Since 2013‚ there have been 153 school shootings in the United States‚ although not all have resulted in injury or death. Some of the most horrifying school shootings include the 1966 University of Texas clock tower shooting‚ the 1999 Columbine High School shooting and the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting. More recent was the school shooting that killed 20 children and 6 adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. Most parents want to believe that their children are safe in school‚ but statistics
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“Shooting an Elephant” In “Shooting an Elephant” George Orwell is not liked by the Burmese people because he is the representation of their oppressors‚ the British. He gets his chance to be the hero when an elephant gets loose and causes destruction and the people need him to kill the beast. What would have happened if he didn’t shoot the elephant? Why Orwell feel so awful about killing the elephant? Orwell decides to kill the elephant‚ but does he do it for the right reason? In Orwell’s essay
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was stated “The police at all times should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police (Schmalleger‚ 2017).” I believe that if officers upheld this standard it would make their job just a little bit easier. Many people feel that police culture has lost its way‚ officers seem to be in the news more now than compared to before for things that are tarnishing their reputation.
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Later‚ Orwell spent the next twenty years as a writer; the essay “Shooting an Elephant‚” set in the Burma of the 1920s and written in 1936‚ is one of his most famous works. In the early twentieth century‚ Burma was still a colony of Britain but anti-imperialism protests and social movements developed very fast‚ causing “great tension between Burmese‚ Indians and English‚ between civilians and police” (Meyers 56). Orwell’s essay “Shooting an Elephant” is based on this historical tension. In this essay
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William H Race‚ Crime & Justice‚ Soci345-60 October 24‚ 2013 The Prosecution of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Randall Kerrick for the shooting death of Jonathan Ferrell. About 2:30 AM on September 14‚ 2013 Mr. Jonathan Ferrell Car ran off of the road and down an embankment in Charlotte-Mecklenburg area of North Carolina. Ferrell then kicked the back window out of the car to escape the entrapment of the accident. Upon being bruised and batter‚ Ferrell climbed up the embankment
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The Anti-War Movement In The Late 1960’s And Early 1970’s And The May 4th Kent State Shootings During the late 1960’s the United States was raging a war on two fronts. One front in Vietnam fighting the communist North Vietnamese forces‚ the other on the campuses and streets fighting the students and protesters across America. The anti-war movement was one of the most successful moments in US history. For 11 years from 1964- 1975 Americans protested a war they believed they did not need to be
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Impact of police regionalisation on the police police regionalisation is having a big impact on the police as they are having to close down different regions as they don’t have the money to keep them open Impact of police regionalisation on army How is police regionalisation influenced by social factors? How is police regionalisation influenced by groups? Positives of police regionalisation positives of police regionalisation are that there will be more offices to deal with the
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In the passage‚ Shooting an Elephant a hated police officer killed an elephant. Orwell was asked to come and do something about an elephant ravaging a bazaar. On his way‚ he ran into Various Burman’s that told him what the elephant was doing. He figured that is was not anything to serious‚ the elephant would eventually calm down. The elephant was heated. The night before it had broken out of its chain and escaped. The elephant’s mahout was the only one who can manage it but he was about twelve hours
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Since most information is stored on computers in our modern era‚ information assurance is typically dealt with by IT security specialists. One of the most common methods of providing information assurance is to have an off-site backup of the data in case one of the mentioned issues arise. Governments‚ military‚ corporations‚ financial institutions‚ hospitals and private businesses amass a great deal of confidential information about their employees‚ customers‚ products‚ research and financial
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argued that police made mistakes in an effort to maintain peace. These incidents include the Oka Crisis‚ the Dudley George shooting and the Caledonia land claim dispute. The Oka Crisis took place during the summer of 1990. It was a land claim dispute between the Mohawk nation and the town of Oka Quebec. The protest resulted in one police officer dead and many others injured. The second incident occurred in September of 1995 and was dubbed the Ipperwash Crisis and resulted in the shooting death of native
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