Three Days Before the Shooting

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    Martin an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Igniting a national debate on racial profiling and civil rights. Trayvon Martin was walking back from a nearby 7-Eleven before the crime was acted upon (Bay News 9 Staff). After three weeks of testimony, the six-women jury rejected the prosecution’s contention that Mr. Zimmerman had deliberately pursued Mr. Martin because he assumed the hoodie-clad teenager was a criminal and instigated the…

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    Basketball Point Guard

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    had the best percentage of three points and percentage of field goals – 2-points, on the team, with an average of 75 percentage average in both areas last season. Unfortunately this season he is struggling severely in both areas, he has been examined and it has been determined he has no injuries. During his off-season that was approximately 4 months long, he changed his workout strategies. He workout sessions were 6 days a week and workout included 3 times a day, and before he concluded each…

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    It has been 55 years since the John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassination in Dallas TX. Right now it’s 2018 and a lot of questions are still circulating about that day, but the main question that everyone have is why? There has been many theories about what happened on November 22, 1963, many people think that the CIA had an involvement of the JFK assassination because of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, others think that the CIA worked with the mafia to kill JFK and others think the Vice President…

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    troops in Vietnam. During the Vietnam War era, tensions were on the rise as anti-war efforts expanded and spread to college campuses all though out the country. At the height of the tension was the Kent State shooting, also known as the Kent State Massacre, which took place on May 4th 1970. The days that led up to May 4th were full of sit-ins, protests, and civil unrest as a reaction the President Nixon’s recent decision to put boots on the ground in…

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    Batman Application Essay

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    Denver University Pioneer Application Essay In this essay I will be sharing with you one of the most horrific, traumatic and probably the most definitive moments of my life. Here I will explain what happened and how it affected my life - The Aurora shooting at the Century 16 Movie Theater. So there I was sitting in my seat, talking to my friend, Spenser and her boyfriend Austin and our moms. So I am sitting there waiting for the movie to start. I had just bout myself a new Batman t-shirt.…

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    founding fathers made these laws as a precaution. Today we have updated guns. Therefore, we need updated gun laws to keep the blood off the streets. In 2015, there were 475 people killed because of school shootings. Since 2012, that number has been slowly rising. The date is April 20th, 1999. A day that everyone will soon know to be beginning of an era. Two boys showed up outside Columbine. There were both wearing trench coats and carrying assault weapons. The first victim fell dead outside…

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    Qa Lab Day 1 Essay

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    QA Lab day one: I tested five games during this QA lab ,There Might Be Ponds, office mayhem, Kanji Samurai, The Fog, and an unnamed tower defence game. All five of the games tested where digital and for the most part functional. I had never tested these games before this being my first QA lab. I enjoyed most of the games thoroughly but i found myself liking There Might Be Ponds the most. There Might Be Ponds is a charmfull puzzle game that implements a intersting to hand mechanic in which you…

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    and again they ignore credible testimony, leads are never followed up, its conclusions are selective, there's no index, it's one of the sloppiest, most disorganized investigations I’ve ever seen. Dozens and dozens of witnesses in Dealey Plaza that day are saying they heard shots coming from the Grassy Knoll area in front of Kennedy and not the Book…

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    themselves at the conclusion of the shooting. Both had been bullied severely, but had friends other than each other. Harris had a history of depression and suicidal thoughts, and was prescribed medication for this. Klebold had more severe depression, stemming from his consistent romantic failure as documented in his journal. Harris’ journal, available to be read online in full, contains much exposition on his plans for the massacre. By the time of the shooting, he and Klebold owned four guns…

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    to carry a firearm but was nevertheless reaching for his wallet.As his hand went into his pocket, the officer shot him four times. His girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, began to take a video. He was rushed to a hospital and died, 30 minutes after the shooting. Reynolds’ video went viral on Facebook and caused a national scandal. Philando Castile was black. The officer who shot him was white. Police brutality caused this. Police brutality…

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