...believe that putting guns in classrooms will solve the issue of school shootings. That by putting the object that is causing this issue into the hands of someone who is not able to handle a gun adequately will stop the shootings from happening. The teachers for whom it is legal to carry guns are usually undereducated about using the weapon in a crisis. By putting guns in classrooms, administrators are making it that much easier for a gun related incident to occur in school. Arming teachers has become a widely known controversial topic. Whether or not the government will agree to arm teachers is a mystery, but that does not stop parents all around the country from voicing their opinions. Having guns...
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...How many students and teachers die every year by school shooters? If teachers have a gun in the classroom, or in their possession, would there be less deaths? “Colorado school district will allow teachers to carry guns (nypost.com/2016/12/15).” If someone walked into a school with a gun, how many people will die before the cops arrive? The answer is one to many. If teachers had guns, they can protect their class, and themselves. “In Colorado Springs it takes law enforcement an average of 20 minutes to get to the school (nypost.com/2016/12/15).” Twenty minutes that is a long time to wait for the cops. Some school even have cops in the school at all times, but should teachers have guns on them? Yes, how is one cop going to protect the whole school? In the past, there have been many school shooting, and even more deaths. So how are the schools going to learn from the past, and look into the future. “In 2016 there were 35 school shooting that resulted in death(abc15.com/news/state).” So how are the...
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...“Should Teachers Carry Guns in School?” The Premier Online Debate Website, www.debate.org/opinions/should-teachers-carry-guns-in-school./works cited page This website was important and critical to my essay because it offered ideas that supported my thesis on why teachers should be allowed to have a gun in school. The questions of students getting their hands on the gun, mentally unstable adults being able to get their hands on the gun and training the teachers were answered. Ideas on how to make sure that the teacher is mentally capable of protecting the students, the gun is well hidden and no one who wants to harm the students gets the gun were given by many people. Many people digged deeper into other issues besides a student getting the weapon. Different avenues were explored and the people on both sides had something about this topic to say. 2. “Arming Teachers and School Staff - School Security.” School Security, National School Safety and Security Services, www.schoolsecurity.org/trends/arming-teachers-and-school-staff/. This website was important and critical to my essay because it gave me a broader view of one of the main reasons why some people think teachers shouldn’t be allowed to carry a gun in school. Some people think that the student or unstable teacher could grab ahold of the gun. Kenneth Trump, a member of the National...
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...(published after Jan 2009). 3. READ and HIGHLIGHT all key points in your article. 4. Summarize the key points you have highlighted and relate to chapter topic – type your summary on this form. 5. Submit a copy of the article and your completed summary on this form into Moodle no later the day you will present your article in class. 6. Your summary and oral presentation will be evaluated on the following: a. Relevancy to chapter topic; interesting presentation; eye contact; time limit 7. Article summary is to be presented (not just read) to the class (3 to 5 minutes) – there is a penalty for late submissions. Summary: A high school English teacher in Denton, Texas, gave his students an assignment to write about a topic of their choice. One student chooses to write about a gun show. The teacher had threatened to give the student a zero for the writing assignment if he did not change his topic. The student's mother says she disapproved with the teacher's response to her boys’ essay. The teacher said the paper was unacceptable because of his concerns about school violence. The mother said that her son's paper did not mention firing guns that was on his gun show attendance. The mother and other readers want to know if the teacher grades on content, style, or personal feelings? Along, with does an English teacher assigns an essay to measure how a student...
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...Teachers be armed? One problem that society has been going through in this days are shootings at schools. Many of this problems had happened around our country. Students and also teachers had been proposed that teachers will be armed at schools so they could defend themselves or others, also President Trump and the National Rifle Association have been clear: Make school fortnesses, employ every deterrence, fight fire with fire, arm teachers could help at schools. Every person was important in the way you want to see, everyone were important to the society, so we need to find a way to stop shootings. I have some interesting ideas or key points that I want to try in this essay that can help you to make a decision or opinion about whether or...
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...The issue whether teachers should be permitted to carry guns in schools has been a huge controversial topic for some time now but it has become more talked about since larger school shootings have taken place, such as the Sandy Hook tragedy. The Sandy Hook tragedy cost us the life of 5 educators and 20 children. So the question is what is my opinion on whether teachers should carry guns in school, and the answer is I am against teachers being allowed to have open carry weapons on school grounds in classrooms. Throughout this essay I will explain why it is I believe this and why I believe it would be best for teachers not to be allowed to carry weapons in classrooms. I believe having open carry being allowed in schools could end up disastrous for many reasons,but mostly because as someone who was once a child not to long ago, has younger siblings and babysits one thing I know for sure is that kids can get their...
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...Guns or No Guns Three hundred and twenty-three students have died in documented school shootings over the past 15 years, making it the by far the largest cause of violent deaths in school. A very highly debated topic corresponding with this issue is how to stop it, any many people believe that arming teachers is the way to do it. Many also believe that arming teachers will only make things worse, and that’s what Allen Rostron tries to get across, to parents of teens, in his article Arming Teachers Will Not Reduce School Violence, published in 2012. In this article, Rostron uses many appeals, along with his reputation to provide the reader with statistics to back up his reasoning and to show his knowledge on the topic to persuade readers that arming teachers is a bad idea in the fight against school violence. Though Rostron uses many appeals throughout his writing to persuade us to his side of view, his reputation precedes him. He is a Professor of Law at the University of Missouri Kansas City and has published multiple articles on gun policy and whether or not guns should be used and how they should be used. To name a few, "Cease Fire: A 'Win-Win' Strategy on Gun Policy for the Obama Administration," Harvard Law & Policy Review, Oct. 28, 2009, "Dodging the Bullet: Tort Immunity for Gun Makers," Jurist, Nov. 3, 2005, and "The Supreme Court, the Gun Industry, and the Misguided Revival of Strict Territorial Limits on the Reach of State Law," Michigan State Law Review, Spring...
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...------------------------------------------------- The School Of Freedom As the elections for presidency in the United States of America heats up and comes closer to an end, the two candidates for the office claim to be the one answer for a problem, a problem that all of the previous presidents and their rivals promised to solve, and yet it remains unsolved to the date, and that problem is the education, and as the education remains secondary in the politicians priorities the problem will remain existence, but why is the education a failure? Why aren’t our leaders doing anything? And what can be done? Benjamin R. Barber addressed the issues in the educational system in his essay “Why We Talk So Much About Education and Do So Little”, Benjamin R. Barber (born August 2, 1939) is an American political theorist and author he held the positions of Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park School of Public Policy, and he is Walt Whitman Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University; he is the current president and founder of the Interdependence Movement and the NGO "CivWorld" at Demos, he wrote this essay for Harper’s Magazine in November 1993, nineteen years later we still face the same situation he wrote about. Barber –in the essay mentioned above- stats clearly why the schooling system is a failure. The poor salary of the teachers is one of the main reasons a teacher’s salary is nowhere to...
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...School shootings are rare, yet every time one occurs, it reveals the disturbing vulnerability of schools and universities to acts of violence. These shootings not only make the parents feel unsafe sending their children off to school but also causes political debate. This topic has ignited a dispute over gun violence, zero tolerance policies, and gun control. The Controversial topic has created a main attention grabber for satirists. A satirist is a writer who uses politics or everyday issues and writes about them in a jokingly way. There are two ways a Satirist can write, Horation and juvanalian. Horation is more humorous and juvanalian abrasive. In this essay, the examples I have provided are all Horation. Bolton, Reiss, And Schormal use the ample tools of exaggeration and mockery; However, Borowitz and Luckavich use more of the parody and pathos types of elements to address the problems of school shootings across America. First, Satirist Cole Bolton discusses the topic of school shootings using exaggeration. Exaggeration is an assertion that makes something...
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...Villahermosa Jr’s article “Guns don’t belong in the hands of administrators, professors, or students” he talks about the problems with arming faculty on campus. He argues that passing a law that allows students and faculty to bare arms in case of a shooting is dangerous. Instead of resolving a problem it will create more problems. He also argues that in order for the faculty to effectively respond to emergency situations, they have to go through training, which costs time and money. Overall, Villahermosa Jr thinks that arming students and faculty is not a good proposal because it creates more problems than it solves. Jesus M Villahermosa Jr is a deputy sheriff, certified self-defense instructor and firearms instructor for the...
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...5130 Essay Are guns affecting the safety of children? In 2018 there have been 18 school shootings which is twice the amount of shootings there was in 2017. We are in the month of May and there is already 18 school shootings. Although these fire weapons have protected homes they also endanger the lives of the young citizens of the United States. Society in the US now question the role of guns due to the latest mass shooting in Parkland, Florida at Marjory Stoneman Douglas. These weapons of mass destruction are found in people’s homes for hunting, safety, or even just for the enjoyment of having a gun. These weapons have been the main use of massacres in the US and it brings out the evil of a person with mental issues. Evil is a part of life and this has been true since the dawn of civilizations, mental issues cause a person to think in a depressing manner and believe that by killing people it will relieve me of this pain or the pain others may have. This is a thought physcopaths have and usually in shootings like the one in Sandy Hook Elementary have them killing family members and then others and then finally themselves. These mental issues people are having are causing...
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...resulted in their savage and vicious attitude: brutes. Heart of Darkness exhibits Conrad’s alter ego , beheld by darkness itself , human corruption , and discrimination . However , when reading it question yourself whether heart Of Darkness is a valuable worth your time! No. It is a piece of nonsense , that’s captivates our confusion rather than our interest , through the eyes of high school students. High school teachers may say “ it is a literary gem that delves deep into the heart of man, and makes the reader reflect on his/her personal values. While intended to highlight the politics of discrimination, this novella holds merit for high school students as well.” (Ms.Herzog).But is it morally right for teachers to assign such a difficult book considering our limited learning capacities? The book was designed for colleagues; incorporating abstract meanings, “rich symbolism”. and literary devices; things that our minds can not keep up with. As a high school student , I find the novel relatively confusing rather than a phenomenal piece of literature, as projected by everyone else, teachers. I am just learning about the complexities of literary devices: such as metaphors, similes , personification , and how to identify them. Now , Heart of Darkness has such a vast number of these devices;far more advanced from my understanding. How can we keep up ?! The book is vague and...
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...Do we hav freedom ? * You could say that there is more Freedom of speech, because in the US you can say ANYTHING while in many European countries hate speech is forbidden. That's a question of personal opinion, personally I prefer when hate speech is forbidden, I don't think Freedom of speech's role is to protect racist/xenophobic/homophobic pigs. Americans also have the "freedom" to own guns (though it isn't completely forbidden in other Western countries, just less easy), but this "freedom" is considered barbaric in most of the Western world and is even seen as a threat towards the freedom of others. The fact that it leads to high crime rates doesn't help. For some reason, Americans often seem to associate "Freedom" with guns and most Westerners don't understand that. Freedom of Religion is VERY different among "free" countries. Issues linked to Religion are also treated very differently. "Red Rover", the American Bill of Rights is far, really far from being alone. For example, the slightly older French "Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" is generally considered as the reference for Human Rights. As for the religious aspect of the American Bill or Rights, claiming it's a good thing is a matter of personnal opinion. That and its lack of universalism (it's only about American citizens) are probably the reason the "French" Bill of Rights is considered the reference. You (like other answerers) also seem to think that Democracy (and...
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...Being the President of the United States Josh Wainwright Sociology 101: Principles of Sociology- Word Count: 2111 Abstract The purpose of this essay is to express how to address current issues in today’s society. The issues that I have to address are poverty, crime, education, health and a 5th problem of your choice. The 5th problem that I chose to address was jobs. I go about addressing these issues as if you were the President of the United States. This essay gives I a chance to express how you feel about these issues and what would you do to fix these problems. As President of the United States, it is my duty to address problems in this American society. The five main problem that I want to address are poverty, crime, education, health and jobs. These are important issues that I am working on fixing immediately. My plan is to dramatically decrease the poverty and crime rate. I am also going to improve education, health insurance and job opportunities. Poverty America’s poverty rate is too high. Let’s look back on 2013 poverty rate. According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2013, there were 45.3 million people in poverty. For the third consecutive year, the number of people...
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...In Essay 3 from Second Thoughts, Ruane and Cerulo analyze the conventional wisdom, “Children are our most precious commodity.” While this belief is deeply ingrained into our nation, social indicators – quantitative measures of social phenomena, seems to show otherwise (Ruane and Cerulo 30). In the United States, the infant mortality rate is higher than that of most developed nations, 25% of 2-years-olds do not have the full series of childhood vaccinations, gunfire kills a child or teen every 3 hours, 41% of children under 18 live in low-income families, whom make an income that is short of meeting necessary basic needs, and 772,000 children were victims of abuse and neglect in 2008. The ideal culture – values and norms each society claims as central to its modus operandi – comes into conflict with our real culture – value and norms actually executed and...
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