ended‚ was covered in news of mad mass shootings. Young lives were taken away‚ leaving only wounded hearts‚ sadness‚ and the question: What has gone wrong with society? Mass shootings have always been an issue. Studies show that mass shootings and gun ownerships have a direct relationship‚ that means‚ the more guns people own‚ the more likely for us to experience these incidents. Studies also show that the United States had nearly double the number of mass shootings than most of the developed countries
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The Michael L Printz Award is awarded each year for a book written and published for young adult readership. The award requires that the winning book exemplifies literary merit and written solely for persons ages 12 – 18. This award does not consider popularity as a criterion‚ nor does it consider titles that are written for adults that appeal to teens. Also not considered as a criterion is the message delivered in the book. In order to be eligible‚ the book must have been published in the United
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for anybody. It is even more painful when it is caused by someone’s malicious actions. The Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting has definitely added fuel to the controversial gun debate. Many school districts in Texas have allowed teachers to be able to carry a gun on campus. Although they will be able to have a gun in their possession when a tragedy like the Sandy Hook shooting occurs‚ will they really act the way many claim they will and take down the shooter? Is the Second Amendment more important
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Another school shooting goes down and is preyed upon by the media for a gripping new story. Jonesboro‚ Arkansas‚ West Paducah‚ Kentucky‚ and Littleton‚ Colorado all have one thing in common. All these places are sites where school shootings have occurred. Why do school shootings happen and who is to blame when they do happen?. These are two questions that are still trying to be answered. Some people say that school shootings are due to the excess marketing of violence in movies‚ television‚
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effective for his audience because he is showing the truth about how the paramedics. After reading this article Paramedics are taught not to risk their lives after the mass shootings‚ they are talking about that paramedics staying back out of the hot zones because it is to dangers for them after a mass shooting. In Columbine school shooting in Littleton‚ Colo in 1999‚ and the paramedics would not go in to save lives unless the swat team has cleared the place before they went in only because they don’t want
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condition‚ fighting for their lives‚ after being shot in the head in two separate incidents in Chicago this weekend‚ police told CNN. The shootings happened in two different inner city neighborhoods within an hour of each other. Kanari Bowers‚ 12‚ was playing with friends at a playground Saturday evening when shots rang out. Chicago Police said the shooting took place on the 1900 block of W. 57th street at approximately 7:10 p.m. (8:10 p.m. ET). Bowers’ relatives shared her name with CNN
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Connecticut Shootings kill 26… Connecticut Shootings kill 26… On December 14th 2012‚ 20 year old man‚ Adam Lanza‚ killed his mother‚ 20 children and 6 adults in Connecticut with no valid reason. Adam Lanza Adam Lanza Lanza shot his mother‚ Nancy Lanza‚ in their town of Newtown‚ north-east of New York City. No one is aware of the reason for her death but she was found in her bed‚ wearing pyjamas‚ shot in the head with 4 bullets shot with a rifle. Nancy Lanza Nancy Lanza Mrs Lanza appeared
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Michael Ondaatje’s "Elizabeth"� portrays the life of the English Queen Elizabeth I. Ondaatje fuses prose and poetry‚ fact and fiction‚ realism and surrealism. The effect of this fusion creates a high degree of dramatic realism. It illustrates the progression and transition from childhood to adulthood. The Poem opens with a young Elizabeth harvesting apples with her father (King Henry VIII) and Uncle Jack (fictional character); preceded by a trip to the zoo. The atmosphere suddenly shifts from going
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School shootings are terrifying to think about‚ but there are ways to help prevent the massacres from ever happening again. The first known school shooting was at the Texas Tower at the University of Texas in 1966 where Charles Whitman shot and killed 16 people while injuring 31 others. Who would have known since that date that we would have more then 200 deaths on school campuses? The most storied shooting in the 90’s was probably the Columbine massacre where on April 20‚ 1999 Dylan Klebold and
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Composition~Orwell Analysis In the excerpt from Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”‚ the author uses similes‚ syllepsis‚ and connotation to appeal to the readers sense of pathos in order to convey his attitude of remorse and fluster in regards to shooting the elephant so as to comment on imperialism. Orwell uses Similes to convey his remorse and fluster towards shooting the elephant. He compares the elephant to “…a huge rock toppling…” and paints the scene by saying “The thick blood welled out of
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