New Hampshire. At the high school‚ you read about a routine day of students in classes. As a student runs out of class to leave for an orthodontist appointment a loud bang goes off in the parking lot‚ which turns out to be a bomb set off in Matt’s car. The students are confused by the noise and gun shots are fired. Patrick‚ the only detective on the Sterling police force (which is just stupid to have only one)‚ hears on his radio about the shooting at Sterling High School. Patrick sees several students
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and the unforeseen. This is why we have childproof medicine bottles‚ penalties for not buckling up‚ informational literature on family planning for students in junior high: these are all examples of responsible responses to known problems.”(421). But what Miller is saying is that there isn’t really a response to the “schoolyard massacres”. There’s only so much you can do to control every single students behavior. You don’t know their lifestyle; there are so many different backgrounds. Parents have a
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inopportune of ocassions before sulking off into the unspecified realm of dark situations yet again. It has no preference for a certain variety of victims; to seek and destroy is the only goal with matter. Such is the case of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting on December 14‚ 2012. With fear then cast into the community of Newtown‚ Connecticut‚ and all of America‚ it may only be said that tragedy is received in the massive doses of heartache‚ despair‚ and a continuing aura of hopelessness‚ and
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depressed teen and a psychopath decided to go on a killing spree at Columbine High School. The depressed teen‚ Dylan Klebold‚ and the psychopath‚ Eric Harris‚ had been planning every detail of the massacre for almost a year. Their goal was to kill as many people as possible. Eric and Dylan injured twenty-four people and killed eight male students‚ four female students‚ and one male teacher. Then they committed suicide in the school library. Many people want to know why the two teens would do such terrible
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tragic event that happen around us every day. Richard begins with a few horrific events such as Columbine high school massacre. He makes us start to think about the motives behind the events. By talking about the possibility that the technological advances could be isolate us into our fantasies. He suggests that reading‚ writing and‚ discussing could have changed what had happened at the high school. Then he disproves this thought by telling us how the boys that killed so many people did do these
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DBallard 9/12/2017 English ll pt2 Forms of writing / Summary “9 Texas high schoolers charged with sex assault in hazing”. Recently In March 27‚ 2017 on a Monday 9 high schools from the state of Texas were charged with sex assault in hazing. Locals have said that seven juveniles and two adults were later charged with allegations dating back as far as 2014. These recent events have crushed the spirit of this Texas community. School Superintendent‚ Jose Moreno was in disbelief and was also not pleased
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according to results published in JAMA Pediatrics” (Doyle). Younger kids seemed to have a larger increase in aggressive thought linked to video game play than older kids. Theres no evidence yet that violent video games are linked to bullying‚ fighting‚ or school shootings. “Ybarra believes there is a growing consensus that violent games may be tied to aggression and that violent thought might be the intermediate step in the relationship.” (Doyle) It’s hard to draw any recommendations from this particular
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mother‚ these mass shooting sprees seem to pop up indiscriminately. As this is being written‚ amendments had to be made last minute to include the latest loss of life coming once more out of Texas‚ after a man open fire on a church just after Sunday school. So far the newest death toll is twenty six‚ and all over the internet the cries for “thoughts and prayers” is clogging every Twitter and Facebook newsfeed. For every post of “thoughts and prayers” you have a dozen people racing to alert the “clearly
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Korea‚ Seung-Hui Cho immigrated to America when he was 8 years old. Although Cho was a quiet well behave child he was awkwardly withdrawn and angry (cite book). Throughout school Cho was teased and bullied which could have been the cause of his average grades throughout school. Cho’s sister Sun-kyung was often in the school newspaper and was selected to attend the most elite Ivy League Universities (Schmalleger‚ 2009). Cho went on to attend Virginia tech where he was recognize once again for being
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The United States has been in a conflicting stance upon the subject of guns‚ as some people oppose the idea of the government taking away their guns as this act would deny them the second amendment while others have been in favor for eliminating guns from the equation of entirety‚ as it leads to crime related activity‚ suicide and mass shootings over the years. The question then arises: Do we need a strict gun policy that allows people to own guns by having certain criteria fulfilled in order to
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