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Media Violence has been around since media was created. Violence in the Media has a part of society since the days of creating technologies. Many years now, media has been a big part of our lives, almost everybody in the world is or has connected to it one way or another. Media has became one…

Women constitute of half the world’s adult population; based on that premise this essay aims to explain the concept of women empowerment, examining issues related to the lack of empowerment of women as well as how empowerment assists in overall development. This will be done through exploring ways in which women can be empowered, in…

German laws made by Hitler soon required everyone who had one or more Jewish grandparent to register. Those with one grandparent may have escaped but if you had two grandparents you were sent to a concentration camp and classifed as a Jew. One night symbolizing the begining of mass persecution was Kristallnacht, November 10th, 1938,…

Violent Video Games: How are they affecting our Youth? In this day and age it seems as if America?s youth is becoming more violent. Concern for those aspects in our society which influence violent acts has become an issue since the tragedy at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. Many feel one aspect of…

The actions by Richard J. Daley, were a sign of respect of King. Ironically, a year before, Daley was against having King speak in the city of Chicago. Kings following had fallen off in the years leading up to his death. His moment had passed. Since the triumph of his Slema campaign, which climaxed in…

Violence Against Women Act The Violence Against Women Act creates a right to be “free from crimes of violence” that are gender motivated. It also gives a private civil right of action to the victims of these crimes. The Senate report attached to the act states that “Gender based crimes and fear of gender based…

  The repeated ‘You do not do’ of the first sentence suggests a speaker that is still battling a truth she only recently has been forced to accept. After all, this is the same persona who in an earlier poem spends her hours attempting to reconstruct the broken pieces of her ‘colossus’ father. After 30…

These authors offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and life One such author, Ray Bradbury, utilized this concept in his work, Fahrenheit 451, a futuristic look at a man and his role in society. Bradbury utilizes the luxuries of life in America today, in addition to various occupations and technological advances, to…

Gangs are a violent reality that people have to deal with in today’s cities. What has made these groups come about? Why do kids feel that being in a gang is both an acceptable and prestigious way to live? The long range answer to these questions can only be speculated upon, but in the short…

David Berkowitz was born June 1, 1953, in Brooklyn, New York (His birth name was actually Richard David Falco). Berkowitz was better known as Son of Sam a serial killer, murdering 6 people and injuring 7 people in New York from 1976 to 1977. His neighbor, Sam Carr, had a black Labrador retriever named Harvey,…