Community Bombings And Shootings

The mean number of victims per mass shooting incident is not significantly different between the 1990s, the 2000s, and the 2010s (so far). Also, the mean number of victims per mass shooting incident is not significantly different between Republican-leaning states and Democratic-leaning states. Finally, the difference in average number of victims per mass shooting incident between Republican-leaning states and Democratic-leaning states does not change across decades.

After the tragic incidents displayed on 9/11, Americans came to together as ONE nation united. Some gathered in church and synagogues while others in community centers and homes to show strength and support for our nation. For our country, we echoed to the rest of the world ‘United We Stand.’

Communities play an essential role in the development of the self and learning about the stranger. Through communities, individuals are able to socialize and gain a greater understanding of each other. A community can be defined in many different ways based on every individual’s experience with it. Developing a strong community takes time. Some people, like Jeannette Walls, do not have the opportunity to develop strong communities throughout their childhood.

A community is a place where people around supposed to be able to live and thrive together. When one thinks of a community, the image that most likely is visualized is one of a place where each person lives harmoniously with all the other members of that community. While this may be the typical image of a community, it is not the realistic view. In reality communities can share both good and bad aspects. In Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf, and Todd Swanstrom make the argument that the place a person lives ultimately matters over all else; the place which a person lives effects the choices that that he/she makes and determines his/her ability to obtain a

In the argumentative essay “A Quilt of a Country” by Anna Quindlen, Quindlen argues that tragedy and a common enemy connect the people of the United States as seen by her reference to past events. Quindlen discusses the effects of the World Trade Center attacks by stating, “Today the citizens of the United States have come together once more because of armed conflict and enemy attack. Terrorism has led to devastation‒ and unity.” During the World Trade Center attacks, citizens united and helped each other; grieved with one another. The attack made the nation silent as we all offered a shoulder to grieve on and a hand to help. Quindlen depicts the effects of the World Trade Center attacks by stating, “When photographs of the faces of all those

First, community is our “home.” We have been living in a community ever since we were just little babies and it has always influenced us. Communities have played a big part in who we are today. We start off in school not knowing anyone or anything and as you get older you begin to think about the

A community is a group of people who live in the same area, interact with each other, and share certain norms and values. A community is defined as a locality-based entity, composed of systems of formal organizations reflecting societal institutions, informal groups, and aggregates that are interdependent and whose function or expressed intent is to meet a wide variety of collective needs (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012).

Without a doubt there is a lot of violence on the news today, from mass shootings to murder almost every day. The violence happening should have schools and work places concerned and working better security to their environment. Mass shootings that have occurred over the years such as the Sandy Hook Elementary School, Aurora Movie Theater and the University of California had shooter that had been diagnosed with one or more mental issue. In the article by Jonathan Metzel, he explained each of the three shootings that are listed above in detail. Jessica Jigmond stated in her article that by voting having better gun laws could help prevent shootings to occur and killing innocent people. The last article Guns, Schools, and

In the essay, A Quilt of A Country: Out of Many, One? (The Quilt) by Anna Quindlen, Quindlen writes her work on the basis that America can join together in times of distress. In her work, she wrote that violent acts such as terrorism lead to “devastation-- and unity” and the act

In Anna Quindlen’s argumentative essay , “A Quilt of a Country” she argues that conflict and atrocities bring the citizens of the United States together. The author’s use of real-life events and experiences communicates how unity, especially occurs after a conflict . During her analysis of the Cold War and its’ aftermath, she explains,”Today the citizens of the United States have come together once more because of armed conflict and enemy attack.” Here, Quindlen compares the cold war’s devastating effects on society to 9/11’s effect on the country. She analyses how, in both instances, society’s post-traumatic sense of unity brought citizens all across the country together as one.

No American in the right age bracket will forget what happened on September 11, 2011. It was on of the most devastating days that took place in American history that left our country by shock and in a very vulnerable state. That day 19 men showed up and untimely in a few hours terrorized America in a way we have never seen before. (Dunbar & Reagan,2006 pg x). As a country we did come together for the time being we were united and helped one another because we had no other choice. We didn 't see race, political backgrounds or if the person was rich or poor we saw citizens who were in need and that our country had just been attacked and we needed to help.

Anna Quindlen, explains in her story, “A Quilt of a county” that, “Today the citizens of the United States have come together once more because of armed conflict and enemy attack.” If people have been able to create unity it should be possible to make it a long lasting sense of togetherness. Instead of letting “Terrorism... led to devastation—and unity” and tragedy force an artificial state of unity that doesn't last, the nation need to let it persuade us to strive for unity and to learn how to have tolerance so the superficial feeling of uniformity progresses in a permanent state of harmony. Quindlen then states that there is no point in trying to “ isolate anything remotely resembling a national character” because the nation is not able to create the genuine feeling so why bother creating a temporary

We as a society are “Connected to death, to fear, to the unknown, but in being so connected one could feel empathy, passion, and heroism as well (Solnit, 55)”. Solnit is speaking of the tragedy of the 9/11 attacks in 2001. A life altering event for our entire nation struck in a blink of an eye. The same reaction spread with school shootings such as Columbine and Sandy Hook. We, as a nation, bond over tragedy and failure in order to boost back morale, strength, and hope. Solnit, in this section of reading, focuses on the act of togetherness, from 9/11 to the Zapatistas, to present day. Time and time again our society is shown to thrive amongst our walls in the act of togetherness, producing more hope, reason, and caring than any other time. This made me think, why do we only become cohesive and accepting when we fail? Why do we only show love and compassion to others different than us when we need help?

The definition of community when I google it, is “a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.” I would describe community as a group of people who have common goals, thoughts, or interests.

The definition provided in The American College Dictionary from 1964 says “a group of men or women leading a common life according to a rule.” I never really viewed community in this manner. Many of us think of the word “community” as a group of people who live near each other. We forget that a community is actually just a group of people with common interests or characteristics who often happen to live near each other. Communities can be bound by race, religion, economic standings, political standings, and most commonly, location. Frequently, communities fall into more than one of these categories.