This is an astounding 0.3 percent of the national population. (NIDA, 2008). Of the 259,000 who used methamphetamine for the first time in 2006, the mean age at first use was 22.2 years, which is up considerably from the mean age of 18.6 in 2005. From 2005 to 2006, lifetime methamphetamine abuse increased among those 26 and older, particularly among those 26-34 years of age. (NIDA, 2008).
Pornography Is Harmful To Women and Children Let it be known that the purpose of this paper is to argue that pornography is harmful to society, but more specifically women and children. Unlike any other media representation of sex and sexuality, pornography within our postmodern society has become a cultural category of significance. The typical seediness has somewhat become lost but replaced by a society that mainly focuses sexual imagery in almost everything everyone sees. High contents of sexual imagery is used in the advertising and music industries as well as a number of late night television shows. This sudden shift in people’s attitudes towards the use of certain sexual and erotic images in today’s society raises a number of questions that need to be answered in order to better understand the harms it does to society.
However, this does not justify others immoral and degrading actions towards this person, it merely indicates a deterioration of one’s moral courage. In order to portray the implications of pornography on degradation of women, Hill describes what she terms as “Victim Pornography.” Victim pornography refers to (a) situations in which women are treated by a man or another woman as a way of obtaining sexual satisfaction without showing any concerns, whatsoever, about their needs and pleasures and (b) situations in which women
UNLEASH YOUR HERO By Tiffany Adams This “how-to” article is aimed towards a male audience in middle life. This population may read magazines such as Sports Illustrated or even Playboy. These magazines may objectify women and encourage such theories such as hegemonic masculinity, but they reach a wide male audience that has a huge impact on the issues of Gender Violence and thus deserve to be tapped. This article aims to motivate men to take a stance against Intimate Partner Violence, as activating bystanders even in a more passive role can only have a positive effect on society today. You can hear them arguing, again; but this time, there is an abrupt end to the conflict as one of them escalates
16 Year Old Thief The United States spends billions of dollars preventing drug use, treating addicts and fighting drug related crimes. Drug use causes multiple problems in many communities. Problems stemming from drug abuse can lead to burglaries, robberies, murders and other illegal activities in the United States. According to Drug War Facts for 2008 an estimated 117,325,000 Americas aged 12 or over (47% of the U.S. population aged 12 and over) report having used illicit drug at least once in their lifetime. More than half of America’s youth are drug users.
There are approximately nice to eleven million illegal immigrants in the U.S today. This is double the number in 1994. “The America-Mexico border is 1,940 miles long.” On average, 10,000 illegal immigrants cross the border every day. This averages out to around three million per year. One third will be caught and most of those same people will try again.
Ending prohibition on marijuana could save tax dollars and win ‘the war on drug”. (norml, 2013) 1. Enforcing marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers $10 billion annually and results in the arrest of more than 829,000 individuals per year. (norml, 2013) 2. Nearly 25 million Americans have smoked marijuana in the past year, and more than 14 million do so regularly despite harsh laws against its use.
It found that 75% of the altercations were fist fights, 6% sexual | |assaults, 8% stabbing, and an astonishing 17% involved firearm injuries (Smith, 1994). | |Homicide is the third leading cause of workplace fatalities and is the leading cause of death for women in the workplace, according to the | |Department of Labor's 1993 National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. In 1994, 1,471 homicides were reported compared with 1,063 in | |1993 (Heard, 1994). "Workplace violence is the new poison of corporate America," says Dennis Johnson, a clinical psychologist and the | |president of Behavior Analysts Consultants. "It's not just a reflection of a violent society, but of that violent society interacting with | |workplace dynamics that are significantly changed from 10 to 15 years ago" (cited in Dunkel, 1994).
Kenneth Swygert Mrs. Stewart Lit IV-1 April 5, 2014 The Right to Bear Arms Statistically, out of the top ten causes of death in the world, deaths caused by firearms does not even make the list. In fact, the only cause to make the list that did not involve natural deaths was automobile related accidents. There are roughly 32,000 deaths caused by firearms each year in the United States. This may seem like a large number, but take a moment to look at the percentages. Out of these 32,000, suicide accounts for 60% of all gun related deaths in the U.S. About 3% of gun related deaths are accidental.
Some of these include the disputes that sexual assault is a rare incident, sexual assaults are committed only by strangers, and offenders of sexual assault are always abnormal or insane. These myths have been shown to have little bearing on the actual happenings of sexual assault. As many studies on sexual assault have shown, forms of sexual violation are not rare occurrences, but rather happen regularly, particularly on university and college campuses. Sexual assault has been shown to occur most commonly between acquaintances, friends, spouses, and family members. Despite what the myth of stranger rape dictates, initiators of sexual assault are often personally connected to victims.