Virginia Tech Shooting and Campus Security During the spring of 2007 on the Virginia Polytech Institute campus‚ a student named Seung-Hui Cho had shot 2 students in a resident hall before entering classrooms and shooting 32 other students and professors (Glum). This event had created a call for necessities in protecting not only the Virginia Tech school but all large campuses in America. Director of Virginia’s 32 National Campus Safety Initiative S. Daniel Carter stated‚ “That one incident sort
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normally‚ fail to obtain the attention needed because they have spoken of those “crazy” things beforehand but never followed through. Not until it is far too late that they actually receive the attention necessary for their “crazy talk.” School shootings normally occur in rural schools rather than schools located in big cities. The reason behind this is because students who do shoot schools are
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The Las Vegas Shooting On October 1st‚ at around 10PM‚ a gunman started shooting in the crowd for eleven minutes of continuous fire. Just image that‚ scary huh? It’s crazy to think that someone‚ that seemed so normal‚ wanting to take the lives of innocent people. Why no one knows what caused this or if there was any way to prevent it‚ for whatever reason it was a very tragic event. The shooting took place at Route 91 Harvest music festival where Jason Aldean was performing at the time
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explain the most seemingly complicated and abstract concepts. In Shooting an Elephant‚ George Orwell argues two things. One of these things is small; the other is large. However‚ both are explained by one seemingly insignificant event. The small thing is shooting an elephant‚ and the large thing is how a person’s pride often forces them to give into the pressure from others. At the surface‚ “Shooting an Elephant” is about‚ well‚ shooting an elephant. Orwell narrates the whole
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The issues at hand are highly pressing issues currently in the world. Both Charlie Hebdo and The Copenhagen Shootings‚ have created a huge buzz in their respective regions and also internationally. The other issue being questioned in the world today is of RELIGION which is interrelated to the above mentioned issues and is one to which everything finally comes down to. The Church of Satan is an organization dedicated to the religion of Satanism as described in The Satanic Bible. The church does not
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Pahang Computers – a blessing or a curse? Discuss. What would you do if you had one million dollar? Describe the most honest person you have ever met. Write a story beginning with: ‘It was a perfect day until…’ My country Terengganu An event that has made you realize how much your parents love you. Students should be allowed to work during holidays. Do you agree? My life 20 years from now. Write a story beginning with: ‘I could not sleep throughout that night…’ Jungle Kelantan Computer
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Philando Castile was fatally shot four times by a US officer. His name was the 99th name of black males who were victims of police shootings in 2016. In 2015‚ 249 black males were shot. Since the start of 2017‚ 178 black males have been shot. (THE WASHINGTON POST DATABASE). A reoccurring trend is the disproportionate number of black males that are involved in police shootings‚ compared to their white counterpart. It is estimated that blacks are about 2.5 times more likely to get shot than whites (The
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friends acted. “Sue says she wishes she had listened to him more carefully in the years preceding the shooting. She wonders what questions she could have asked that might have encouraged her son to open up about whatever he was feeling‚”(Strasser). People assumed causes for the disaster such as violent movies‚ violent games‚ bullying‚ and gangs. Since the Columbine disaster more and more school shootings have happened. “The hallways erupted in screaming‚ terror-stricken pandemonium as students realised
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M. Gogean What you give up to fit in? Many people sacrifice their beliefs and values to be accepted in society and to win the societies approval. George Orwell in “Shooting an elephant” and Langston Hughes in “Salvation” deal with the issue of “fitting in” in very different ways. George Orwell describes to us in “Shooting an elephant” the struggle that his character faces when to win the mobs approval and respect when he shoots down an innocent animal and sacrifices what he believes to be
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1. Orwell shoots the elephant because the two thousand native people standing behind him expect him to. They want revenge for the man it killed‚ the meat the carcass will provide‚ and the entertainment of watching the shooting. “The people expected it of me and I had got to do it” he writes. There is a suggestion that if he decided not to shoot the elephant‚ both he and the empire would suffer a loss of prestige‚ but the main concern in Orwell’s mind is the “long struggle not to be laughed at”. He
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