Azrael

entertainment. With recent decades has also come a sharp increase in violent crimes and life in the United States. According to Harvard Research, the rate of mass shootings has tripled since 2011, occurring every 64 days on average by 2014 (Cohen, Azrael, Miller). Many U.S. citizens and advocacy groups blame the prevalence of violent crime in America on the easy accessibility of assault weapons (Nguyen). Twelve – twenty-five-year-olds made up about thirteen percent of the U.S population in 2005…

Could anyone fathom the thought of their child lying face down on the floor with a bullet hole through their head? Could one imagine the black fear that will engulf their soul if they heard their child’s school just underwent a shooting? Would one contain the strength to watch their loved ones lowered into the ground in their casket because of the misuse of a firearm? Unfortunately, all of these situations occur very often in today’s society because of the leniency of gun laws across the nation.…

Gender is the most common Identifier our society has in order to classify people; it is the frame work that we build our personalities around for which we then use to express who we are. At the very start of a person’s life an especially today gender is assigned at first glance. This misconception that all it takes to assign an apparent label of gender by our social standards is one glimpse of the outwards body parts of the biological reproductive system (Teich, 2012). However, the complexity of…

penetrate, closed behind her, the ore voice of the angel of the cathedral struck at her breast like a steel fist, and she stood still, stunned, raising her hands to her head. Why was Saint Michael crying out so angrily and wildly? Why was the roar of Azrael, the angel of Death joining in so alarmingly? She stepped into the street. Darkness, like a thick layer of soot, lay over the town, and only the cathedral shimmered, ghost-like, a wonder of light, but not of grace. The air was filled with a…

While there are few successful suicides, the number of suicide attempts is very large. The most common method of suicide is by overdose which is fatal three percent of the time while gun suicides are fatal more than ninety percent of the time (Miller, Azrael, Hemenway and Lippmann, 2007). Guns on college campuses will increase the chances that these suicide attempts will end in death. In a study done by the Harvard School of Public Health, states with low gun ownership were compared to states…