...In Pinter’s comedies of menace we find a narration of physical violence. For example towards the end of the play The Room, direct physical violence can be seen when Bert makes a fatal, violent attack on the blind Riley without any provocation from the seemingly harmless negro. In The Birthday Party, we find physical violence when after the harrowing interrogation round Stanley loses his self-control and kicks Goldberg in the stomach. Not only does he initiate this physical attack, he also tries to strangulate Meg, the owner of the boarding house, in the Blind Man’s Bluff game, after which he resorts to sexual assault on Lulu, a young woman in her twenties. In the play The Caretaker, violence can be seen in the first meeting between Mick and Davies. In order to take Davies by surprise and to intimidate him, Mick resorts to violent behaviour as illustrated...
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...‘course and direct primary colors’. This primarily indicates that Stanley and his men are involved in a game of poker and no one else is allowed to play. Stanley is in charge and everyone must play by his rules. 2. How does Mitch stand out from the other men? A: Mitch stands out from the other men because he is more sensitive than the other men. For example, he wants to go home so that he could check on his mother. He explains that she is sick and frail, but this gesture shows that he is concerned and dependent on his mother. Mitch does a good job of resisting the insults that are thrown at him. 3. How does Stanley treat Stella? A: Stanley treats Stella in a very egotistical manner. He is very controlling of Stella. For example, Stella asked when the poker game would end and Stanley said that it would end once the boys felt like it. This is an example of Stanley acting in charge and controlling other people. 4. How does Blanche behave with Mitch? What is she looking for? A: Blanche behaves well with Mitch and connects with Mitch on a personal level. They have both experienced grief in their life and are able to share their feelings about grief. Blanche is looking for someone who has these feelings that she could talk to. 5. Examine the symbolism of the red paper shade over the bare light bulb. A: The symbolism is that by putting the red paper on the light bulb, there is an effect of making Blanche younger and better looking. In the bright...
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...Police Worn Body Cameras: A Step in the Right Direction Andrew Cordier ENG122: English Composition II Instructor Amy Morris August 18, 2016 There have been numerous advances in technology in recent years and some include law enforcement. Over the years, there have been huge strides in the technological advances in surveillance. Police Departments are one of these groups who have seen an increase in surveillance technology like dashboard mounted cameras, and now law enforcement agencies are looking to equip their officers with body cameras that can be worn on an officer’s lapel, glasses, and on their chest. The idea of equipping officers with these body cameras has been a hot topic of debate in light of recent past events, such as the unarmed shooting of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson Missouri Mandatory use of body cameras should be put into place because it will protect civilians from the use of excessive force and hold officers responsible for their actions, not invade the privacy of both the public and police officers with the proper guidelines in place, and lower the rates of police use of excessive force, while lowering the rates of false claims against officers. With more and more cases of use of excessive force against civilians, people across America are becoming outraged by the actions of police officers and feel that taking the word of an officer is no longer good enough to explain their actions. Americans across the nation want answers...
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...The Glass Castle has been a great memoir to allow readers to make sense of what Jeannette Walls had gone through as little girl on the many journeys with her family and with herself. It addresses the many social issues such as: neglect, sexual abuse, homelessness, unsanitary conditions, and alcohol abuse. In this memoir we are able to see a glimpse of how Rex and Rosemary Walls choose to educate their children to see the better side of their daily hardships. To show that no matter what nature throws at us we can handle it. Rex and Rosemary Walls may not have been the best parents however they were able to turn their children into well-educated adults. They were able to accomplish this by ensuring them that they loved them and would never fail them. Also by finding creative ways to teach them important life lessons. Like to learn how to face your fears and what doesn’t kill you will make you stronger. Although many people would not necessarily agree with the manner these parents educated their children we can certainly accept the fact that most of the children gained exceptional values that otherwise may have not been learned. The positive effects of the Walls parents parenting skills were; their children learned important values, they learned what it means to stand by each other, and they gained the importance of having something to inspire them to a great future. The Walls children learned important values like humility, loyalty, forgiveness, and appreciation. These young...
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...Child Abuse Child abuse is one of the common threats posed during child development. There are multiple types of child abuse such as physical, emotional, verbal and neglect (Santrock, 2013). Studies show child abuse recognized more in economically developed countries than in developing countries. Children, however, have been beaten and abandoned for many thousands of years, based primarily on the belief that children are the property of their parents. Children have always been susceptible to abuse by their parents or other adults for many centuries because laws failed to protect them. In earlier years civilizations usually abandoned deformed or unwanted children. That was past; now, the biggest issue is to combat child abuse and there are many options deployed by the U.S government to protect children right against abuse. In the thirteenth-century both children and parents thought of beatings as in the child's best interest. Children were also beaten by their teachers. In the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries child abuse was still common. However, there was decrease of abuse in wealthy communities. Later in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century fathers commonly placed their children in internships to provide cheap labor. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries this tradition continued into the early years of the United States. (THE HISTORY OF CHILD ABUSE , 2013) Child abuse first captured the nation's attention with an eight-year-old orphan named...
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...The nature of Stanley and Blanche’s conflict is mainly verbal (conflict is about power struggle, who has control over the other characters) Williams presents this through their verbal interactions, his use of language shows their animosity.The conflict is one in which Stanley is constantly squaring up to Blanche as if to see who has the upper hand. The conflict began with Stanley’s suspicions of Blanche when he heard of the demise of Belle Reve. Williams parallels his use of negative language with Blanche’s impressions of Stanley; with Blanche appearing to pull Mitch away from Stanley and by changing who appears have most control over Stella. Williams demonstrates the theme of conflict through verbal and physical interactions as well symbolism as shown below. The first sign of the conflict between Stanley and Blanche is at the very beginning in Act One Scene Two. Blanche has revealed to Stella that their childhood home ‘Belle Reve,’ has been lost, what she doesn’t explain is the nature of how it was lost. When Stella explains to Stanley he begins to grow suspicious of Blanche, thinking that she has sold ‘Belle Reve,’ swindling Stella of her share of the money and through her, swindled him. He begins to rummage through her stuff, looking through her clothing when Blanche appears. Blanche starts off with flirtatiously asking Stanley to do up the buttons on her dress and begins “fishing for a compliment” from Stanley. All this does is rile him up and make him more suspicious...
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...Obedience is a form of social influence that occurs when a person yields to explicit instructions on orders from an authority figure. Obedience is compliance with commands given by an authority figure. In the 1960s, the social psychologist Stanley Milgram did a famous research study called the obedience study. It showed that people have a strong tendency to comply with authority figures. Milgram’s Obedience Study Milgram told his forty male volunteer research subjects that they were participating in a study about the effects of punishment on learning. He assigned each of the subjects to the role of teacher. Each subject was told that his task was to help another subject like himself learn a list of word pairs. Each time the learner made a mistake, the teacher was to give the learner an electric shock by flipping a switch. The teacher was told to increase the shock level each time the learner made a mistake, until a dangerous shock level was reached. Throughout the course of the experiment, the experimenter firmly commanded the teachers to follow the instructions they had been given. In reality, the learner was not an experiment subject but Milgram’s accomplice, and he never actually received an electric shock. However, he pretended to be in pain when shocks were administered. Prior to the study, forty psychiatrists that Milgram consulted told him that fewer than 1 percent of subjects would administer what they thought were dangerous shocks to the learner...
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...Select a case study from the University of Phoenix Material: Young and Middle Adulthood Case Studies located on the student website. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper describing the influence the experiences have made on the person’s development. Address the following in your paper: Discuss the family, social, and intimate relationships of the person in the case study. Identify any role changes that have occurred. Explain the immediate and future effect of healthy or unhealthy habits practiced by this person. Include at least two peer-reviewed resources. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. University of Phoenix Material Young and Middle Adulthood Case Studies Read the following case studies in order to complete the Week Three Individual Assignment. Case Study 1: Jackson Jackson is a 25-year old male who has recently been admitted to a substance abuse program in Chicago, Illinois. He has been arrested several times for possession of a controlled substance but has not served any time in jail. He grew up in a single-parent household with his mother, Tina. Tina, 45, is employed as a high school teacher; his biological father is not involved in his life. Tina’s boyfriend, Michael, often attempts to serve as a father figure to Jackson. Jackson went to college immediately after high school, focused on a degree in chemistry. In high school, he was a good student who earned A’s and B’s in most courses. After a car accident, a slight head injury...
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...following, family, social, and intimate relationships of the person in the case study, identify any role changes that may have occurred, and the immediate and future effect of healthy and unhealthy habits practiced by the person. My case study is on Jackson. A 25 year old male with a substance abuse problem. Upon graduating high school, Jackson attended college the following fall to obtain a degree in Chemistry. During his freshman year of college, Jackson suffered a head injury after a car crash and resulted in the loss of cognitive and analytical functioning skills. Thus began drinking alcohol and abuse of painkillers. Jackson has left college and now lives with his mother while he attends a substance abuse program in Chicago, Illinois. According to his mother, Jackson currently isolates himself in his room and refuses employment opportunities. Growing up in a single parent household with no father figure involvement, Jackson has trouble maintaining any type of relationship. Although he had relationships in high school that he considered serious, he became distant with a “failure to launch” reason. Jackson did ask both of the girls to marry him but he backed out with cold feet. During his freshman year off college, he began to wonder about his sexual orientation. Jackson became sexually attracted to his roommate, Stanley. Jackson eventually became extremely uncomfortable with the feelings he was experienced and asked to be transferred to a different dorm....
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...Survivors of trauma often suffer to live on to their day to day life. Dr.Cathy Kezelaman has informed us that “survivors often live with chronic distress and pain.” Experiencing trauma can have a lot of side effect or symptoms. There is a feel of self-disconnection or numbness it the inner body. Talking to someone after the trauma is a big step to solve the trauma to affect the day to day life. It doesn’t matter if it is days or years after the trauma has happen. Most of the abuse child’s go into neglecting. Abuse kids believe when trauma occurred so long after the accident they don’t really need to go back to time to re-live the problem and they believe is hard to go ask for help in a community center. If they have a family or friend support they should aware them immediately. Of the situation that has or is happening. A lot of people become easily stress and hard to concentrate because of the trauma or child abuse. They become more unbearable to inconsistency along the lines to their life. Dr. Cathy states that in the “quality of life in fundamental ways. It can make basic day-to-day activities, such as eating, sleeping, working and study difficult. Trauma and abuse in childhood” from The Blue Knot...
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...Encouragement of the Heart within an Organization Every day in the United States, some 10,000 Americans turn 60. Accompanying this very real demographic change is a disturbing rise in the rate of elder abuse and neglect. Researchers suggest that one out of every 10 seniors is likely to be a victim of abuse or neglect. As it currently stands, only a small number of these cases of abuse and neglect will ever be reported, as seniors may be afraid they will lose their autonomy or access to friends and family if they were to report abuse. The Plough Foundation has focused on the wellbeing of our seniors for a number of years, and Coordinated Response to Elderly Abuse represents an important component of the Foundation’s broader Aging Initiative....
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...parenting, development and environment in which he and his family find themselves with key focus on safeguarding as everyone’s responsibility and must be child centred. The effect of any identified harm the long term and short term consequences on the child identity and development with the application of safeguarding legislation and policies, children Act 1989(section 17and 47). This section of the legislation is focus on need, and detection of harm and when it is believe that a child may be facing significant harm. The social worker having an understanding of what significant...
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...Evidence-Informed Practice: An Evaluation of the David Bennett Inquiry Report In this essay I will evaluate the David Bennett Inquiry Report, which was set up by the North, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Strategic Health Authority (NSCSHA) to investigate the death of Mr David Bennett. I will define evidence-informed practice (EIP) and summarise the inquiry report. I shall highlight and critically analyse some of the key issues raised in the report in relation to ethnic minority issues. Finally, I will discuss the implications of evidence-informed practice for social work as well as my own future practice. EIP in social work began in the early 1990s when contemporary writers Geraldine MacDonald and her colleagues wrote articles very much in contrast to earlier reviews; they looked at results from studies such as quasi-experimental studies and client opinion studies about the effectiveness of social work practice. This led to good outcomes for social work practice (Webber, 2011) [Online]. Evidence-informed practice in social work has been described as: ‘Evidence based social care is the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions regarding the welfare of those in need of social services.’ (Sheldon and Chilvers, 2000, p.5, adapted from Sackett et al., 1996 cited in Webber, 2011, p.3) Webber (2011) and Sheldon and Chilvers (2000, p.5, adapted from Sackett et al., 1996 cited in Webber, 2011, p.3) both define EIP as using effective interventions...
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...EFFECTS OF DIVORCE ON CHILDREN A Research Paper Presented to Dr. Antonio R. Yango College of International Hospitality Management University of Perpetual Help System Laguna In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Course Communication Arts 2 By Lianne Grace P. Caraan March 2012 INTRODUCTION Divorce harms! That is undisputed, to what extent and to what degree is the question we have set out to examine? The research that has been carried out, has been critiqued for biased-ness in sampling and later interpretation of data. Most researchers have determined that children of divorce have difficulty forming relationship of their own, are more likely to divorce themselves, are more prone to depression, become less religious and have reduced educational and financial attainment. In short the overall effect is proclaimed to be negative. There are most positive aspects out of divorce especially when there is no alternative option? We will examine these issues in detail and also see what sort of option does parents in conflict have and with what implications. All jokes abt couples who renovate their homes and then divorce, but it's not the upheaval of construction that causes people to part, but rather the prior tensions that caused them to make one last show of solidarity before admitting defeat. As a Catholic nation we are lucky because we were raised how to value our family that is why divorce advocates do not succeed in making it happen in...
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...In addition to cultural influences, children, as early as the age of three, can learn the basic differences between male and female through parental guidance. From parents, children receive the primary exposure that builds their framework of genders. If the father tends to show masculinity and performs tasks that require strength, then the child will perceive the actions of his/her father as a standard for the entirety of men. On the other hand, if the child sees his/her mother expressing femininity and performing domestic chores, he/she will see it as a set standard for women. As a result, gender is characterized by the cultural values in society, stemming from a home environment. Aside from parental nurture, appearances can also play an effect on how children interpret ideas. Typically, a man is associated to have short hair and wear the ‘pants’ in the family, and a woman is associated to have long hair and wear dresses. Through these early distinctions, fundamental concepts are born within the minds of children. Though parents are a child’s first teachers, peer pressure can also reinforce a culture’s traditional gender roles. “I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could go off and find some to play with,” (Lee, 54). To Kill A Mockingbird illustrates Scout as a young and innocent girl, unfamiliar with the standards of her society. When she tried to help...
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