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2014). The author states in regards to relationships and school shootings “The lack of attachment with their parents or caregivers at the beginning of their life to some of the school shooters. Sueng-Hui Cho, who was the shooter of the Virginia Tech Massacre on April 16, 2007 suffered from this kind of risk factor. Cho did not communicate with his parents or those around him” (Ibid,

The Life Course of a Mass Murderer Cornelius Davis DeVry University The Life Course of a Mass Murderer On April 16, 2007 one of the most devastating mass murders in U.S history occurred at a Virginia college. Seung-Hui Cho a 23 year old South Korean alone executed the killing of 33 people by securing colleges doors to prevent escape of any students. Events such as these are truly tragic and devastating to all involved. By gathering background information about Seung-Hui Cho, we can effectively

their minds and thoughts may have changed completely. On April 16, 2007, in the town of Blacksburg Virginia, a college student who attended Virginia Tech, opened gunfire to his fellow classmates. This shooting has been considered to be the biggest massacre in all of American history. There are many things to be discussed in this major tragedy. Some of them include the events leading up to the shooting, the timeline that the shootings occurred, the causes, and the significance in this particular shooting

collection of isolated incidents?” said Jackson Katz, activist against violent acts.This quote perfectly shows that school security needs to be improved and taken more seriously.There have been 275 school shootings since Columbine.The virginia tech massacre is the largest modern shooting in U.S history with 32 killed and 17 wounded.If precautions were taken this could have been prevented.25% of teenagers are exposed to hate related graffiti within school grounds.Schools now are filled with drug dealing

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a mass shooting is when four or more people are shot and killed, not including the suspect. The United States of America has one of the highest proportion rates where mass shootings occur. And, to take into consideration, more than fifty percent of these incidents are family related; 98% of the time it is men who carry out these mass shootings. On December 14, 2012, a twenty-year-old man named Adam Lanza had opened fire at the “Sandy Hook Elementary

There has been an average of one school shooting every week in America since the Sandy Hook shooting. On the fourteenth of December, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, 20-year-old Adam Lanza not only killed his mother in her home, but also twenty children and six members of staff at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. This was to be the third deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. The Huffington Post reports that as of 2014, there have been over 200 school shootings. These have resulted in at least 94

Mass school shootings have become a disturbing trend in this country in the last two decades. According to the FBI, mass shootings (defined as shooting events that kill at least four people) occur approximately every two weeks in the United States (Manson). This baffling trend has left families and communities devastated with some having no concrete answers as to why exactly they lost their loved ones to these tragedies. Why have there been so many school shootings recently? Questions such as this

On April 20, 1999 a massacre happened at Columbine High school. This is a day that Cassie Bernall died. Two boys one day decided to show up to the school with guns. Many people have two of the wrong conclusion as to what happened that day. The first one is the two boys wanted to get revenge on the bullies that made them miserable at Columbine. They were known as the “Trench Coat Mafia outcasts” The second conclusion is the unexplainable: We can never understand what drove them to madness that

Special Experience of La Muerte Niña:Day of the Dead The exhibition La Muerte Niña: Day of the Dead opened in National Museum of Mexican Art on September 18, 2015. Dolores Mercado curated this exhibition. The exhibition was about the Mexican “day of the dead”. Many Mexican people believe that life still continues after death and they celebrate it as the holiday “day of the dead” each year. Every year, the “day of the dead” exhibition in the National Museum of Mexican Art has a different subtopic

There are many debates about gun violence and gun control, but no one can really find the common ground to stop the violence. Mallory Simon is an experienced writer who makes it aware that the people need take the shootings more literal than just brush them aside. She argues that there is a need for steps to be put into place to stop the reoccurrence of gun violence within our communities. She developed an article about the ongoing debate about gun violence, called “Gun Debate: Where is the Middle