Essays on Violence

Are we to blame our physical qualities, or our own over-consciousness about the judgements that people make about us? There are different presumed and internalized social norms about our physical structures, which receive unlike judgements either from people around us, or they come from our…

Alison Ettel is the founder and CEO of the cannabis company TreatWell Health in San Francisco, California. As stated in a New York Times article over the summer, Ettel was in her home when she was allegedly “disrupted by Jordan Austin, and her mother, Erin…

Labelling theory provides a distinctively sociological approach that focuses on the role of social labelling in the development of crime and deviance. The theory assumes that although deviant behaviour can initially stem from various causes and conditions, once individuals have been labelled or defined as…

The paper explores the prevalence of domestic violence in pregnancy and the characteristics of the women affected. The article was published in 2017 in the Journal of Clinical Nursing by John Wiley & Sons, an academic publishing company. This is a quantitative, descriptive, and correlational…

Girl power” has been a popular phrase for Americans to describe the success of women, but could the reality be that women are faced with gender inequalities behind make-believe fabrications of the media? In the article “Everyday Sexism In A ‘Post-Feminist’ World”, written by Hayley…

Summary Question 1: This articles captivates the reader on the demoralizing issue of child abuse with many unknown facts and statistics that most people would be surprised to learn. The article deducts that the two most reasonable explanations for why most aren’t informed of this…

Alright. Going all in, here. Christianity gets some of the blame for irrational thought and misogyny being commonplace in the West. And “some” is generous on my part, as it has been a perpetual tool in the consolidation of power. The Bible has not helped…

Society has its way of functioning; it has a set of rules it follows to continue into the future. Social norms are group-held beliefs about how members should behave in a given context. For individuals to successfully be normal in a society, they must follow…

A newly discovered written account from one of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers might just hurt the case against the producer. Lucia Evans has accused Weinstein of forcing her to perform oral sex on him in 2004, but one of her written accounts suggests her encounter was…

Music! An ancient form of expression that has been a cornerstone of humanity still widely persists in human culture. It’s what connects people and has the ability to reflect a person’s most inner thoughts and emotions through sounds and lyrics. From the abnormally structured classical…