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    Is Mount Everest Worth the Risk? Mount Everest. It is 29,029 feet tall, and the tallest mountain in the world. Yet people still try to climb it, and that is a very dangerous thing to do. There are avalanches and very dangerous weather that could kill anyone and has killed people before! Others may say that they like climbing Mount Everest because of fame, the thrill of climbing it, or they want to complete a hard challenge. But lots of people lose their lives because of Mount Everest, so what

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    The rewards of keeping Mount Everest are risks and death. My decision is to keep Mount Everest because it’s a extreme sport you have to have faith, courage, and you have to be wise. The reason why you have these characteristics is because so you could be safe. First you need to have faith and courage because you can’t go in nervous and scared because you can end up getting hurt. Lastly is wise. You need to be wise because you need to plan your moves and you need to be smart about what you do.

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    On April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho, a 23-year-old college student, shocked the nation when he perpetrated the deadliest shooting massacre in U.S. history. The violent rampage took place on the Virginia Tech University campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, where Cho was a senior majoring in English. Before turning the gun on himself and delivering a fatal gunshot to the head, Cho murdered more than 30 of his classmates and University faculty; numerous others were injured. In a strange twist, several days

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    Abstract Over the past decade school violence has been on the rise. School violence has always existed in some form or another, whether it is a fight out on the playground or a stabbing in the parking lot. However nothing got the nation 's attentions like on April 20, 1999, Columbine school shooting. Ever since that day the nation wants to know what to do to protect the kids in this country. Violence motivated by a bias against victims’ characteristics which include race, religion, ethnic background

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    Hui Cho. To really understand how to put an end to mass shooting one must analyze what happened here it is necessary to look into the shooters life and the victims he took. It is also important to know the events that lead up to the shooting, what happened during the shooting and also after. Seung Hui Cho, known for carrying out one of the most devastating madd murders in the US was born on January 18, 1984 in South Korea (Biography, 2014). Cho was always very quiet from the beginning. Cho 's aunt

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    Guns In the US citizens are allowed to keep and bear arms. The second amendment of the constitution gives them the right to. Today gun control is a controversial issue causing protests and debates. Over recent events such as The Las Vegas Shooting, killing fifty-eight and injuring over five hundred, The Orlando Shooting, killing forty-nine and injuring fifty-three, Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing six adults and twenty children. Citizens now ponder if guns should be illegal. The real question

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    Nine students were killed at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. A man opened fire in a church, in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine people, including the pastor. Twenty-seven were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Twelve were killed in the Washington Navy Yard. This is only a few examples from a very long list. The grim truth is that mass shootings are becoming the new normal. Every few months, another mass shooting occurs and the public goes through the same

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    Furthermore, American gun culture begins since the earliest days of the country which often referring to a key component of the American mythic tradition. However, in the America’s beginnings, it was ubiquitous in colonial and early federal life than popular impressions and mythology suggest. As a practical matter, most of the firearms in civilian hand were guns suited to farming use. Such as killing small game and nuisance animals. Moreover, early guns were expensive, cumbersome, difficult and even

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    Crisis Management - CA Virginia Tech Tragedy (2007) Background April 16th, 2007 is remembered as a day that saw one of the single deadliest gunman shootings in recent history which a seemingly normal college student, Cho Seung-Hui, murder 32 people on campus grounds within a two and a half hour time-frame. Nine years have passed since the fatal tragedy occurred and the repercussions have laid the grounds ever since for the method colleges and educational facilities, the world over, approach crisis

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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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