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Violence
* All violence is an assault on the sanctity of human life and the thief of personal dignity
  - stems from feelings of powerlessness
* Most violence affects countries
  - begins in the second decade of life
  - is racially motivated
  - occurs when a person or group is agitated or physiologically aroused
  - starts the fiery human emotions of anger and rage
* Some violence reminder of the failure to ensure justice for all members of a society.
* Transgendered individuals can enrage others by their mere existence.
* affects children in Palestine
  - entire communities
  - everyone's life, often on a daily basis
  - the lives of millions worldwide, in all socio-economic and educational classes
* afflicting women and abuse, especially against women and children, are still prevalent.
* also is part of the cocaine epidemic
  - the most common response when people are victims of violence from the other side
  - seems to be widespread within dating relationships
* always comes with music, usually show tunes or standards
  - marks the end of a relationship
* appears to be a common part of the adolescent world
  - spreading from, and within, every segment of our human existence
  - the nature of things, embraced by people on the right and on the left
* assumes many forms, one dangerous form being hatred.
* becomes a normal means of resolving conflict or stress.
* begets physiological changes that often result in more violence.
* begets violence and hate begets hate
  - the moral fabric of our society is torn by state-sanctioned killing
  - both in our hearts and in our actions
  - violence, hatred, hate
* behavior that occurs in many different forms.
* behavior, and that comes as a result of many factors interacting.
* breeds death, retaliation, and more death
  - violence in every situation
* can also lead to suicide
  - occur when schizophrenia is compounded by untreated drug use
  - prevent women from participating in public life
  - take place between an individual and a society or institution
* can be a by-product of men who have been raped
  - profoundly important part of the cycle of healing
  - way of expressing that hurt
  - workplace hazard
  - an act of defense
  - destructive on emotional, physical and sexual spheres of life
  - internal to the workplace or external, such as from a client or a visitor
* can be physical, emotional and spiritual
  - sexual, emotional and social
  - verbal and emotional
  - bring life into bolder colors and give life an intensity that often seems missing
  - come in many forms
  - do irreparable harm to girls' developing bodies, minds and emotional capacities
  - have lasting harmful effects on victims and has a tragic impact on children
  - increase as a youth's inhibitions and judgement are impaired
  - interfere with a child's education and academic development
  - manifest itself differently in suburbia
  - occur anywhere - even in the workplace
* can occur in any relationship
  - both heterosexual and lesbian relationships
  - nursing homes
* can take many forms
  - various forms
* cancer that's invading our society at every level.
* causes barriers of fear and results in isolation
  - death and trauma in the people who suffer it
  - disabilities such as chronic pain, head injuries, paralysis and memory loss
* choice a person makes
  - the abuser makes
* comes from a sense of powerlessness
  - in many forms, there diversity of victims and perpetrators
* common occurrence in the drug distribution system
  - thread in out society
* complex problem that has no one identifiable cause
  - which requires complex solutions
* continually surfaces in society as people react to their status of inferiority.
* continues at a level that undermines democracy and the rule of law.
* continues to be directed at women because many societies view women as acceptable targets
  - escalate to staggering amounts in society today
* cultural problem.
* cuts across all racial and socioeconomic groups.
* cycle of learned behavior
  - that seemingly has no end
* defines American culture.
* demeans the one who performs or cooperates with such actions.
* desensitizes people to death, suffering, blood, and pain.
* destroys society, rips apart the very fabric of human life.
* determinant for many of the problems in women's health.
* direct result of violence.
* distorts our lives, causes chaos, panic, fear
  - the emotional lives of women and families
* does breed violence
  - occur in same-sex relationships
* encompasses a large array of acts and circumstances.
* equals action in most people's minds.
* evolves out of intolerance.
* exists because of Sin
  - in a few places, but most other places have prosperity
* expresses their out of control emotions.
* fact of life.
* feature of many movies, t.v. shows, video and internet games.
* feeds off low self-esteem
  - on violence
* finds expression in every human culture.
* force, which escapes the control of reason.
* generates the fear that creates the complicity that establishes and sustains the power.
* gives birth to more violence.
* global epidemic.
* growth industry.
* happens between intimate partners and in families
  - partners, regardless of culture or ethnicity
  - in most school system
  - mostly in poor peoples homes
* has a disproportionately greater impact on racial and ethnic minorities
  - lasting effect on a child's emotional as well as physical health
  - myriad forms
  - deep personal, social, and environmental roots
  - enormous individual and social costs
  - historical, cultural, and societal roots in our world
* has many and complex causes
  - faces, and structural forms of violence victimize vast majorities
* has no boundaries and effects every person no matter one's race or religion
  - place in any society, much less in a democratic society
  - results in the world, at times unpredictable
  - the effect or potential effect of hurting the health and welfare of an individual
* health risk and can result in physical and emotional problems.
* healthcare epidemic.
* hero's way to solve problems.
* includes physical assault, verbal assault, harassment and the threat of assault.
* increases medical and stress-related disability claims.
* interferes with the necessary dealings of life and all humans suffer.
* intrudes into everything, even positive, friendship-like relationships.
* involves giving pain to another live being.
* is about power and control
  - misused and abused
  - power, control, and domination
  - unequal power relations that allow one party to dominate the other
  - actions and words that hurt people
  - actually a non expression of anger
  - aggression
  - aimed deliberately at civilians
* is also a common element of mass entertainment via television or the cinema
  - special concern for women workers
  - deeply rooted in our social institutions
  - power, and also changes things
  - quite common in intimate relationships and most often reflects the abuse of power
  - scary, especially if parents or children are victims
* is always an expression and demonstration of power
  - the responsibility of the person who commits it
  - an American inheritance, passed on from one generation to the next
* is an act of aggression toward others
  - that produces physical harm or destruction
  - affliction that threatens both local communities and the global community
  - effective tool for attaining and maintaining control over another person
  - increasingly common theme in many computer games and toys
  - integral part of hockey
  - intentional act
  - international phenomenon
  - ongoing problem in the workplace and on the school campus
  - option forced by a prior error, which can include lack of action
  - outcome of reactive aggression
  - umbrella term which takes on many sub-topics
* is an unacceptable response to anger and conflict
  - conflict at any level
  - unfortunate and unacceptable byproduct of wars and armed conflicts
  - another worry of parents with children with a serious mental illness
  - any harm done to someone or to a group of people
  - anything which works against life
  - as large as a war or as small as a word
* is associated with many aspects of serious and organised crime
  - masculinity
* is at epidemic levels throughout the world
  - least as obscene as sex
  - attendant to all levels of the methamphetamine trade
  - bad things
  - based on powerlessness and ignorance
  - born into the human psyche
* is both a cause and a consequence of employee stress
  - human rights issue and an obstacle to women's participation in development
  - caused by frustration as one's efforts to reach a goal are blocked
  - commonplace in today s political life
  - commonplace, and matter of everyday life
  - deeply ingrained in our attitudes as well as our behavior
  - described as verbal, sexual, physical
  - detrimental to the efficient functioning of the workplace
  - displayed everyday in American society
  - encouraged by the physical characteristics of powerful men in the media
* is endemic in our society
  - the prisons of most Latin American countries
  - everywhere in our society
  - excessive proliferation of guns and illegal drugs
  - exercised as the most common mechanism for attaining power
  - expressed in many different ways and in many different fora
  - forces
  - fundamentally and inescapably an issue of gender
  - greed
  - homeless people dying in the streets of our cities
* is immoral also because it deepens the brutality of the perpetrator of violence
  - because it thrives on hatred rather than love
* is in human nature, and our culture can push otherwise normal people over the edge
  - the media, our communities and schools, and, most tragically, in children s homes
  - including all forms of emotional, psychological and physical abuse
  - inherent in gang activity
  - interpersonal and institutional
  - intimacy without the embarrassment, free of ambiguities and disappointed hopes
  - known to all people and comes in many forms
* is learned behavior inside and outside of school
  - from exposure to violence
  - likely to occur during pregnancy
  - located in war
  - marketed by the media, e.g., television shows and movie advertisements
* is more likely to occur in association with a single incident by a stranger
  - the presence of alcohol consumption
  - when there are children in the household
* is more prevalent in certain populations
  - public schools and more school shootings occur in public schools
  - when students feel that their classes and grades are unimportant
* is more than harmful acts between individuals
  - murder - that it's anything that hurts someone
  - the destruction of life
  - most prevalent in team contact sports, such as ice hockey, football, and rugby
  - natural interference with natural striving
  - necessary to protect the rights of all rational life forms throughout the universe
  - now the second leading cause of death in the workplace
  - of the human heart
  - often a part of spiritual growth
* is often the outcome of a continued pattern of unacceptable behaviors
  - product of anger and fear
  - on the rise, both domestically and in the society
* is one behavioral choice out of many a person can make when provoked
  - expression of the low status women hold in many societies
* is one of the effects of drug use so that the money for drugs can be obtained
  - main factors effecting are schools today
  - major problems for women and prostitutes
  - most common causes of disability
  - upstream causes having a major impact on health care costs
  - possible, but undesirable, response to conflict
  - only something that is done from one person to another person
  - oppression
* is part of daily life for many women in Asia
  - the human condition, an evil that lies beneath the veneer of civilization
  - perpetrated by one person against the other
  - perpetuated by inflicting violence on children, who, in turn, punish their children
* is pervasive in society today
  - popularized by many different medias
  - porn, and porn is the head cleaner of the human mind
  - pornographic when, for a variety of reasons, it is unacceptable
* is prevalent in media, both towards the public and towards the law
  - television shows and movies, being watched by people of all ages
  - probably one of the main roots to why our world is getting worse
  - projected into homes by means of both the entertainment and news media
  - provoked when dominant groups try to control minority cultures
  - rampant in the theatrical profession
  - reported in sixteen percent of all marital relationships
* is seen as a momentary outburst of anger
  - on every street and in every part of the world every day
  - serious because it can result in death
  - socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor
* is something that affects each of our lives
  - some men learn
  - that's worldwide and no one can be in denial or sorry about their mistakes
* is the act of a person
  - currency of competition
  - dehumanizing obstacle to human potential
  - disease
  - enemy of democracy, security and prosperity
  - etiology for a growing number of TBIs
  - exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse
* is the final common path of a host of interacting developmental events
  - link in a chain that begins with disconnection
  - free market
  - fundamental element of human life and history
  - intentional use of force to harm a human being
  - leading cause of death of women in the workplace
  - lifeblood of American culture
* is the most common cause of eye trauma, especially in men less than thirty years old
  - primitive response to conflict
* is the number one cause of death by suicide, homicide and accidents
  - one means they have to redress their grievances
  - only way they start to feel they can get a result
  - open expression of powerlessness
  - responsibility of the person who uses it
* is the result of a loss of identity - the more loss, the greater the violence
  - fear and lack of good ideas
  - the fact that life is taken so lightly
* is the second leading cause of death for adolescents and young adults
  - death for all youths
  - spinal cord injuries, behind motor vehicle crashes
  - sole responsibility of the violent person
* is the solution to almost any kind of conflict
  - many people faced with poverty, drugs and exclusion from the society
* is the ultimate form of disconnection and alienation
  - foundation of any political power
* is the use of force
  - or threat of force
  - voice of pain
  - way they express their power
  - weak-minded person's way of acting out
  - to eliminate ignorance, apathy and hatred
  - turbulence
  - unnatural, a learned behavior
  - used as a way to control others or get something they want
* is used for kill
  - terrorism
  - usually the most extreme form of control exerted by an abusive partner
  - very prevalent in our society
  - violence in every language, in every culture, and violence sells
  - violence, the end is always the same pain and sorrow, confusion and death
  - widespread in the mining areas, where alcohol abuse and prostitution are prevalent
  - words and actions that hurt people
* key image and is often used by the media
  - reason for the broadening chasm between developed and developing countries
* leading cause of amphetamine-related deaths
  - nonfatal injuries among young people
* learned behavior and hence can be unlearned
  - it can be unlearned
  - vilence tends to perpetuate itself through generations
  - or learned response to stress, frustration and anger
* learned behavior that can be unlearned
  - is passed from generation to generation
  - spreads from one generation to another
* learned behavior, and children are learning it at younger and younger ages
  - it is often learned in the home or the community
  - like any learned behavior, it can be changed
  - so is nonviolence
* logical outcome of the meaning structure of skinhead culture.
* low level frequency among the spectra of frequencies available to humans.
* major cause of brain injuries in the United States
  - emotional suffering
  - concern to parents, students, teachers, and the administration of any school
* makes people angry and resentful and ready to hit someone else.
* means of oppressing others and is destructive to individuals and to society
  - the exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse
  - to inflict pain, wounds and traumas on others as well as self
* mostly starts by people disrespecting each other.
* multi-determined behavior.
* multi-faceted and complex problem of enormous social consequence.
* negative force that leads to self-destruction and more aggression.
* occurs frequently in bars and nightclubs.
* occurs in all economic groups
  - many forms with as many pulsepoints
* occurs more frequently in the home than anywhere else in our society
  - than anywhere else in society
  - often between people who know each other
  - than two times as often in families with an alcoholic than in families without
* occurs when men feel that women are taking over
  - the parties hold mistaken beliefs about one another's type
* often begins or increases during pregnancy
  - breeds a cynicism and distrust that unravel the very fabric of social life
* often escalates during pregnancy
  - in severity to the point where the victim's life is in danger
* operates at many levels.
* part of all societies and there are no societies without some level of violence
  - city life
  - life and people are attracted to violence
  - society in that there are no societies without some level of violence
* particular problem on university campuses.
* permeates hockey games, in spite of rules that penalize players for fighting on the ice
  - popular culture
* perpetuates violence.
* powerful tool of oppression.
* primitive instinct.
* principal concern of biblical writers and the obsession of modern media.
* problem that affects urban areas throughout the Americas.
* propagates violence.
* protest against the absence of beauty.
* public health concern that has reached epidemic proportions
* ranges from verbal abuse to physical abuse and torture.
* reaction to helplessness.
* reality in women's lives.
* refers to the destruction of objects or living beings.
* reflection of poverty and drug use.
* releases a potent chemical cocktail into the muscles and the brain.
* remains an integral part of the international system
  - rife in our society, just as it is in populations of chimpanzees or baboons
* represents the opposite of relief and healing.
* responds to violence.
* results from a number of issues, including the lack of education and meaningful employment
  - in displacement
* role that machines play a large part in.
* runs through the veins, as passion drives men to madness.
* saps the psychological well being of every child, every parent and grandparent.
* sells because violence is associated with justice.
* serious problem for many women with disabilities
  - public health crisis in the United States
* sign that a relationship is in trouble.
* significant cause of injury and death in the workplace.
* simply appears to be the nature of things.
* social relationship and demonstraction of power.
* takes many forms Domestic violence pattern of controlling behaviors
  - shapes and forms and comes in many different ways
  - on many forms and expressions
  - place among teachers, teachers and students, and students themselves
  - the form of hitting, fighting or threats to do harm
* tangible expression of unresolved conflict.
* teaches children to be violent.
* tends to be chronic and is often associated with husbands' drinking
  - taught by one generation to the next
  - increase during pregnancy, resulting in an increased rate of miscarriage
  - lead to further violence
* thing one person does to make another person hurt.
* tool of stupidity to make quick decisions.
* usually occurs among family members, lovers, and friends.
* way of asserting power, privilege, and control.
* way of life in America-even among our youth
  - our mean streets
  - some places
  - sending messages to the other side
  - to get power