School Shooting Approximately two years and ten months ago a massacre happened in Newtown‚ Connecticut. December 15‚ 2012‚ a man dressed in a military vest and heavily armed walked into a Connecticut elementary school and opened fire. Within minutes‚ 26 people were dead‚ 20 of them were children. School shooting has increased dramatically over the years‚ and some of this shootings is because of the discipline in parenting‚ media‚ and bullying. One cause of school shooting is the discipline in
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Over the past decade‚ there has been a spike in school shootings‚ one the most infamous took place at Columbine High School. This shooting has been spoken about across the globe because of the brutal killings two high school students engaged in. The two students committed an act so horrifying it shocked the nation. This tragedy has been contemplated for almost twenty years. The Columbine High School shooting is one of the deadliest school shootings in history‚ but it’s recently been brought into the
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that bring dark times to our community. It seems that mass shootings are constantly popping up on our newsfeed. When looking at mass shootings in the United States‚ there is evidence history does in fact repeat itself. In the United States‚ the FBI defines a mass shooting as when “four or more [people are] shot and/or killed in a single event [incident]‚ at the same general time and location‚ not including the shooter” (Mass Shootings). In 2008‚ Seung-Hui Cho‚ a Virginia Tech student at the time
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Mass shootings in the past year have been plentiful‚ with at least 3 mass shootings per week. To me this is just outrageous. I didn’t even know it was near that many mass shootings that I haven’t even heard of.Before the second day of October we have had 294 mass shootings‚ including the first day of October! These shootings have to stop and when they do happen I feel like everyone should know about this tragedy that keeps recurring in our country.Many shootings happen daily and only a few make it
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Alejandra Audelo Ms. Gladin Composition 9: Period 4 February 15‚ 2013 Background: A school shooting is an incident in where gun violence occurs at an education institution. A school shooting can affect the students and workers who were in the shooting mentally and physically. The earliest known school shooting to ever take place in the United States was the Pontiac’s Rebellion school massacre which happened on July 26‚ 1764. In this school massacre‚ four Lenape American Indians entered the school
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couple of school shootings had taken place their minds and thoughts may have changed completely. On April 16‚ 2007‚ in the town of Blacksburg Virginia‚ a college student who attended Virginia Tech‚ opened gunfire to his fellow classmates. This shooting has been considered to be the biggest massacre in all of American history. There are many things to be discussed in this major tragedy. Some of them include the events leading up to the shooting‚ the timeline that the shootings occurred‚ the causes
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previous school shooting that have happened in the United States. It looks at the shooters‚ and also look at theories of what possibly could’ve been their motives for commenting such a tragedy‚ taking innocent lives. The paper looks at what we have learned and what we can do to prevent future school shooting tragedies. It looks at how bullying has pulled the trigger and how kids just want to be heard. The paper looks at what psychologist and criminologist have to say about future shootings and past shooters
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television shows‚ books‚ newspapers‚ and radios. It is becoming more visible in our society in that people begin to see violence as a living norm. Violence is winning in many places in society so much that violence is also present in schools. School shooting is a kind of violence that is increasing day by day. Students can become a school shooter from personality disorders‚ the easy way to get a weapon‚ and also environmental influences. Personality disorders can influence a student to become a school
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Since 2013‚ there have been 153 school shootings in the United States‚ although not all have resulted in injury or death. Some of the most horrifying school shootings include the 1966 University of Texas clock tower shooting‚ the 1999 Columbine High School shooting and the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting. More recent was the school shooting that killed 20 children and 6 adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. Most parents want to believe that their children are safe in school‚ but statistics
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family with his hilarious jokes. He’s the on who always say "don’t just say it‚ do it"!To start of my father’s a phenomenal chef‚ he has been a chef for 18 years. people always comment on the delicious food he cooks. Being a chef was not the career my dad wanted to pursue. My father wanted to do something big and exciting! He dreamed of being a pilot‚ an architecture‚ also a diver‚ but because of my dad’s lack of studying‚ he dropped out of school and never finished elementary school.In fact for this
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