Ping! Pong! The guns fired in the school. In 1999 April 20 school shooting broke out. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were responsible for the deaths of Rachel Scott and other boys and girls. Rachel was the first person to die in the shootings Columbine High School. Rachel was asked if she loved God‚ she replied and said yes. Dylan Klebold shot her in the head because she said she believed in God. Dylan and Eric planed this attack very well. They put bombs everywhere. They went into the school and
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Michael Kaufman theorizes that there are three different types of male violence: violence toward women‚ violence toward other men‚ and violence toward oneself. Masculinity plays a determining role in this “triad”. The patriarchal social structure‚ which casts men in an active role and women in a passive role‚ perpetuates a toxic form of masculinity were passive‚ non-violent men are seen as “unmanly” – thus‚ powerless and weak. Furthermore‚ men are discouraged from expressing emotions‚ particularly
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Michael Buda Professor Trujillo English 60 MW 8:15pm 25 February 2013 Word Count: 2‚600 I Will Conquer Veni‚ Vidi‚ Vici (I came‚ I saw‚ I conquered) - Julius Caesar It was March 31‚ 2008 and I my alarm woke me up at 7AM as it usually did. However‚ this wasn’t a normal morning. I was throwing up in the morning for the past 2 weeks. I went to doctors at Kaiser Permanente to get blood tests and everything seemed fine. They always had me in the room with the little bed thing and the weird
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My Thoughts and View on the Colorado Theater Shooting The Colorado Theater shooting was a very tragic event. There were about fifty-eight people wounded and twelve people killed. The victims that were killed range in age from six years old to fifty-one years old. None of the victims or their families could have ever imagined that going to see this movie in Colorado would change their life forever. Natural News the gunman was identified as 24 year old James Holmes‚ a former neuroscience student
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out kill will find a way around these restrictions. Daniels then proceeds to argue that a limit on obtaining guns is a violation to the second amendment (Daniels). The argument that Daniels argues which is that gun control will not abolish mass shootings is accurate to an extend. As Daniels argues individuals who want are set out to kill others will proceed to do so.
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I think about how their day was going before they encounter the police;were they seeing their kids‚ going to work‚ hanging with friends? In each case the situation escalated quickly and unnecessarily. I think about how the officers felt after the shooting took place. Did they feel regret or remorse? Did they wish they did things differently? Those questions trouble me after watching the videos and seeing how the police carry on as if they didn’t take someone’s life. Seeing these news stories time
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Adam Smack 7/26/15 ENG 101 Response Analysis The reading‚ "Shooting an Elephant" takes place in Moulmein. He starts of the story in spectacle as to why the locals have so much hatred toward the Europeans when in all reality his main goal was only to help and protect the townspeople from any hurt‚ harm or danger that may come their way. In this story‚ the police officer’s duty was to respond to a report of the death of a man who was killed by a stray elephant. Upon approaching the dead man‚ he finds
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SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT (JOURNAL) This story begins in Moulmain‚ in lower Burma. The author speaks about his experiences while he was working as a police officer. In this time‚ Orwell was a young inexperienced soldier. He was in that place to protect the Queen’s interests. He had to do unethical things that made conflicts himself. When he mentions that he killed an elephant I feel his pangs of conscience. The elephant destroyed a village before it died. The villagers were furious about all the mess
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Shooting an Elephant Life unexpected choices we’re forced to make‚ for the fear that one bad decision may have everlasting effects. In "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell‚ is set at a time during the 1800’s when the country of Burma was overruled and the British imperialist rule took over. Orwell expresses his internal battles when he recalls an event that changed him forever‚ how his pride was influenced by other forces and the true symbolism of the effect of imperial control. The first thing
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Not only gun violence and mass shooting changed my expectation about America but also homeless people was another new experience I didn’t expect before coming. One of the weirdest things my friends taught me‚ was to do not stare people as much‚ but I couldn’t let things pass by without watching. I could watch something or someone for long time till I forgot where I was going‚ my friends decided to give me sunglass so that people couldn’t tell that I am staring to them. It was in that instant when
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