A moral panic is characterized by a feeling held by a substantial number of members of a given society, that evil doers pose a threat to society and to the moral order as a consequence of their behavior. ... The deviants are as a result stigmatized and acknowledged as an "out-group" from mainstream society-being represented and rumored as "not to be trusted" and as "troublemakers", social isolation of the "out-group" results, and they are categorized almost as a sub-culture. ... The media used the Bulger case to symbolize all that was wrong, they focused on the difference between innocence an...

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While the battle royal symbolizes the struggle for equality for the black culture, the blindfolds represent their powerlessness, all at the expense of the white society. ... Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box" (1). ...

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By portraying the collapse of core social institutions and the inefficiency of medicine and science to address epidemics, 28 Days Later represents a contemporary lack of trust in government's security and maintenance. ... Carroll references Paolo Virno, when he mentions "Major West seems to prove Virno's argument that "evil expresses itself precisely as a horrible response to the risk inherent in this world, as a dangerous search for protection.... The family represents another means of establishing secure values and foreseeable responses necessary to limit the dreadful o...

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The traditional Marxists such as Adomo and Jameson favoured realism and realist literature as this represented the people and their struggles with the real world against the Bourgeois world. ... The character which may be considered a common man is portrayed as an evil man by the dominant society during the time but, if we look closer towards the intentions and causes of Iago's actions, it may be said that he acted to break down these barriers of class. ... (Act 2, Scene 3, lines 334-340) This great contrast between the characters creates a sense that white men are evil and malicious ...

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Csiszar represents this loss of power and Lear's transformation by revealing how direct contact with the inhumanity of ruling class makes Lear question the validity of property, distribution of wealth and social inequality: "O, I have ta'en Too little care of this. ... Often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon and the stars - Edmond's eventual demise at the close of the play symbolises the triumph of good over evil. ... They are conveyed as being instinctively drawn to the pure evil that emulates from Edmond's being th...

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Critical attention to how crime is reported in the news is necessary given the way in which the media represent these events heavily influences our understanding of crime in society. "Media images help shape our view of the world and our deepest values; what we consider good or bad, positive or negative, moral or evil" (Butler Alison, 2015). ... Surely it would seem at face value that crime news almost always over-represents violent and sexual crimes, while under-representing other forms of criminality. ...

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The evil character Scar bears much resemblance to Creon, Jocasta's brother who became ruler by default and brought destruction to Thebas. ... The comic book character Superman is also an iconic cultural symbol, representing a heroic figure that has become the personification of strength. ... In much of recorded mythology women are the symbolism for life creation, and are often represented with signs of fertility. ...

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Each role carries with it a set of norms of how it is to be played; norms are a subset of the general values, which represent the application of societal values to the "shoulds" and "oughts" of role conduct. ... Americans fought, as mostly known, to rid their young nation of the evil practice of slavery. ...

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He suggests that deviance is necessary to society's stability, rather than being responsible for its breakdown, as the deviant individual serves as a marker of the difference between good and evil, right and wrong, and as Erikson writes, "in doing so, he shows us the difference between the inside of the group and the outside". ...

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