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February 14, 2018, one of the deadliest school shootings in the United States. Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people and wounded 17 others. Following this day, gun control has been hot on the radar for almost everybody in America. Survivors like David Hogg and Emma González have been protesting for gun control, such as banning certain firearms, wanting more background checks, and raising the age to buy guns. There are more people speaking up about their individual opinions on gun control and there are…

one of the deadliest shootings the United States has seen occurred on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The fatalities included thirty-two students and teachers. The shooter was a senior English major from the Blacksburg campus of Virginia Tech, Seugn Hui Cho. The violence began early that morning, when he shot a female freshman and a male resident from his dormitory. He then fled the scene. Police arrived not long after the incident, and they interviewed…

are destroying peoples’ communication skills. Teenagers, between the ages of 12-17, report using text messages in their daily lives more than any other form of communication, including face-to-face interaction. In a study at Virginia Technology in Blacksburg, researchers found that many coffee shop visitors sitting in pairs or in small…

visitors on college campuses. They will know if it would ever be necessary to control a situation like they one that happened in Virginia Tech. The Virginia Tech shooting happened on April 16, 2007, on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia. Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Tech, shot and killed 32 people and wounded 17 others in two separate attacks approximately two hours apart, before committing suicide. Campuses safety officers were not well prepared because…

HUMAN CLONING: PROS AND CONS OF REPRODUCTIVE CLONING Cloning is the process of creating identical cells, genes, organs or even organisms through asexual reproduction. It has been a common practice of mankind for a long time. It has becomes the debatable issue since it was used to clone animals around 40-50 years ago. Human cloning has created an offense toward ethical issue of human right. According to Yadav and Sharma (2011), the person who promoted human cloning must convince others and show…

1984 and became a permanent resident of the United States in 1992. This twenty-three-year-old was a senior at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University majoring in English, who massacred thirty-two people on the University’s campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. “Two years before the shooting, Cho was ordered by a judge to seek outpatient care after making suicidal remarks to his roommates and went to a health facility for treatment” (Glock). At 7:15 a.m., April 16, 2007, police are notified…

Religious abuse in the family occurs when religious texts or teachings are interpreted to condone abuse (Simonič, Mandelji, & Novsak, 2013). While there is no direct evidence of how many individuals experience religious abuse, a survey of nearly 20,000 human service workers indicated that more than a quarter of them had witnessed it in their work (Bottoms 1995). Both spousal abuse and child abuse can spur from religious abuse in the family. There are also four ways it can manifest itself:…

The occurrence of mass shootings and acts of terrorism have become increasingly common in the United States since the twenty-first century. Since 2000, thousands of United States citizens have died as a direct result of mass shootings and acts of terrorism. However, despite the striking similarities in the motives and damage engendered by these crimes, there are significant discrepancies between the classifications and punishments for the crimes. Depending on the crime, state or federal…

plan for the need of urgency on gun control. This conference consisted of tragedy and sorrow for the innocents who were shot to death by gun violence. Obama talked about the Sandy Hook massacre, the streets of Chicago, Santa Barbara, Newtown and Blacksburg shootings. His plan proposed that gun sellers were going to do a background check on the purchaser. The “sense of urgency” Obama stressed on was to lessen domestic attacks and to make sure that mental people do not get in hand with guns and…

upon the initial concentrations of the sodium bisulphite ions (NaHSO3) and the potassium iodate ions (KIO3). If the concentration is increased In a recent study developed by L.K.Brice of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia found that there is a limit to the application of this relationship. The ratio of the…