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    inherent violence present within mankind has been a reoccurring theme of literature, artwork, and other media for thousands of years. Human nature has roots embedded within macabre expression, whether through action or depiction, and makes human savagery commonplace in past and present society. Many artists, writers, and poets appeal to or offer commentary to society – as in The Third of May, “The Lottery,” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” – through an implementation of real-world violence in their

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    Comparing Burgess and Draper's Theory of Family Violence and the Film, The Burning Bed   I.  Introduction      Burgess and Draper argue coercive patterns of family interaction represent the principal causal pathway that connects ecological instability to violence within families.  They maintain this raises the possibility that some of the common correlates of such violence are themselves reactions to sudden or chronic ecological instability.  For example, alcoholism, depression, and anxiety

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    psychotic people and characters act the way they do, a deeper look into their ideas can be beneficial. Comparing the concepts in Sophocles' Electra to Gilligan's Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic of Justice and the reasons behind it unfold. Understanding the concepts of justice and punishment, shame and honor, death of self, the death sentence, love, language and violence, gender-based violence, and how they affect killers may give insight into why violent actions are committed. Sophocles' dramatic

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    psychotic people and characters act the way they do, a deeper look into their ideas can be beneficial. Comparing the concepts in Sophocles' Electra to Gilligan's Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic of Justice and the reasons behind it unfold. Understanding the concepts of justice and punishment, shame and honor, death of self, the death sentence, love, language and violence, gender-based violence, and how they affect killers may give insight into why violent actions are committed. Sophocles' dramatic

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    In the story of Hamlet and Blocking the Transmission of violence, both stories shows revenge in a similar way. In “Hamlet”, Prince Hamlet wanted revenge of his father passing by King Claudius actions, which is Prince Hamlet (uncle). In “Blocking the Transmission of violence” a 38 year old man name Torres had a nephew who was killed in his hometown. Both stories has a revenge plot in the family. But both revenge was in a different time period and style of writing. To begin with, in the story “Hamlet”

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    amount of violence escalates gradually from the beginning to the end. At first he boys are very mean to piggy, which leads to them killing a pig, which ultimiltly leads to them killing Simon. The theme of the Lord of the Flies is that hatred leads to violence, which ultimately leads to an anarchy of violence. The esculation of violence is very to similar to that of "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. When the Lords of the Flies starts there is little to no violence at all

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    well. They both explore some of the same ideas and themes, one of the most well represented being violence. In Romeo and Juliet, the theme of violence is represented by several things. The two warring families that are the focus of this story, the Montagues and the Capulets, constantly have street brawls in which many people are killed. The play even starts with a brawl between the families. Violence is also represented by the several murders that are committed during the play. The first happens after

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    The articles “’The Halls of Temptation”: Gender, Politics, and the Construction of the Department Store in Late Victorian London” by Erika D. Rappaport and “Jack the Ripper and The Myth of Male Violence” by Judith R. Walkowitz, both move along the path of British history while also going off of each other in discussing the same thing. Both articles stress societal changes made in Britain during this period one with the development of the department store, the other by the commotion caused by the

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    This essay will indicate the reasons that determine Grotius’s attitude to political authority and violence by quoting from his writings. He would be placed at the right size of the horizontal axis, as his attitude to political authority is placed as G, whereas his attitude to political violence is placed at 6, a strict Just War approach. Grotius’s attitude to political authority is Positive (G), as he has positive view to political authority and allows Christian to engage in politics. Grotius believes

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    normative values of society; such as violence is wrong and a person maintains respect though hard work and opening his/her pocketbook. Meanwhile the lower class status formulates a broken and rundown neighborhood where social stress and chaos roam the streets through juvenile gangs, which promote their own personal values (such as encouraging violence, sex, and drugs) known as “the code of the street.” Elijah Anderson’s book, Code of the Street: Delinquency, Violence, and the Moral Life

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