The majority of victims of intimate partner abuse are women‚ and they are assaulted by someone who is a former or current spouse‚ cohabiting partner (opposite or same-sex)‚ date‚ or boyfriend or girlfriend. When the victim is female‚ 93.4 percent of the time the offender is male‚ and when the victim is male‚ 85.9 percent of the time the perpetrator is male (Gosselin 2000). Studies focusing on the adult male batterer have identified characteristics and personality risk-factors that characterize this
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Abuse of Power and the Impact It Has on Society Summary: Power itself is not necessarily a bad thing with many cases of power producing positve results. It is when power is combined with abuse that a problem begins. Many people in power abuse their position through authority with manipulative srategies. Power is defined as a political or national strength; strength might force or possession or control over others authority. Power is apparent in every society all over the world‚ whether its
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anonymous Argumentative Essay: Are Parents Aware of Cyber Bullying? There is a big issue about cyber bullying in which most teenagers are trapped and they cannot get out from being cyber bullied that easy. Social media is one of the main sources of cyber bullies because they use technology to attack their victims. Kids start receiving text messages‚ electronic mails‚ or instant messages being insulted or threaten. Cyber bullies also begin spreading comments and rumors about kid’s personal
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Drug abuse in Africa Sections ABSTRACT Introduction Historical background Current drug abuse situation in Africa Effects of drug abuse in Africa Control mechanisms Future trends Details Author: T. ASUNI ‚ A. O PELA Pages: 55 to 64 Creation Date: 1986/01/01 Drug abuse in Africa T. ASUNI Department of Psychiatry‚ College of Medicine‚ University of Lagos‚ Lagos‚ Nigeria A. O PELA Clinical Pharmacy Unit‚ Faculty of Pharmacy‚ University of Benin‚ Benin‚ Nigeria ABSTRACT Apart
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Cyber-bullying Bullying has become an epidemic that the educational system has been campaigning to cease through the establishment of school wide anti-bullying policies. In recent years the federal government has implemented the National Safe Schools Framework and the Civil Liability Act of 2002‚ to assist educators with diminishing schoolyard bullying (Campbell 64). Since the development and rise of technological resources‚ cyber-bullying has expanded the opportunity for the act of bullying to
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Animal cruelty is a huge issue in America. Animals everyday are beaten‚ starved‚ and abandoned. But one of the biggest problems of all is what pet stores are doing and getting away with it. Everyday bird’s wings are clipped‚ cats are declawed‚ and most animals in these stores are from mass-breeding facilities called puppy mills. Clipping a bird’s wings is something almost everyday bird’s goes through when sold to someone. Once a bird’s wings are clipped the bird can still fly but not long distance
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Abuse is something that many people undergo in their lives. There are two kinds of abuse‚ physical and emotional‚ and both types of abuses can cause people to lose hope and self-confidence in themselves‚ which can change their lives forever. In the novel The Lottery Rose‚ by Irene Hunt‚ is about a boy that suffers from the two types of abuse in many ways. A boy named Georgie‚ who is seven and a half years old‚ loses hope in himself when his alcoholic mother and her abusive boyfriend abuse Georgie
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Title: CYBER BULLYING IS AN ISSUE Topic: Cyber bullying Specific Purpose: To inform my audience the seriousness of cyber bullying. Thesis Statement: Today I want to bring awareness to the subject of cyber bullying. Introduction Attention Material: More than half of Adolescents and teens have been bullied online (i-Safe‚ 2012). In society today bullying has become a huge issue. Technology advancements have enabled people to bully from the comfort of their own home without having to
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and eat them. They are tortured‚ mutilated‚ shot‚ burned‚ strangled‚ forced‚ poisoned‚ and cut up or skinned alive. Animal abuse is very heartbreaking and doesn’t show any humanity. It’s even more so when we realise that the everyday choices we make such as what the food we eat for lunch‚ the kind of cosmetics we buy or the clothing we wear may be directly supporting animal abuse. Cruelty to animals is a human infliction of harm upon
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GROUP PRESENTATION ON AN EXISTING BRICK AND MORTAR MICRO FINANCE BUSINESS IN GHANA Table of Contents 1.0 Executive Summary………………………………………….…………………………………………3 1.1 Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………3 Table of Contents 2 3.1.1 Business Loans 8 3.1.2 Susu Loans 8 3.1.3 Salary Loans 8 Salaried workers who operate additional businesses 9 3.2. GISYN Savings Products 9 9.0 Institutional Assessment 19 9.7 Strategy 20 11.0 FINANCIAL AND
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