School shootings School shootings are something horrible yet something that has occurred more than once in the USA. I have had a hard time understanding exactly how someone can pick up a gun and shoot people at their own age – people they’ve gone to school with‚ innocent people. I don’t understand how you can steal their life for no reason. It’s teenagers who suddenly shoot people – boys and girls who are supposed to be their friends. Why do they do this? The first person that did a school
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In material terms‚ the clothes that children wore to school were predicated upon their class status (Brunsma n. pag.) . Late in 1980‚ Washington‚ D.C.‚ mayor Marion Barry began discussing with his administration the possibility of a proposal of a standardized dress code for D.C.’s public schools. Prompted by incidents of violence in or near D.C. public schools‚ Barry figured that uniforms would help to remedy such situations. Not using the term "uniform‚" because it sounded too militaristic‚ he
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people and left 31 wounded. (Kingsbury.) Since then‚ at least 50 incidents of school shootings have rocked the nation at its foundation. ("Timeline.") Not all were so destructive at their ends as that of Charles Whitman. Some were more so. All have one thing in common: they have forever changed the face of the nation as we thought we knew it. Who were these shooters? What caused them to massacre their respective schools? What had happened to them in their lives to cause them to be so distraught
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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 show that
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removed the hard drive‚ mailed videos to NBC television; he again went on another shooting spree which killed 30 people. In total Cho killed 32 people and wounded 25 others before killing himself. The incident is recorded as one of the deadliest school shooting in the history of America (Wikepedia.org) Impact: Opening fire on his fellow students enthused fear and disrupted the sense of security felt on college campuses‚ university campuses around the nation. The events that shaped this day have
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use in school aged students along with students carrying weapons to schools‚ it seemed as if no one was recognizing the significance of school bullying. For victims of bullying‚ they go to school every day facing harassment‚ taunting‚ and humiliation. Studies show that 25-35% of teens encountered some type of bullying in their lifetime (Nansel et al‚ 2001). Bullying is a form of violent behavior that happens not only in the schools but everywhere. Kids have been exposed to bullying in school for generations
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it’s a one-day story” (as qtd. in Kemp). Barack Obama‚ as well as the residents of the once top-notch country of America have witnessed in disgust the well-known‚ unfortunate phenomenon that has faced the nation since the eighteenth century‚ school shootings. School violence is arguably one of the most controversial topics in America‚ mostly because the causes and methods of prevention are debated frequently. The only undoubtable detail is how catastrophic the outcome is. The devastating issue has only
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Hailey Ms. St. Hilaire Research 7 December 2012 Psychological Profile of a School Shooter Why would a student decide to shoot their own classmates? Often when a topic like this is talked about usually a stereotypical reason is valid‚ at the time‚ to explain why a student would perform an act like a school shooting. Often people jump to a stereotypical conclusion because violence is frequently found in games and further media. Stereotyping is a subconscious act when a person places someone
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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. Todd Smith had been bullied
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be bullied everyday‚ our country is for school uniforms. A wise man once said‚ “if it means teenagers will stop killing each other over designer jackets‚ then our public schools should be able to require their students to wear school uniforms (debate.org) said from our former president. President Clinton when he provided the momentum to the school uniform movement in 1996. One of the main reasons is too many people get judged in this school for what they wear‚ what they look like and
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