Violence is huge in today’s world and continues to get worse and worse as the years go by. People go throughout their days being controlled by violence and all it brings. Being controlled by an act such as violence will have an effect on the person that you will become and the outcome of your future. Violence has consequences, ruins lives, and it controls you and the actions you take. All choices have consequences. Whether they be good or bad every choice you make has an effect on you or someone else. This is true for even the smallest of choices you do, for example, if you choose to brush your teeth or not. The consequence for that would be good breath if you good or bad breath if you don’t. It goes for violence too. Acting in violence will have a negative consequence. In the passage, “Blocking the Transmission of Violence” the author tells a story of two men who’s lives have had major consequences because of violence. I’d like to talk about one of those men. His name was Zale Hoddenbach. Zale was in prison because of armed violence. His choice of acting …show more content…
Like in the play “Hamlet”, after finding out his father was murdered he found himself in a never ending cycle of violence. He let the thought of getting revenge for his father consume him and he wouldn’t let it go. He let it ruin his life. He lost his friends, gave up on his love, and ended up dead. Yeah I know that’s just a play and isn’t even real but is a great example of why violence is ruining the lives of people. It ruined Zales life as I talked about. And is ruining more than that. “For 25 years, murder has been the leading cause of death among African-American men between the ages 15 and 34.” (Kotlowitz 72-73). Murder being the leading cause of death starting at the age of 15. These people have lives to live. It is ruining their family’s lives. Violence is effecting the people around you and the ones you
To begin, this powerful essay focuses everything on violence and how it is being used by games, movies, and even the most influential people such as the president. The author, Barbara Kingsolver central point is to let readers understand the wrongfulness of the violence being shown and done by humans especially in schools. How can the
Once upon a time, the theory that the majority of violent crimes was caused by biological reasons, was a trendy opinion. However James Gilligan a notable psychiatrist, who has been working with prisoners and prison systems for years to study and develop the general method to prevent crimes, sees this psychological perspective, and comes out with a different conclusion. In the article “Shame: The Emotions and Morality of Violence,” Gilligan emphasizes that shame is the reason why most people commit crimes, and they tend to “diminish the intensity of shame” by violence.(44) He explains the concept of preconditions, which are key elements for violence to happen, to discuss the origins of violent crimes. Gilligan suggests that violent men are “shameful to feel ashamed about themselves.”(43) They also believe that they have no
The subculture of violence theory revolves around individuals using violent acts in need of survival. In this theory, people kill because one was living their lifestyle through violent acts as normal behavior. According to Thio, Taylor, and Schwartz they mention, “violent behavior is more effective than nonpoor families’ (Thio et al, 2013, p. 79). Most poor neighborhoods have higher chances of committing crimes, especially, knowing that the behavior of the actions is reflected towards survival. These behaviors can be reflected on the family, peers, and community aspects. Living in poor neighborhoods, can be scary when not knowing what type of violent act or individuals that live around one. For example; some individuals might be influenced with gangs or fall into the wrong crowd. Individuals, who choose violence, are influenced by the experience from these gang groups, peers, parents, or normal neighborhood behaviors. These individuals live through the violence acts to kill because this is the type of lifestyle they are living in. I believe that people are violent because they believe killing is an escape to get away from issues and own problems. Also, people might turn to killing because it’s the main solution for survival. For example; if one is being harassed, one might feel that violence could to a key factor to protect themselves in this type of
What is the definition of violence? Violence is widely known as an intended unjust exertion of force or power. We as a community should be able to restrain itself from intending to disrupt peace the world has started with. Ray Bradbury is trying to warn the world and stop violent actions before they start. He explains how he thinks the world is starting to collapse and tries to prevent it from happening. Everyone can suppress from performing and allowing violence and conflict in the world. We should not start unnecessary conflict from happening because it maybe that one day everyone will be having so much fun with violence that we will have forgotten what the world is about.
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton proves the point that violence can be justified if necessary. To inflict change in their lives people often fight with violence instead of peace to evoke change. The world strives for change everyday whether or not you like it. How the people create a change in society whether they use peace or war, it is up to them to decide how to modify our ever changing world. Violence and fight between the Socs and Greasers tells us that both can be justified if it inflicts positive change in society. ‘
Violence, although at times is morally wrong, is sometimes the best way to solve a problem, to reach a goal. Because violence is an exhibition of a man's powers, violence allow an individual to show his might and his prowess. Therefore, both violence and power are attributed to an individual's or society's ability to achieve what they yearn to accomplish.
Violence in all of its manifestations is based on an exercise of power. It represents a means to gain power, to maintain power, or as a response to a threat to one's power. As long as a society maintains the legitimacy of social hierarchies, of the right of some people to have power over others, there will be violence. One can either seek to diffuse the concentration of power or to control violence. By its very character, the attempt to control violence is self-defeating. The control will itself become violent.
Violence causes a great deal of suffering and harm in the world today and yesterday (Cross 2013). Peace and conflict researchers are undeniably justified in their selection of inter and intra-state violence as objects of study because the social context for both the performance and understanding of violence is of central importance (Cross 2013). However it is surprisingly rare to find a definition of violence (Moore 2003). Thus uncertainty prevails as to whether violence is limited to physical abuse or includes verbal and psychological abuse (Moore 2003). Agreeing with Moore (2003), Galtung (1969) said it is not important to arrive at a definition of violence because there are obliviously many types of violence. Violence is not
During a freedom march on May 29, 1964 in Canton, Mississippi a boy by the name of McKinley Hamilton was brutally beaten by police to the point of unconsciousness. One of the witnesses of this event, and the author of the autobiography which this paper is written in response to, was Anne (Essie Mae) Moody. This event was just one of a long line of violent experiences of Moody’s life; experiences that ranged from her own physical domestic abuse to emotional and psychological damage encountered daily in a racist, divided South. In her autobiography Moody not only discusses in detail the abuses in her life, but also her responses and actions to resist them. The reader can track her progression in these strategies throughout the various stages of her life; from innocent childhood, to adolescence at which time her views from a sheltered childhood began to unravel and finally in adulthood when she took it upon herself to fight back against racial prejudice.
Violence is aggressive behavior with the intent to cause harm, whether physical or psychological. Violent crime often has deep-rooted causes such as social inequality, poverty, and a lack of access to education. It's not just about the crime itself, but also about the environment and circumstances that led to it. It's a complex issue that impacts individuals and their communities, which can shape public policy and personal perspectives on safety and justice. Relationship to Course Material
Throughout human history, violence, for the most part, has been a perpetual struggle we’ve faced. It does not discriminate against location, color, or creed, and it has an impact, lasting or not, on each of us at some point during our lives. Living in a Western country, many of us have become accustomed to the idea that true violence only lives in the ravaged lands of warring countries or the dilapidated streets of rundown neighborhoods, but in truth it can be found anywhere. Community center’s, schools, churches, and even the most secluded towns all encounter violence, though sometimes behind closed doors, everyone is vulnerable to it. But what prompts it to occur exactly? Violence itself stems from the causality of several different factors,
Violence is a difficult term to define, but for the purposes of this assignment violence can be defined as a crime or the threat to commit a crime by one person upon another person, and that usually that has negative physical or emotional effects upon the victim. Violence in Western society has been increasing steadily and has become a major concern for many nations. Increasingly, much of the violence is committed by male children and teenagers. Crimes by young people are no longer just misdemeanors, but they now include the major felonies of rape, robbery and homicide. The rise in violent crime in the last few decades has been accompanied by a rise in violence in the media, especially television, movies and music. To protect society, the US government must impose regulations on these media outlets so that audiences are not subjected to too much gratuitous violence that may influence them to commit such acts of violence.
Violence is a ubiquitous reality. It does not recognize borders, or realms. Because it is prevalent, violence is a difficult idea to conceptualize. Raymond Williams offers seven different definitions of violence, beginning with violence as physical force, then to emotional crossing, to violence as an expression of passion, and lastly “to be done violence to – to be wrenched from its meaning or significance.” (p. 181 – 182)
The role of violence in the liberation of peoples from systems of domination is necessarily entwined to the concept of freedom. Herbert Marcuse and Frantz Fanon argue that violence, in various forms, is the only reasonable rebuttal to the abhorrent system of subjugation, whether it is in shape of something as transparent as apartheid to thinly veiled laws that take away the rights of humans under the capitalist system. To even understand the relationship between freedom and violence it has to be established what it is even meant by the phrase “violence” while simultaneously attempting to understand what means are necessary to achieve this end. Furthermore, what does it mean to be “violent” and is it always acceptable to use violence as a device to achieve a certain objective, even if that goal is something as vital as human emancipation? Conversely, the argument against the use of violence, in all its forms, to achieve freedom needs to be explored. The contrary argument that will be explored is from various texts of Martin Luther King Jr. and while our fundamental argument is opposed to King’s his views must still be taken into account if, for nothing else, to add structure to the argument at hand. It must be remembered that while the role of violence and freedom are necessarily bonded to one another this does not mean that violence is the only means to achieve freedom but that violence is the “best” way to achieve the ultimate goal of freedom.