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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also injured a 6-year-old little boy in a shooting at an elementary school. Prosecutors have taken action to have the case moved to the Court of General Sessions where the 14-year- old can be tried as an adult. His charges include murder and others. The teenage boy murdered his father while he was watching television within their home. The teenager then took the car and went to the elementary school. He was carrying a handgun at the time and began shooting‚ ultimately wounding two boys and a teacher
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Readers Response to George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant The first time I found myself reading the short story “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell was during my senior year of high school. As an animal lover‚ the title was as intriguing as it was unappealing. Why would you want to shoot an elephant? That question is one that the character‚ the author himself‚ asks throughout the story as it’s told. It starts by introducing himself as a white sub-divisional police officer serving in Moulmein
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Jordan Dixon November 9‚ 2012 Justice by Michael J. Sandel Throughout life our morals are questioned numerous times and it is completely up to decide what is morally correct and what is logically correct. From that step it is then up to us to decide which one matters most to us. Merriam-Webster defines utilitarianism as “a doctrine that the useful is the good and that the determining consideration of right conduct should be the usefulness of its consequences; specifically: a theory that the
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George Orwell’s short story “Shooting an Elephant‚” is set in Burma during the British rule. The narrator is a white policeman who is forced to shoot an elephant that has gone rogue and is destroying crops and buildings and has killed one person. He gathers his guns and sets off in the direction of the rogue elephant and his following of natives increases as he gets closer to the elephant. The elephant’s owner is not in town so he is forced to make a decision about shooting the elephant. The narrator
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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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School shootings in general are tragic‚ because they often affect innocent victims and almost always could have been prevented. In the given scenario Harless actions are in fact unstoppable‚ but the actions of the faculty are quite the opposite. The school went about the situation completely wrong. Instead of confronting the students once notified they are possibly in possession of a firearm‚ they should have notified law enforcement‚ worked to secure the area then isolate Harless and McCoy. In this
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else is the greatest accomplishment.” In the essays “Salvation” and “Shooting an Elephant” authors Langston Hughes and George Orwell convey the similar message that anything of importance‚ can’t be forced on anyone‚ they rather have to find it for themselves. Orwell was about twenty years old when he went to the village of Burma to work as an officer for the British. The story focuses on a moment in his life involving shooting an elephant. Hughes on the other hand‚ was a young boy who was brought
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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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