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    School Shootings

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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

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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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    Shooting Dad

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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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    the killing of elephants

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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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    Elephant Run

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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

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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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    School Shootings

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    The Causes of School Shootings School shootings have been on the rise. Many kids are feeling the pressure of growing up in a world that is constantly changing and some do not know how to handle the situations that surround them. No one knows the exact reasoning behind why school shootings have risen so rapidly‚ but many have suggested motives for why children feel pushed to turn to school violence. Bullying‚ mental illnesses‚ and lack of gun control all influence a child to act out in violence.

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    Duck Shooting

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    There has always been an issue with animal cruelty of duck shooting in Victoria. Journalist Kylie Hansen contributes a opinion piece “lame duck decision on shooting” March 2nd‚ 2009. Hansen ask many questions towards the Victorian Government decision allow the duck hunting season to go ahead. Despite the recent terrible bushfires and drought conditions‚ Hansen attacks at the Victorian Environment Minister‚ Gavin Jennings and the duck hunting population on their server animal cruelty. Cruelty

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    Faithful Elephants

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    Faithful Elephants In Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals‚ People‚ and War by Yukio Tsuchiya‚ Japan was at war and the military ordered that the zoo keepers at the Ueno zoo kill all animals. This had an emotional toll on the zoo keepers and trainers. The zoo keepers loved all of the animals dearly‚ especially the three elephants‚ Tonky‚ Wanly‚ and John. The war affected everyone at the zoo in different ways. Throughout the story‚ many characters had conflicts but the central conflict

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