Violence in Chicago The truth of the matter is that Chicago is in a crisis and has been for some time now. There are some great people and great organizations who are trying to end the violence in Chicago‚ but it hasn’t been enough. More actions need to be taken by the higher authority in order to make this beautiful city a safe one. Just between 2011 and 2012‚ crime rates in Chicago rose a staggering 38 percent (The New York Times). It is apparent that not enough action is being taken to protect
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Beowulf exercises violence for the glory and treasure of the king; his battle with Grendel is one of the most violent scene in the story. Beowulf does not carry any sort of weapon because he feels that doing so provides him with an unfair advantage over the unarmed Grendel. This shows Beowulf’s heroic nature. As all the warriors are asleep‚ Beowulf waits patiently. He pretends to sleep when Grendel enters the mead-hall. After Grendel devours some of the warriors‚ he makes a wrong move and goes for
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Violence in the Catcher in the Rye Often‚ simple physical conflicts are used to develop characters and to increase the suspense and action between them. In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield the 16-year-old narrator and protagonist claims to be a pacifist. Holden views the world as an evil and corrupt place where there is no peace. As a sincere person living amongst phonies‚ he views others as completely immoral and unscrupulous. In the novel violence is used
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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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environment Self violence is best described as self assault or committing suicide. When the person finds it hard to do any significant changes in the external environment and alter the external stimuli‚ he tends to harm himself. Lack of confidence and a general feeling of inferiority are the contributing factors behind this kind of behaviour. In other cases‚ individual tries to take command of the situation and directs his anger towards his partner or other family members. Domestic violence is the main
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Television Violence One of the most important technology in the world is the Television‚ that has been used long time ago and developed in to many other types of TV such as 3D‚ HD TV’s‚ for everything there is an good side and a bad side about it. Television violence is from the effect of the movie or a TV series on the people who watch it‚ kids are the victims of the TV shows especially the cartoon that shows them how a superhero can do amazing things such as flying‚ breaking walls by one punch
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Media Violence is really cruel to teens during their developmental period. Around that time they are trying figure out exactly what group of kids they belong in. “Media violence is one of the key ingredients in the complex mix of factors that produce anti-social conduct.” (Etzioni‚ 1993) It all becomes so confusing to them‚ that they eventually turn to the media for help. For example if a not so popular guy were to watch the movie‚ How to get rid of a guy in 10 days‚ they would be more than tempted
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Gun Violence Gun violence‚ in the United States especially‚ is a growing concern and highly debated topic when the discussion of gun control is brought up. Here are several facts that I found to be troubling‚ and even disturbing. * The average of guns deaths in the annual is less than 50 in Japan compared to more than 10‚000 in the United States. (http://www.heedinggodscall.org/content/pfctoolkit-10) The number of gun related deaths in the United States dwarfs that of Japan annually‚ perhaps
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Throughout many types of literature‚ violence exists to enhance the reader ’s interest in order to add a sense of excitement or conflict to a novel. This statement withholds much truthfulness due to the fact that without violence in a piece of literature such as Dracula by Bram Stoker‚ the plot would not have the same impact if it were lacking violence. So to holds true to that of the movie. The movie bares different characteristics then that of the book. First off‚ the whole ordeal with the wolf
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irrelevant. What matters is that they have used violent strategies and their opponent is‚ therefore‚ justified in a violent response. This problem is complicated by the fact that both sides are usually able to argue that the other side started the violence. Gandhi started this nonviolent approach in India‚ Martin Luther King learned from Gandhi’s tactics and used them in the 1950’s‚ and in 1989 the students in Tiananmen Square used the same approach. All of these people had success to some extent.
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