Three Days Before the Shooting

Primary Source Analysis: Shooting an Elephant George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant” was first published in 1936 in a literary magazine. Though it was written ten years before the United States emerged as a super power and surpassed Britain on the world stage, this essay could be viewed as an article that questioned the validity of the British Empire, as well at it’s hold on it’s citizens and the world it seemed to rule. The story is told in a first person narrative by a man who worked for the…

Three important people have made an impact on the world just by having speeches. These speeches are very important. Two of the speeches made a difference in life. The other is about honoring our soldiers that died. The first one I will be talking about is “ The Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln. THen the speech “ I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr. The last one is “ The Man on the Moon’ by John F. Kennedy. I will be comparing and contrasting all three speeches. I will tell the…

My knees quivered, and I was paralyzed with fear. Faster and faster the mortar tipped; It came down with a thud. BOOM ... BOOM ... BOOM ... ! Three explosions rang out, and the mortars accelerated toward us at the speed of light. As if we were in Star Wars, streaks of light zoomed past our faces, and at this point, my uncle exclaimed, “Hit the deck!”, and my quick witted cousin hollered, “GRENADE…

The case was sent back to the original court and Richardson was resentenced to three years in state prison. This book touched on everything we have reviewed in class this semester. The first half of the book describes mainly the arrest and incarceration details of James Richardson. No Heroes, No Villains relates in many ways to chapter…

To Kill a Mockingbird In our society, the 21st century, racism continues to exist but is not as prominent as in the 20th century. In the 20th century, caucasians were expected to be racist towards not just African-Americans but everyone who was not white. Looking back at race relations in the 20th century, cohesive relationships between different races was for the most part non-existent. Each race was considered separate; segregation was not only expected but was the law. in the novel, To…

The distinctions between serial, mass and sensational or murders who are on a killing spree are, serial killers murder three or more people or as we say victims, but on separate occasions they normally select their victims and have periods of time in between before the next killing, serial murders also like to plan out their murders carefully and will travel to find their victims others may stay in a general area. Serial killers also may have specifics, such as they may target a specific type of…

Every day in the local news, viewers witness a host of tragedies that have hit Chicago every weekend and sometimes every night. Many of the stories featured concern gun violence and the amount of deaths or injuries resulting from it. It has become a problem so synonymous with our city that many people, from neighborhood activists to politicians at Capitol Hill, have expressed their opinions as to what the city and its residents could do to either minimize or eradicate the violence. In late 2013,…

Mark Stroman (Giridharadas 107). Tom had gone to the trial to support Mark as a friend, as he went through his trial and sentencing. Only days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Mark Stroman had sealed his fate and chose to avenge the sister that he lost in the fallen buildings. He named himself the ‘Arab Slayer’ and killed two of the three men that he shot during his quest for vengeance. Through all the choices in his life, Mark had always made his choice for others…

Gaming today is widely known as part of our cultural scene. Computer and video games have come a long way since the days of Pac-Man, Frogger, Tetris, Super Mario, Angry birds and Tic-Tac-Toe, and so have those who have played them. Nowadays, games are enjoyed by all type of players and backgrounds and parents are more involved in making sure that the ones their children plays are age-appropriate. Although, the initial concern on playing video games is that it is not an active way for children…

altercation left the Intended Target’s friend, the Victim also fourteen, dead. Two weeks prior to the incident, the Offender was jumped and beat up by a group of girls that included both Victim and Intended Target. Intended Target threatened Offender the day of the event with a message indicating she was going to die. In preparation of retaliation against the Intended Target, Offender was handed a gun by her uncle. She was further provoked by her aunt who quoted, “shoot the bitch [Intended…