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    Charleston Church Shooting. Although, violence rates in America are steadily decreasing violence is still a major problem in America. First of all, American gun crimes have continued to claim innocent lives. For example, on April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed fifteen students at Columbine High School in Columbine Colorado. The duo placed several makeshift bombs around the school then attempted to detonate them. When the bombs failed to explode they entered the school and…

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    Why They Did It In the year of 1999, a tragedy occurred at Columbine High School, in Colorado, when two kids by the names of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris decided to shoot up an innocent high school. The two managed to kill twelve students, one teacher, and themselves. In Dylan’s early life he was gifted and involved in sports, but later in his life Dylan started having suicidal thoughts. Dylan wrote about pain, conflict, and suicide in his journal. The story quotes, “Death equaled freedom now;…

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    April 20, 1999, 24 people are injured and 15 people are killed including the shooters. The shooters are Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Nobody knows why they did it exactly. Some people say it was because of bullying, violent video games, or even ‘dark music’ bands. I believe that Eric was a psychopath and Dylan was just depressed and here’s why. Dylan Klebold was depressed. We know this from his diary entries as he talks about suicide many times. Dylan wrote in his journal: “Thinking of suicide…

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    The Columbine school shooting was a mass murder of students and teachers at Columbine high school. The shooters Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris had been be planning this attack for about a year before they opened fire on the 20th of April in 1999. Dylan and Eric unleashed, killing 15 people total, 12 of which being students and one teacher. The other two? The other two people killed were Dylan and Eric, they took their own lives away. It would become the 5th deadliest school shooting in American…

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    feminism, they gave birth to the Women Liberation Movement. Female activists like Mary Wollstonecraft and Olympe de Gouges broke ground for modern feminists like Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes. To this day women are still fighting to break the glass ceilings holding them back, such as the current wage gap. Women of the enlightenment began the over three-hundred-year long fight for equality. Great authors like Mary Shelly showed people that woman could contribute to culture and could…

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    The concept of gender plays a significant role in the interpretation of religious artifacts. Many historians, religious insider, and academic scholars spend their time trying to decipher the meaning of a religious text. The purpose of this essay is to justify the inversion of Peter’s gender to that of a woman, in Matthew 16: 13-20, based on the concepts that Jesus was the most accepting of sinners, women deserve a chance at redemption, and women are the archetype for motherhood and creation. In…

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    Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) The Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) is qualitative laboratory paradigm used for assessing caregiver-infant attachment. The main focus of the SSP is on attachment behaviours. It promopt attachment behaviours through separation and reunion epsiodes and classifies children into attachment categories based on patterns of behaviours. As mentioned by Bowlby (1969/1982), it is believed that attachment behaviours become activated under fearful or stressful conditions…

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    when female writer Mary Shelley wrote the first Frankenstein book? Since Mary Shelley’s first publication, her tale of creation and destruction has claimed a central place in Anglo-American culture (Heller). “I do know that the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other” (Frankenstein’s quotes). Mary Shelley’s…

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    Smith educates the audience on the major religion of Mary Shelley’s time period and what that meant for the Frankenstein monster. She addresses that while the monster does read some religious stories, he ultimately learns morality from watching the family in the cottage. This article is a college level text…

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    In Act 1, when John first enters onstage, he initially encounters Abigail Williams, Mercy Lewis, and Mary Warren. After sending out Mary, his servant, Abigail comments on how aggressive Proctor can be; a callback to the sentiments Abigail still has for Proctor. Later, it is revealed that Abigail, while serving the Proctor family, was having a secret affair with John.…

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