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The Massacre at Wounded Knee First, and foremost, the battle between the white man and the Indian Nation is a poignant historical portrayal of what took place at the Wounded Knee Massacre. It was all set in motion in the “Moon When the Deer Shed Their Horns”, a Sioux moon of December. The Sioux were so distraught about the assassination of Sitting Bull; they could not muster an uprising. The Ghost Dance was their only hope to eradicate the white man. “There was no hope on earth

I believe that both the massacre and the cover-up of the events in Vietnam are equally worse. The brutality displayed by the American soldiers in their act of killing over700 human beings at My Lai was wrong. I think that the soldiers misused command and took an advantage of the situation to act brutally. Command had earlier advised the soldiers that the village may be occupied guerrilla fighters. Instead, they found unarmed villagers who were mainly comprised of women and children. I think the soldiers

In his essay, “How Not to Respond to Virginia Tech-II”, write Brett A. Sokolow uses the campus shooting at Virginia Tech to expose a serious problem, mental health. He tells readers where their focus needs to be shifted. He has two goals: to misconfigure the idea that campus safety is at risk, and to bring forth the issue of mental health. By breaking down proposed campus safety ideas, asking rhetorical questions, and reiterating his main message, Sokolow effectively convinces college universities

When the space shuttle Challenger took off on January 28, 1986, an internal rocket ship part called an O-ring malfunctioned because it became too cold in the winter air. As a result, super-hot gases passed the O-ring and burned a hole in the side of the space shuttle's external tank. Once the outer container became compromised, the solid rocket boosters caused a massive explosion. All seven crew members died. Another tragedy occurred on April 16, 2007, at the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute

was in the My Lai Massacre were just following the orders that were given to them. They do not know that those innocent women and children are not the Viet Congs and the soldiers believed that they were the Viet Congs. The orders were given to wipe out all of the Viet Congs in My Lai village. There were no ways to tell if the Vietnamese were Viet Congs or not. They had no choice but to follow the orders and kill as many Vietnamese that they think are Viet Congs. This massacre isn’t committed because

From character to character, the brutal kills range from ripping out spines to slicing the opponents straight in half to chopping off foe's arms. They were all just obeying the thunderous voice rumbling, "Finish him!" This is Mortal Kombat – one of, if not the, most popular fighting game franchises ever created. At its conception in 1992, it was hit with a hard wall of controversy for its heavy use of gore and the general fear it would influence children to reenact these so-called “fatalities” in

Columbine High School massacre made history. They acquired their guns by purchasing them from acquaintances. Fast forward eight years to 2007. In April, 2007 on the Virginia Tech Campus in Virginia, Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed thirty-two men and women and injured another seventeen. He also ended his life after committing the murders. Cho was diagnosed with a severe anxiety disorder, and eventually declared mentally ill. In December 2012, possibly the most heart breaking massacre took place.

Death by Bullet: A Look into School Shooting Columbine, Virginia Tech, and Sandy Hook these are but a few cases of fatal school shootings that have plagued the United States history in recent years. School-based violence has gained much attention in the media. Parents are fearful to send their children to school, teachers are becoming armed, and schools have more police patrolling campuses in hopes to deter future endangerment to students and administration. Shootings are the most common and frequent

Fear Within the School Horror, Grotesque, and upsetting are three words that can describe a major problem in our society. The problem described is the amount of school violence happening. Although school shootings don’t happen a lot, the effect of the shootings that do happen have a toll that lasts forever. Many innocent kids and adults have lost their lives to school shootings. Like Mitchell and Brentro said, “While mass shootings capture public attention, like a passing ambulance, interest wanes

On October 1, 2017 America was, yet again, devastated when Las Vegas suffered the United States worst mass shooting. One man killed over 50 people and injured 527. After he was finished firing from the 39th floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort, he committed suicide. His name was Stephan Paddock (Yan and Park). When most people think of a mass shooting, they think of a terroristic act or someone shooting at a large group of innocent citizens, like Columbine High School or Sandy Hook Elementary School