Violence Is Who We Are Analysis

As Americans, living in a egotistical and self centered society, we often think that we are the best, the top 1 percent in every aspect. However, When compared to other countries of the world, America is ranked 14th in education, 44th in health care efficiency, and 101th in peace. But it ranks first in incarceration, 2nd in ignorance, and 3rd in global competitiveness. One can see how the rankings that America is top in are those that promote violence in one way or another. In the book Violence and Culture: A Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Approach by Jack David Eller, the author discusses violence in American society in one of his chapters. In this chapter, he mentions some social characteristics that represents and plays a role in

The filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the reasons of why America has such high records of gun violence, compared to other countries. He takes some looks into America’s violent history, violent games, ethnicity, and poverty, in which he finds other countries with similar factors, but not the same records of gun violence. He then investigates the American culture of fear and its effect on gun violence.

In this essay, I will be discussing the gun violence in America and I will be using different sources to help support my essay. I will be using three sources HBO Documentary “Violence: An American Tradition”, Amanda Marcotte’s “Overcompensation Nation: Toxic Masculinity and Violence.”, and Todd May’s “Is American Nonviolence Possible?”. I believe the gun violence in America comes because of the economic inequality, social status and, cultures. Gun violence is correlated to “toxic masculinity”. In her article, ‘Overcompensation nation’ Amanda Marcotte claims that gun violence in America can be correlated to a kind of over the top masculinity that’s toxic.

we watch the news and see these acts of violence, we hear the blame be put to

n this article “Maybe Violence Is The Answer?”, Michael Harriot discussed on the killing of Terrance Crutcher being brutally killed by police officer Betty Shelby. After Crutcher's death there were lots of riots and protests in Tulsa Oklahoma. Shelby was charged with manslaughter for the murder of Crutcher. Thousands of miles away from Tulsa Oklahoma in Charlotte North was another killing where cop kills a black person. Keith Lamont Scott was the other black gunned down by a white cop.

Violence is a social construct that has been glorified around the world and made accessible through the media (Killingbeck 2001). Violence is portrayed as being something that is part of the everyday world; it is made out to be an acceptable form of behaving and handling situations. This notion has greatly contributed to the propagation of school shootings and the death of innocent children and adults. By reducing the glorification that violence carries and the exploitation of the aftermath, school shootings can be reduced greatly. The media, television, video games, and the Internet are constantly portraying a world full that thinks that violence is the way to resolve issues (Killingbeck 2001). Gun violence is also portrayed as being a resolution to just about everything, when in fact it has been guns that have been the cause of all school shootings to begin with (Muschert 2007). The media glorifies school

Since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in December of 2012, there have been 998 bloody mass shootings in the United States (Gray). The imperfections of our society lead mankind to act out. When man is given the choice to behave the way they feel is right, evil will often consume them. Humans are readily becoming savages at the first chance they are given. We are able to see this happening frequently on the news. Man is undoubtedly flawed and highly influenced by society and it’s plentiful beliefs.

The children of today are being born into a harsh society, one that Americans have never seen before. Media bombards citizens with scenes of death and violence. From the toys children play with to the movies they watch to even seeing what their parents watch on the news, children grow up learning that violence is the social norm. With over 30,000 deaths by guns each year, Americans are now realizing change is needed causing huge debates within our political system (Siegel But could the solution be closer to home? In order to minimize gun violence in America, society must first recognize its flaws in approach to finding a solution, with fixing Americans societal problems first not only will violence be minimized but the health of American

Violence is a necessary proponent to history. Without violence we as human species would struggle to evolve and the United States would currently not exist. In the decade preceding the civil war, sectional and political tensions regarding the expansion of slavery into new territories grew larger. With the emergence of the Republican Party in the mid ninetieth century, the United States experienced a sectional pull between those who were pro-slavery Democrats, and those who were anti-slavery expansion Republicans. Emotions regarding the expansion of slavery yielded barbaric acts across the country including the canning of Charles Sumner, the hanging of John Brown, and the violence that construed in the Kansas territory. Each of the victims were white, were antislavery, and fell victim to the violence of a pro-slavery Democrat outraged by their actions. These acts of violence swayed many Democrats voters to the Republican Party setting the platform for success for Republican Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln who won the election of 1860 with 180 electoral votes to Southern Democratic candidate Breckenridge 's 72.

The U.S. has a violence problem. We claim to be the leaders of the free world, yet we have some of the worst acts of violence committed in our county by Americans. According to the National Institution of Justice, 467,321 people were victims of a crime committed with a firearm

After researching the web for closure to the probing question, why is American society becoming more and more violent? I have learned that there are many contributing

I believe the social world greatly influences your understanding and awareness of violence. The shows that children watch condone violent conduct and make us as people more likely to respond to situations in a more violent behavior. When children spend more time watching TV, they become more susceptible to the violent actions that they watch on the screen, just as the studies showed. If you are constantly exposed to violent tendencies, you are more aware of the violence around you and in the world.

The increasing rate of crime and violence remains constant throughout Mexico and many other countries in South American. Methods to counteract these activities have also remained the same for decades. These brusque methods ranged from: assassinations, extradition, prosecution, and surveillance(1). To a degree these actions were implemented for decades and can be seen in a few examples to be successful. Most notably, the Medellin Cartel headed by Pablo Escobar, the most dangerous crime lord in South America grabbed our attention with his unyielding escalation of violence. US intervention and aggression of the methods used put an end to his power and reign over Columbia. However, the death of

Does a picture say more than a video? A writer both gains and loses leverage over the message of feeling he or she is trying to convey. Most humans would argue different things. Some would say they conceive more from a picture because of their ability to use their imagination and challenge themselves to a greater level. Others would argue that they appreciate more from a video because they are left without any questions about what is happening during that moment in time because of the visual confirmation. In Edward Said’s essay States, Said uses photos that add feeling and depth to portray the message of stereotyped Palestinians. The quote from States explains how photos can be very significant in some cases, “Identity- who we are, where we come from, what we are- is difficult to maintain in exile. Most other people take their identity for granted. Not the Palestinian, who is required to show proofs of identity more or less constantly. It is not only that we are regarded as terrorists, but that our existence as native Arab inhabitants of Palestine, with primordial rights there (and not elsewhere), is either denied or challenged” (Said 546). As discussed above, in some cases, photos can be more necessary than text. In States there is an image of an unknown boy at a Gaza refugee camp wearing a Grease shirt (Said, 552). This image communicates what might take many pages of description.

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