Marc Lépine

Many educators fear that a lack of ICT usage in the classroom will result in ‘digital natives’ becoming increasingly disengaged with a system that doesn’t cater to their skills or learning styles. In his article, “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants’, Marc Prensky illustrates how many students at present are feeling unengaged by traditional teaching methodology and content – one student stated, “every time I go to school I have to power down” (Prensky 3). Furthermore he stresses the need for…

their gun control laws. On December 6th, 1989, an eye-opening tragedy for occurred. Twenty-five year old Marc Lepine walked into the University of Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique, murdered 13 female engineering students, a woman staff member and killed himself. The massacre left the victims’ family in devastation and made many Canadians question how safe the nation was from firearms. Since Lepine was mentally unstable, it gave the excuse that it was not the guns that were killing people. This…

Montreal Massacre significantly affected Canada in terms of equality, justice and safety. Numerous individuals had differentiating perspectives on the massacre that took place. Many questions were raised: Why did Marc Lépine shoot and murder fourteen women, while leaving the men alive? Why was Lépine yelling "You’re all feminists?", yet shooting at women who guaranteed they weren 't feminists? (Porter, Catherine) Regardless of the Montreal Massacre being a negative event, the long term…

1. Why is tolerance of the violence done to women acceptable in society? 2. How has gender discrimination and violence against women evolved in society over the century? 3. Which factors in Marc Lepine's upbringing helped create his personality? Anthropology is the social science that focuses on how people are influenced by their geographic region, culture, and religion. The following questions all tie in with the social science, Anthropology. The first question talks about the typical…

through the 1980s. The struggle women faced with discrimination was extremely evident as 14 people were slaughtered, and 13 injured in Montreal. These women had been accepted into an engineering program at École Polytechnique. A man by the name of Marc Lépine, who hadn’t been accepted into the program was angry that women, who he thought were of lesser value than him, were…

On December 6,1989, in one of Canada’s only mass shootings, 14 women were fatally shot and an additional 14 people were injured at the engineering school of École Polytechnique in Montreal by gunman Marc Lépine (Patel). In reaction to the fatal shooting, Canada passed a stricter gun control law in 1995 called Bill C-68 and the Firearms Act was created (Canada). Starting in 1998 a new law was implemented stating that Canadians needed to possess a license…