The Virginia Tech massacre was an absolute disaster and could have been avoided if people actually did their jobs and what they were supposed to do leading up to and before the shootings began. Cho was spiraling well before the events and had he been reported to the police he never would have gotten his hands on two guns and all that ammunition. The Virginia Tech staff also dropped the ball because once they found the chained doors with the note that said there was a bomb‚ the person went up to the
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four members of Al Capones gang. Bugs managed to escape Capone’s special “Valentines Day surprise”. This marked the beginning of an era where Capone was not messed with anymore (“Blood‚ Roses‚ and Valentines”‚ 2008). This is why St.Valentines Day Massacre is such a big event. The events that led up to this moment was nothing short of eventful. Dean O’Banion and Bugs Moran were the leaders of the North side and wanted Capone dead. On January 12‚ 1925 an assassination attempt was made on Capone by the
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The Sook Ching‚ meaning a purge through cleansing‚ was a massacre that happened when Britain surrendered Singapore to Japan‚ from February 18 to March 4 of 1942. Chinese males aged 18 to 50 were called to screening centers to be examined by Japanese soldiers. If they were deemed “anti-Japanese‚” they would be executed. While this massacre is not as well-known as other historical events‚ there is still debate on some of the causes. One idea that is widely disagreed on is that the Chinese were passing
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Student Name: Lai Loo Yee Patient’s Initial: ASS Student ID: 00000003327 Patient’s RN: HTJ396999 Date of clerking: 31/4/2017 Date of admission: 31/4/2017 An 8 years old Malay boy was presented to the Emergency Department with pain and bleeding on the right leg for 1 day. It was preceded by a fall while he was climbing a slippery stairs at school where he landed on his right leg. After the fall‚ he started to experience pain and noticed a bleeding wound on his right leg. He was able to ambulate
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After reading and analyzing Mark Danner’s account of The Massacre at El Mozote‚ it can be quite apparent that the United States had full involvement in the events leading up to the massacre‚ but they are not fully to blame. In the U.S. effort to stomp out communism‚ the origin of their efforts had to begin in one place‚ Latin America. The Reagan Administration had full knowledge that they were about to fund and train an army whose job it was to prevent the spread of communism and “communistic” ideals
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ending racism and equality. But it took a terrible turn of events by portraying a demonic cult led by the infamous Jim Jones. Jim had always grown up in a religious environment‚ he started his own church in 1955. The mystery behind the Jonestown Massacre can be summed up in two theories: mass suicide ad the CIA being involved. To begin with‚ Jim Jones completely eradicated so many lives‚ the answer to his thinking is still unknown. Jim Jones‚ founder of The Peoples Temple along with being a son of
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Jones town A tragic massacre took place on November 18‚ 1978‚ in Guyana. 909 members of Peoples Temple died in the middle of a jungle in Guyana and five people were killed on an airstrip. It has been called the largest mass murder suicide. The story of the massacre was told by survivors and relatives who happened to survive and know Jim Jones. According to Jim’s childhood friends‚ Jim was a weird kid‚ he was obsessed with religion and death‚ and he used to conduct funerals of small animals that
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Analysis The film Elephant‚ by Gus Van Sant is often compared to the events of the Columbine Massacre‚ however not directed connected‚ Van Sant has admitted it to be the topic behind it. Watching this as though it was a depiction of the event‚ I did not feel that it acted as a recount. I would compare the film to a badly plagiarized essay‚ all the details were correct‚ but some main points were nowhere to be found. I would also think that this movie was trying to stir up some more controversy
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killed during the Boston Massacre and thus believed to be the first casualty of the American Revolution. Who Was Crispus Attucks? Crispus Attucks is thought to have been born around 1723 in Framingham‚ Massachusetts. His father was likely a slave and his mother a Natick Indian. A 1750 ad in the Boston Gazette sought the recovery of a runaway slave named "Crispas‚" but all that is definitely known about Attucks is that he was the first to fall during the Boston Massacre on March 5‚ 1770. In 1888
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linked back to something that may have been done or planned days‚ months or even years before. Many of these can be traced back by looking at the journals‚ notebooks‚ or video entries that these people may have kept. The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting which occurred on April 20‚ 1999 at Columbine High School in Columbine‚ Colorado. In addition to shootings‚ the complex and highly planned attack involved a fire bomb to divert firefighters arriving to the scene‚ propane tank
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