Bowling for Columbine

Why wait for something bad to happen, why not prevent it before it happens? For these reasons we decided to do our topic on school shootings. School shootings have been a big problem lately, so we decided this would be a good problem/solution topic. School shootings are always devastating when they happen so we decided to find ways to prevent them. Our first solution for preventing school shootings was based on preventing bullying. The reason we chose to prevent school bullying is because…

Look around you the people on the streets, the kids in the news, or how people act towards others. If you see how people act ice cold towards other people on their walk of life it’s not something to see. People in today’s world are so desensitized and don’t do anything for others or just look the other way in others lives. Our social media shows the light on what they want us to see they are what hold the power to make a drastic change if they mean to or not. They could influence what a new…

People Kill People The day was almost over and students were puzzled because the fire alarm started going off. Some students headed out as if it were a drill, but their excitement to get out of class was suddenly interrupted by a burst of gunfire. It soon became clear there was a killer in their school and their lives were in danger. As they ran, defenseless, they witnessed a boy armed with a deadly weapon kill 17 of his classmates that day. America was founded on various principals. Many…

Memorandum TO: John Morris FROM: Jamie Mahan RE: Davis Hilary Case – Successful Recovery DATE: November 19, 2015 Issue Our client, Bobby Jones, is being sued by Davis Hilary, due to an incident that happened on the school bus on April 2, 2011. Our client is being accused of holding down Davis Hilary and threatening him holding a knife in his hand. This memorandum addresses the issue of whether or not Bobby Jones is guilty of threatening Davis Hilary with a knife for no reason? Brief Answer:…

Welcome back to APKN, the world’s latest and greatest news channel. Today’s story is a very hot topic – quite literally! There has been a report of three people, two of which are child delinquents, rescuing 5 eight-year-old children from being burnt alive in a church fire. APKN has confirmation from local school teacher Jerry Wood that the young children are unharmed. “‘Are…’ – I felt weak – ‘are the little kids okay?’ ‘Just fine. A little frightened maybe’” (Lowry 96). Ponyboy…

Professor Michael Sandel started the lecture with several scenarios. The first scenario talked about a trolley car on a track. Professor Sandel wanted the audience individually to be the driver/conductor of said trolley car. As one is driving the trolley car down the track, the brakes malfunction; however, the steering is functioning properly. If the driver of the trolley car continued forward, he would crash into five people. The driver of the trolley car had an alternative solution and a…

The book Newtown by Matthew Lysiak tells the story of the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary. What happened on the day of December 14, 2012, in which so many lives were lost? The morning of December 14, 2012 started out like any other day. Families said goodbye then headed off to work or school. The only difference on that day was that another person left their house, with killing on the mind. Adam Lanza, age 20, left his house that morning equipped with a shotgun and 70 rounds, a rifle…

Author Timothy Wheeler starts out his article with an incident happened at the Cleveland’s Success Tech Academy where four people were injured with no mortality as a result of quick elimination of the shooters. He moves on to point out the vulnerable areas of the ineffective school security and the gun free zone policy that makes school ground an easy target for psychopath killers. To prove his points, he gives us the mass murder of 1999 in Los Angeles Jewish day-care center that committed by…

The Zombie Apocalypse By Michael Cordes November 4, 2018. It all started on September 24, 2018….everyone was screaming and running every direction. All that was left was a group of 11 teens with only knives as weapons. Each one of them carried a bag with food, water, sleeping bags, sharp weapons, and a flashlight with a couple of batteries. I was scared and so was everyone else in my group. I couldn’t believe it...the zombie apocalypse had finally come. “Okay guys, wake up; it’s morning!” I…

The chain of assassination attempts on Hitler started long before he took dictatorship. The series of attempts was started 20 years before World War II. The first assassination attempt on Hitler was on November 1921 when Hitler was speaking at the beer hall rally when a brawl occurred and there was gunshots by unknown assassin toward Hitler. I believe that Hitler was the most hated man back then. Some of the attempts were planned and acted by German people. There was also some assassinations…