Violence: The Double Whammy Effect

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

vowed to break the cycle of abuse from my family of origin and now my children had been

I wanted to survive my trauma, but never could have dreamed that I would be where I am

According to the United States department of Justice, Over sixty percent of American children are exposed to a type of violence every year (Finkelhor, D., Turner, H., Ormrod, R., Hamby, S., and Kracke, K. 2009). These forms of violence can be perpetrated by a victims home, community or school, with majority of children knowing the perpetrator(s). These experiences with violence whether primary or secondary, can cause serious psychological trauma to a child and in worst case scenarios death. The 2009 survey by the Department of Justice also found that children exposed to any form of violence were more likely to engage in violence in the future and almost forty percent of these children were exposed to multiple acts of violence ( pg.2). The

Although violence is one of the unfavourable social behaviours that is surely involved with a individual. Over 70 % of violence in the United States plays a very strong role in daily lives. Today the rate of violence is increasing faster than ever; the more people realize the truth the more they are becoming aware of what is happening around them. Our best example would be Syria: not having any knowledge on what is happening and then getting involved makes it hard for me to handle the truth in how much violence humans are facing over. Violence has only one way stop and that is for our social group to understand what matters the most.

I will look at this and use this as a learning experience to help me overcome any hardships that I face. Throughout this period, the one thing I could count on was praying to God. I felt that He was and still is the only person I can completely trust; He was and still is the only constant in my life. Without fail, every time I prayed to Him I feel better. Not only will this help me when I am faced with any other misfortunes, but it has shaped who I am today. One of the major reasons I want to become a neonatal nurse, is because of what those children went through; I want to be able to help them in any way I can. Because I want to help children and take away their pain, I also want to adopt children who have gone through abuse whether it be sexual, physical, or emotional. Despite all of the feelings that come with betrayal, I know I can improve myself and use this experience to help me become a better, stronger and more determined

It is easy to interpret that the world is more violent today than in the past, when violence is present on many television and radio channels and dispersed so liberally throughout the internet. The truth of the matter, however, is that physical violence has always been a part of our lives. Beginning with the first murder in the Bible by Cain, an early example of violence in literature, physical violence has often been a part of what one reads. In comparing the novel Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane, and the novel Deadwood Dick’s Doom by Edward Wheeler, one can see that both novels portray many types of physical violence, that there is not necessarily a relationship between the physical violence and

Traumatic stress symptoms in children of battered women by Sandra A. Graham Bermann and Alytia A. Levendosky, is the article I read. After reading this article it arose memories that I had suppressed since I was child. I tried to recollect as much I could from when I was child if the article was relatable to my experience. I asked myself was I a child with behavioral problems? I can honestly say I feared my mother and never wanted to disappoint her so I was always on my best behavior. However, I did suppress the thought and feelings of the traumatic event. Which in the article states it as traumatic avoidance. I don’t ever remember taking a survey or being asked in school asking about domestic violence, sexual abuse, physical abuse, nor sibling abuse. Which I feel vital. Many children face traumatic events in their homes and are scared, but may not have any one to reach out to. Some children may also not know that what’s going on within their home is wrong. Also, in many

I wasn’t ready to marry my boyfriend, but knowing I wanted a baby, I decided to have one with him. Sometime after our daughter was born, I started suspecting that he was lying to me about where he was and who he was with. I told him that since I couldn’t trust him, I didn’t want to be with him any longer. I ended up moving back to the US with my daughter. I wanted to finish college, so I moved in with my mom, who many years earlier, had gotten her life together, moved back to Texas, met a great guy and remarried. It was during that time that I worked for an abused and battered women’s shelter. That was a very eye-opening experience. It was hard for me to grasp the idea that someone would stay with another person who was emotionally,

The one that I believe I most suffered from was the divorces. In the mid-1960’s I found a woman by the name of Jane Wilde. We married shortly after I met her in 1965. As I was in love with her, I once said that she was my main source of motivation to do better and get where I needed to go. For 30 years we were happily married before she divorced me because she didn’t want to take care of me anymore. This was a rough time in my life and I wished someone else was there for me. This motivated me even more to do my absolute best.

The miserable, nasty and shameful Patricia. The moment I was set free from that abuse I decided to turn myself around. It was a new world for me. I was determined to go back and fix whatever I could. I started talking with my mother again and participating fully in my family. I talked to my friends again and they came rushing back to hold my hand through it all. My coaches and teachers understood and supported me to be my best version of myself, as well as hold me to a higher standard. I prayed again, and again, and again to know He was there, and He is. He is working in my life right now. I ask Him why did he let me go through so much pain, but I look back now and realize it is because it needed to happen so I could appreciate the real me. Now I know what I believe, and I am ready to change everything I encounter for the better, not the worse. My eyes are wider, and my mind more open. He hurt me because he was damaged. When he hurt me, I would damage my other relationships. It is a recursive process. My optimism is back and I see unique qualities in people that i had never recognized before. I am more patient. I am uncovering my correct path. I will not give up on Patricia. I am not a failure

I grew up in a home where family violence was present. Both my parents hit each other and hit my sister and I. My parents who should have never married or been together, felt they had no other choice but to be together after my mother had an unplanned pregnancy with me. Growing up and witnessing my parents horrible relationship and going through what I had to go through I decided I was never going to be in a violent relationship, or put my children through family violence.

Many can say that humans are naturally violent, especially when when they are put in stressful situations. On several occasions we have proven when worst comes to worst we usually end up making the wrong decisions because in some way that seems easier to us . For example we’ve started wars, riots and genocides. Not to say that there aren’t any people who haven’t resorted to violence but generally speaking most humans will participate or at least agree to these violent actions if it can benefit them. Even though they know it’s wrong.

Child abuse is unfortunately quite widespread and it goes on all over the globe. It is very difficult to understand why abusers of children do what they do. It is believed that the abusers have been abused at some point in their own lives. Researchers of child abuse have not been able to prove this; however in a lot of cases the abuser has been abused.

enthralling than it is viewed in reality, the children find the violent and the hostile behaviors of the