Violence And The Sacred Summary

In “Shame: The emotions and morality of violence,” James Gilligan, a professor of Psychiatry at New York University, argues to make a point that shame can lead to violence in a certain amount of people. After working and interviewing with two convicts in a prison, he learns that there are three preconditions to be met before being considered violent. The first is to not show their feelings of being ashamed due to it threatening their masculinity. The second is that they can’t counteract shame with their social status, achievements, friends and family. The last is not to feel love, guilt, or fear. These preconditions make Gilligan more understanding of the inmates and their lives.

As Americans, living in a egotistical and self centered society, we often think that we are the best, the top 1 percent in every aspect. However, When compared to other countries of the world, America is ranked 14th in education, 44th in health care efficiency, and 101th in peace. But it ranks first in incarceration, 2nd in ignorance, and 3rd in global competitiveness. One can see how the rankings that America is top in are those that promote violence in one way or another. In the book Violence and Culture: A Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Approach by Jack David Eller, the author discusses violence in American society in one of his chapters. In this chapter, he mentions some social characteristics that represents and plays a role in

In his book, Carnage and Culture, Victor Davis Hanson, a military historian and professor at California State University, reasons that the west and its armies have been the most lethal and effective force in the world because of the inseparability between armies and their cultures. He illustrates the cultural superiority of the west by explaining the tenets of western society (freedom, citizenship, right to property, capitalism, and individualism) and applies them to nine landmark battles in which the west take part. Hanson uses “the term ‘Western’ to refer to the culture of classical antiquity that arose in Greece and Rome; survived the collapse of the Roman Empire; spread to western and northern Europe; then during the great periods of exploration and colonization of the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries expanded to the

Over the last thirty years, significant scholars of American (particularly southern) lynching such as George C. Wright, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Stewart E. Tolnay and E. M. Beck, Christopher Waldrep, William D. Carrigan, Amy Louise Wood, and Manfred Berg have written at length about the social structure and cultural context of the collective violence, much of it racially motivated, that plagued the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States. With the exception of Wright's and Waldrep's work, lynching scholarship (including my own) has tended to focus more on the structure and context of lynching violence than on its impact on African American communities. Focusing on the violence itself as well as those who perpetrated it, scholars

History has told us that violence has never been the solution to more violence. Nowadays, actions of violence are everywhere, in movies, television serious, in our daily life. We live in a world where power is often established through violence. But for a truly Christian, the form of violence the world chooses is always surpassed by the truth of the Scriptures. Violence is never the solution to resolve conflicts, because violence generates more violence. For many years, violence has been the answer to conflicts in many Latin American countries. According to Jon Sobrino, “Latin America is an extremely violent continent.” The option for the poor has arisen in Latin America, a continent that is mostly poor and Christian. Latin America has always been characterized by the difference of social classes and by the oppression of the poor. The option for the poor has arisen in Latin America, a continent that is mostly poor and Christian. As a result of these characteristics of injustices, the oppressed raised their voice to ask for their rights to be respected. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that, “The dignity of the human person is rooted in his creation in the image and likeness of God.” Moreover, the demanding for basic respect for any individual no matter what social class someone belongs to, has always generated conflicts where violence seems to best the answer. As a better result, anyone could think that seeking dialogue would be the

Even though violence is meant to hurt and injure someone it can also result in a sick type of peace in many events. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak has a perfect scene where violence shows the overall meaning of the work. In this novel, violence was contributed throughout the book through realization and bravery. Liesel Meminger, the main character, is just a regular german girl with poor foster parents living on Himmel Street. Throughout the novel Liesel’s life is a whirlwind of ups and downs. She loves and she hates. She gives and she steals. One violent scene occurs that leaves Liesel to realize many events in her life that could have been easily changed if it wasn’t for the people she loved.

the removalists scrutinises the nature of violence and when doing so advocates that unavailing savagery is an unchanging phenomenon emanating from a basic flaw in humankind. David Williamson uses his characters to assist in communicating his themes by fabricating them to incorporate morals consisting of violence and heartlessness. This core is obviously portrayed through Kenny. Kenny is the stereotypical lobby man, he portrays a persona of not distinctly sustaining his temper, this is specifically evident when he is placed in unideal situations such as being hand cuffed to his own doorknob. Kenny becomes furious and in dint of this, stimulates his temper to ascend, uncontrollably. In contrast to kenny, Kate (fines sister) has much more of a

Before answering the question posed, first the etymology of the word ‘violence’ will be examined:

Violence is essentially a motif in the novel. The novel is set through the narration of Fowler the main character and we only get to see what he thinks and sees. Fowler is the not the most reliable character because the novel is set through his flashbacks, because we know Alden Pyle is dead from the start of the novel. The fact that violence is present throughout the novel means that Foster is experiencing, enacting or not stopping the violence. Violence has a toll on Foster because he starts to feel guilt towards the acts he committed. Greene wisely uses Foster as the main character because Foster is known for writing the truth and Greene makes it evident by writing “My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title

The film “Battle for Algiers” can be analyzed thoroughly through Frantz Fanon’s and Hannah Arendt’s polar opposite theories on violence. The implication of both theories is represented in the film that has captured the understanding of both insightful phenomena. Fanon’s views on violence are it unifies individuals into forming a complex unit organism that works together, rinses, in addition it is presented as an effective and productive mean that support the process of decolonization. In contract, Arendt’s theory detaches the concept of violence from power and emphasizes that the driven reasons for violence is anti-political. Both philosophers present distinctive theories upon the use of violence; Fanon elucidates his philosophy on

In the documentary Concerning Violence (2014) the detrimental effects of decolonization and how this then creates a need for violence are illustrated. This documentary brings to life Philip McMichael’s idea that development and underdevelopment are interrelated and the development of certain places is predicated on the underdevelopment of others. Furthermore, this process leaves the underdeveloped nations no choice but to resort to violence. This intense need for violence is not due to greed, but rather a desperate attempt to clutch to what is left of these people’s culture.

It cannot fairly be said that in Aravind Adiga’s novel, The White Tiger, the only way to escape the Darkness and advance in society is through violence, as an alternative route to the Light is presented in the story arc of Vijay, the pig herder’s son turned politician. Balram asserts that the murder of Ashok is not only the direct cause of his new wealth and status, but also the only possible trigger for his newfound social mobility. Yet, this is contradicted earlier in the story when he presents Vijay, the bus driver, as his role model for a successful person. Vijay, in order to achieve his elevated position, resorted to prostitution; despite not being a desirable alternative to violence, it is an alternative all the same and therefore violence is not the only way to escape the Darkness. Following this logic, it is Balram’s story and the immediate increase in wealth that results from the murder of Ashok that best supports violence as the only means of moving into the Light, and Vijay’s story is the best evidence against that point of view.

The term violence brings to memory an image of physical or emotional assault on a person. In most circumstances, the person affected due to violence is aware that a violent action has been performed on that person. There is another form of violence where the affected individual, in most cases are unaware of the violence inflicted upon them. These types of violence are termed as structural violence. Structural violence is a form of invisible violence setup by a well-defined system, to limit an individual’s development to his full potential, by using legal, political, social or cultural traditions (Winter and Leighton, 1).

Evil is extremely apparent in the world today, but for how long will people stand idly by as it continues to worsen? The song “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” written by U2, suggests that the only valid response to the violence that occurred in Northern Ireland in the 1970s is condemnation. The writers not only condemn the brutality of that time, but, in a broader sense, condemn violence as a whole, showing that there are no positive outcomes to violence, only more violence. Therefore, people must rise up, united against the violence that exists in this world today.

Violence has recently been an uproar in our nation and has devastated many. For instance, in