Violence inside of our public schools is an every growing problem. It seems like we do go a month without hearing about a child bringing a gun, handcuffs or weapons to school. However violence comes in a multitude of forms; in 2011, according to the website dosomething.org “School violence wears many faces. It includes gang activity, locker thefts, bullying and intimidation, gun use, assault – just about anything that produces a victim.” In the recent past there have been a number of examples
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Other globally notable school shootings, since the Columbine High School shooting, include USA’s Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Virginia Tech massacre, Red Lake Massacre, and Northern Illinois University shooting, Finland’s Jokela High School shooting and the Kauhajoki school shooting, Germany’s Erfurt Massacre and Winnenden School shooting, and Brazil’s Tasso de Silveira Municipal School shooting (Brooks, 2014). School shootings are becoming familiar media events since the
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On February 14 2018, Nikolas Cruz killed 14 students and 3 staff members with an AR-15 style semi- automatic rifle. While there were numerous causes for this tragedy, one particularly frustrating reason used by many republican senators as well as president Donald Trump, was violent video games.This isn’t the first time video games were being blamed after a shooter was identified as a teenage male, the same topic was brought up in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting with Adam Lanza. Is there any truth to
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Montero, Celina Lopez-Ponce, Pre-IB Inquiry Skills, Period 1 Research Paper Final Draft 17 March 2015 School Violence in Southern Florida Gun violence has led to more shootings in schools in Southern Florida and in order to help diminish the numbers in casualties more of the gun laws should be reinforced and strengthened. School reputations are being affected tremendously. Students that experience extremely traumatizing events, specifically a school shooting, will be driven
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here was quite an astonishing little item in the paper recently about the sort of thing that makes me glad I grew up in the inner city: i.e., the national proliferation of "assassination games" among mostly white, suburban, middle- and upper-class youth. High school students across the country, even in the wake of Littleton, organize mock war games as a rite of passage or of spring. "A.P. Assassination" is what one school in exclu sive Westport, Connecticut, calls the hunting season that begins
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Unkknownn 10/27/14 The Real Reason The Real Reason Video Game Violence has been a controversial topic for many years, Beginning with the simple, classic games like Pac-Man, Centipede and Street Fighter, And continuing today with the more modern games like the Grand Theft Auto series and the Call of Duty series. Adults naturally want to blame something or someone when the violent situations happens. Many factor can be attributed to why a teen or child has committed a crime and people seem to
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Video games are a big industry today all around the world, and has been for the past couple of years since the nineties. One particular type of video game that is very popular among youth today is the violent video game. Violent video games are all the rage to many individuals ranging from preteen years to early twenties. The issue of whether or not violent video games are good for adolescents has been raised years back and is still being looked at today. Many would argue that video games are fictional
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The Development of Children and Violent Video Games Jerry Pierre Post University Strategic analytical studies including well-identified statistics have shown that the violence between youth is increasing drastically every year. Inconsiderable amount of people blame Mainstream Musical Artists in all genres who portray abrogating actions, as something affirmative. Others might blame the guardians for not overseeing their children, but many people fail to convey technology as a bombshell. The au
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Active School Shooter Introduction The intention of this paper is to look at and present some issues and strategies that members of a school community think about when trying to create safer schools. Particularly when addressing an active shooter in a school setting. A major issue to consider when trying to keep all schools safe, is the simple fact that no two schools are the same. Understanding this can lead us to the conclusion that it is impossible to have one global plan or program that can
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On April 20, 1999 in a suburban town called Littleton, Colorado one high school was about to have one of the most tragic and deadly days in US history. Columbine High School was in the forefront of this tragedy. Two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, opened fire on their fellow classmates and teacher. These two students cut the lives short of thirteen students and one teacher. They then turned their guns onto themselves leaving the nation with no answers as to why? They did leave videotape
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