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has been done by thousands of people before me, therefore, is possible. Upon graduating from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, I expect to graduate with a grade point average of 3.5 or higher – doing this will secure me an acceptance into a good graduate school and set me up for the rest of my life. Doing this will not be as difficult as it sounds; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has various resources for its students to make use of. There 's the Student Success

The autobiographical and regional novel Sky of Stone by Homer “Sonny” Hickam Jr. is an astonishing journey through the life of Sonny, during his summer of 1961, after his first year of college at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VIT), and his time spent in Coalwood, West Virginia, where his father, who is also named Homer, is accused of negligence in the death of mine foreman Tuck Dillion (Hickam, Sky of Stone 2001). The author, Sonny Hickam, grew up in Coalwood, West Virginia, and his written

Is it okay for all innocent and young children to be dying in schools . In the 2012 massacre in Newtown Connecticut , about 20 children and 6 adults lives were taken that day . During the year of 1999 in Columbine High School , 12 teenagers and one teacher was killed that day . During 2007 in Virginia Tech there were 32 killed and wounded. Shouldn't we being doing something about this all these kids are losing their lives , and on top of all of they’re young and haven't got to see their future

2.(224) The one thing embedded deeper inside of me than my love of reading is my love of volunteering. Ever since I was a small child, my parents have placed a strong emphasis on helping people who are less fortunate, regardless of how they came to be in that circumstance. Using that fostered love of service, I have spent the past three years of my high school career volunteering at every possible moment. My school climate happens to be one that promotes community service opportunities including

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

DATELINE: MAY 10, 2007, BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA (US) - The tragic shootings at Virginia Tech on Monday, April 16 were over by mid-day; for Tech’s Office of Transportation and its subsidiary Parking Services group, the challenges were just beginning. Even as the department reeled from the loss of one of its own, Tech senior Jarrett Lane, mourning took a back seat to dealing with an onrushing media horde. Media: This is Bigger Than Columbine “One of the media folks told us that, at the peak, this

The massacre at Virginia Tech is known as one of the deadliest shootings in the history of our nation (History, 2011). This event that occurred on April 16, 2007 brought great pain to our country but this was not a pain that was unfamiliar. Mass shooting is something that we as a nation have dealt with for a while and on April 16, 2007 was no different. This massacre left 32 dead including the shooter himself, 23 year old, Seung Hui Cho. To really understand how to put an end to mass shooting one

Have you ever wondered what would happen if we had Halloween at school ? If we had it , what would you wear to school . Also , if we had it , it wouldn’t be as fun later on. Some kids will be having fun , but other kids wouldn’t . First , it would be bad to have Halloween at school for some kids . Kids who can’t celebrate it , will be left out . It would be unfair to other kids who can’t afford costumes . Also , some kids would have to stay home for religious reasons . It wouldn’t be nice

Glenn Cunningham was only eight years old when the accident had happened. Before school every morning, he always arrived early to heat up the room by putting a light fuel oil called kerosene in the coal stove. One morning when he had arrived to school, he went to put the kerosene in the stove and there was an accident. Someone had wrongly added gasoline to the kerosene and when the gasoline was added to the stove, the whole school had caught on fire. Nobody else had been at the school until the teacher

“We Are Virginia Tech” Speaking is form of art that can either be a natural gift or a practiced talent. Much like there are several different ways a person can draw: cartooning, free hand, or realistic, there are many ways in which a person can speak. Nikki Giovanni’s speech “We Are Virginia Tech” makes people cry, rejoice, and move on. A speech is one form of art that can evoke these types of emotions from people. In Nikki Giovanni’s poem “We Are Virginia Tech,” which was spoken at a memorial