On December 2‚ 2015 Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik‚ a married couple killed fourteen people and injured twenty one people in San Bernardino‚ at a San Bernardino County Department of Public Health. Unfortunately‚ it has been the second deadliest shooting in California‚ while the San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre is the first in 1984. Mass shootings has been at a rise the past a few years‚ and every year mass shootings is becoming into a common thing especially with the media getting every drop
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covers legs‚ stomachs‚ and backs. That is what elephants experience almost daily in circuses and zoos. In the wild‚ elephants can walk up to thirty miles a day. In circuses‚ elephants spend almost twenty-three hours every day chained up. Many elephants experience great hardships. One cannot imagine being taken away from their mother at a tender‚ young age. However‚ almost all infantile elephants are torn away from their mother around eight months old. Elephants have been a primary target for abuse‚ but
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deadliest school shootings in the United State history involved horrific tragic deaths. The first happened in 2007‚ at Virginia Tech in Virginia. Seung Cho‚ a twenty three year old young man‚ shot and killed a total of thirty two students and teachers before he killed himself (History.com‚ 2011). The second‚ and latest deadliest school shooting of December‚ 2012‚ occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. Gunman‚ Adam Lanza‚ was a young man at the age of twenty. First he killed his own mother
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African Elephants By: Annabelle Ward Did you know that when an African Elephant drinks‚ they suck as much as two gallons of water into its trunk at a time. Did you like that? Keep reading to hear awesome and cool facts that make you go wow. Here we go... I see that you decided to read this‚ let’s hear some more cool facts about African Elephants. An African Elephant’s trunk is about seven feet (two meters) long! Since African elephants live where the sun is usually blazing hot‚ they
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The shootings that occurred at Kent State University‚ Ohio‚ on May 4‚ 1970 have been a dark spot in American history for almost 36 years. It is a day remembered by many names‚ THE KENT STATE SHOOTINGS‚ MAY 4 or the KENT STATE MASSACRE. Four students were killed and nine were wounded‚ all of America suffered. The student body at Kent State numbered about 20‚000 and had been considered conservative‚ but not overly political. In fact they were thought of as rather passive politically. The shootings
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October alone‚ there have been 43 stabbings‚ four shootings‚ and five car-rammings. Lives have been shattered in an entirely irreparable‚ heinous manner. While these attacks are undoubtedly anti-Semitic in nature‚ various media outlets mislead readers with vague headlines and biased outlooks. Less than two weeks ago‚ The Wall Street Journal covered yet another violent outbreak in our Homeland. The article‚ titled‚ “Two Palestinian Teenagers Killed‚ Two Injured by Israeli Police‚” failed to objectively
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N2-508-021 REV: MARCH 19‚ 2008 V. KASTURI RANGAN KATHARINE LEE Who Killed Bhavani Manjula?—A Story of Microfinance in Andhra Pradesh This case has been constructed from secondary sources and information provided to the authors by Share Microfin Limited. Many of the events in this case took place over the timeframe of 2000 to 2006. During that time one US dollar converted to approximately Rupees (Rs.) 45. Wherever possible the relevant conversions have been worked into the text. In calibrating
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School Shootings School shootings have dated as far back to the 1700’s. During the 1800’s there were 38 school shootings. From 1900 to 1979 there were 125 School shootings (History of School Shootings in the United States‚ 2016). From 1980 to September 28‚ 2016 there have been 277 school shootings in the United States. Since from 1980 to 2012 there have been 297 people killed (Kirk‚ 2012). In the last 30 years the worse shooting happened April 16‚ 2007 at Virginia Tech‚ 33 students were killed and
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School shootings are a topic of much fascination in the U.S. They invoke such attention in the media circus of ’why’s’ and ’what’s’ that there’s often little time to even mourn for the victims. Perhaps it’s the immense shock that comes from the idea of our youth shooting up their peers indiscriminately‚ but it is a fair question nonetheless. What causes school shootings? Well‚ a variety of things. But the discussions that follow are often along the lines of: "did they play too many violent video
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characterization The image of the labyrinth is associated to moral‚ if not religious‚ condemnation. But it is also a transposition of the characters’ situation. Within the moral frame of his play‚ Heywood includes an artistic treatment although he individualizes his characters‚ he punctually keeps them in an allegorical Christian dimension which enables the playwright to use (quotation 10) a network of religious metaphors and images. See quote. The characters themselves are sometimes presented in an allegorical
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