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Media, peers, and unrealistic ideas of fairy tales with happy endings lead society to hold high standards for men and their masculinity. In the film, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, John Ford demonstrates that Western societies often forced those roles onto males. Masculinity, being a remarkable characteristic to display, seems to be connected with his morals. Morals relate to the person’s decision-making, either with confrontation or emotions about a situation, personal beliefs will be…

David Hemenway’s article ‘Does owning a gun Make you safer’ states that the gun ownership in the United States does not make American people safer. He gave a lot of data and mentioned the surveys to counter his statements and make aware of people about the effects of guns in the American society. David Hemenway, a policy scholar, author and professor of Harvard school of Public Health, is a columnist of Los Angeles Times, LA, and (Wikipedia). He has a Ph. D in economics from Harvard University.…

“U.S Model Percussion Pistol 1842” Henry Aston Middleton, Conn. The pistol was manufactured by Henry Aston and Ira Johnson of Middleton, Connecticut. The U.S model 1842 percussion pistol was a single shot percussion pistol used in the Civil war and also in the war against Mexico in 1847 to 1848. Henry Aston was an immigrant from the United States from England in 1819. Henry Aston founded his own company in 1843. The gun also saw considerable use on the Oregon Trail. Henry Aston…

Gun control in America is a significant issue, with an average of 91 gun related deaths per day, it is a matter that can no longer be ignored. Being controversial in its nature, author Phoebe Maltz Bovy doesn 't hesitate to shed light on her opinion on the affair. In her article “It’s Time to Ban Guns. Yes, All of Them.” Bovy is quick to state that all guns are bad regardless of their purpose or the respective owner, that they’re all nothing more than dangerous machines. However, in her…

Divergent was wrote by Veronica Roth and published on April 5, 2011. This book is the beginning of the Divergent series which have to other books Insurgent and then Allegiant. Divergent is about a girl that lives in an enclosed community and divided by factions. The faction’s names are Abnegation, Dauntless, Candor, Erudite, and Amity. Abnegation is a faction that values selflessness most. Dauntless are supposed to be brave and fearless. Candor is always honest and they never lie. Amity is the…

In Linda Hasselstrom’s essay “A Peaceful Woman Explains Why She Carries a Gun,” she uses a casual chain with episodes to organize the causes and effects; a few rhetorical devices, such as anaphora and procatalepsis; a negative connotation vocabulary; a variety of sentence structure with powerful basic sentences; and a conversational style to convey why a peaceful woman carries a gun. Hasselstrom organizes her essay by using a chronological casual chain. She begins with “As a freelance writer I…

Hien Tieu Dr. Liz Ann Baez Anguilar ENGL 1302.012 1st October 2015 Lyric Time Dickinson and the Limits of Genre Cameron, Sharon. “Lyric Time Dickinson and the limits of genre”, library of congress cataloging in publication data. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London. 1979. (66) I should like to offer two conventional paraphrases of the poem, which I shall then suggest are inadequate. In the first, picked up by God, the speaker becomes His marksman: the mountains resound with…

Dennis Dinardo is going to be prosecuted for reckless disregard to human life because of the amount of danger he put everyone in. This is the right way to go because he was correct that Washington had a gun and was running with a purpose after the shots were fired. Charging Dinardo with attempted murder would be too much because he was right to take the shots he did and not charging him would not be right either because he fired multiple shots into crowd of chaos. The race of both men is not…

In 2015, 12,223 people died because of gun incidents. Gun violence is a substantial issue that should not be taken lightly. Gun violence should not be taken lightly because many people are losing their lives at faster speeds because of guns and the people who choose to pull that trigger and take off the safety. After thorough investigation we found that gun violence is a serious issue but there are other issues to worry about relating to gun violence that are important and add to the death of…

“Now when you are ready you can slide the safety switch over to the fire your gun should glow red when you do. Today your goal is to score the most points. The closer you get to the bullseye the more points you can get. You can fire when ready and when you run out of ammo set your gun down and flip the switch to safety. Oh and there is one other thing, you will rarely fire at stationary targets.” He reached up and pulled a lever down the targets began to move back and forth. “Now go.” I then…