School Violence Research Paper

The Center for Disease Control of the United States of America has classified school violence as a public health problem. According to this institution, there were about 828,000 nonfatal victimizations at schools among students aged 12 to 18 in 2010. [Understanding School Violence 2012 fact sheet.] The same study points out that less than 2% of youth homicides take place at school, yet “deaths resulting form school violence are only part of the problem”. Not all consequences of violence are physically visible, though depression, anxiety and other psychological problems caused by school violence can seriously affect the development of young people.
What role can an educationalist play in the prevention of school violence? The first and most

The exponential population growth of the last decades together with a consumerist lifestyle jeopardizes the survival of the Earth as an ecosystem.
According to the 2006 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report of 2006 entitled Livestock’s Long Shadow, the livestock industry accounts for 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions. The production of cheap hamburgers and chicken nuggets are very dear in terms of environmental degradation, deforestation, not to mention animal cruelty. Livestock requires a lot of land: 26% of the Earth’s ice-free land is used for livestock, and the main reason for the increasing deforestation of the Amazon is for fodder production that goes to animals slaughtered for their meat.
Now, what is the connection between environmental degradation and our lifestyles? How would a change in our lifestyle affect the environment? Most students and teachers, as a matter of fact, seem to be aware of the problems which affect all of us, but do not seem to see the connection between our daily ham sandwich and environmental degradation. Even less do we want to notice that the ham in the sandwich is not something, but a piece of somebody who was systematically abused and violently deprived of his or her

The Amazon is the biggest rain forest of the world: it covers around 40% of South American territory and is home to more than 40,000 species of plants and 1,000 autochthonous types of trees. According to the World Wildlife Fund, the Amazon is also home to 427 different types of mammals, 1,294 types of birds and 30 million people, including 220 indigenous communities.
According to the WWF, the main cause of deforestation is cattle ranching: “Extensive cattle ranching is the main reason of deforestation of virtually every Amazon, and it accounts for 80% of current deforestation. Alone, the deforestation caused by cattle ranching is the cause of the release of 340 million tons of carbon to the atmosphere every year, equivalent to 3.4% of current global emissions. [Quoted in WWF: Unsustainable Cattle