Give a Boy a Gun Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser describes school shootings by looking at one school‚ shooting that happened in Middletown‚ Colorado. This book is loosely based upon the real events at Columbine High School in Littleton. Two students were teased and harassed by their peers. Eventually‚ they take them hostage at a school dance. Gary and Brandon were very close friends and they both have something in common: they were both teased and harassed and teased and sometimes even physically
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Give A Boy A Gun BY: Todd Strasser Give A Boy A Gun is about two high school students‚ Brendan Lawlor and Gary Searle. These two kids are the kids that are always in the back‚ don’t say much‚ and get picked on by the “popular kids”. They take this kind of bullying and punishment for about three years‚ and then they finally snap. Every day that they get picked on they get darker and darker. The story is told by the students of Middletown high‚ their high school‚ and is written as a bunch of interviews
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The Book I read was Give a Boy a Gun written by Todd Strasser. The characters or key individuals in the story are: • Character: Brendan Lawlor Brendan Lawlor is a teenager in high school who gets harassed every day and feels as if everyone is against him. He met Gary‚ when he moved to Middletown‚ and became close friends with him. Brendan didn’t want to be popular or bullied—just left alone. Unfortunately‚ he got made fun of for everything about him. Eventually Brendan and Gary came to the establishment
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Gary did was terribly‚ horribly‚ inexcusably wrong. I have no interest in defending them. But deep in my heart there is a little piece of me that at least understands what might have driven them to such a horrendous‚ evil undertaking. But what those boys did was equally inexcusable and evil. Brett Betzig – Brendan’s friend in Springfield. Citation: One thing about Brendan: He hated injustice (Page 22) Deidre Bunson – student on the Middletown high school Paul Burns – Football player. Citation:
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Joey Calhoun T. Johnson Political Science 10 7 November 2013 Give Me Liberty…or Give Me Guns “A free people ought to be armed.” –George Washington Life‚ Liberty‚ and the Pursuit of Happiness. These are just a few of our “certain unalienable rights” that we are entitled to‚ not only as Americans‚ but as human beings. When the Founding Fathers set out to create a new country‚ they were convinced that all men were created
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the phrase‚ “boys will be boys” has had‚ in the American school system. From the truth about why girls seem to thrive more in a structured classroom setting than boys‚ to the effects of bullying and how‚ until the 90’s‚ either a blind eye was turned to it or‚ in the case of many coaches‚ it was practically encouraged for the (supposed) betterment and cohesion of the team or group. I found it very interesting that girls tend to be more successful in school than boys because‚ unlike boys who often
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boys will be boys Barbara Kantrowitz and Claudia Kalb’s‚ “Boys will be Boys” article‚ explains how after years of research on girls‚ boys must also be put under the microscope‚ in efforts to reach a further understanding of the adolescent male. The two authors start their article by pointing out‚ that boys and girls come from two completely different “planets”. They have two different “crisis points”‚ which are stages of emotional and social development‚ where things can go seriously wrong. Kantrowitz
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Give life‚ give blood! Imagine your mom‚ dad‚ son‚ and or‚ daughter in a tragic car accident‚ or diagnosed with cancer. The only chance of survival is a blood transfusion‚ because your blood type is not a match. We all expect that blood will be there for us or a loved one; however‚ hardly a fraction of people that can give blood actually do. At some point of our lives we may face a time of susceptibility where we will need blood. The day-to-day need for blood never ends. Statistics
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Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice http://ccj.sagepub.com/ Peers and Gun Use Among Urban Adolescent Males : An Examination of Social Embeddedness Deanna L. Wilkinson‚ Marquette S. McBryde‚ Brice Williams‚ Shelly Bloom and Kerryn Bell Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 2009 25: 20 DOI: 10.1177/1043986208328449 The online version of this article can be found at: http://ccj.sagepub.com/content/25/1/20 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and
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Gun and Gun Control Course: BCOM/275 January 27‚ 2013 Instructor: Gail Zwart Gun and Gun Control‚ written in the New York Times on 1/25/13 The worldwide controversial topic of gun control has taken our nation by storm. The epidemic‚ as stated by our President has become a disturbing and mind blowing statistic. But I must say‚ gun violence has impacted out world since our fore fathers. But since our most recently and horrific active of gun violence the government has decided
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