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    Levine told him he was “kind of correct” (Turkewitz). Tracy Heu is a nursing student who was in the classroom during Harper-Mercer’s attack and witnessed what exactly happened during the shooting. Laurel Harper is the mother of Christopher Harper-Mercer, who encouraged his love of guns and went shooting with him all the time, and it was also known that she and her son both have Asperger’s. The impact this had on Umpqua Community College is that nine of the students were killed, including one teacher, and the whole campus closed down and was under lockdown for hours. Eventually students were allowed to leave several hours later. In the Virginia Tech shooting, Seung Hui Cho is the gunman who killed 32 people at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. Erin Peterson and Julia Pryde were two of the students who were killed. Later their families sued for wrongful death, saying that the school should have notified students of the shooting earlier. After the shooting, a donation of over $100,000 went to each of the 32 victims’ families as well as the survivors. The state of Virginia offered an $11,000,000 agreement for all that were involved in the shooting, but the agreement was also a contract that the families of who suffered and lost their loved ones gave up all rights to sue the school, state, and government. The timeframe of the Roseburg, Oregon shooting is October 1, 2015. The shooting in Roseburg, Oregon has been resolved in…

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    Guns laws have become the forefront of conversation on all Texas Universities as of June 2015. There have been several school shootings that have taken place all around the United States. The two that stand out the most according to the news are Virginia Tech and Lonestar College. The headlines in 2013 were 3 wounded and 2 detained. This was regarding the shooting that took place at Lonestar College in Houston, Texas on January 22, 2103. “The Houston shooting comes roughly a month after the…

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    Introduction On April 16th 2007 in Blacksburg, VA at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Seung-Hui Cho a senior at the university shot a total of 49 people, killing 32 of them, then proceeded to turn the gun on himself in one of the most disastrous school murder-suicides of all time. One of the most casualty producing school shootings of all time. The damage was the lives of the taken students and the psychological health of those at the university. Within this shooting there were two incidents.…

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    Rana Plaza Was It Safe

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    every one of the factory buildings in which workers have died in fires and collapses in Bangladesh since 2010 had been repeatedly inspected by industry monitors. These were not subcontract factories flying beneath the industry’s radar. (Nova 34) This quotation from Scott Nova shows how the factories do run inspections, but the quality of them becomes a problem. How are all of these factories collapsing with inspections being done? When answering this question, Scott Nova says “the only…

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    Virginia Tech Incident

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    Most the agencies acted for themselves and not as a whole to support the innocence involved. The Incident Commander position was held by all the chiefs of the different agencies groups involved. “The lead investigative agencies for the shooting at Virginia Tech were the Virginia Tech Police and the Virginia State Police” (FBI, 2007).There was no true plan set in place. Overall, the responders did a great job in protecting and aiding students on campus on campus that day. The span of control…

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    Held Off Gunman

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    for everyone’s life, Mr. Perkins takes leadership, regardless of fear. “’ I told people that were still up and conscious, ‘just be quiet because we don’t want him to think there are people in here because he’ll come back in,” he says. (Hernandez 2). With gunshots echoing through the vacated hallway, students begin to throw themselves at the door to prevent another appearance of the ruthless killer. “The gunman tried to force his way back inside the classroom, where Mr. Perkins was using his…

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    Overview of NYU Langone Medical Center The hospital is located in Manhattan serving academic and medical roles. The facility has five inpatient locations spread across the New York City area that are Rusk Rehabilitation, Tisch Hospital, Hospital for Joint Diseases, NYU Lutheran Medical Center, and the Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital of New York (NYU Langone Medical Center). Patient care services offered at the include facility imaging, emergency care, medical, billing and insurance, and patient…

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    parents said in a poll published this week that they expect to support their child for more than two years after graduation, up from 18 percent the year before. More than 16 percent think that arrangement will last more than five years, according to the poll, conducted by massive education lender Sallie Mae (Akane Otani, 2015). This is where it might get difficult for some people. As human we tend to let our pride get in the way of our lives. Some people, including me hate the idea of asking for…

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    After a scheduled interview, I was offered the internship on the spot. I was ecstatic and beyond thankful. After a month of working as an intern, I was offered a full-time position. I am currently working in the Medical Records Department at a mental health private practice. Once a week, I get the opportunity to meet with Psychologists, LMHC’S, MHC’S AND MSW professionals for an hour in a case conference. I enjoy this very much because it makes me more interested in the field of counseling. It’s…

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    Administration Management. The college choices that I have in mind to transfer to are Lehman College or New York University. These two colleges are quite different in ways such as size, tuition and fees, financial aid, distance from home, social events, atmosphere and reputation. The first difference between Lehman College and New York University is that Lehman College is a medium size school with a total population of 12,085 students. In contrast, New York University is a large size school with…

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