Essays Tagged: "school shootings"
Title: "Problems in America's Schools" includes I. Inadequacy of urban schools, II. Students needs, and III. Distractions. works cited included- 8 sources. MLA format
Aki BraunAmerican Lit 10Mrs. Harkness19 April 2002Problems in America's SchoolsAmerica's public schools are not providing the education that students need to thrive.I. Inad ... er pressureII. Students needsA. CensorshipB. Special needsC. Gifted and talentedIII. DistractionsA. School ShootingsB. Other ViolenceC. Truancy"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our prog ... h, and all leaders to come will recognize it as well. Unfortunately, not every student in America's schools gets the education that he or she deserves. Different inequalities and other situations amon ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
How School Bullying is handled today. Current Event. APA Format with Referneces.
School Bullying"Jordan Hankin balls his fist and smacks his other hand with it, tilting his head to ... you the ropes, he says in a sarcastic bully's voice. Bring it on, new kid. I'll show you what this school is about." All of us who have been bullied know this story. This story here was given to a lo ... bullying began 20 years ago in Europe. America sat up and took notice after some highly publicized school shootings. A study commissioned by Washington Attorney General Christine Gregoire in 2000 fou ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
Licensed to parent
te. For instance, in the last few years we, as a society, have witnessed an unprecedented amount of school shootings, crime rates are as high as ever, and the number of children growing up in single p ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
The Benefits of Home Schooling. A short essay which compares home schooling to the traditional public school and lists many of the benefits of home schooling.
The Benefits of Home SchoolingThe education in our public schools has been on the down slope for many years. With the inc ... n our public schools has been on the down slope for many years. With the increased amount of drugs, school shootings, and other dementia in these schools, more and more parents are making the choice t ... public education is better and more suitable for children, many facts and statistics show that home schooling is equally, if not more, beneficial.Home schooling parents have many different reasons for ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
School Violence: the seveirty of this worldwide dillema, descriptions of incidences, and what is being done
School ViolenceSchool violence is a worldwide epidemic that terrorizes many innocent victims each ye ... worldwide epidemic that terrorizes many innocent victims each year. Violence has been prominent in schools for as long as anyone can remember, but recently, violence has taken on a more severe and in ... can remember, but recently, violence has taken on a more severe and increasingly dangerous role in schools around the world. The classic situation of bullying and teasing in schools is no longer the ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Gun control.
hen people mention gun control, many things come to mind which include the second amendment rights, school shootings, the Brady law, and gun violence. All of these issues have prompted a controversy o ... everyone, and law-abiding citizens should not need the regulation. In April of 1999, the Columbine school shootings occurred. This event caused many people to think about stricter gun control laws. B ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Guns.
are guns. TOday gun control is one of the vital issues on everyone's mind. With so many publicized school shootings the world is engulfed in the controversy of whether or not gun control should be st ... tricter policy and others believe it would be a violation of out rights as Americans. I was in high school when the mass of publicized school shootings occurred and my school had even been threatened. ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
A Modest Proposal for Gun Control today.
Gun ControlA wave of high-profile school shootings has placed gun control at the top of the public agenda for the past couple of years ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security
Abortions.
ple don't realize is that with every choice come consequences. The people that were involved in the school shootings across the nation also had a choice to make, but now they have to accept the conseq ... edical procedure. At the time she was a feminist and an atheist. She had studied ethics in graduate school and was fully versed in all the philosophical arguments for and against her procedure. She be ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Viiolence in Schools: The Invisible Kids.
In recent years school violence has reached an all-time high in the United States, and no one is quite sure why. The ... igh in the United States, and no one is quite sure why. The disturbing events that have happened in schools such as Columbine and Mantee are not simple cases of bullying and petty fights. They are pre ... ence is identifying the kids who pose the risk.A tentative outline of similarities among all recent school shootings sheds some light on the matter of just who is at risk. All perpetrators:*Demonstrat ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
This is an essay about world peace. It ties in the ideas of Martin Luther King, Jr. It describes the violent state the world is in and how things can change.
and many other international conflicts. Violence is also rampant on non-national levels. There are school shootings, domestic violence, road rage, hate crimes, and verbal violence.Not only is our soc ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Do violent video games affect kids?
wledge about technology, but they never really look at the game play. Recently there have been many school shootings and teenage violence. Many of the incidences have been linked to violent video game ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Gun Control
right to bear arms" can protect a family from a prowler, but on the other, with so many publicized school shootings recently; guns in the home seem to not be such a good idea. Many people believe the ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Sociological Analysis of "Bowling for Columbine" film by Michael Moore
"Bowling for Columbine"Why anyone would go into a school with tons of loaded guns and shot up their teachers and peers is almost beyond grasp. But it ... e these 'troubled-youth' do such a thing. He looks are more than just the tragedy at Columbine High School, but also at the NRA's effects on people, the 2nd amendment, more school shootings and the Un ... kes a deviance to reset the grounds for norms. After the tragedy all of America saw a change in our school systems, and what our children were exposed to. Suddenly by having your kids watch violent mo ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Youth Violence Myth
dering three times more kids than all "youth violence" combined.Nor are rare, public crimes such as school shootings a "youth" phenomenon. These are individual pathologies amply shared with adults, as ... icians have hyped their get-tough laws, programs that have been proven to reduce youth crime--after-school programs, summer-job programs, public mental health services--are being scrapped.This is the ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Abortion
right to choose whether they want an abortion or not. If you think about the people involved in the school shootings they also had a choice, but their choice has consequences. Shouldn't any murder hav ... procedure. At the time she was a feminist as well as an atheist. She had studied ethics in graduate school and was fully versed in all the philosophical arguments for and against her procedure. She be ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
School Violence.
School violence has become a widespread problem within the last few years. "A 1996 Children's Instit ... ute International Poll of American Adolescents revealed that 47 percent of all teens believed their schools were becoming more violent, 10 percent feared being shot or hurt by classmates carrying weap ... re frequent sites of student victimization" (The US Department of Health and Human Sciences, 2003). School violence is affecting children of all ages; it is seen as early in kindergarten where childre ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Post-positivist problem definition as we look at policy analysis.
of Chapter Six. In this chapter, different policies are explored on how to deal with the problem of school shootings. Although it is bigger than simply school shootings, that is the main concern. This ... of retaining and putting to use, the information they are being taught.When it comes to violence in schools, are students the only ones responsible? Although not as severe in all cases every year, vio ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
Violence in the media as it corresponds to school shootings
Our Great ImmunityMany people feel school shootings, like Columbine, were the cause of violent video games, movies, and music. I find t ... guns, and a lack of parental guidance. In result of all these causes the effect is the increase in school shootings.At least 50% of the news in the media these days is about violence. The reason for ... ou swirlys, making you drink out of a urinal, locking you in a locker, or even beating you up after school. I have never experienced any of this treatment first hand, nor do I know anyone that has, bu ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
Violence in the Media
been movies, video games, television programs, and books about wars, terrorism, animal attacks, and school shootings. Films such as Pearl Harbor and Saving Private Ryan clearly depict the horrors of w ... rld War II, with the main objective of killing the enemy. The media often dramatizes events such as school shootings, in the form of television specials. Another show, known as When Animals Attack is ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media