Violence- A Sad Reality

INTRODUCTION

The subject of this work is: violence. Violence is the use of physical force to abuse, injure or kill somebody, is the violent behavior intended to hurt or kill somebody, is a very strong feeling that is not controlled and that can damage somebody. No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, but some people don t respect this rules. Maybe it s because, the violences phenomenon is an expression of the human anger. Violence allways exist. However, nowadays, it becomes a sign of times. The experience of violence have multifarious origins, like for example: deformation of the character and personality, education, social conditions, drog, alcoholism and presents in several modes like: wars; domestic, juvenil and sportive violence for example. Violence is a phenomenon founded in any place of the glob and that terrifies anyone. Violence dont know any geographic, cultural or social border. This work has the purpose to remind the serious problem that is violence and to reflect the causes and consequencies that this reality promote on society and world. This work, only show a little example of the power of violence. However, it can be very important to be informed because it is a sad reality that embrace everyone. Aversion is used in many opportunities. People all over the world, must to remember that only peace could be a truce for violence!

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VIOLENCE
There are many forms of violence and unhapply for all over the world. This sad reality is in family houses, in workplaces, in sports, streets and in an extreme way it appears in wars form. Violence is a dregradig reality that kill families, societies and the world. Next there are presented some examples of violence forms.

1.1. Domestic Violence

For a long time, home has been considered a safe place to pearson. However this reality have a fast change. The main identified types of domestic violence are: physicist- he includes any form of contact that hurt the victim; sexual- any type of sexual contact without the purpose of the victim; verbal- violent threats and quarrels are common forms of verbal abuse; psychological- when behaving and reacting of strange forms, the aggressor can try to take the victim to a mental disequilibrium; spiritual- to attack the certainties religious spirituals or of the victim; financiermany victims are economically dependents of the aggressors, who use this factor as form to exert pressure on them; property destruction- to threaten or to frighten the victim, the aggressor can destroy goods that are of its property. The most important reason for domestic violence were alcohol (96%), then drugs (94%), unemployment (79%), poverty / social exclusion (73%), and the fact that the aggressors being victims of violence in the past (73%). In Portugal, alohoolism also apears like the first reason to violence (97,1%), then unemployment (83,9%), poverty / social exclusion (80%) and in the end the low level of education (the little level of studies) (74,4%). Violence on family, inclusive the abuses that are practise to children, to the other consort and homicides are report in all over the world. The domestic violence also embrace illusages against the consort and nowadays this violence form is practicate for both part. In 2001, more than 3750 people were hurt inside teir own houses. The Associao Portuguesa de Apoio Vtima (APAV) show that there are

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a growth of 15%, in comparison with the last year. It is a little referency for a reality that is in big way occult. This reality is observable like a taboo for the majority of women that are victims of violence caused for the companion.

1.2. Violence In the Workplace

Far away from home, traditinally, in workplace there are order, respect and civility. Nowadays this is almost an utopian reality. For example, a statistcal study done by the United States of America Justice Department show that in each year about 1.000.000 people are victims of violence in their workplace. Violence in the workplace is a serious problem. Its most extreme form, homicide, is the third cause of fatal occupational injury in the United States. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), there were 639 workplace homicides in 2001 in the United States, out of a total of 8,786 fatal work injuries . A total of 2,886 work related fatalities resulted from the events of September 11th. Excluding these fatalities, the overall workplace fatality count was 5,900 for 2001. People cant denied that the workplace, before so peaceful, is now flooded with a wave of violence.

1.3. Sports Violence

The sports and amusements are a way to distraction and to pass the time. There has been much debate over the sport. Nowadays, the most of amusements are a shape to earn money, so games furnishers, for example, do everything to enrich and sometimes they dont care with the dangerous that this amusemnts can provoke. Some sports are violent by nature. Boxing is the obvious example, where physical attack is the point of exercise.

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These forms of "violence" are within the rules of the sport and the possibility of injury is well known by participants. Then there is a few of contact sports, particularly the football, where there is punishing body contact within the rules. However, the use of video replays over recent years has made violent tactics more risky for the infringer, especially in professional sports where suspension can be a punishment. There is no solution to violence in sport. There is a range of social, economic, and cultural factors which come into play, particularly with regard to spectator violence. It has been noted that problems in English soccer are often associated with poor living conditions. The problem clubs appear to come from the worst areas in England. Studies of English soccer violence have also identified a hard core of people who see fighting as an integral part of going to a match, who are led by proven fighters, frequently with local gang connections and a record of violence outside the sporting context. These people are sometimes associated with extreme racist and right wing groups. Other social divisions based on religion, culture and race also influence the world of sport. The Scottish local derby between Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers is the example of religious differences. The excessive consumption of alcohol, particularly by young male spectators, greatly amplifies the problems of violence. The role of the media can be looked at in both a negative and a positive light. Television is, in a big way, the transmissor of violence that hapens in football stadiums, for example. It is generally accepted that one of the major ways of reducing violence in sport is through an education process. For example, The Australian Sports Commission and the Drug Offensive have developed and promoted Codes of Behaviour in association with the Aussie Sports Program. The Codes were endorsed by the Minister for Sport, Senator Graham Richardson and the Minister for Community Services and Health, Dr Neal Blewett and cover administrators, officials, parents, spectators, coaches, teachers, the media and players.

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1.4. Juvenil Violence

Why aggressiveness, why violence? It is much faster and easy to strike somebody to take something to him that to be pacific with this person . To strike, it is relatively easy. Research studies shows that one becomes aggressive to obtain something of positive (money, goods, privileges, etc), The influence of the group, an aggressive group increases the probability that each one of its members also could have. One of the reasons is the tendency to conformism. The tendency to follow bad conducts is very strong. When a person belong to a group, he has tendency to forget his personality and to accept the decisions of the group. People must to help teenagers in their growth. It would be a serious error to fear the adolescence. The television, magazines, etc show many violence. One of the resolutions to avoid violent behaviours it is to supervise the emissions of television of the children. Dorothy Lewis, professor of psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine, told a PBS Frontline documentary that pathological aggressiveness is rooted in abuse and pain. Dorothy Lewis also told: "Animals that have been tortured and children who have been severely and repeatedly abused often become extremely aggressive." If a child shows signs of delinquency, people do not minimize their importance and people do not close the eyes with the pretext which it is still young. Children are the future. So they need to have a good education to avoid that this children could be agressivs when they grow up. When something fails the consequencies could be horrible. There are some examples of this faults. A study said that 81% of the school deaths were homicides, with the remainder being suicides or accidents, 77 percent of the school deaths were caused by firearms; knives accounted for 17 %, 51% of the murder victims, and 50% of the perpetrators were black non-Hispanics. The most unsurprising fact was that 83 percent of the school victims, and 96 percent of the offenders, were male. Anothter example is: a multiple school murder came on the heels of the March 24 sniper murders of four students and one teacher in Jonesboro, Ark., and four multiple murders of schoolchildren, by schoolchildren, during 1997.

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1.5. Wars
War is the extreme of violence. They lead to destruction of people, cultures and nations. It is the civil population that, in any place of world, suffer more with the war. The consequencies of this are physical and psycological traumas in families, children and soldiers. The war destroyd the world. Population sees its houses destroyed, busy, set on fire; bridges, roads plants, warehouses and ways of iron destroyed, mined fields and bushes. Many times is pursued, violated, slaughtered, bombed, deported and deceased. The war destroyd the economic infrastructures, leading the population the hunger and shortage situations. The war contaminates and pollute the environment. In the end of the war, the surviving population verifies that familiar and friends had died and disappeared forever without having the chance to carry through its life and its projects because, this chance was taken off to them. It also see that it has that to make redoubled efforts to reconstruct what before was of foot, that has to work in this reconstruction or to pay it through more contributions and taxes or of the wild exploration of its natural resources. Everyone can see the results that comes from a war... and they are shocking. So people must to change some behaviours and the must important to talk ones with the others instead of making use of the violence.

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CONCLUSION

Violence maybe the most shameful infringement of human rigths. Nowadays, violence prevails in anyplace: streets, schools, workplaces, homes, etc. Alcoholism is the most frquent cause/ origin of violence and it promotes the familiar and social destruction. People are confronted with a violent culture. They are exposed to them and passe to accept violence like a normal thing... until being victim of them. In the past, problems werent so global because globalization didnt exist. Nowadays, problems are global: atmospheric pollution, watter contamination, desertification, climateric change, AIDS, drugs, unemployment and financial crises. They are global phenomenos that ignor borders. Violence can change peoples life for bad. This changies could be physical or/ and psycohlogical traumas. It promotes the desorganization and the destruction in all over the world. There are many examples that show the destruction that violence provokes in societies and in environment. So there are many things that people can do to fight against violence. This things could be: respect all lifes without discrimination or preconceits; reject the violence in their different forms: physical, sexual, economic, social and psychological; share generosity; hear to understand; preserv the Planet; reinvent the solidarity. As long as violence being a reality, no one can make good and true progress in direction to equality, development and peace. Future is in the hands of human been. People all over the world must request the end of any type of violence in order that humankind can fight for all species global survival. It is necessary to reformulate a new values system that allow that everyone can cohabit in harmonious and healthy way. People must assume new attituds , only then will have peace and justice. Violence is sadness, peace is happiness!

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