day 2015‚ Valanesha Washington was sitting in her bedroom not knowing that will be the last place she be seen alive‚ was killed in a drive by shooting in her own home. She was taken to OU medical center where she later died she was only 19 years old. Two days’ later police got a tip on the shooting‚ 18-year-old Daryan Jones was responsible for the shooting that cause Valanesha’s death. Daryan Jones was charged with first degree murder and can serve up to 20 years to life in prison. In the past year
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The act of shooting the elephant is a culmination of the officer’s ignorance of what he knows should be done. Firstly‚ the officer rationally decides that he should not shoot the elephant because “it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery” (Orwell par. 6). He also decides that the elephant “is no more dangerous than a cow” (par. 6). Secondly‚ the officer knew that shooting the elephant was morally wrong. He personified the elephant
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than one mass shooting a day in the United States since the start of 2015. A majority of these shootings have occurred at schools. I never thought that my small school in rural South Dakota would become part of this statistic but on September 30th of this year it did. Though the media tends to pay close attention to the shooters‚ they seem to forget about how this violence affects us‚ the youth‚ and the schools that we attend. Sure‚ I had seen plenty of documentaries on school shootings‚ but they all
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Messages in Short Stories (Three Messages from‚ “Shooting an Elephant” and “No Witchcraft for Sale”) George Orwell was born in India and was extremely familiar with elephants. He joined the police force in 1923 and resigned only after five years. His story‚ “Shooting an Elephant”‚ is his most famous writings and is based on one of his experiences during his career as a policeman. On the other hand‚ Doris Lessing‚ wrote the short story‚ “No Witchcraft for Sale.” Lessing wanted to influence
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Gun controversy With all the shootings and bombings that has happened in the past year. There are a lot of people that thinks that guns would be best if they would be taken away. If the guns would be taken away that would be taking an American right that no one can take away other than yourself. I’m all for safety but I think everyone should keep their guns. “In America‚ there are approximately 270 million firearms possessed by civilians‚ and only 897‚000 carried by police.” Banding guns altogether
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humanity through his journal‚ one of the entries being: “Everyone is always making fun of me because of how I look‚ how fucking weak I am‚ and shit‚ well I will get you all back: ultimate fucking revenge here.” In addition‚ the Columbine High School Shooting occurred on Adolf Hitler’s birthday and one day after the anniversary of the Waco disaster (1993) and the Oklahoma City bombing (1995)‚ all of which led to an enormous amount of destruction. Harris and Klebold specifically choose the day they would
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The shootings in Newtown‚ CT showed a great form of mass hysteria in all of America back n December. The shootings involved a older man who killed many kids in Sandy Hook Elementary School. This has caused much debate on both school security‚ and gun laws if guns can be easily bought and registered under a man’s name. This brought much scare and sadness to all of America to think that a man walked into an elementary school and shot faculty and students. Many people started panicking about this event
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Professor Moore English 101 October‚ 2015 Mass Shootings According to WWW.NATIONOFCHANGE.ORG‚ a mass shooting is defined as an incident involving multiple victims of gun violence. In most mass shooting cases‚ the gunmen often have similar personality traits that go unnoticed before the actual incodent occurs. In other cases‚ these traits were detected by others but no
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The Bill of Rights is a document collected up of ten amendments. These amendments are a part of the United States Constitution. All ten amendments are set to help state each individual’s freedom‚ limit the power the government has over the people and how different trials will be handled. The Bill of Rights did all of this along with giving individual power back to each fifty states and even each individual person. The Declaration of Woman and Citizens is similar to the Bill of Rights except it
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man walked into an elementary school and killed 20 children and six adults. We have had a rise in gun violence in the United States in the last ten years. In the last ten years we have had a mass theatre shooting‚ church shooting‚ and the Virginia Tech shooting are just a few of the mass shootings that took the United States by storm. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting is considered a crisis and I will use the Life Cycle of a Crisis and Social Media and the Internet Effects of a Crisis to dissect
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