Natalia Rivera Matthew Rivas Ap Language Mrs. Conferti February 5 2016 Rhetorical Analysis Essay Sarah Vowell in an excerpt from a radio essay read on air entitled‚ “Shooting Dad” (1997) comically yet decisively reveals that although she and her father are extremely different‚ they are still family and actually share some similarities. Throughout the essay‚ she uses different forms of literary devices like juxtaposition‚ flashback‚ and description to explain the differences and similarities
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Alberta Taber School Shooting: A 14 year old boy who had been bullied at W.R. Myers High School in Taber Alberta had entered the school on April. 28. 1999 with a .22 Calibre rifle and opened fire. He killed a 17 year old young boy named Jason Lang. Another 17 year old boy was shot‚ but fully recovered after the shooting. 14 year old “Todd Cameron Smith” a high school dropout showed signs of depression before the school shooting. Todd Smith had been bullied since grade one. The shooting happened 8 days
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’s Shooting An Elephant would be the other individuals and the instructor of this online English Composition course. The majority of my core audience‚ minus the instructor‚ should be my fellow college students taking this course. Other than stating that the others who will be reading this piece vary in age‚ ethnicity‚ and overall life experience; I would be hard pressed to further describe my target audience. As I do not know enough of the backgrounds of my other classmates. I cannot state with
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Mass shootings have risen to a high percentage in recent years in America; there have been more than two hundred mass shootings in the United States since the year 2006. Some of these shooters have certain similarities with each other such as being introduced to certain types of violent video games. Many of these games are believed to have certain negative effects on children who play these games; this issue has been around for over a decade on whether or not these games are too violent for younger
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talks about recent catastrophic events and brutal shooting incidents that have taken place in schools that are related to the safety of children‚ faculty and other visitors. Further this paper discusses technological solution that could be applied to avoid such events and provide more safety to the people at school. Introduction: School shootings‚ especially in United States of America‚ are being witnessed all over the world. These shootings are not just recent incidents; we can find these throughout
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The motivation that backs a person to commit a mass shooting has peaked the minds of many over the years. Maybe none quite as much as the shooting that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School‚ December 14th 2012. Adam Lanza decided to end the lives of twenty six innocent women and children‚ and then turned the gun on himself. There is no excuse for something so disturbing as this crime‚ but there are explanations for why something like this may happen. In Lanza’s case there were so many big
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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 on the rise? "Most of us already know that too many of our movies‚ television shows‚ music songs‚ and video games are filled with trash: grisly murder scenes‚ dismemberment and disembowelment‚ nonstop profanity‚ rape and torture scenarios" (Bennett
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THE SHOOTING IN FERGUSON MO. Tommy L Gould COMM/215 Essentials of College Writing October 27‚ 2014 Julie Dwyer Running head: THE SHOOTING IN FERGUSON MO. 1 THE SHOOTING IN FERGUSON MO. 3 THE SHOOTING IN FERGUSON MO. Why has the shooting of eighteen year old Michael Brown affected my community? Some say it was a race issue others say it was police brutality. Racism being a very sensitive matter in the community that I live in‚ all though I do not live in Ferguson City‚ it is only a
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On April 20‚ 1999‚ two Columbine High School students‚ Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold‚ went on a shooting rampage in Colorado‚ killing 12 students and a teacher before ending their own lives (Leftwich 1). Nearly seven years later there seemed to be an annual shooting rampage trend. On October 2‚ 2006 a gunman by the name of Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostage five girls‚ at an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania‚ and eventually shot and killed them before committing suicide (“5th Girl” 1-2). The following
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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 in the States. Also before the shooting Seung Hui Cho had been accused of stalking a fellow female school mates. Studies of
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