the school cafeteria. Scary‚ right? As scary as it sounds scenarios from horror movies are playing out in schools all over America. You are eating lunch in the cafeteria and a student enters the cafeteria and starts firing off a firearm. First instinct is to scream for help and get on the ground‚ but why are scenes like this taking place in the learning place. The place where we are told we are the safest‚ maybe even safer than home. If school is so much safer than home then why are school shootings
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that America’s schools were being taken over by these so-called "juvenile super predators." The American people would assume that every quiet kid who gets picked on is going to turn around in school one day and start unloading his newly acquired firearms on his peers. This is hardly the case. While there may be an occasional "super-predator‚" the media has highly over publicized these rare‚ extraordinary events. Perhaps the most notorious school massacre was at Columbine High School. It was here
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students. School shooters tend to mention their plans to others; thus‚ giving an opportunity for others to intervene in their plans. Although these murderers do speak up‚ they are not taken seriously. They normally‚ fail to obtain the attention needed because they have spoken of those “crazy” things beforehand but never followed through. Not until it is far too late that they actually receive the attention necessary for their “crazy talk.” School shootings normally occur in rural schools rather than
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There is definitely a problem with school violence today. The last three years have shown us that violence in our schools society is more common today then ever before. Whether the violence has to do with guns‚ knives‚ or just a simple fight‚ school violence is getting a little out of hand. There have been several school shootings in the last few years‚ and the number of school shootings seems to be growing rapidly these days. When the last figures were taken by the government educators had found
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After reading the articles and watching the news and hearing others talk about this tragic topic on whether or not the schools‚ the parents‚ or media is the issue with school the conclusion is the individual is the one to blame. These individuals had many different resources and options to decide from in order to receive help yet the individuals made the choice to take the lives of innocent people. These children are aware of their consequences and have it set in their mind that there is no other
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Pre-AP Language Arts 20 May 2013 Providing Safety Measures within Schools School violence is not just a recent tragedy. In fact‚ the earliest known United States (U.S.) school shooting called “Pontiac’s Rebellion School Massacre” took place on July 26‚ 1764 in Pennsylvania (Wikipedia). These ill-fated events are products of many different factors such as bullying‚ revenge‚ and even mental issues. Unfortunately‚ school violence has become a more prevalent occurrence in society today. However‚
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Running head: SCHOOL SHOOTINGS: AMERICA ’S TRAGEDY School Shootings: A Tragedy in America School Shootings: A Tragedy in America The school shootings at Westside Middle School were orchestrated by two juveniles. On Monday‚ March 30‚ 1998 two boys ambushed students and teachers outside Westside Middle School in Jonesboro‚ Arkansas. Andrew Golden a youth of 11 years and Mitchell Johnson who was 13 years old were responsible for this hideous tragedy. Apparently‚ Mitchell Johnson hid
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Nisha Gajjar AP Lang Affect of Media on school violence. Whether or not exposure to media violence causes increased levels of aggression and violence in young people is the perennial question of media effects research. Some experts‚ like University of Michigan professor L. Rowell Huesmann‚ argue that fifty years of evidence show "that exposure to media violence causes children to behave more aggressively and affects them as adults years later." Others‚ like Jonathan Freedman of the University
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two classmates and wounded seven others in a school shooting in Pearl‚ Mississippi. In a note‚ Luke declared: “I am not insane. I am angry. I killed because people like me are mistreated every day.”1 He explained that he was tired of being called a “faggot”; he was additionally enraged that his girlfriend—whom he killed in the shooting—had broken up with him. At the start of the Woodham case‚ I began examining school shootings. Two months after the massacre in Mississippi came a shooting in Kentucky
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School shootings have brought fatality and tragedy to the surface. Schools prepare for these occurrences now that they have become more common. School shootings are often caused by mental disease‚ the culture of violence‚ and bullying. Sandy Hook Elementary‚ Virginia Tech‚ and Columbine High School are a few examples of school shootings that have affected millions of people. In 2012‚ Adam Lanza shot 27 people and then took his own life at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown‚ Connecticut
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