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    The metal detector was used to help many instances over history, one being an attempt to locate the bullet that assassinated President James Garfield in 1881. The metal detector was also very important in finding sunken ships, gold, and money and many more discoveries. Using electromagnetic induction, the metal detector was able to evolve over the years. Alexander Bell, had created one to help locate bullets in soldiers and later one in the President James Garfield, a man named Gerald Fisher…

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    Security was increased at theaters across the U.S. and theater companies enacted new rules to protect patrons. However, similar incidents have occurred and many believe that the best way to put a stop to theater violence would be to install metal detectors in theaters across the nation.…

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    Metal detecting on beaches is among the most favored spare-time activities amongst the people who reside near a seacoast. It is an unusual day that you are out enjoying the sunshine at the beach that you don't see someone with a metal detector in their hand. Almost everyone has had the misfortune of losing something valuable at the beach and it is the person who carries a metal detector around that reaps the benefit. Regrettably, with the hobby expanding so rapidly, metal detecting on beaches…

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    Gun Safety In Schools

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    safe place where they are free to explore and expand their learning. The few ways of increasing school security mentioned in this paper provide the positive effects that would come from each of these. Designating police officers, installing metal detectors, and forming educational classes about gun violence all have positive benefits that take into account how they would impact students which is first and foremost. Increasing school security is most definitely going to be costly but students’…

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    Computed Tomography

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    Computed tomography (CT) is a computerized method that uses a computer to process the data collected from the passage of x-ray beams through the region of interest. The multislice CT (MSCT) means CT that the system equipped with multiple rows of CT detectors to create images of multiple sections. The data obtained from the patient will be transformed into “cuts” or cross-sectional slices of the human body (Romans, 2011). In early 1970, they use a single slice CT scan that contributes too many…

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    awareness in students and faculty, and having metal detector check points at schools. According to a Harvard research by Amy Cohen, Deborah Azrael and Matthew Miller, the rate of mass shootings alone has tripled since 2011 in the United States (Cohen, Azrael, Miller, 2014). Defined by the Brady Campaign and restated by Factcheck.org, “major school shootings are any incident in which the shooter was directly linked to the school and…

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    isn't as easy as ‘ Good guy with a gun stops bad guy with a gun.’ Says Wayne LaPierre CEO of National Rifle Association. I feel that schools should explore their options before giving teachers guns or not. Schools should look into things such as metal detectors because they can stop school shootings before they even happen.…

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    their body as a whole (Hagar, 2010, p. 2). People believe this because they think that people should not need to be seen nude in order to secure an airplane. 40 year old Tashia Peters of Longview, Washington states that “they have all of these metal detectors and drug-sniffing dogs and bomb equipment, so why now do we have to get nude?” (p. 1). Peters is arguing that the TSA has all these other forms of security to keep passengers safe, so why do they decide to use the one that invades one’s…

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    Full-Body Scanners

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    in the 1970’s, when the chief concern was hijackings, not terrorist bombings. So while the metal detectors we all step through can uncover guns, knives, and other metal weapons, they can’t find hidden explosives” (“Should Full-Body Scanners Be Used In U.S. Airports?”, 2010, p. 4). Mark Fischetti is explaining that the prior forms of security used by the Transportation Security Administration can detect metal objects but can’t find any explosives. With the use of full-body scanners; however, they…

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    significant amount of students who now see school as unsafe. Metal detectors, security cameras, and many other security safeguards have been a regular necessity for schools. Instead of using these things as a last resort effort to prevent violence there needs to be a less invasive plan in place that limits the security presence on campuses without it being overwhelming. A popular solution most schools are coming to is installing metal detectors at the entrance of the school in order…

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