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    Many women are trapped in abusive relationships. Leslie Morgan Steiner, the author of Crazy Love, calls it “a physical and psychological trap disguised as love.” In her Ted Talk, she points out questions that most people don’t comprehend and always ask: “Why does she stay [in abusive relationships]? Why doesn’t she just leave ?” However, most people do not realize the reality of this problem is much more complicated. According to Domestic Abuse Shelter, it generally takes women seven times…

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    Education will always be an important area of our life, it’s becoming more important as times goes on. The knowledge we gain in education is vital to what we will accomplish in life. Educations makes the world around us comfortable to live in and changes it into something better. It develops our opinions in life, and builds on it continuously. There are many debates about whether not arts should be included into education of students of all ages. Arts include: Music, dance, art, and drama. These…

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    numerous people wish to lose weight fast. Thus, people tend to start diets that decrease serving sizes and exploit physical activity. This method of losing weight is thought as the only track to losing weight, however, there is a healthier and safe route to lose weight. The foremost method of losing weight safely is to decrease calorie intake, maintain a journal, and increase physical activity. Losing weight is a tedious process and diet is a major aspect of it. Commencing a diet does not…

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    As cases start to arise, parental abuse starts to become a common recurring factor. One of the most famous American serial killer, Edward Gein an atrociously notorious grave digger, and the serial killer was known for his mutilation of human body parts and scavenging graves of those already dead to manifest their body parts to create himself, essentially a new skin. At first, he appears to be a psychotic gentleman that hacks and engulfs his victim, however, his problems seem to spur from an…

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    Multiple men and women are not aware of domestic violence occurring around them; However, others are informed and have been through this situation. The act of violence in relationships is caused by several reasons that can have serious consequences. The major issue is that the majority of the victims are women. In addition, the world has viewed women as less valuable than men, meaning that females are the prey in a negative and downhill relationship. Knowing the factors that cause this problem…

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    help to represent abuse throughout this story is the title itself, the ways he treat her, and him seeing another women. In Hurston 's short story, "Sweat," the main character is Delia. She suffers from the main three types of abuse emotional, physical, and mental. The title “Sweat” represents the tears Delia was crying because of the abuse her husband Sykes gave her. Back in this time period it was common for a women to be submissive to…

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    Violence, Threat of Serious Violence and the Battered Woman Syndrome Women usually make a plea of provocation when they kill their abuser, i.e. their partner or husband due to a `slow burn’ reaction to continuous domestic abuse. However, as pointed out by Susan Edwards the requirement of immediate outrage automatically excludes battered women. This is because women, as they can be said to be weaker than men, tend to kill their abuser when he is intoxicated, asleep and unable to defend himself.…

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    Violence is never a good thing for any one and because of violence a lot of people have gotten hurt very bad or even killed. However, these senseless acts will never stop or change and has been going on for year. Therefore, in 1970 Lenore Walker developed the social cycle theory known as the cycle of violence. She created this cycle in hopes of limiting some of the domestic violence and abuse that women were dealing with. Now this cycle has four stages of violence in it which consists of…

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    abused by her husband Stanley, Blanche recalling the suicide of her past closeted boyfriend Allen and when Stanley rapes Blanche at the end of scene ten. However, physical abuse is not the extent of this key motif as Williams’ presents verbal and emotional violence as well. These are all further intensified by the stage directions, physical theatre, lighting and sound- all of which are key ingredients in Williams magnetically ravenous play.

Evidence of violence are explored through physically…

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    Intimate partner violence (IPV) is essentially domestic violence conducted by a partner in an intimate relationship against the spouse. Over time, IPV can take the form of physical, sexual, emotional and verbal abuse (CDC, 2016). The most severe form of IPV is known as coercive controlling violence that is usually perpetrated by men against women. This is one of the most common reasons why women seek help from a women’s shelter. IPV is a public health issue and the incidence has been increasing…

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