... , sexual violation, rape, and incest in their life. No one deserves to be beating down and forced to partake in sexual acts, but because these violent acts do exist, so do the disorders that follow it. Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Dissociative Disorder Anxiety disorders are the most common mental ... disorder, panic disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder. Pregnancy A pregnancy occurring from rape and incest are two distinct results of these violent and aggressive acts. Although it seems that pregnancy is a high recurrence in cases of rape, statistics given by Ms. Kristin Ruger of...

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... coward not only by society, but by his family as well. Therefore, Richard fights back and triumphs over his oppressors. In this scene and many others later, Richard's acts of violence outside the home are an actual fight for his reputation and survival among peers. The quote, "That night, I won the right to the streets of Memphis" ... of violence is controlled by the white society in which he lives in. Violence is a tool used by whites to overpower their enemies, the blacks. These unjustified acts of violence recur over and over as Richard's life progresses. From chapter two, Mr. Hoskins...

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... strengthen them. It is an extremely negative and dangerous message. It enforces these aggressive tendencies which tell people it is acceptable to be violent. Violence puts an approval on these acts especially when it serves dominant prejudices against minorities or other human beings, for instance violence against women. Films often show men abusing and treating women as inferiors like the movie ... women more acceptable and leads to the mistreatment of women just by the influence they have seen in film and/or television. This entertainment also reflects women as the inferior gender. Vi...

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... went around exploiting with really violent fantasies Her parents were separating and she was small, an only child, and a tomboy at that age when her classmates were dividing sharply along gender lines. On the playground she acted out "sailor moon" fights, and in the classroom she wrote stories about people being stabbed with knives. The more adults tried to control her ... . These upcoming people sense violence in literature is an appalling inspiration to our society. In Matt Olsen's article he writes: "No book, be it American Psycho, has depicted such extreme acts of violence as this bo...

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