Alicia Arnold September‚ 16th‚ 2012 CSYW W.R. Myers High School Alberta Taber School Shooting: A 14 year old boy who had been bullied at W.R. Myers High School in Taber Alberta had entered the school on April. 28. 1999 with a .22 Calibre rifle and opened fire. He killed a 17 year old young boy named Jason Lang. Another 17 year old boy was shot‚ but fully recovered after the shooting. 14 year old “Todd Cameron Smith” a high school dropout showed signs of depression before the school shooting
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The topic I have chosen is to discuss is how media violence plays in aggression in young adults and children. Albert Bandura developed the social learning theory. Bandura did a bobo doll experiment in 1961 and 1963‚ which studied children’s behaviors after watching an adult model act aggressively towards a bobo doll. There were 36 boys and 36 girls between the ages of 37 to 69 months old from Stanford University nursery. The children were split up into 4 different groups that were controlled by half
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Harris‚ the main plotter of the massacre‚ was found to be on therapeutic levels of Zoloft‚ a well known anti-depressant‚ as well as Luvox‚ a medicine used to treat Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. But. it is a well know‚ common fact that antipsychotics such as these pills will not work without approaching professional help. Sue Klebold‚ mother of Dylan‚ one of the shooters‚ speaks on the importance of the initial signs of mental
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The word ‘premeditated’ is defined as‚ an act done with willful deliberation or an act that has been planned in advance. Many murders and crimes are usually premeditated‚ they can be linked back to something that may have been done or planned days‚ months or even years before. Many of these can be traced back by looking at the journals‚ notebooks‚ or video entries that these people may have kept. The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting which occurred on April 20‚ 1999 at Columbine
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The article “Should Racial Profiling Be Accepted as a Law Enforcement Practice?”‚ published by ProCon.org discusses the pros and cons on if racial profiling should be practiced by the law enforcement. Those in favor of this practice admit that people of color are targeted more by law enforcement agencies because they are the ones who usually commit crimes. When officers practiced racial profiling‚ the reports that had been made showed that minorities were the ones mostly committing crime. Those opposing
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English 1A Fall 2009 Warrior Dreams This paper will examine the writings and opinion of James William Gibson in his publication of “Warrior Dreams”. I strongly support Gibson’s suggestions about how the world today is negatively affected by the political and popular culture. By supporting his idea I strongly agree that warrior fantasies can easily be obtained from the worlds events. He argues that the shame of defeat of the United States in the Vietnam War by such a skillfully inferior
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The Columbine School Shooting: Gun Control Essay America is widely known for having a fascination with violence and is a “gun – happy” country. However‚ this love for firearms has led to tragedies untold and horrifying truths about the mental state of individuals as revealed in the Columbine School shooting incident. Major and minor causes collectively led up to this event and bring up the question of whether or not this tragedy could have been prevented. The NRA play a key part in the debate over
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Race. Definition: A term used to define people by their pigmentation or location of origin‚ reaching into facets of society such as mass prejudice or the suppression of other said races. Slavery is the first human construct to develop from racism‚ and by far the cruelest‚ systematically breaking the spirits of supposedly different men and women so that they would feel fear to stand to their masters of a different creed. During the turn of the 20th century‚ slavery was outlawed in nearly every modern
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Do videogames contribute to gun violence? In modern society‚ many people like to play video games. Some people even become addicted to it. They don’t go to work‚ and they just play video games all day. I think video games are good for killing time and entertainment‚ but we shouldn’t play too much. Playing video games does not help people for anything. Many people also think that playing violent video games would make people become violent. According to a survey‚ a whopping 75% of polled parents
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statistic shows that most people believe that parents need to take care of their children and are responsible at least to some degree‚ for their behavior. After the 1999 Columbine shootings‚ there was much attention drawn to the parents of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Many questions were asked about the shooters‚ if and how their home life may have had an impact on their choices that fateful day. Their parents seemed to be oblivious to what was happening in their sons’ lives. The parent’s confused their
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