The Death at Valley Forge. Valley forge is a place that they might call hell because many people have died of illness and lice and even hunger the weather is horrible and solder do not have a lot of winter supplies. As you can see the conditions at valley forge are horrible 50% of the soldiers were sick, there were thousands of Continental Soldiers died in a place they hell the estimate of people that die where 1,800 up to 2,500 as it states in (Document A).…
The Kent State Massacre John Filo, photography major from Kent State, won the prestige Pulitzer Prize for his photo taken on the campus of Kent State University. Sadly the image captured fourteen Mary Vecchio screaming over the dead body of Jeffery Miller after he had been shot. Among Miller were three others who died after the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a chaotic protesting group of students on Kent State University. The shooting that occurred on May 4, 1970 will forever be known as the Kent State Massacre (Thomas and Hensley). Several incidents led up to the shooting, however, the Ohio National Guard should not have opened fire on the students protesting on the campus of Kent State University.…
Kent State Incident Were the shootings at Kent State justifiable? The shootings that happened at Kent State weren't expected to happen, but they did. The protest got way out of hand when the protesters set the ROTC building on fire. “ Nixon and his top foreign affairs advisor, Henry Kissinger, tired several tactics to extricate the U.S. from the war without just turning over South Vietnamese government into taking more responsibility for the war. To force the issue, the U.S began withdrawing some troops in 1969.…
If you are one of the most avid fans of football, you might find it too common to see your favorite football players suffer foot injuries that will inhibit them to play for a part - or even the whole - of the football season. Let us take the case of Ben Roethlisberger for example. Being the Steelers' star quarterback, he should be formidable, right? However, that is not the case as Roethlisberger suffered a major injury last year known as the Lisfranc injury.…
The National Guard was responsible for the Kent State shootings. On May 4, 1970, the National Guard made an enormous mistake. Every year on May 4th, some witnesses recall the horrifying events that happened at Kent State University so many years ago.…
Kevin Neal's deadly shooting rampage in Northern California may have been prompted by the fatal shooting of his wife, authorities said Wednesday. Neal, identified as the gunman who killed four people in a string of shootings Tuesday, shot and killed his wife the previous night and concealed her body under a floor in his home, Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said. The discovery of her body brought the death toll to five. "We believe that's probably what started this whole event," Johnston said of the wife's shooting.…
“The deadliest school shooting in U.S. history took place April 16th, 2007, when a gun man killed 32 people before killing himself at Virginia Tech, a public University in Blacksburg, Virginia.” (http://www.history.com/topics/columbine-high-school-shootings) On top of the 32 deaths that happened on this horrific day in our history, 17 people were wounded but survived. 30 of the deaths were students and 5 were faculty members of the university. Twenty-three year old Seung Hui Cho was heavily “armed with a 9-millimeter handgun, a 22-calliber handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition,” (http://www.history.com/this-day-in- history/massacre-at- virginia-tech-leaves-32-dead) and opened fire on the university he attended.…
Reviewing key assumptions of trauma-informed approaches One must review the key assumptions of trauma-informed approaches to achieve the goal of this literature review, which is to explore the extent to which trauma-informed approaches have improved children’s experiences within learning contexts. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services suggested four key assumptions in a trauma-informed approach (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2014). To start, it is assumed that every person working within an organization has a basic realization about trauma (SAMHSA, 2014). Trauma-informed practice is based on an essential understanding of how trauma impacts people’s lives, and as an extension, their service needs and frequency of use…
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, terrorism is defined as “the use of violent acts to frighten the people in an area as a way of trying to achieve a political goal.” There are two types of terrorism, international and domestic terrorism. International terrorism is terrorist activities that are foreign-based and/or sponsored by organizations or groups outside the United States. Domestic terrorism is terrorist activities that focus on facilities or populations without foreign direction (“HAZARD MITIGATION PLAN UPDATE: PROTECTING THE REGION AGAINST ALL HAZARDS”).…
On Feb.14, Stoneman Douglas High School was under the onslaught of former student, Nikolas Cruz, 19, taken in by Rocxanne Deschamps, a fellow neighbor, along with his brother, who contacted the FBI warning them that Cruz would shoot up the school. Rocxanne Dechamps said that he had a subsided mental capacity. " He put the gun at the head of his brother before so it's not the first time and he did that to his mom. It's not the first time he put a gun to somebody's head." said Rocxanne.…
Following recent events (involving multiple mass shootings and attacks) many people think that the laws on guns in the United States of America need to be much tighter. I am one of these people. At the moment, as soon as you cross the US border, you have the legal right to purchase yourself a fire arm for personal protection, sport and (apparently, in some unfortunate cases) carrying out an unreasoned mass shooting. This document serves to explain some of the holes in the American legal system. While my foremost problem is not with guns themselves, it is a fact that they are, in the first place, an inherent danger and owning them, in the first instance, causes more trouble than they’re worth.…
Between the years 2000 and 2013 the amount of deaths by guns in America exceeded the amount of deaths caused by AIDS, drugs, wars, and terrorism combined. Even more shocking than this statistic is how unique this issue is to the United States. In the United States there are 29.7 homicides for every 1 million people. Switzerland, with the second highest rate in the world, has only 7.7. It is not that Americans are just more violent individuals, in fact the US ranks far below first for crimes rates other than gun violence (Lopez).…
Mass Shootings and the Moral Decline in the U.S. Megan jones 2 There have been over 294 mass shootings in the U.S so far in 2015. Many people have been left wounded or dead due to them. Yet they have very little attention payed to them due to a combination of the FBI’s definition of a mass shooting being when 4 or more people are killed, and because no one who enjoys a lack of gun control wants to put an emphasis on the fact that people are being killed, very easily, because of guns. Mass shootings have become so routine that unless they are absolutely disgusting and horrendous, very little focus is put on them, and even when they are disgusting and horrendous, the media, along with individuals, tend to sensationalize the shooting and act…
In 1688 very little crime carried the sentence of death. Among the crimes punishable by death were, murder, rape, treason, and generally arson. During this period as little as fifty crimes required the death penalty. However, this quantity would increase drastically. By 1765 the number of criminal offenses that were punishable by death increased from no more than fifty in 1688 to one hundred and sixty.…
Homicide is the killing of a human being by another human being. In old common law, the only type of homicide recognized was murder. Today, U.S. law makes many distinctions between each type of homicide, classifying them as justifiable, excusable, or criminal, and gives varying degrees of seriousness to each type. Where criminal homicide is concerned, it can further be broken down into murder, manslaughter, and negligent homicide. Each subset of criminal homicide has several elements and characteristics that distinguish one from another.…