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Summary Of Mark Ames's 'Going Postal'

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With the studies of why the human brain and the person would come to the conclusion of rage, murder, and rebellion on a school or workplace, the question that the psychologists would ask them self is, why? Going Postal by: Mark Ames gives some insight on an explanation of why someone would come to that conclusion, with evidence and true stories about some of those rage, murder, and rebellion massacres that happened in the United States. Most importantly, Mark Ames is a journalist and a political writer that is mainly known for working in Russia as a Moscow-based expatriate American journalist, as well as editing. He was born on October 3, 1965 in Saratoga, California. Later in 1991 he delved into Russian literature, after spending time in Prague in the mid ’92 to early ’93, he moved to Moscow. In 1997 he left to make the eXile, a Moscow- based English-language biweekly free tabloid. Ames wrote on topics such as politics, organized crime in Russia, prostitution, and drug use. The paper also played practical jokes on public figures. In June of 2008 the paper’s website was closed down and Mark Ames moved back to the U.S. He continues to edit the eXile, but only in an online-only format off of …show more content…
The book starts talking about Joseph Wesbecker and the Standard Gravure workplace shootings in 1989, along as the aftermath of the shootings. It then goes to the slave up risings as well as the psychology of the others slaves not helping them with the raids. The third part is about the psychology of why people snap when they go postal, and the reasons of why they snap. Then talks about how the spread of workplace rage and rebellion is spreading and why the government can’t find a way to stop it. Part five explains the psychology behind school shootings and why a kid or teen would come to that tipping point. The final part is about the spread of school shootings and some theories of how they are

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