Columbine High School in Littleton‚ Colorado is home to the deadliest high school shootings in United States history. On April 20‚ 1999‚ two Columbine High School students‚ Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold‚ went on a shooting rampage at their high school (shooting teachers and students) killing fifteen‚ including themselves‚ and injuring twenty-four others. John Stone‚ the Jefferson County Sheriff‚ said “When we did make entry into the library‚ it was a pretty gruesome sight.” Stone also called the
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Evils of Imperialism In life people are often faced with making difficult decisions that are influenced by other people’s opinions. In George Orwell’s essay “Shooting An Elephant”‚ he declares‚ “imperialism was an evil thing”(2). Imperialism forces people to go against their better judgment for the sake of being ridiculed. In Orwell’s thesis he states‚ “ I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow‚ posing dummy
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this tragedy is not alone‚ and during the last two decades‚ numerous school shootings have happened around the whole nation‚ and hundreds of people have died during the school massacres. Why do so many tragedies happen one after another? We couldn’t avoid the buskins unless we understand the disturbing reasons behind them. Gun culture displayed by media seems to be one of the most important causes for those shootings. As a journalist mentions‚ “Considering countless gun movies and video games
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The way “Shooting an Elephant” and “A Modest Proposal” starts is one of the differences these essays has. At first‚ we have “A Modest proposal”‚ it starts explaining how you may see when you enter to the country that he lives in the poor women who have many children and can’t feed them. Basically‚ he is showing us or telling us that there were a lot of poverty in those times. Is telling us that there were a lot of people without work and their work was pleading for money. Furthermore‚ it was a tough
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out if bullying actually causes school shootings or does it have to do with the victim having some type of mental and psychological issues. Although according to pacer.org “One study shows that 60 percent of students with disabilities report being bullied regularly compared with 25 percent of all students.” With that being said it is safe to say that bullying could be the root problem for those victims. Furthermore bullying is also linked to school shootings. After being bullied and harassed some
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Jerico Lua Gabrielle Mitchell-Marell English 101 Analogy Essay We humans have co-habituated with animals for at least a millennia. Not only that but we have also claimed dominion over all things on this earth. Co-habituating and dominating. These two things seem at odds with each other. We have a strained‚ yet symbiotic relationship with these creatures. We need to nourish them‚ to nourish us. So what does that make these creatures? Commodities to be grown‚ traded and used or to be beloved companions
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Brief Study of George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant Based on physics science‚ everything which moves in this world definitely needs time to travel from one place to another. The time is affected by distance‚ the amount of space between two things‚ which will determine whether the travel from one place to another will take a long time or a short one. The connection between time and distance will create velocity‚ the speed which is generated by something when it is moving through a distance in
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Allowing Guns on Campus Will Prevent Shootings‚ Rape Tyler Ohmann A graduate student leaving an evening class walks along the poorly lit sidewalk to the parking lot—it is a long‚ cold walk in the pitch-black night‚ and the student grows wary as shadows begin lurking in the distance. Suddenly‚ someone jumps out in front of the student‚ immediately threatening her with force. Before the student can react‚ she is raped and robbed. This is a very scary scenario‚ and one that happens on the SCSU campus
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A few things that to help prevent School Shootings but failed would be the zero tolerance policy. The zero tolerance policy is preventing drugs and weapons being brought onto school property. But many students get away with it because they bring weapons to school hidden in their backpacks without anyone noticing‚ then they cause a tragedy‚ “Schools are not safer‚ or more educational because of zero tolerance policies.”(Nick Gillespie 4). This policy doesn’t change anything so why have this policy
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In the article ‘Shooting an Elephant’ by George Orwell‚ the word ‘hollowness’ is an abstract noun because it is intangible and encompasses human states of mind. In my opinion‚ the word ‘hollowness’ has two meanings. Firstly‚ it refers to absence of certain components of an object‚ making the object vacant or empty. Secondly‚ it can mean one’s emotion: the feeling one has after he or she worked vainly. The writer worked as a police officer under the British Empire in Burma‚ where he was hated by
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