Typology of School Shootings Definition and typology: Studies of school shootings have been conducted in a variety of disciplines‚ including sociology‚ psychology‚ and media studies. However‚ to date there is no unified body of knowledge about such events. In an effort to synthesize past studies‚ and to orient future studies in school shootings‚ this article offers a typology for understanding the varieties of school shooting incidents‚ including rampages‚ mass murders‚ terrorist attacks
Premium Columbine High School massacre School shooting High school
stories‚ Shooting an Elephant and the Things They Carried there are certain similarities and differences that George Orwell and Jimmy Cross hold. Each character in the short stories has there own different situation they are in‚ but they both are in a foreign land and they both have to take orders and do what there country is asking of them. However‚ even though each situation is different they both deal with some of the same emotional issues throughout each story. In the story‚ Shooting an Elephant
Premium George Orwell Short story KILL
George Orwell was “disgusted by the inhumanity of colonial rule that he witnessed while stationed in Burma” (2835 Orwell). Using his writing to confess the inner conflict of an imperial police officer‚ he wrote an autobiographical essay titled Shooting an Elephant. He notes that the Burmese civilians were not allowed to own guns during his stay – a testament of British control over Burmese resources. Feeling “stuck between his hatred of the empire he served and his rage against the evil-spirited
Premium Burma Gun George Orwell
Death to high school English In the passage Death to high school English‚ written by Kim Brooks‚ explains the thoughts of a college professor who teaches composition‚ and is dealing with students who do not know how to write at all. Brooks story is told in first person‚ simply because she experienced it firsthand. The tone of this passage seemed to be mostly frightening because Brooks was in shock at how terrible the writing was and had to put a stop to it and make a change. Another tone
Premium George Orwell Boy Writing
a newspaper or turned on to see the news you may have question what is happening in our schools and begin to think whether our schools are still safe places for children. Recent school shootings have set feared in many parents about their children’s safety in our schools. Since last year number of school shootings by students have occurred regularly. On Tuesday February 29‚ 2000 in Mount Morris Township‚ Michigan a six-year old boy shot his classmate to death in their first grade classroom. Police
Premium Gun politics in the United States Firearm Gun politics
George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant’’ first appeared in 1936. The British public already knew Orwell as the socially conscious author of Down and Out in London and Paris (1933)‚ a nonfiction study of poverty‚ homelessness‚ unemployment‚ and subsistence living on poorly-paying menial jobs‚ and Burmese Days (1934)‚ a novel of British colonialism. Shooting an Elephant’’ functions as an addendum to Burmese Days. The story and novel share the same setting‚ and draw on Orwell’s experience as a colonial
Premium George Orwell Burma Shooting an Elephant
physically‚ or even verbally. It was whether killing an innocent elephant or doing something they didn’t want to do. The animals were being controlled by Napoleon to do his work like puppets while George Orwell was pressured by the Burmese for shooting the elephant. Both of these peer pressures benefited whomever that was peer-pressuring‚ in this case it would be Napoleon and the Burmese people. The animals were brainwashed by Napoleon’s
Premium George Orwell Animal Farm The Animals
defined as “single episodic act of violence‚ occurring at one time and in one place…where three or more people are killed with no cooling off period between killings” (Kitaeff‚ 2011‚ p. 81-82). Investigators estimate that from the time Lanza began shooting until he turned the gun on himself was less than five minutes. Lanza‚ 20 years old‚ then turned the gun on himself‚ he was found dead inside the school. In all‚ he fired from three weapons‚ Glock and Sig Sauer pistols as well as an AR-15‚ military
Premium Mass murder Schizophrenia Mental disorder
\ Part 1 Society teaches the morally incorrect and socially unacceptable aspects of murder. George Orwell’s “Shooting and Elephant” and Foster the People’s “Pumped up Kicks” address the contrary‚ the instances in which society leads one to murder. Orwell’s switch from first to second person within “He wears a mask‚ and his face grows to fit it” reveals the distance that the murderer puts between himself and his action creating a sense of personal distain; the same sense of detachment is evoked
Premium George Orwell Jonathan Swift Burma
surge of catastrophes in our nation‚ violence is not a new issue. Violent occurrences such as shootings‚ bombings‚ and other terroristic events are things that have been happening for hundreds‚ or maybe even thousands of years. One aspect of these tragedies that seems to be the most terrible of all is violence in the school setting. Even this type of violence is not a new occurrence. School shootings and other violent acts of that nature have been occurring in the school setting for decades. However
Premium Columbine High School massacre High school School shooting