Three Days Before the Shooting

could memorize a 12 syllable list by studying it 68 times and the next day giving himself a refresher of seven repetitions before testing himself. He then learned that he could study for much less time, half to be exact, simply by spreading out his learning throughout three days. When spacing out his studying throughout a period of three days he would only have to study the list 38 times along with the seven repetition refresher before testing himself. This discovery by Ebbinghaus has lead to…

October 1, 2017 friends, family and strangers gathered to take part in the Route 91 Harvest festival. The Route 91 Harvest festival is a open-aired venue that lasts up to three days and is spread out on a 15 acre concrete lot on the Las Vegas Strip. Big country influencers such as Jason Aldean, Jake Owen and Sam Hunt were up to perform that night. As headliner Jason Aldean came onto stage and started to perform a series of pops echoed through the night. Aldean didn’t hear then, festival goers…

prescribe a low that can control the gun business and make it difficult to obtain a weapon. According to The Trace, “from 2005-2015, 301,797 were killed by gun violence” (Mascia). In addition, this year 2016, 36 Americans were killed on an average day by guns (Mascia). However, the previous statists will not be surprising, particularly there are approximately 300 million guns in the USA, which means…

It was a time in America when being gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender was forbidden but those days are beyond us. The times have changed to where it is no longer a secret, for some of the country it has accepted that they are human beings and are promised to the same rights as everyone else. Unfortunately, everyone doesn’t feel the same and due…

N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Feb. 2015. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_moves>. Next, the hesitation is a technique that allows players to play with the defender game by tricking him. This is not so much of a move as a strategy were a player pauses before making a dribble to keep the defender guessing and this usually allows the player to slip by. “Basketball Moves.” Wikipedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Feb. 2015. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_moves>. Last but not least, the…

Gun control these days in the United States of America is an immense topic and I purpose that we should follow as a nation on what other countries are doing about it to guard ourselves from each other and other threats that may invade our homeland. In which, I believe in arming more people would reduce mass shootings in the United States, just like how the Germans use the Autobahn to prevent accidents with unlimited speed for that freeway. As for giving guns to everyone, it may include a side…

often but that's what I live by . Growing up, I've been a child who looked at the world with open curious eyes. In fact, I grew up in a small city called Daura located in Iraq. I am the middle child out of three girls. I was born in the late 90s, I have been told that it was the end of "the good days". That's when Iraq's political circumstances we're not at peace at all, in 2003 another war broke out in Iraq. My family felt threatened by all the violence the country was going through. That's…

challenges over its lifespan, but what did Americans living through those conflicts of the past think during the time? David Martin was kind enough to share his thoughts and experiences through such trials. He survived the Vietnam War, the Kent State shootings, and the Cold War, wrote the security doctrine for the Air Force, worked on making the country safer following 9/11, not to mention his countless other experiences he was unable to elaborate on. To truly understand the American obstacles…

Binijamin Wilkomirski's Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood, is to consider Binijamin's life before he was taken away from his home in Latvia, his life during the Nazi concentration camps, his life under a Swiss identity in a Swedish orphanage, and his return to the real world. Wilkomirski captures our hearts through young innocent eyes, knowing only his life as a number from the time he is roughly three to four years old. Wilkomirski…

Ferguson, Missouri. No justice seems to be served for African Americans. There are many events where Negros were killed for minor reasons. The shooting of Michael Brown occurred on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, an 18-year-old black man, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, 28, a white Ferguson police officer. The disputed circumstances of the shooting of the unarmed man sparked existing tensions in the predominantly black city. On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner died in Staten Island, New…