Drew Perry ENC1101 1 December 2014 Are Gamers Really a Threat? Within the last fifteen years, the video game industry has grown exponentially and is now arguably one of the most robust industries in the entertainment world. Video game sales have more than quadrupled in this time as well, which accounts for this multibillion dollar industry. Inside this enormous industry, hundreds of genres span the base of the industry but a few genres make up the core. Within this core are game categories
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Youth violence in America is an ongoing discussion that has been in the news for quite some time now. Kids are so easily influenced that it is normal to see them in some type of negativity. This matter causes children in our society to engage into violent crimes in school and in their communities. Some say the reason for this is because lack of attention in the homes or parents just not being available for their children. Are these reasonable excuses and why do our kids act in such violent behavior
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school shooting, and in this connection the paper’s jumping-off point is the school shooting that took place at Columbine high school in Colorado, 1999. Among many things the study includes a declaration of the story line of Columbine high school massacre, and after that and analysis of the article “A Call to Arms: Renewing America”, who is originally a speech by J.C. Watts. There have also been given some possible causes for why such episodes as school shooting find places by means of different articles
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FBI Study Finds Active Shooter Incidents Increasing By: Amanda Vicinanzo, Senior Editor 10/22/2014 ( 9:40am) In partnership with Texas State University’s Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center, the FBI in 2014 initiated a study of active shooter incidents to provide law enforcement and first responders with data to help them better prevent, prepare for, respond and recover from future incidents. The report, A Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States Between
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Engelsk A Studentereksamen Opgave A 1. Actors usually hate themself when they make mistakes in front of a live audience. - Actors usually hate themselves when they make mistakes in front of a live audience. Fejl I det reflektive pronomen – Mangler fleretals form grundet i at actors er i fleretal derved skal det reflektive pronomien også bøjes i fleretal. 2. The old World War II veteran was moved to tears when he shaked the presidents hand. - The old World War II veteran was moved to
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generally viewed by terrorists as soft targets, as there is seldom anyone to challenge the shooters. If all of our schools would start training and arming staff members, and publicize these facts, they would no longer be considered soft targets. “The massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary, Columbine, Virginia Tech and the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, all took place in gun-free zones.”(Bennett, W. 12.19.2012)
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and teachers who are qualified to carry guns in their states to do so at schools” (Source A),which I disagree with. This can result to even more violence, create an uncomfortable learning environment for students, and the chances of another school massacre happening are very slim. The extra protection will only last until poorly train guards choose to use their guns without full comprehension of the extends of their actions. There have been many incidents involving police and armed guards doing exactly
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Effects of Violent Video Games Over 90% of youth in Canada aged between 12 and 17 play or have played a violent video game throughout their life. The industry is now a 91.95 billion dollar market with the top selling series being “Call of Duty” a violent, gruesome, but entertaining first person shooter. A study conducted by Harvard Health Publications says that, “Youth exposure to violent media (including video games) can contribute to real-life violent behavior and harm children in many other ways
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Target Hardening Exercise Since I work for the Department of Social Services, we have yearly training on potential risks of cyber-attacks, but not of being an actual target. The Department of Social Services is involved with taking children out of a home and taking away government benefits such as SNAP (Food Stamps) and TANF (welfare) from those who are not eligible. Back on September 16th, 1996, David Hill came into the Aiken county DSS and killed three caseworkers. After this incident, it caused
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Concealed Weapons at Workplaces Imagine returning home to the fact that one of your loved ones had been killed by a gunman in their workplace. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Everytown Research, one hundred sixty-five shootings in the past three years have occurred in school buildings and about three thousand fatal shootings have occurred at places of employment. Every year nearly two million people are victims of non-fatal and one-thousand are victims of fatal incidents that
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