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    Lake View School Name Institution Lake View School On March 4th the year 1908, the American Society mourned the lives of 172 students and two teachers who were trapped in by the fire that occurred at around nine o’clock in Lake View School. The fire was said to have escalated as a result of uncovered cables in the boiler room. The uncovered wires were exposed to woods which led to the fire outbreak in the basement of the school building. The fire incident led to the formulation of new…

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    unexplained deaths are tragic, yes, but it also helps to support the cause of keeping them away from the monsters that lie in the woods. Such as Ivy Walker the blind daughter to the head Elder Edward walker. Whom hold Lucius son to another elder in high regard and affections. When Lucius is stabbed by Noah a man with developmental and learning disability out of jealousy, Lucius falls ill with infection and will die if he does not get the proper medication. Edward goes against the rules of all…

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    our children into outstanding young adults, and we enact policies that make sure every child has a safe education. It seems though, we can not put the same trust and polices together to provide a safer education for the new generation. With all the school shootings happening, teachers are beginning to speak up and say they are comfortable carrying concealed handguns in the classroom. While in the classroom the teachers word is law, many parents are protesting this, because they think it could…

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    The idea of having to wear a school uniform originated from England when boys with hair above their shoulders and girls with dresses below their ankles. School uniforms are slowly coming back and they are being used in more public schools today. Public schools should use school uniforms because students would not be jealous of others and students would be more focused on their grades rather than their clothes. If schools used uniforms students would be less jealous of others. In Detroit a 15…

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    guns in schools, not more” (April Griffin, School Board Chairman of Hillsborough Schools, found in the article “EDUCATORS: WE DON’T WANT TO BE ARMED; Administrators and teachers strongly oppose the idea that they need guns in class” in the Tampa Bay Times written by Times staff writer Ben Montgomery). Because of the dramatic increase in school shootings since the Columbine High School attacks, America is faced with the dilemma of whether or not to arm teachers during school hours. School staff…

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    that parents worry about their children in schools? The reason is the increased numbers of school shootings across the United States. The school shootings happen almost twice a week during last year which often end with the killer shoot and kill about a dozen of school students before the shooter were killed by the police's lethal force. The result can be damage families, community, and friends. In order to stop the school shootings in the USA, the school system must increase their security,…

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    According to a data analysis conducted by Harvard School of Public Health, the percentage of college shootings has tripled over the past five years. What should our governments, state or national, do to reduce this statistic? What practical steps should be enforced to protect the safety of college students? Whether it be the college’s administration, or a law produced by the state governments, colleges should be forced to devise an evacuation stratagem for precautions, install an overhead…

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    The mass shooting and Sandy Hook Elementary School, changed many people's’ lives forever. Some people lost their lives, others lost their friend, child, sibling, or loved ones. This country will forever be changed after this shooting took place. On December 14, 2012 A gunman was running rampage in Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown Connecticut. Many did not know how to initially react to the situation but a mother, Nicole Hockley, took leadership to help mend her own life along with those…

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    Conversation #1 In “Let Teenager Try Adulthood”, Leon Botstein writes that schools finally confronted something suspected after the shootings that happened at Columbine High School in Colorado. He also writes that american high school is ”obsolete and should be abolished.” Botstein says that after the shooting high school students, current students and alumni, had stories about cliques and popularity. He explains that high school is “a world defined by insiders and outsiders, in which the…

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    elementary school, possible the worst place for it to happen. There was a total of twenty-six deaths, twenty of them were little kids ages six to seven, the rest of them were adults. The first police officer arrived in two minutes and forty-one seconds after a nine one one call was made (http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/12/us/sandy-hook-timeline/). How scary that must have been for those people knowing that it takes so long for the cops to respond, while there is a killer in the school. Over…

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