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    Gun Control In Schools

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    For years Americans have gone back and forth about the effect that guns have on our society. The murder rate keeps on climbing because guns are particularly the weapon of choice when it comes to violence. According to Senate Bill 11, anyone with a licensed gun can be allowed to bring it into classrooms, universities and dormitories across the country. The fact that Legislation passed a law that allows anyone with a handgun license to openly carry a gun on a school campus is baffling. School

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    Blind Obedience

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    Name: Andraie Lewis Eng. 122 May 8,2013    Blind obedience   Society often view obedience as a good quality or trait to have; employers want obedient employees and parents often wish for obedient children. Being obedient means that an individual shows respect for an authority figure and will carry out the instructions they are given; when someone is obedient they are widely accepted by society, because they do whatever it is that society asks

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    of minutes. None were designed solely to kill people. However, millions of assault weapons have been manufactured and sold in the past ten years. An unknown number are now in the hands of fanatics who will use them to kill people for effect. The massacres in Las Vegas, Sutherland Springs Church, Pulse Nightclub, and Sandy Hook Elementary School were all committed with lawfully protected assault rifles.The constitutional protection of the right to bear arms has inadvertently fostered an environment

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    On April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and leaving 17 injured at Virginia Tech. On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza went on a shooting spree in Newtown, Connecticut, killing his mother before shooting 20 1st graders and 6 adults at Sandy Hook Elementary. On June 12, 2016, in Orlando, Omar Mateen killed 49 people and injured 58 others. Most recently on October 1, 2017, 58 people were killed and another 489 injured when Stephen Paddock fired onto the crowd at the Route 91 Harvest music festival

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    MY LAI MASSACRE Before we ask about My Lai Massacre, we need to know what is My Lai Massacre the My Lai massacre is My Lai massacre has indiscriminately shot unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. The genocide was the duty of an officer of Charlie Company in the United States to lead a team in search of Vietnam. Their teams occupied a place called My Lai and slaughtered civilians under the direction of the high commander. Charlie Company entered South Vietnam in December 1967. In the first month

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    the most horrific acts in our history. The My Lai Massacre was a massacre by United States Soldiers that created controversy and anger throughout the world. It leads us to the question, was this avoidable? Was one of the worst massacres in Untied States history doomed to happen? Looking at the contents of this war, reviewing accounts from soldiers that have fought in the war, that were there on that day, there is a strong testimony that this massacre was indeed doomed to happen. More than five hundred

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    Introduction On December 6th of 1989, Canada saw one of the worst massacre of its history, not only in numbers, but also in circumstances. The infamous École Polytechnique Massacre, also known as the Montreal Massacre, profoundly affected the Quebec and Canadian society. However, while the attack was widely condemned for its violence, the identification of the murders as a hate crime towards women was still hotly debated and refuted by many. The goal of this paper is to understand what makes the

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    and morals of many people. Milgram designs an experiment to see how far a person will advance in a substantial and significant circumstance in which he is regulated to administer accumulating pain on a complaining victim. In the article “The My Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience,” authors Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton contend that orders conduct crimes of obedience. In My Lai, Charlie Company were ordered to obliterate the village because the Viet Cong was supposed to be there; however

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    The Implications of Obedience Within the United States Military: The My Lai Massacre On March 16, 1968, a unit of the United States military was ordered to advance into a village called Son My in northern Vietnam. It was there that a mass execution of unarmed civilians took place. One may wonder how the United States could do something so seemingly inhumane after considering what the Nazis did only twenty years prior to the Vietnam War. However, in the context of a tense situation, there are particular

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    America is described as the land of the free, people want to live here, are willing to leave everything they’ve ever known for a shot at the American dream. However there’s some problems in this country. Kneeling for the anthem is a disrespectful and undignified thing to do. People have risked their lives, some even have lost their lives, fighting for our freedom. The mass shootings in America is gruesome. Innocents have died because a couple of people want to pull a “silly stunt.¨ All people care

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