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    Gun Control On October 3, 2017 "New York Times" Associate Professor of Purdue University and New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist Ms. Roxane Gay argues that it's time to address concerns of gun control. Gay makes her case after the incident of the Las Vegas shooting. Gay describes in short account of who Stephen Paddock the Las Vegas shooting is, however, goes into great detail regarding the guns that were in his position. Gay also claims that gun stores should have…

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    A Good Man Is Hard To Find. In the beginning of the story the grandmother was very tense and judgmental. She tried convincing everyone why it wasn’t safe to go on the road trip but she still continued to tag along anyways. The grandmother seemed to not have the best relationship with her grandkids in the story. She was very worried and controlling when it came to going to a town with a crazy murderer on the loose. So the grandmother went along with everybody on their road trip to Florida. In…

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    plain lazy. On the other hand, granted there are people who really cannot work, but the majority of people are lazy and choose not to work. I think the media does shape our society in the way gun violence is portrayed, what stories about border control are shared, and how racism is viewed. Media shapes the way gun violence is portrayed. I remember on the 21st day of August in 2006 there was a shooting on the…

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    The Columbine Catastrophe

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    he article I picked was the columbine catastrophe: it is an article that Andrew Gumbel (2009) will always remember it was the principal consistently shooting on a school grounds. On April 20, 1999, two teens went on a shooting binge at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, slaughtering 13 individuals and injuring more than 20 others before turning their firearms on themselves and committing suicide (Gumbel, 2009). The crime was the most exceedingly terrible high school shooting in U.S.…

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    depression, stemming from his consistent romantic failure as documented in his journal. Harris’ journal, available to be read online in full, contains much exposition on his plans for the massacre. By the time of the shooting, he and Klebold owned four guns between…

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    School Shooting Essay

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    The plague of gun violence as taken over the country. School shooting occur from all corners of America. In the Schoolyard chapter of Rick Bragg’s book, described the school shootings at Westside Middle School orchestrated by two juvenile. On March 24, 1998, two boys ambushed students and teachers outside Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Andrew Golden, 11 years old, and Mitchell Johnson, who was 13 years old, was responsible for the tragedy. The two boys, dressed head to toe in…

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    While I do not support violence in daily life, I think violence in film is necessary for certain genres of films for example action films and documentaries. Even though we do not like it, violence is a daily part of real life. At times, in order to depict real life situations and relate to the audience I think violence is needed in films. For me violence adds to the film by making it more believable. I also feel that that if done correctly, violence can add an element of excitement in films. I…

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    Death by fire This story takes place in Corsicana, Texas, where a house fire killed three young children and their father Todd Willingham a twenty-three year old man, accused of setting the fire and killing the children. Initially, there was a lot of evidence against Todd, but later after the execution, fire scientist found no evidence that the fire was arson. At the center of the national death penalty debate in 2010 was a controversial case of Cameron Todd Willingham, the arson-murder of his…

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    Ed Kennedy and his best friend Marvin are face down on the floor while the robbery is taking place. Only hearing that part would make you think that both Ed and his friend Marvin would be somewhat scared for there life since the robber is carrying a gun, but that is not how they are portrayed. Markus Zusak portrays Ed and Marvin as two young men that are easygoing and careless. This is shown in the book as it says, “The worst part about the whole thing is that Marv’s car is standing outside in…

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    ever shot a 20 gauge shotgun ar gone hunting. Mt setting is at my house the weather is warm and it is a saturday. My characters are me and my dad and uncle ted. My gun brand is a mossberg. We head out to the wood to do stuff with my new 20 gauge. When I wake up at about 8 o'clock my dad tells me that we are going to the wood to shoot my gun and learn how to use it. On the way we stop at my uncles to see if went to come and he said sure my cousin logan want's to come and my dad said yes so we…

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