2202205 Introduction to English Composition
Topic for essay III: Growing Up in a Violent World
Here are some of the ideas we brainstormed
in class:
Nature can be violent
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Violent weather
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Hurricanes
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Monsoons
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Typhoons
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El Niño, El Niña
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tornadoes
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natural disasters
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earthquakes
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volcanic eruptions
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floods, flash floods
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others
humans can be violent to nature or to animals
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deforestation
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animal poaching, hunting
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inconscientious fishing: using electric shock, fishing off season
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mining
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animal testing
Domestic violence
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Abusive parents
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Wife battering/husband battering
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Broken homes: quarreling parents, juvenile dilinquents
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Rape
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incest
violence and women
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rape
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abortion
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sexism
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pornography
violence and children
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child abuse
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pedophilia
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abandoned babies
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homeless children
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child pornography
Street violence
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Drugs: heroine, cocaine, amphetamines
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Gangs
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Gun control, children and firearms
Crime
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Shooting, firearms and handgun control
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Violence in prisons
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Inmate beating
Violence in school
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Gangs
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Bullies, bullying
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Girls students raped by teachers
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Date rape, students raped by their friends
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Vandalism—doing violence to the school walls, tables, etc.
Sample essay topics on school violence:
(taken from http://www.nyu.edu/education/metrocenter/violence/Frdef1.htm)
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School House Hype: School Shootings, and the Real Risks Kids Face in America
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Kids these days: What Americans really think about the next generation
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Violence in Schools: A Dialogue on Security and Discipline
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Television, cultural problems, a call for an ecological philosophy to address
problems of youth and school violence, and "why schools can't solve our
problems".
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Things have to change in order to remain the same: on the dangers of narrowly
following historical and cultural precedents.
accidents
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Drunk driving
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Speed driving
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Car racing on highways
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Truck drivers who take amphetamines
Verbal violence
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being rude to older people
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being rude to women
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being rude to uneducated people, blaming uneducated people for violence
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being rude to poor people
Violence in media
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TV: cartoon, soaps, sit-coms
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Film: action films, horror films, movies about serial killers, murderers,
weapons in films, heroes using weapons, cowboys and indians, cop and robber
Violence in sports
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American football
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Boxing
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Wrestling
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Ice-hockey
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violence in the stadiums, mobs
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Fanatic violence: Seles stabbed,
Violent toys
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Violent VDO games
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Toy guns
War
Suicides
Racism
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Rodney King beaten by policemen
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Ethnic cleansing: Bosnia, the Holocaust
Sexual discrimination
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Homophobia: violence against lesbian, gay and bisexuals
Religious fanaticism, radicals
Political violence
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Guerrilla groups
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Tyranny, dictatorship
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corruption
Poverty
World hunger
Mental problems and violence
Diseases
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Inflicting pain to cure
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Daily injection to contain asthma
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Daily injection for diabetics
Some links on violence to help you research
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Violence in America
A collection of links for research on American Violence in all its
forms. Assembled as a thematic unit for use at Monticello High School.