Hannah Rose Watson Marr College Standard Grade English Folio: Reading A Critical Evaluation of “Shooting Stars” by Carol Ann Duffy “Shooting Stars‚” by Carol Ann Duffy is a poem that explores the theme of tragedy through the writer’s creation of haunting imagery and tells a story‚ like no other. Using techniques such as imagery‚ enjambment‚ structure and form‚ Duffy invites the reader to contemplate the Jewish victims of the Holocaust in World War II and to warn against
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Process Explanation Essay Since 2010‚ there have been 49 cases of school shootings that left 63 injured and 66 dead. This growing problem has increased over the years and has put fear in the minds of parents and their children. Even though children may jokingly exaggerate that school is terrible‚ it now seems as if going to school is truly a life or death situation. There has to be someone or something to blame and it seems as if this problem can debatably be blamed on the security
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Running Head: STAY AT HOME DADS Stay at Home Dads Name: Course: College: Tutor: Date: Abstract Traditionally families were defined by their faithfulness and conventional sex roles. The roles of men and women were structured according to the traditional family roles. It was believed that the father’s role was to work in the office the whole day as the mother stays at home to attend to house hold chores. For many years traditional marriage was the cornerstone of almost all societies‚ an
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Violent shootings are becoming more and more popular in the United States. Last year there were 58‚543 shooting incidents. There were 1‚956 incidents where it was a self-defense case. There were also 2‚552 home invasion cases and 2‚201 of the shooting incidents were unintentional‚ which does make a whole lot of sense to me because I don’t know how you accidentally shoot somebody. However‚ 384 of these shooting incidents were classified as mass shooting incidents. That means there was a mass
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In officer involved shootings‚ I found a lot that confused me. In the paragraphs Sighted versus Unsighted Shooting‚ Shots Fired & Hit Probability‚ and Night Sights‚ is what I’m planning on writing about. In my opinion this does not make any sense‚ either you do something or you don’t. And it seems that the police officers need more training. Firstly‚ in sighted verses unsighted shooting‚ “Good sight alignment is fundamental to the target shooting‚ yet 70% of the cases reviewed indicated that no
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Shooting Dogs Reflection The first Character that I will be discussing is Joe‚ who throughout the movie was “living out” the philosophies of Immanuel Kant. In one scene of the movie Joe demonstrates the Categorical Imperative. He acted as he would want others to act if they were in his situation. In this scene many people came to Joe asking for something to build a fire‚ in order for them to eat. Joe had‚ then went up to the room he was staying in‚ grabbed the bed frame‚ dresser
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The story that my evaluation will be based on is Shooting an Elephant written in 1936. The author George Orwell was born in 1903 in India to a British officer raised in England. He attended Eton College‚ which introduced him to England’s middle and upper classes. He was denied a scholarship‚ which led him to become a police officer for the Indian Imperial in 1922. He served in Burma until resigning in 1927 due to the lack of respect for the justice of British Imperialism in Burma and India. He was
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2017 Senator Kamala Harris 312 N. Spring St. Suite 1748 Los Angeles‚ CA 90012 United States House of Representatives Dear Senator Harris: I am writing to you in regards to the increasingly problematic issues surrounding gun control and active shooting in Southern California. As a college student at Cal State Fullerton University‚ there have been several controversial proposals about whether guns should be allowed in various college/high school campuses in California. These controversial proposals
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for potential shooters to gain access to these lethal weapons. Holding firearm dealers accountable for their sales‚ creating a universal background check‚ and closing gun show and private sale loopholes will decrease gun violence and mass school shootings in the United
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The U.S. school shootings The school shooting in Blacksburg‚ Virginia on the 16th of April 2007 was deadliest in American history. Twenty-three year old Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people before taking his own life. He carried a 9mm semiautomatic and a .22-caliber handgun‚ both with the serial numbers obliterated‚ federal law enforcement officials said. No matter what kind of perspective one uses there is not just one event that occurs before a person chooses to become a mass murderer and the motivation
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