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978-0-451-07645-8. Rage (written as Getting It On) [ a] is a psychological thriller novel by American writer Stephen King, the first he published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was published in 1977 and was collected in the 1985 hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books. The novel describes a school shooting, and has been associated with ...
School violence. School violence includes violence between school students as well as attacks by students on school staff and attacks by school staff on students. It encompasses physical violence, including student-on-student fighting, corporal punishment; psychological violence such as verbal abuse, and sexual violence, including rape and ...
Bullying, one form of which is depicted in this staged photograph, is detrimental to students' well-being and development. [ 1] School bullying, like bullying outside the school context, refers to one or more perpetrators who have greater physical strength or more social power than their victim and who repeatedly act aggressively toward their ...
Leo Tolstoy at age 20, c. 1848. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, a family estate 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) southwest of Tula, and 200 kilometres (120 mi) south of Moscow. He was the fourth of five children of Count Nikolai Ilyich Tolstoy (1794–1837), a veteran of the Patriotic War of 1812, and Princess Mariya Tolstaya (née Volkonskaya; 1790 ...
[1] [2] The collection focuses on key themes such as: shifting language into action, silence as a form of violence, and the importance of history. [3] Lorde describes herself as a "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet", and addresses the difficulties in communication between Black and white women. [3] [4]
All Boys Aren't Blue. All Boys Aren't Blue is a young adult non-fiction " memoir -manifesto" by journalist and activist George M. Johnson, [ 1] published April 28, 2020, by Farrar, Straus and Giroux . The book consists of a series of essays following Johnson's journey growing up as a queer Black man in Plainfield, New Jersey, [ 2] and Virginia.
Elliot Pittel M.D. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston says: "Lost Boys makes an important contribution to the literature on the causes and prevention of youth violence." The book has also received praise from Marian Wright Edelman, President and Founder, Children's Defense Fund:
Violence is the use of physical force to cause harm to people, or non-human life, such as pain, injury, death, damage, or destruction. [1] Some definitions are somewhat broader, such as the World Health Organization's definition of violence as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened [2] or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which ...