“Chardon High School Shooting” School shootings have become recurrent in the past 15 years. Though violence in young adults, teenagers, and children continues to rise, we like to think of schools as safe havens from the harsh reality of society. It is scary to think that the schools we feel our children are safe is now a concern and even a nightmare. We entrust the institutions to keep them safe and protect them from harm. It is disturbing and frightening when the violence is happening inside
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It is exceptionally brazen when you have kids who come to class to learn, however, in lieu they are beaten, ripped off, constantly picked on, stuffed in lockers, and ridiculed by a person who is much more grounded, bigger, and heartless of others and their emotions. This is an extremely colossal problem to the educational system since this could bring about the students being tormented to not have any desire to go to class, their evaluations may even decrease, or they could carry out a wrongdoing
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After drinking two cans of Monster, 14-year-old Anais Fournier dropped dead from a heart attack. 19 year-old David Allen Cripe, after consuming a cafe latte, a Mountain Dew, and an energy drink, went into cardiac arrest and died. 19-year-old Dustin Hood collapsed and died after drinking 3 ½ cans of an energy drink. Even though the risks are high, many people, especially adolescents, still consume energy drinks, often daily. Because of the dangerous effects that can be caused by ingredients in energy
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Weeks ago there was a school shooting in Parkland Florida, at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (Schuster 1.)That shooting brought out demands for gun reform laws and change, from students across the nation. For example, students across the country walked out of schools on Wednesday, March 14, to honor and remember the 17 dead, for 17 minutes(Schuster 1.) This is going to follow up by a walk on Washington called“, March For Our Lives” on March 24 (Schuster 2.) With all the attention that this
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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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