the school cafeteria. Scary‚ right? As scary as it sounds scenarios from horror movies are playing out in schools all over America. You are eating lunch in the cafeteria and a student enters the cafeteria and starts firing off a firearm. First instinct is to scream for help and get on the ground‚ but why are scenes like this taking place in the learning place. The place where we are told we are the safest‚ maybe even safer than home. If school is so much safer than home then why are school shootings
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There is definitely a problem with school violence today. The last three years have shown us that violence in our schools society is more common today then ever before. Whether the violence has to do with guns‚ knives‚ or just a simple fight‚ school violence is getting a little out of hand. There have been several school shootings in the last few years‚ and the number of school shootings seems to be growing rapidly these days. When the last figures were taken by the government educators had found
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After reading the articles and watching the news and hearing others talk about this tragic topic on whether or not the schools‚ the parents‚ or media is the issue with school the conclusion is the individual is the one to blame. These individuals had many different resources and options to decide from in order to receive help yet the individuals made the choice to take the lives of innocent people. These children are aware of their consequences and have it set in their mind that there is no other
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Pre-AP Language Arts 20 May 2013 Providing Safety Measures within Schools School violence is not just a recent tragedy. In fact‚ the earliest known United States (U.S.) school shooting called “Pontiac’s Rebellion School Massacre” took place on July 26‚ 1764 in Pennsylvania (Wikipedia). These ill-fated events are products of many different factors such as bullying‚ revenge‚ and even mental issues. Unfortunately‚ school violence has become a more prevalent occurrence in society today. However‚
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Running head: SCHOOL SHOOTINGS: AMERICA ’S TRAGEDY School Shootings: A Tragedy in America School Shootings: A Tragedy in America The school shootings at Westside Middle School were orchestrated by two juveniles. On Monday‚ March 30‚ 1998 two boys ambushed students and teachers outside Westside Middle School in Jonesboro‚ Arkansas. Andrew Golden a youth of 11 years and Mitchell Johnson who was 13 years old were responsible for this hideous tragedy. Apparently‚ Mitchell Johnson hid
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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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Nisha Gajjar AP Lang Affect of Media on school violence. Whether or not exposure to media violence causes increased levels of aggression and violence in young people is the perennial question of media effects research. Some experts‚ like University of Michigan professor L. Rowell Huesmann‚ argue that fifty years of evidence show "that exposure to media violence causes children to behave more aggressively and affects them as adults years later." Others‚ like Jonathan Freedman of the University
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two classmates and wounded seven others in a school shooting in Pearl‚ Mississippi. In a note‚ Luke declared: “I am not insane. I am angry. I killed because people like me are mistreated every day.”1 He explained that he was tired of being called a “faggot”; he was additionally enraged that his girlfriend—whom he killed in the shooting—had broken up with him. At the start of the Woodham case‚ I began examining school shootings. Two months after the massacre in Mississippi came a shooting in Kentucky
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Causes of School Violence School violence is only a recent thing. Roughhousing among teenagers in high school has always been prevalent‚ however‚ its extreme forms such as taking out vendettas against students or teachers or bringing deadly weapons to school have only risen in existence in the past thirty years. Now some have placed the blame on the violent video games‚ television and bad music. The first notable high school shootings didn ’t happen until the 1970 ’s (Centennial Secondary School‚ St
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that Lead to Mass School Shootings Conner Koe - 1330997 Sociology 1A03 – T24 (Tyler Alderson) Wednesday‚ March 5th‚ 2014 Introduction Although historically violence has always seemingly plagued education systems and their schools‚ the last 20 years has marked the emergence of a new form of violence occurring within these institutions‚ one which is far more deadly and cruel. The act of an individual or multiple individuals executing what is known as a rampage school shooting dates
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