Shootings‚ theft‚ and rapes have been happening on college campuses for years. Parents and students have become increasingly worried about the safety on campuses. The dangers on college campuses have been growing over the past few years with the increasing number of crimes ranging from theft to murder. The Virginia Tech shootings back in April 2007 got many people looking at the safety procedures that colleges are taking to protect the students from something like that happening again. Of course
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For Centuries‚ Indian Nations converted their knowledge into wealth and social order through that process of innovation. The purpose of innovation is to create a new value for a society at large. Indian Nations created those new values in the form of advancements in many fields like Mathematics‚ Architecture and Religion that modern society continues to build on. Divergent Indian Tribes‚ throughout North and South America‚ had been thriving and living for generations with a deep reverence for their
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“We Are Virginia Tech” Speaking is form of art that can either be a natural gift or a practiced talent. Much like there are several different ways a person can draw: cartooning‚ free hand‚ or realistic‚ there are many ways in which a person can speak. Nikki Giovanni’s speech “We Are Virginia Tech” makes people cry‚ rejoice‚ and move on. A speech is one form of art that can evoke these types of emotions from people. In Nikki Giovanni’s poem “We Are Virginia Tech‚” which was spoken at a memorial
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William Gill Criminal Law This paper is regarding the issue of race in the media‚ as it relates to referencing various ethnic backgrounds throughout coverage of criminal stories. I am currently a student‚ studying Criminal Justice‚ which calls for many outside of the classroom encounters with the law‚ regarding research‚ reading‚ and simply keeping up with current events. The Washington Post‚ to me is my main source of information regarding local crime trends. Throughout my research‚ I have
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on April 16‚ 2007‚ on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg‚ Virginia. A student named Seung Hui Cho killed thirty-two people on campus and wounded plenty more before he took his own life. This particular shooting was the most deadly school shooting in the history of the united states. Seung Hui Cho had viewed himself as the victim. He was a South Korean who moved to the United States at the age of 8. Seung Hui Cho had a clear history of mental disorders and relationship problems during his time
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Purpose: To inform my audience about the horrible tragedy of the Columbine Massacre. Introduction: It was Tuesday‚ April 20‚ 1999. It was an exciting day for me in the fourth grade when I turned 9 years old. However‚ the people of Littleton‚ Colorado remember that day as something more and definitely less exciting than my birthday was. On April 20‚ 1999 Littleton Colorado experienced what we now know as the Columbine Massacre. Two seniors at Columbine High School‚ Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold completed
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The Columbine High School Massacre occurred on April 20‚ 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton‚ Colorado. It is one of the most notorious school shootings that occurred in the United States to this day. This was due to it being the first high school shooting with a significantly high death toll (List of school massacres by death toll‚ n.d.). The two perpetrators of this shooting were Eric David Harris and Dylan Bennet Klebold. The boys‚ aged 18 and 17 respectively‚ were both senior students
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English 1A Fall 2009 Warrior Dreams This paper will examine the writings and opinion of James William Gibson in his publication of “Warrior Dreams”. I strongly support Gibson’s suggestions about how the world today is negatively affected by the political and popular culture. By supporting his idea I strongly agree that warrior fantasies can easily be obtained from the worlds events. He argues that the shame of defeat of the United States in the Vietnam War by such a skillfully inferior
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Leonard Peltier is a Native American activist who has been convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment in 1977. Peltier‚ a member of the American Indian movement was convicted for first degree murder in the shooting of two FBI agents during the 1975 Pine Ridge Indian Reservation conflict. In 1965‚ years before the conflict Leonard moved to Seattle Washington and became an owner of an auto body shop. While in Seattle Leonard became involved with many causes which supported
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Jasmine McFall Professor Norris English 234 10/23/2011 Nikki Giovanni: The Princess of Black Poetry Yolanda Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni is one of the world’s most renowned black poets‚ as well as an author‚ commentator‚ writer‚ and educator. Born in Knoxville‚ Tennessee‚ raised in Cincinnati‚ Giovanni has been an involved activist and writer since the early 1960s. After leaving high school in the eleventh grade‚ she entered the historically black Fisk University
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