling evidence based on historical and recent data and use interdisciplinary fields in order to support their claims.

Violence throughout our time has been evident ever since the beginning of our human species. From verbal to physical, one will not go through his/her lifetime without understanding the violent nature of other people. Richard Wilkinson brought up a point that “More unequal societies tend to be more violent” (Wilkinson 2). Wilkinson shows that there is a prominent correlation between income and homicide. Lower incomes shows higher rates of homicide. In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens shows how violence can flourish due to the inequality seen in the lower classes. Dickens uses violence to portray that a society filled with inequalities can lead to violence.

Violence can be described as a behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something. Violence has been around from the beginning and can be seen through history in writing and events that occurred. In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, violence’s jarring effects on societal members are evidenced through various relationships and partnerships, portraying society’s corrupt ideologies and ethics.

In agreement, both psychological and physical acts of violence was committed against Tiffany, therefore, radical theory would be a good fit for this situation. Amazingly, in view of gender, as we live in a stratified gendered society, we witness Donald exhibit superior male power therefore Tiffany’s role is bound to dependency being coerced into assuming the role of unequal power (Robbins, Chatterjee, & Canda, 2012). Just as amazing, socialist feminism includes radical feminism while interlocking class and gender oppression Robbins, Chatterjee, & Canda, 2012. To further elaborate, the socialist feminism theory examines the behavior exhibited by capitalism and patriarchy towards women who is seen as subordinate, this ideology substantiate the

Three Types of Violence (A discussion of three types of violence in the Troy Tale) “Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and departing leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.” Psalms of Life by Henry Longfellow. The novel, Mythology, by Edith Hamilton is a summary of all the greek gods and goddesses from several different texts. Hamilton wrote the novel to summarize all the greek myths into one book and she uses stories from, The Iliad and The Odyssey, both were written by Homer. The three types of violence that are clearly shown in this novel are physical, emotional/mental, and religious, or god vs. god.

This world that we are currently living in is very insecure. The violence, the religious

Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society. Rather than having violent movements and harming citizens, it is better to peacefully resist. Once a violence is used, the resistance to the law becomes nulled. People tend to not follow a violence protester. Once a violent riot starts, chaos is everywhere. People forget what they are truly fighting for. They unconsciously run away with the fear of getting harmed and dare not to go back. A peaceful resistance on the other hand leads citizens to join and support. People are able to see what they are fighting for and their real intentions. They are able to stand and cause no problem to people passing by as they are showing their support through silent voices. Many famous activists and leaders are for nonviolence. Mahatma Gandhi, a primary leader of India’s independence

In the essay ‘Reflections on Violence,’ where Arendt responds directly to her contemporaries who had read Franz Fanon’s works, she makes the somewhat caustic aside that, ‘It seems that only the first chapter of the book, “Concerning Violence,” has been widely read,’ and dismissing Fanon’s notion of the ultimate necessity of violent struggle against oppression in order to achieve decolonization and authentic human dignity. Arendt, for her part, could equally well be charged with having been negligent in her reading of Fanon’s work, wherein he describes in detail his own experiences, not just as a black man in an essentially racist European society, but as a medical professional confronted with the psychological scars of the daily violence inflicted by the French, not just on the people of Algeria, but their own colonial agents as well. More importantly, the psychiatric lens through which Fanon grounds his analysis, rooted in the everyday human experience of violence, shows clearly how violence, and through violence, both revolutionary violence and, more often than not, the counter-revolutionary violence required to sustain the status quo, bleeds through, and ultimately destroys such neat conceptual categories as “the political,” “the social,” and “the private” into which Arendt divides human existence. Such categories, it would seem, can only be maintained by those who would seek to render invisible certain facets of violence and oppression necessary for the maintenance of