Justified Violence Violence has become accepted as a common means to achieve an end. Whether it is for power‚ subduing another country during interstate conflict‚ or an attempt to gain legitimacy‚ violence has become a distinctive force in contemporary society. The more important question that needs to be addressed is when this use of violence is justified‚ if ever. The purpose of the government‚ according to Locke‚ is the preservation of natural rights. When these freedoms are not protected in
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Negative Results of Childhood Exposure to Domestic Violence The phrase “domestic violence” typically refers to violence between adult intimate partners. It has been estimated that every year there are about 3.3 to 10 million children exposed to domestic violence in the confines of their own home (Moylan‚ Herrenkohl‚ Sousa et al. 2009). According to research conducted by John W. Fantuzzo and Wanda K. Mohr(1999): “[e]xposure to domestic violence can include watching or hearing the violent events
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Violence in Schools Violence in schools is a major problem most schools in the global world are faced with. Violence in schools has become an issue of great concern and has reached an all time high. There is so much going on in schools today‚ which has changed the school educational system and defaced it with increasing violence‚ gun violence‚ bullying‚ crime‚ sexual assault‚ physical assault‚ cultism‚ gang violence and burning down school buildings. There are several factors that are responsible
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Lambeth Structural Violence in the 1960s Structural violence is invisible in the fact that people will not realize that it is there‚ even though it could be happening right around them. “Structural violence refers to systematic ways in which social structures harm or otherwise disadvantage individuals” (winter). Direct violence differs from structural violence because it brings peoples attention toward its brutality in which cases they are more likely to respond. Structural violence is and can be horrific
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Participation of Anthropologists in Violence Name: Institution: Participation of Anthropologists in Violence Violence is a form of aggression that involves the use of physical force against a person‚ a group or a community that leads to psychological harm‚ injury or death. Violence can be verbal or physical. There are different types of violence‚ which include religious‚ structural‚ and domestic violence. The amount of violence and its manifestation in various societies vary substantially. Some
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two-thousand sixteen‚ the city of Chicago’s gang homicide rate has been the highest in over fifteen years‚ and is said to be the deadliest year. Hundreds of innocent people have perished from being caught in crossfire‚ and no one is trying to stop it. The violence is absolutely out of control and it needs to be stopped. The killings spreading over the city have reached extreme lengths‚ as Josh Saul expresses in his article by saying‚ “by the end of November‚ the city had more than 700 murders for the first
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Video Games and Violent Behavior in Adolescents Adolescent violence has been an on-going problem in the United States. There are many factors that contribute to violent behavior in adolescents. One contributing element to this problem is video games. However‚ violent video games are not the primary cause of violence in adolescents. Violent behavior in adolescents has made headlines in the last few years. There have been a number of school shootings in the past three decades which correlates
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the words sectarian violence or cultural conflict. Many of these individuals would be surprised to find that sectarian violence exist all over the world. Just hours ago a clash in southern Kyrgyzstan between Kyrgyz and Uzbek people claimed 26 lives in less than 24 hours. Buildings were set on fire and many individuals were treated for stab and gunshot wounds. It is unknown what caused this recent clash‚ but it is known that it was culturally motivated. (“Sectarian Violence‚” 2010) Also in the
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with the use of Violence and its legitimization through manipulation of language by the state in dealing with “the other”. In an attempt to investigate the role played by the state‚ which monopolizes the use of violence for the sake of civilizing its people‚ inspired by a documentary titled “where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?”‚ this paper tries to go beyond spoken and written words to reach a better understanding of this role. It starts by defining the concept of “violence” and drawing a
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Can Fake Violence Overcome Real Love? Some say that violent video games caused the Sandy Hook shooting; while some say that a traumatic childhood is to blame. Violent experiences can transform a child’s life. Some people think that these harrowing instances and also be transmitted through video games. Parents are increasingly worrying about how violent video games could be a main reason for our children turning violent. But even if violent video games contributed to children having an aggressive
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