...great increase in the amount of threats and school shootings in the United States. Many people think to themselves, “This would never happen to me or in my area.” I used to think this way until the day my school received a threat that a teenager was planning to shoot up the school. The entire school was in a frenzy. Students leaving school, an increase in the number of police officers at the school, and having that thought that whispers in your ear, “Will this be my last day on Earth? Will I ever get to see my family and friends again?” These were some of the thoughts that ran through my mind when I heard about the threat. People never truly realize how scary and real something is until it happens to them. In the first article, “No, there haven’t been 18 school shootings in...
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...School shootings are rare, yet every time one occurs, it reveals the disturbing vulnerability of schools and universities to acts of violence. These shootings not only make the parents feel unsafe sending their children off to school but also causes political debate. This topic has ignited a dispute over gun violence, zero tolerance policies, and gun control. The Controversial topic has created a main attention grabber for satirists. A satirist is a writer who uses politics or everyday issues and writes about them in a jokingly way. There are two ways a Satirist can write, Horation and juvanalian. Horation is more humorous and juvanalian abrasive. In this essay, the examples I have provided are all Horation. Bolton, Reiss, And Schormal use the ample tools of exaggeration and mockery; However, Borowitz and Luckavich use more of the parody and pathos types of elements to address the problems of school shootings across America. First, Satirist Cole Bolton discusses the topic of school shootings using exaggeration. Exaggeration is an assertion that makes something...
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...Statistics have shown that a person would have to attend a school for 6,000 years before they would be apart of a school shooting (Bowers 1). They are very rare but still manage to happen. What would ever make a human being so crazy in the mind to burst out and kill innocent people? Recently, school shootings have become such a large issue in the United States. This affair needs to be resolved before it gets too far out of hand. On March 21, 2005, Jeffrey Weise attacked Red Lake High School (Enger 1). Before the attack, Weise shot and killed his grandfather, Daryl Lussier, and his grandfather’s girlfriend, Michelle Sigana. He then stole his grandfather’s tribal officer equipment that included: guns, a vest, and a squad car. Once he was in the school and had already opened gun fire, the police were able to corner him. He then ran into a nearby classroom and took his own life. Weise shot and killed 10 people that day, including himself (2). At the time, this shooting was considered one of the deadliest school shootings in Minnesota history. On April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho opened fire on the Virginia Tech campus (Robertson 1). When the campus police first heard about the shooting,...
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...At this day and age there are school shootings everywhere and with the wright measures taken this can stop. School shootings is a serious problem in the u.s today and little has been done. Their have been countless school shootings in the past few years that have broken apart families and devastated towns and cities. Because of the recent school shootings police should be present at schools, police should carry guns with them around school, and tough measures should be taken. First, police should be present at schools. Police should be at schools because if they are not there who is there to protect them from a shooter. The article Stronger security measures will make schools safer, by Juvenile Crime, says “Recent shifts in school violence are driving administrators in even the safest of schools and communities to realize that ,it could happen here (Crime).” This means that people are starting to realize that school shootings can happen at any school at any time. In the same article by Juvenile Crime, it says “The sad reality is that nobody can offer a 100 percent guarantee that a violent or serious security-related incident will not occur in their school (Crime).” This shows that even with security guards and police no one can...
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...As stated on thinkprogress.org, ABC News reported thirty-one school shootings in the United States since Columbine in 1999, where thirteen innocent people were massacred. Allowing professionally trained security guards to possess the right to carry firearms will drastically reduce the amount of deaths in similar situations, including those of children and teenagers. With the use of their firearms, security guards have a higher probability of being able to offer protection for the students and faculty. Although many opposers argue that the current precautions (such as cameras and alert systems) are enough to protect students across the nation, these tactics will only offer the student awareness instead of safety, which will result in them being...
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...article "Kentucky school shooting: 2 students killed, 18 injured" by Holly Yan, Anne Claire Stapleton and Paul P. Murphy from CNN informs us about another high school shooting. It occurred on January 23, 2018 at Marshall County High School. The suspect entered the school at 8:57 a.m. ET and started shooting. Two students were killed and 18 other people were injured when a fifteen-year old opened fired with a handgun. The fifteen-year old was arrested at the scene, and was charged with two counts of murder and twelve counts of first degree assault. The majority of the students called their parents to tell them about the situation. Parents said their children told them the location of the shooting. Junior Taylor Droke and a friend were running late and...
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...Weeks ago there was a school shooting in Parkland Florida, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (Schuster 1.)That shooting brought out demands for gun reform laws and change, from students across the nation. For example, students across the country walked out of schools on Wednesday, March 14, to honor and remember the 17 dead, for 17 minutes(Schuster 1.) This is going to follow up by a walk on Washington called“, March For Our Lives” on March 24 (Schuster 2.) With all the attention that this movement is causing, it has the nation divided once again. People are wondering if guns are the issue or if mental health and bullying is the issue. On February 14, 2018, a shooting in Parkland Florida created a movement (Schuster 1.) A man named Nikolas Cruz would kill 17 high school students, and wounded 16 others (Kirby 1) From this movement the issue of school shootings arrived. Everyone has an opinion, and people are split on how to tackle and eliminate mass shootings. Some say guns are to blame while others are saying mental health and bullying issues are to be blamed....
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...According to Everyone in the U.S In 2018 there have been more or less than 18 on campus school shootings. There have been multiple school shootings but, there are very different such as sucidal, not during school hours, and during school hours. This being a real isuure some people think school shooting are not a issue on the other side of people some thing that gun violence is not under control. There are different situations during a school shooting. There is susdial stiuations where a young teenager kills him or herself on school grounds either durring or not during school hours. In 18 of those school shooting there were about 2 of thoes were sucidal. In one artical byJohn Woodrow Cox and Steven Rich, it says “On the afternoon of Jan. 3, a 31-year-old man who had parked outside a Michigan elementary school called police to say he was armed and suicidal.” this is an event where the cause of one man could have caused muilte people to get ingured....
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...about 23 school shooting in 2018 alone. That is a huge problem. There are several ways that we can prevent more from happening. I am going to contact my local Representive John Moolenaar on https://moolenaar.house.gov/ . Certain teachers in schools could carry a concealed gun. School campuses should have police officers. In addition, all entrances should be secured and have metal detectors. I believe that certain teachers should carry a gun. 172 school districts in Texas allow staff and/or board members to carry firearms on school premises (Beatriz.1). And out of the 172 school’s districts there has been no school shootings. If the schools where the shootings has occurred, if the teachers would have had guns there would have...
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...Since 1980 there have been 137 fatal school shootings and 297 lives were lost to these unnecessary acts of violence. In the United States, the threat of school shootings has been an increasing danger to students and teachers alike. Even on July 26, 1764, four Lenape American Indians came into a school and killed the schoolmaster and nine or ten children, this is known as the Enoch Brown school massacre and was a notorious part of Pontiac’s rebellion. The more recent shootings such as Columbine and Virginia Tech a majority of those victims were students. Many of the victims cannot rely on police in the beginning of these attacks, the average shooting lasts around 12 minutes but average police response time is 18 Minutes. Teachers should be able to carry concealed weapons because armed teachers and staff can decrease the threats of school shootings, intruders on campus, and respond to threats faster than the time it takes police officers to respond. The police are effective in handling these threats but the response time can take too long, with school staff members armed with concealed weapons they can stabilize the situation before the police arrive. Carrying a concealed weapons could escalate the confrontation and...
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...On April 20th 1999 Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 13 innocent people and injured 24! It was soon known as one of the worth school shootings in the U.S history. Patrick Ireland was one of the most known survivors, he was shot twice in the head and once in his right foot and he also had a laceration on his inner elbow. He laid there in and out of consciousness for about two hours tried getting up but he was shot and didn't realize it, until he scooted across to the window and the SWAT team caught. Although he doesn't remember coming through the window he told the ambulance that the perpetrators were wearing masks because he was really confused. He graduated in May of 2000 and is now currently working as a Financial Representative, is married and has a daughter named Kennedy. He received a $117,500 settlement with Jefferson county. Makai Hall, he was with Patrick Ireland when Patrick took a shot for Hall in the head and was knocked unconscious. Hall pretended to be dead and Eric Harris then threw a C02 bomb where Makai, Patrick and Dan were under a table, that landed on Dan Steepleton’s thigh. Makai then grabbed it and the it. It exploded in mid air. He told CNN that he knew Dylan and that they worked on a few projects together. He also said Dylan...
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...Obviously, school shootings are a big subject in recent times, especially with the youth. Students all over the country are scared of going to school because it’s something that happens more often. I myself own a gun, and my house has multiple guns in a safe. Guns shouldn't be banned and won't be banned because it restricts our right to the 2nd amendment of rights to bear arms. There should be a further background check and a longer process in all the states, I know in Arizona, there are no laws or restrictions on buying a gun. The first article Here’s How to Prevent the Next School Shooting, Experts Say, explains my point exactly. The article express “If we're really talking about prevention, my perspective is that we should go for the public...
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...of the highest class over time. In this paper, I would focus on what part of Orwell's exposition Shooting an Elephant makes it a work of art. Moreover, I would introduce one book related novel called A Passage to India by E.M Forster and a musical composition by Bob Dylan entitled Rolling Stone. which I would be contending on why these authors and artist works are worthy of being consider classic and on the off chance that they can be considered similarly great. George Orwell is best prominent for his last two books, the anti-powerful, controlling government works Animal Farm and 1984. He was an exceptionally adroit and experienced writer . Among his most puissant essays is the 1931 self- portraying essay Shooting an Elephant, which Orwell reflects on his experience as a police officer in pioneer Burma. Shooting an Elephant can be identified as one of the most classical essays in the English language. It is an extraordinarily composed article and a dynamite for a topic of portrayal. Throughout the essay, Orwell develops his proposition on the impacts of colonialism on the general population who are abused as well on the general population abuse individuals, also. The theme, of Shooting an Elephant is to uncover the issues between the law and one's ethical feeling of good and bad as this relates to British government solidly. One major key aspect that makes Shooting an Elephant a classical is that it deals with the evils of imperialism. Imperialism has been edified...
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...Shooting an Elephant: The Death of Free Will George Orwell’s essay, Shooting an Elephant, was first published in 1936 in the autumn issue of New Writing, a London periodical. According to Adrian De Lange, Shooting an Elephant is one of Orwell’s most famous essays (Bloom 9). It cannot be established whether or not it was an actual account of something that Orwell experienced, something he witnessed or if it is solely fictitious, but is accepted that this essay was written out of Orwell’s experiences while he was a member of the Imperial India Police Force in Burma, described by Orwell as, “five boring years” (Abrahams 194). There are many apparent and some not so apparent themes in this work. The harmful results of Imperialism, prejudice, and living by your own conscience are all valid and thought provoking themes. A theme that is also valid and beneficial to examine is the dangers of isolation and alienation and how those states can manifest in dangerous, even deadly ways. Isolation and alienation can be very damaging on the human spirit. That damage can lead to actions that do irreparable harm to an individual as well as a community. In Shooting an Elephant the narrator finds himself isolated because of his role as policeman in a foreign country and by the hostility and mistrust of the Burmese citizens he must police. This isolation leads to vulnerability and weakness when faced with mob pressure. When given into, peer pressure leads to death:...
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...PRACTICE EXAMINATION ISSUE ANALYSIS CRIMINAL LAW ESSAY QUESTION 1 OF 1 State vs. Fabio Homicide Homicide is the killing of one human being by another. When Fabio shot Nicholas with a gun and he died, there was a killing of a human being by another. Actual Causation Defendant’s acts must have been the actual cause of the victim’s death, i.e., but for the Defendant’s actions the victim would not have died. . "But for" Fabio shooting Nicholas, Nicholas would not have been killed. Fabio is the actual cause of Nicholas’ death. Thus, Fabio is the actual cause of Nicholas’ death. Proximate Causation A Defendant’s actions are the proximate cause of the victim’s death if the result occurred as a natural and probable consequence of Defendant’s act and there was no intervening event sufficient to break the chain of causation Nicholas’ death was the natural and probable consequence of Fabio shooting him with his gun and a foreseeable result of Fabio's shooting. Thus, Fabio is the proximate cause of Nicholas’ death. Thus, Fabio committed a homicide. Murder Murder is an unlawful killing committed with malice aforethought. Malice aforethought can be evidenced as an intent to kill, intent to cause great bodily harm, or through willful and wanton conduct. When Fabio saw his wife Michelle in bed with Nicholas, an old high school friend, he became very angry. After a few days when Fabio felt better, he remembered what he had seen when he...
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