violence, whether that be a school shooting, a robbery, or a car wreck? The media capitalizes on these events to enhance their ratings and get more attention, often glorifying violence in the process. Nowadays, school shootings seem to be a weekly event, higher than ever before, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). They record that in 2021-22 “public and private schools, spanning both elementary and secondary levels, incurred a total of 327 shootings - a record high” (Pilkington…
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In the time that is today, school shootings are sadly a pandemic. Cases such as Sandy Hook, Parkland, and Columbine. Life of today can be scary and confusing for these students. There have been 17 cases of school shootings up till March 24, 2018, as CNN Saeed Ahmed wrote. This possess such a major problem that teachers are going on strike and civilians are petitioning for teachers to have special training before they go further into a teaching carrier. People can have many different reasonable ideas…
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School shooters attack schools because they get bullied or receive hate. They want to get back at those who neglected them and made them feel like they did not belong. Eventually, hatred begins to build up which makes them want to take it out on others. The three main motives of school shootings consist of taking anger out on others, getting physically and mentally abused at home, and wanting to do it because others are doing it. Perpetrators of school shootings get the motivation to hurt those who…
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Every day we turn on the news, we see a new school shooting, we hear about children being bullied and worse, we hear violence that take place between student and faculty/staff. The question is always why? Why did this happen? What could have been done to prevent it? So many questions arise, with little to no answers provided. To answer that question, we must take a closer look into the issue itself. According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention), 1 out of 7 (or 15 million) U.S…
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School shooting is the center of our Nation. It has been devastating to watch the news of young kids dying by the hands of a gun. Now it is time to make a change and protect our staff and students against violence in schools. To save lives, we must strengthen gun laws, improving school security, and communicate with our kids. Gaining the privilege to be armed should be one of the biggest law to yet get pass. Not everyone should be able to carry a firearm around. Especially, if you have committed…
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nation’s first high-profile school shooting, and the beginning of these modern-day tragedies. Two died and nine others wounded that day at Grover Cleveland Elementary school in San Diego, CA. It would be another twenty years before the shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado ushered in the fear of school shootings like none before. Depending on the storyteller, school shootings are either the “new normal” or extremely rare. With every school shooting, debate and vitriol widen the…
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School shootings America schools has become a dangerous place with increase in school shootings. Since 1992 there has been 3867 school shootings. Children as young as twelve and thirteen came to school not to study but to shoot as many people as possible. Kids of the age 5 to 14 living in the United States are thirteen times more likely to be killed by gun than other industrialized country. The motivation behind school shooting involve payback for being harassed and bullied by more…
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the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida at Marjory Douglas High School which claimed the lives of 17 children, there has been national debate on whether or not stricter gun laws need to be put in place to stop this kind of gun violence. Gun control is not the answer to school shootings, people are. There were signs this was going to happen way before the events on February 14th. Earlier in 2017, a tip was sent in to Florida’s FBI field inspector about a potential school shooter. With…
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Australian Film, Television and Radio School Sydney, Australia Abstract: Film and TV productions, a key area in production screen business, comprise of processes with high demand for creativity and flexibility. However, despite the era of fast developing technology, film production processes are carried out in an old fashioned way. This is reflected, for example, by the fact that document processing accompanied by daily shooting activities is still primarily paper-based and coordinating geographically…
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School Violence Analysis at School Characteristics Level By Tao Xu1 Tennessee State University Cell phone: 615-525-1420 Email: xutao1010@gmail.com Abstract This paper uses statistical test to analyze the difference between the type of incidents leads to death and school characteristics. Meanwhile, it also used statistical test to analyze the difference between the rate per 1000 students of theft incident and the type of college. The results confirmed that no difference between the…
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