Sandy Hook Elementary School. Until raging twenty year old‚ Adam Lanza‚ simply walked right through the front door killing twenty-six people. The Sandy Hook shooting on December 14 devastated many parents‚ children‚ and even people that were not linked at all to the shooting. There have been plenty of devastating school shootings‚ but this shooting has caused many schools and even businesses to crack down on their security and take more precautions to ensure that something like this does not happen again
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mental health might not seem the most important aspect of mass shootings in the United States of America. With mental health being a known problem it seems to be overlooked. These issues that may affect certain individuals in the perception of what is right and wrong in this world. In Blau‚ Gorry‚ and Wade’s article examining the laws that affect mass shootings in the United States‚ they find a direct link with mental issues and the shootings that take place. Furthermore‚ examining what emotional health
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Running head: SCHOOL SHOOTINGS: AMERICA ’S TRAGEDY School Shootings: A Tragedy in America School Shootings: A Tragedy in America The school shootings at Westside Middle School were orchestrated by two juveniles. On Monday‚ March 30‚ 1998 two boys ambushed students and teachers outside Westside Middle School in Jonesboro‚ Arkansas. Andrew Golden a youth of 11 years and Mitchell Johnson who was 13 years old were responsible for this hideous tragedy. Apparently‚ Mitchell Johnson hid
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School shootings School shootings are something horrible yet something that has occurred more than once in the USA. I have had a hard time understanding exactly how someone can pick up a gun and shoot people at their own age – people they’ve gone to school with‚ innocent people. I don’t understand how you can steal their life for no reason. It’s teenagers who suddenly shoot people – boys and girls who are supposed to be their friends. Why do they do this? The first person that did a school
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Sandy Hook’s sake: learning from the tragedy of Newtown We must turn from this trauma to tackle America’s complex failures over gun control‚ inner-city crime and mental healthcare A woman waits to hear about her sister‚ a teacher‚ following the shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school Photograph: Melanie Stengel/AP Friday’s news that 20 children and six adults were gunned down in Newtown‚ Connecticut‚ a small community known locally for its Great Pootatuck rubber duck race every spring to raise
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Christy A Threatt-Drake 10/04/2012 ENG 101-014 Summary and Response “Shooting Dad” Sarah Vowell “Shooting Dad” Sarah Vowell is best known for her smart‚ witty spoken essays she delivers on public radio. One of her writings called‚ “Shooting Dad”‚ is a view into her‚ “lifelong opposition to her father”. In the essay called “Shooting Dad”‚ Vowell states that “during her teenage years she came from a home
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Elephant are one of the longest living animals on earth along with crocodile‚ turtles‚ and whales. Elephants have always been a part of human life‚ using them for war‚ transportation‚ and resources. There is no doubt human beings cannot live without animals‚ but can animals live without humans? Such controversial questions highlight the importance animals are to humans because they are not like plants that will grow every season. Killing elephants for their ivory is wrong because they are going extinct
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watch this creature and I would never get enough of it. Yes‚ many people of course know this giant‚ the largest living mammal on land‚ none other than the elephant‚ yet most of them know very little about this threatened species a major tourist attraction in the island. It is well known among Asian societies‚ including our own‚ elephants for centuries have played prominent roles in the pageants of monarchs‚ religious ceremonies as well as in the theater of war. Alexander the Great is reputed
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Elephant Run The story of “Elephant Run” begins with the 14-year-old Nick Freestone in the midst of World War II‚ a teenager that had been sent from London to Burma to be with his father on account of the dangers of the Blitz during 1941. It is in Burma Nick’s father‚ Jackson Freestone‚ owns an old estate and plantation that had been passed down from generation to generation in the Freestone family. After Nick is flown into Burma he encounters his native guide to the plantation‚ Nang‚ an elephant
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Culling elephants is very brutal and unnecessary. However‚ it still remains a preferred method of handling the elephant population. If this continues‚ the next generation of humans may not even know what elephants look like except on the internet or in picture books. The Wildlife management often commands that sizable amounts of these animals are to be killed in one huge fight to decrease an area of more than enough elephants because of diminishing space. I will be discussing what elephants are‚ what
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