El Mozote massacre

We trust our teachers to mold and develop 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…

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…

Arming Teachers Puts Students at Risk “I want less 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…

America has the most school shootings in the entire world and this country thinks that teachers should not carry guns. Liberals believe nobody should carry guns at all but they forget that criminals do not abide by the laws and are going to do what they want. The weapons that are used in school shootings are brutal. Criminals use pipe bombs, and primarily rifles since they are better for mass shootings. Banning guns will not change a thing the only way this is possible is if we take action by…

Gun control What is the number one reason 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…

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…

specific way about a certain topic, for instance. Bowling for Columbine draws your eye to one specific topic throughout the 2 hour documentary which is the gun control in America, how easy it is to get your hands on a gun and the Columbine High school massacre in 1999. Documentaries allow you to reflect on an issue within your society and engage with the world. Documentaries help you to see the bigger picture on an issue. Documentaries allow you to develop an opinion on an issue. Michael Moore…

film includes aspects of the Columbine High School Massacre where a total of 12 students were murdered due to a violent school shooting. A school is stereotyped to comprise of students encouraging one another with compassion and respect and for most parts this stereotype is true, however, cases such as the massacre at Columbine High School occur. Moore excels at looking into the violence that can occur in schools. Two students who survived the massacre are introduced in the film whom still have…

Kingdom Come expresses the culture of violence through the recklessness of the metahumans. There are many graphic depictions of the results of the metahumans fighting each other. In the article Killings on Campus by Neal Gabler, Gabler suggests that the group of people that are very susceptible to the violence “have always been alienated teenagers, and the media have always supplied models for them, often violent ones and yet most of them managed to resist emulating the violence. In fact, many…

exchanged several instant messages using MySpace social media with his classmates from his home computer. Wynar bragged about having an arsenal of weapons and threatened to shoot and kill several classmates on the anniversary of the Columbine School Massacre. Wynar also bragged he would kill more students than those who died at Virginia Tech, which at the time was the deadliest school shooting on record. Several students reported the instant messages to school authorities, except Wynar…