Essays on Violence

Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House focuses on a Norwegian middle-class family whose very survival is threatened by long-held secrets revolving around family dynamics. The characters portray the complexities underlying the relationships between men and women. Some aspects of the play mirror certain elements in Susan…

In the discourse of gender equality, patriarchy is a major theme. In a paper produced by Littrell R. and Bertsch A. (2013) studying the status of women in the patriarchal belt, highlighted the prevalence and universality of patriarchy in underdeveloped and agrarian societies and civilizations…

For a very long time I was in a toxic relationship. I wasn’t being treated the way a girl, woman or anyone for that matter, should be treated. I was constantly cheated on but he would turn it around and make himself the insecure one….

Violence, it has taken over our world and our minds. Every day we fight, someone on earth fights another of our own kind. Somewhere on Earth, a war goes on. Why? Why do we fight to solve our problems with violence? Why do we shoot,…

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…