and intervention of violence in our schools. The results from a 1998 study done by the FBI’s National Center for Analysis of Violent Crime are being used to formulate concepts and principles to address and prevent school shootings. In this study, eighteen school shootings were reviewed and the combined information is being used to bring better knowledge of the behavioral prospective of the shooters. Although it is almost impossible to “profile” a shooter, there are some situations that are
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Columbus, Sylvester Del Corso, Adjutant General of the Ohio National Guard, insisted that the Guard had to shoot after a sniper, opened fire against the troops. Controversy surrounds this tragic event, as there is no clear evidence of the sniper shootings. Students are saying that there was no sound of guns firing before the Guard opened the fire against the students. Robinson Memorial Hospital identified the dead students as Allison Krause, 19, Pittsburgh; Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20, Youngstown, Ohio
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strange question, I said “no I’m not, why?” he said turn on CNN and he had to go and abruptly hung the phone up. Thinking how odd the whole thing was I turned on the TV and was shocked at what I was looking at. It was near real time coverage of a mass shooting on Fort Hood. Initial reports were sketchy but what they knew was that there were many dead and/or wounded, and the shooter was in uniform. Later it was revealed that the shooter was an Army psychologist by the name of MAJ Nadal Hassan, that he may
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burned down the campus ROTC building—a peaceful protest turned into a tragedy when the National Guard fired into a crowd of students, only some of whom were demonstrating against the war. After thirteen seconds of shooting, four students lay dead
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Organizational Behavior and Communication in the U.S. Army Mei Norried University of Phoenix COMMUNICATIONS FOR ACCOUNTANTS COM 530 Mr. Brent Smith February 01, 2010 Organizational Behavior and Communication in the U.S. Army Communication and behavior within the military is very crucial to the troops in times of active duty service. The United States Armed Forces is comprised of the following: U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marines, and the U.S. Coast Guard. Each one
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Kent State Massacre Demonte Wesley May 4th, 1970 will always be remembered as the day America killed its children, when a group of student protestors were fired upon. This terrible event took the lives of four students and injured many others. The Kent state massacre was a devastating and tragic event that shook the U.S. on the day of May 4th, 1970.The invasion of Cambodia was one of the things, which lead to the protesting of students, which then lead to the Kent State massacre. President Nixon
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By the opening of Ulysses, Stephen’s romantic sensibilities seem to be severely weakened. (Michael Schandorf) the whole boo is narrowed down to events in Dublin on June 16, 1904. Ordinary people carrying an everyday tasks consume its subjects. Ulysses is a book about Stephen’s search for a symbolic father and blooms search for a son. Stephen a poor school teacher, lives in a 1 room tower and ears nothing all day. He thinks he may have killed his mother by refusing to kneel and pray at her deathbed
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There were two major events that took place in the 1970s which made the American citizens distrust their own government. One of them was the Kent State shootings, which took place on May 4, 1970. The citizens of the United States were against the Vietnam War and the President Nixon promised the citizens that he will end the war. Even after his promise, the president Nixon made an announcement on the national television about his approval of the Cambodian incursion, which broke the trust of the citizens
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1. “Feathers” “Feathers” is the story of a night where two friends meet for dinner with their wives. Jack and Fran are childless because they in the beginning of the story think that they do not want children. Jack and Fran go to Bud and Olla’s house for dinner. Bud and Olla have an infant and a peacock. Bud and Olla live in the country and drink beer, but Jack and Fran live in the city and drink wine. Bud and Jack begin to realize their friendship is one of convenience and they don’t have that
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Estimated, there are about 650 000 southern elephant seals left in the world. With the scientific name Mirounga leonina, the elephant seal is the largest seal in existence. Males will weigh generally four tons, with the length of twenty inches. Whereas fully grown female seals weigh about one ton, and are relatively ten feet long. The name, “elephant seal”, not only comes from their massive weight, but also their trunk-like noses. When fully grown
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