Heritage High School shooting

and more shootings occur. We’ve seen deadly mass shootings in our schools, churches, malls, nightclubs, concert venues, and most recently in Las Vegas, which is now classified as the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, leaving 58 people dead and 546 injured. All of these mass shootings are senseless actions caused by a small few but have a nationwide effect on countless families and loved ones. People are afraid for their safety with a fear of not knowing when and where the next shooting will take

whose hobbies include hunting, skeet shooting, and target practice with various pistols owns the first house. A lawyer for the ACLU who is an active member of the James Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence owns the second house. If there is a high probability that the occupants of the two houses will be home during your break-in tonight, which house will you choose? You

Sherman Alexie was born on October 7, 1966, in Spokane, Washington. Being a registered member of the Spokane tribe through his mother, he attended grammar school on the Spokane reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. He was originally a basketball player but when he started taking an anthology of Indian poetry literature class, he realized more girls were paying attention to him, and he liked that. He said jokingly, “I should have been writing poems all along.” (pg. 9), just to be getting the attention

“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” (MLK, I have a Dream) Imagine standing in the crowd when Martin Luther King said this. To have all of your hopes and dreams of equality voiced in such a magnificent way. It spoke to the hearts of the people about the injustices and discrimination that were tearing apart and demeaning a great nation of liberty and justice. The king truly

recovering from the gunshot, Brady became a serious advocate for an anti-weapon organization, which is why there is currently an organization named after him. The lack of gun control is the main leading effects from gun violence, whether you are at school or sleeping at night, there is someone getting killed or hurt from some type of firearm. Guns tend to be used mainly for harming someone, whether it is self-defense or purposely. Plus gun trafficking has been increasing due to the lack of gun control

Who Am I In order to truly understand the culture and various lifestyles that envelop American society today, one must learn to appreciate and understand their own cultural heritage. Lev Vygotsky, a psychologist in the early 1900’s, simply put it, “Language and culture are the frameworks through which humans experience, communicate, and understand reality.” Therefore, culture determines more than merely our origin or family; culture shapes the structure of our lives, and greatly impacts our future

with surprises and questioners about everything and anything that can stir my mind. Knowing my self, ideas, beliefs and histories influenced my learning and literacy growing through my life. As a child, who grew up in foreign lands and from mixed heritage, I was independent and with challenging personality. It is important to mention that living in the Kibbutz shaped my personality. Essentially, growing in a group who liv, learn and work together in a non-competitive was that promoted sense of social

likely than youth retained in the juvenile court system to be rearrested for violent or other crime. It is a disease that have a huge impact to the mentally ill patient by spread widely to the exponent potential. According to statistical data of the Heritage Foundation's Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, roughly 1300 cases of murder nationally of a teen killer sentenced as an adult to life of some 11,000 murders committed in the United State in any given year. The disease is targets the mentally

contribution to American literature. King has received The Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, a lifetime achievement award presented by the Foundation of Books Awards that recognizes those who have enriched the American literary heritage over a life of service. The Bram Stoker Award was awarded to King as a

Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil by Christen A. Smith juxtaposes the images of Brazil’s black populations shown in the media with the ugly reality that they actually face in their everyday lives. From an outside perspective Brazil, especially Rio de Janeiro, is known as this tropical paradise with their beautiful beaches, beautiful people, and of course Carnaval do Brasil. When you Google images of the Carnaval you will see images of colorful floats, and beautiful women