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During the late 1960’s The Beatle’s were one of the nations most talked about bands and later became known as the most influential act of the rock era. The Beatle’s remain the best-selling band in history with an estimated sale of over 600 million records worldwide. In Alan Glenn’s article Paul Is Dead (Said Fred) he walks us through the truth behind a well-known rumor that lead singer, Paul McCartney, had died in a car accident and how the media had been involved in covering it up.…

depicts neither the relationship between a man and his gun- nor one between a woman and her God or between a woman and her lover. Meaning bearing down on us and, at the same time, eluding us casts doubt on our ability to identify what we are reading, and this mystification is partly a consequence of the way in which the conceit draws attention to its own transparency. In stanza one, for example, it is unclear whether we are to imagine the speaker as gun or as person, and the revealing taint of…

Unfortunately this mental image is pretty much the norm. Between the media and the movies, when one thinks of a mad man they think of a mentally ill person swaying a gun left to right uncontrollably while pacing back and forth. The point of Toms article is to educate that this is not always the case, and to ask people to stop assuming every murderer must be mentally ill. By doing so the people who are mentally ill and…

Gun Background Check 300 million. Think about that number for a second. 300 million guns are in America alone with another 6 million sold every year. Now think, with a stronger background check numbers can be reduced to the people who actually should have a gun (Rosenwald). Gun background checks were brought up during the presidential race after there were so many mass shootings from shooters who failed a background check during the past few years. Both candidates believe that there should…

Veronica Roth Veronica Roth uses the excellent writing craft to write powerful impacting books including Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant, and Four. Veronica’s writing is so descriptive it’s easy for readers to visualize, includes strong character development, and gives morals to the readers. The craft connects the reader’s life to the story, influencing the reader to be brave, take a change, and embrace life as much as you can. Roth adds great detail allowing her readers to visualize. For…

Chris Kyle is considered the deadliest sniper in U.S. military history, with over confirmed kills. Many people know about his service overseas, but not many people know about his life after leaving the Navy. 22 veterans commit suicide every single day due to PTSD. After leaving the Navy, Chris Kyle wanted to change this. He began working with a friend to help disabled veterans, The organization, “Troops First” would take the veterans to a ranch to hunt, shoot, and have good times. In doing…

In Robert Kolker’s Lost Girls a large portion of the story relies on Kolker’s attention to detail. Because of the nature of murder investigations, Kolker must be careful in his interpretation of police reports. One of the major details Kolker must not overlook is the timeline of the murder investigation. Although the first victims were discovered in December of 2010 some of the victims, such as Maureen Brainard-Barnes were reported missing as early as 2007. Ever since the discovery of the first…

his waistband for what appeared to be a gun when the officers arrived.There have been many cases where kids have been shot because they thought that they were real guns, but they were fake, so police need to start paying attention because a lot of kids carry toy guns, and if this continues to happen it will get out of hand. So from now on when people see a child with a “gun” make sure it is a real gun before you fire your own weapon because it could be a to gun and you just shot an innocent kid…

Writing about this topic hits home to me,not because I was directly involved with this case it is because I have a younger brothers that would have fit the description of Trayvon Martin that night. It was not until the unfortunate killing of the young teen that I learned about the "Stand your ground" law. "Stand your ground law constitutes of a person presumed to have held a reasonable fear of imminent danger or great bodily harm to himself or another person,when using or threatening to use a…

switch over to the fire your gun should glow red when you do. Today your goal is to score the most points. The closer you get to the bullseye the more points you can get. You can fire when ready and when you run out of ammo set your gun down and flip the switch to safety. Oh and there is one other thing, you will rarely fire at stationary targets.” He reached up and pulled a lever down the targets began to move back and forth. “Now go.” I then flipped the switch to fire. The gun began to glow a…