Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Conflict is part of life. According to Criminal Behavior by Curt and Anne Bartol, during the 2009-2010 school year an estimated 49 million students Pre K–12th grade attended school. Of those 49 million students 359,000 reported violent victimizations, and of those 91,400 were serious violent victimizations. A child’s experiences in their home, school, family, community, and peer groups factor into how a child’s behavior is formed. “Other factors include biological influences. including…

Mass shootings and mass murders in schools have become a heated argument again in the United States following the recent attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Nineteen year old, expelled student Nikolas Cruz pulled the fire alarm to lure students and staff out into the hallways where he opened fire on the victims using an AR-15 assault rifle. Cruz took the lives of 17 and wounded another 14 others before being subdued and arrested. This violence has reignited the…

My friend Anna came to America because she believed that she would receive a better education than that of her home country, Nigeria. Instead she found that it was better in resources but relatively the same in the academics. The teachers and teachers alike mocked her for her accent and she did not feel as though she really knew what she was supposed to do once she left high school. America is widely known for being a “dreamland” , where everything is bigger and better but it is not the…

classmates who were shot get carried out by police. I cannot unsee the bodies on the floor.” These are the words of current high school student and Parkland school shooting survivor, Morgan Williams. Along with all of the other students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and the numerous students from any schools that have faced acts of violence in their learning place, Morgan Williams never could have expected an event of such great magnitude to occur at a place where she expected to be…

Looking at headlines all over the United States, they have been flooded with negativity and tragedy. The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has left many families in shock. The lives taken are an unimaginable thing for these families to go through. The damage done by the shootings that have happened throughout time have left big questions on how to deal with the loss of a loved one to something so tragic. Even for the fellow students who didn’t lose a direct member of the family,…