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‚ and the significance in this particular shooting
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An ongoing and highly debated social problem that continues to grow in our society today is the gun control epidemic. Gun violence in the United States is a national epidemic. Many people take advantage of guns using and manipulating the tool with hardly any thought. Countless lives have been lost due to fact that people have been able to obtain firearms legally or illegally and have taken the notion to be judge‚ jury and executioner in holding ones live in their hands. This is a common issue that
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determination 4. Demonstrate Statistic Test on correlation coefficient 5. Interpret coefficient correlation based on the statistic test on correlation coefficient 6. Examine Rank Correlation by Spearman rank Introduction Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre took place on December 14‚ 2012‚ in Newtown‚ Connecticut. A 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot 20 school children and 6 adult staff members of the Sandy Hook Elementary school. During Investigation‚ the officers found that Lanza was in possession of thousands
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From YouTube to BuzzFeed‚ everywhere you search on the Internet these days‚ you will be able to find a variety of genres of videos. According to YouTube headquarters‚ YouTube allows over a billion of viewers to discover‚ watch and share videos and provides a forum for people to connect‚ inform‚ and inspire others across the globe (“Statistics”). Moreover‚ it acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and allows people to advertise videos which ultimately generates billions of views
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5‚ 1770 a small group of colonist began to harass soldiers that were outside a house. One of the soldiers panicked and fired into the group‚ because of this the rest of the soldiers fired as well and many of the colonists were killed. The Boston massacre was just one example of how the extreme military measures played a role in the American Revolution. The quartering act was the right given to a British soldier to live in a colonial home. This was a way of limiting the natural rights of the colonist
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Dalaney Renz Ms. Mendoza English 10 3/7/13 Sandy Hook Shooting Mainstream media claims that Sandy Hook shooting was a massacre and an intruder at the school took many children’s lives that day. But there has been strange behavior and evidence that the shooting was a hoax‚ planned and acted by the government so people would be persuaded to believe that guns are the problem. Therefore‚ the government would try and take away our second amendment rights. Friday December 14th‚ 2012 mainstream
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Plenty of people including myself have wonder what is it that makes the crime rate in the U.S so much higher than in other countries. Well for starters “the U.S is has the highest gun ownership rate in the world.”The U.S has a statistic violent crime rate of 386.3 per year. 236 More than 31‚000 people a year in the United States die from gunshot wounds .Because victims are disproportionately young‚ gun violence is one of the leading causes of premature mortality in the U.S.Gun violence in the United
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discussion about stricter gun control regulations (2015‚ 255). Similarly‚ Adena Gruskin mentions several incidents where mass shootings occurred. Gruskin specifically mentions the Columbine massacre and the Sandy Hooks shooting. Then‚ Gruskin lists specific pieces of legislature that were passed following each of these massacres (2014‚ 5). The aforementioned articles are helpful when constructing my article because they provide qualitative and quantitative data that supports the argument that legislature for
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The Second Amendment America has given many rights and has offered protection to US citizens. Like the second amendment states‚ “The right of people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” However many riots and shootings have recently broke out in the last couple of years. So therefore the right to bear arms has been taken advantage of and as lead to many malicious events like The Columbine Shootings‚ Virginia Tech‚ Aurora Shooting‚ and New Town Shootings. In 1999‚ a failed bombing which
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("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 to be perceived as mentally unstable? How is our consistently ignorant response as a nation only hindering attempts to fix what we perceive to
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