by fellow classmate‚ 13 people dead and 23 wounded in a High School‚ Four girls and a teacher are shot to death and 10 people wounded during a false alarm in school Those were the headlines of all newspapers at one time or another. High School shootings have been occurring throughout the United States. Why is it that a student would come into their school and open fire? Why is it that no one notices the signs before the incident? How is it possible that they were able to bring the firearm into
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Elephant Poaching “We are experiencing what is likely to be the greatest percentage loss of elephants in history‚” said Richard G. Ruggiero‚ an official with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (Ney York Times; December 3‚ 2012). The poaching of elephants started in the late 1800’s and is still happening today. People are slaughtering these majestic animals for their ivory tusks. Ivory has been sold on the black market for millions of dollars. Before the start of ivory poaching there were
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Eddy the Elephant Eddy the Elephant was a very young and very eccentric Elephant. He was wild‚ fast paced‚ and crazy. He was tough; he did not think he was afraid of anything! No Cheetah‚ Lion‚ or Tiger could scare him. Until one day Eddy had to go to the doctor. This terrified tough Eddy. Maybe it was the needles‚ or maybe it was the sickness in the air. However‚ something sure did make Eddy afraid of the doctor. One beautiful day Eddy and his friends Kody Kangaroo‚ and Fred Flamingo were
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friends acted. “Sue says she wishes she had listened to him more carefully in the years preceding the shooting. She wonders what questions she could have asked that might have encouraged her son to open up about whatever he was feeling‚”(Strasser). People assumed causes for the disaster such as violent movies‚ violent games‚ bullying‚ and gangs. Since the Columbine disaster more and more school shootings have happened. “The hallways erupted in screaming‚ terror-stricken pandemonium as students realised
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School Shooting Many things can cause school shootings‚ bullying is one major cause and one person bullying another can lead to a lot of people getting hurt. So however horrific‚ the actions of other schoolyard gunmen such as Kip Kinkel or Luke Woodham can be readily understood as stemming from individual pathologies and‚ hence‚ not particularly reflective of broader social issues. In contrast‚ the Columbine shootings can be seen as implicating not only the killers’ own sick‚ twisted minds‚ but
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Irvine Shooting An Asian man was found dead in his Irvine residence late last night‚ while his wife was arrested due to suspicion‚ according to the Irvine Police Department. Around 11:30 last night‚ the police received a call from Sandra Kim‚ the victim’s wife stating that she had found her husband dead on the kitchen floor. Paramedics along with the Irvine police arrived at the home on the 600th block of Birch Street in Irvine. Police confirmed that a man with multiple gun shot wounds
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Hills Like White Elephants The short story “Hills Like White Elephants” was written by Ernest Hemingway. The author seems to be a minimalist where he does not provide explanation about the very issue why the couple is unhappy and annoyed with each other. To have a more deeper understanding on the literature‚ I have looked up a translated version of it and according to a Japanese translation of the very story‚ it said that the problem was about her pregnancy and that the man wants her to have an
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Federalist Argument Essay It all started with the Declaration of Independence. Under British rule‚ the 13 American colonies were incredibly displeased with the governing of the king and his tyranny. Consequently‚ Thomas Jefferson and a group of four other men (Benjamin Franklin‚ Roger Sherman‚ Robert R. Livingston and John Adams) gathered to compose a document declaring the colonies’ independence from Britain. The Declaration states that everyone is born with a set of natural rights‚ or rights that
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Hunter O’Rourke 9-8-13 Shooting Dad In Vowell’s opening statement‚ she refers to her house as being “house divided” and what she means is that one of her parents is a Democrat and the other parent is a Republican. On Election Day if you were to drive by her house you would see two different campaign signs in the front yard telling you to vote for two different people because each parent is from a different political party. In paragraph 12‚ Vowell’s father said it was fine that his daughter
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Discuss ways in which two stories show characters trapped in a situation‚ without the possibility of escaping of it In both stories‚ ‘The Bath’ by Janet Frame and ‘Elephant’ by Raymond Craver the main characters are trapped because of their loneliness and helplessness. Both of them are imprisoned and cannot found the way to escape from their reality. They are trapped but because of different things and in different parts of their lives. In the case of “The Bath” she is trapped in her old age and
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