Roy: "I'm overthinking"
Roy: "I'm overthinking"
The shooter was 64 years old.his name was Stephen Paddock. He lived in a retirement community in Mesquite, Nevada.59 people died and more than 500 injured . Omar Mateen was the shooter.49 people died and 50+ injured. It happened in a bar. It was the second biggest shooting.…
In this article it reveals that this last Sunday a man decided to open fire during a pool party at a luxury San Diego apartment complex. In result, the shooting has left one person dead and several others wounded before police eventually shot down the gunman. According to police the shooter name was Peter Selis, 49, who began shooting towards 30 people at a pool party at the La Jolla Crossroads Apartments which many witnessed, the individual was a white male that was predominately shooting at a large group of African American men and women. However, police has yet to determine what was Peter Selis motive for the shooting.…
Earlier this year, a young lady by the name of Michelle Carter was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of her boyfriend, Conrad Roy. Michelle is 20 years old, and a resident of Massachusetts. She was sentenced to 15 months incarceration. That being said, this case is anything but typical. Mr. Roy committed suicide.…
Mass shootings always get the media attention, and the same goes for the shooting in Oregon. Christopher Harper-Mercer, the shooter, took the lives of 9 people in his college writing class. Even though Christopher had a severe case of Asperger’s syndrome, he had access to a total of 14 guns the were bought legally by him and his mother. It is well understood…
As technology advance, so does our way of communicating. In Michaela Cullington’s “Does Texting Affect Writing” Cullington answer the effects of textspeak, a language used in texting that is often composed of abbreviation, acronyms, and emoticon. In her essay, she addresses the concerns, her experimentation, and findings on the effects of textspeak. Using several rhetorical contexts: logos, pathos, and ethos, Cullington puts forth a convincing argument against textspeak impacting formal writing negatively.…
The third and most recent large mass killing happened in Newtown, Connecticut at Sandy Hook Elementary school. The shootings were arguably the most heart-wrenching deaths to recover from. It happened on December 12th, 2012, when Adam Lanza shot his mother at his own home, then drove to the elementary school and murdered many children and teachers. This massacre was different due to the fact that most of the casualties were First graders. Adam shot his way into the school and through the school’s security system.…
On July 12th, 2014, Conrad Roy III committed suicide by suffocating himself with carbon monoxide in his truck. This is after having been encouraged to do so by his girlfriend, Michelle Carter. At the time of his death, Ms. Carter was on the phone with him and, after supporting him to take his own life, was witness to his dying and failed to alert authorities or the boy’s parents during and after Roy’s death. For her actions, and lack thereof, Michelle Carter was on trial with the possibility of a sentence of 20 years in prison. However, after her attorney addressed that she had mental conditions of her own, such as eating disorders and being put on antidepressants, Ms. Carter received a mere 15-month prison sentence with an extended period…
Technology makes matters amiss by increasing young adult’s isolation. In Japan there is a state of social withdrawal called Hikikomori. Hikikomori is where people isolate themselves inside their homes and stay there for a duration of six months or more. This causes a lack of social skills and they are not able to communicate properly or understand reality . When people do find themselves isolated and depressed they have few places to turn to Another common factor of suicide is stress.…
Dahler, Don. “12-year-old's suicide spotlights cyber-bullying threat.” CBS Evening News. CBS Interactive Inc. 2013. Web.…
Active Shooter Situations and Organizational Communication October 1, 2017 is one of the most recent dates that will be included in the history of the United States of America. October 1, 2017 is the day that the largest United States’ mass shooting occurred. On October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire from the comforts of his hotel room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada (Kreps, 2017). His targets were concert goers attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival. Paddock was able to be on the offense for a total of ten to fifteen minutes, and his spree left 58 people dead and 500 people injured (Kreps, 2017).…
The patient is a 20 year old male who presented to the ED via LEO under IVC with alleged suicidal ideation with multiple plans. Per documentation the patient threaten to cut his throat, jump off a bridge on 85, or get killed by LEO when they came to get him. The patient reports conflict between his mother and him is the contributing factor to his distress. Patient denies suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation, and symptoms of psychosis. per documentation patient states, " my mother got mad at me about a bill she got for stealing my disability check and she told me to go kill myself."…
The killer was a 64 year old man named Stephen Craig Paddock of Mesquite, he fired himself in his garage 10 pm. All the people were scared and sad because they lost a family member or friend. Almost everybody left there stuff and ran. Another one was the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.…
About a week ago I turned on the television and the news was on. When it came on it was talking about the Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, and how the shooting could have been prevented. The news stated the he had some sort of Autism or Asperger’s, the man bought ten suitcases into his hotel room and had the “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door for three days. Finally, the night of the Route 91 Harvest music festival he shot a security guard. Then he shot out of his hotel room window toward the concert killing fifty-eight people and injuring about five-hundred people.…
That day they took the lives of 13 students and wounded 23 more students. This is just a small fraction of all the mass shootings going on in America. On April 16, 2007 at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia another 23 year old gunman killed 32 people and wounded an undetermined number of individuals. Again, on December 14, 2012 another shooter named Adam Lanza took innocent lives. The ones killed were twenty children and six adults who courageously put their lives before the innocent children at the Sandy Hook elementary school (Atkin).…
Suicide is a continuing problem in the United States. Suicide is one killing himself through various methods. This is mostly due to depression and stress. The suicide rate is increasing again. This is a problem as people are taking their own lives.…