Essays about Violence Page 10

In the United States, gun violence is an untreated epidemic. Citizens are threatening to send their children to school because the epidemic has gotten so bad. The most recent target group has been children in schools across the country. Shopping malls and grocery stores are also popular shooting locations on a daily basis. These daily…

When students are preparing to begin their journey into higher education, there are multiple factors that prospective students should consider when beginning their search. Students are suggested to consider an array of factors, such as location, size, academic quality, reputation, the cost to attend, choice of majors, as well as other factors. For many prospective…

In the past 50 years, there have been many notorious serial killers in our society. For example. American murderer. sex offender and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer. In a panicularly horrible manner, Dahmer killed 17 men between the years 1978 and 1991. He is one of the most popular serial killers the world has ever known. Dahmer’s…

On a day-to-day basis women are constantly in the public’s eye; whether it is something positive or something negative. The first newspaper clipping is from tie Metro about Afghan women being strangled to death due to giving birth to a baby girl. This has been an on going issue with the Afghan culture where boys…

In today’s society violence is everywhere from tv to mass shootings, and this violence is going nowhere anytime soon. A very large part of this violence is gun violence and specifically gun violence in low income communities populated mostly by African Americans who have a gun murder rate that is thirteen times higher than among…

Gang Violence We ask ourselves what is gang violence? Before writing this paper I thought of gang violence as just an initiated gang running around vandalizing and harming people. This is all that we see portrayed on television. We always here about two gangs crips and bloods. The crips were blue and bloods were red….

At the moment, rap music dominates the music industry as it continues to grow from its birth in the 1970’s. While every other music genre has either stabilized or is beginning to decline, rap music is attracting the youth exponentially. Although, children should not be the audience being targeted by the rap industry, they still…

In a study done to determine the frequency of bullying in two groups of middle school-going children, one group was made up of children with learning disabilities and the other without limitations. In this research, different socio-ecological predictors were used to assess the students. The authors found out that gender, race, grade results and level…

Exposure to violent experiences can be traumatic and can negatively impact multiple factors such as growth, educational functioning, coping skills and relationships. Teenagers are not only being exposed to violence within their neighborhoods at a much higher percentage but also through technology and media. Violence affects its victims, those who observe violence, family members, co-workers,…

Homicide is the second leading cause of death amongst people who are 15-24 years old in the United States. In cities like Long beach and Los Angeles, gang homicides are the reason for majority of homicides in this age group (CDC Gang homicides. 2012). Research is done on this topic because its affects society as…