Jean Kilbourne and bell hooks agree in their writings that the media often distorts what we perceive as reality in one way or another. Film‚ television‚ and advertising shape our ideals and what we believe should be true. Kilbourne focuses on the distortion of gender‚ particularly the distortion of the female gender in society in the excerpt from her book included in From Inquiry to Academic Writing‚ whereas hooks analyzes the misrepresentation of the impoverished and homeless in the excerpt from
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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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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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School shootings are a topic of much fascination in the U.S. They invoke such attention in the media circus of ’why’s’ and ’what’s’ that there’s often little time to even mourn for the victims. Perhaps it’s the immense shock that comes from the idea of our youth shooting up their peers indiscriminately‚ but it is a fair question nonetheless. What causes school shootings? Well‚ a variety of things. But the discussions that follow are often along the lines of: "did they play too many violent video
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citizenship and their right to vote. In both Bell Hooks and Linda Harris Dobkins articles they respectively introduce race and power within the women’s movement and how it affected the movement. First off‚ in the passage Revolutionary Parenting Hooks acknowledges how difficult it is to define motherhood by including how race is a big factor and the perceived notion of mothers needing to be the nurtures and primary care takers of the children. When Hooks states the difference in opinions of motherhood
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high-profile school shootings in the US. Are their concerns justified? Having examined a report by (Borum‚ Cornell‚ Modzeleski‚ & Jimerson‚ 2010) which addresses this question by reviewing a range of empirical evidence‚ I feel as though it is safe to say that American schools are safe and the publicity of the cases creates a grandiose perception of danger and causes unnecessary fear. The report also explains why there is a miscomprehension regarding the occurrence of school shootings and provides insight
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Fort Hood Shooting Jose A. Gonzalez HSM 433 October 1‚ 2012 Fort Hood Shooting Brief Description of Attack On November 5‚ 2009 at approximately 1:30 p.m.‚ a gunman opens fire inside the base’s Soldier Readiness Center at U.S. Army Base‚ Fort Hood‚ Texas. Soldier Readiness Center‚ is where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening (http://search.proquest.com). During the shooting the gunman killed 13 and wounded 31 others. The gunman was shot
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happened as follows‚ “Columbine High School is a public secondary school...On April 20th‚ 1999‚ it became the site of a deadly shooting spree carried out by students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold‚ who killed twelve other students and a teacher before turning their guns on themselves. The attack‚ which also left twenty-four others injured‚ is considered the worst school shooting ever to occur in the United States.” (Lauren) The loss of life that transpired on that day led many to question what would have
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penalized for their crimes of unjustified shootings and acts of physical assaults. There have
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