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  • School Violence - Finding Solutions

    School Violence - Finding Solutions

    School Violence-Finding Solutions December 1, 1997, Michael Carneal, a freshman in West Paducah, Kentucky opened fire on his classmates, killing three and wounding five. One year later, on March 5, 1998, Mitchell Woodward shot and killed five classmates and wounded eleven in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Just one year after that, Eric Harris and Dylan Kleibold committed the most heinous act of school violence in United States history in Littleton, Colorado. There, in Columbine High school, Harris

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    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Promotion of School Violence

    Promotion of School Violence

    I go to gross movies and listen to heavy metal and rap music and I haven't killed anybody, does that make me a potential killer?" These things provoke anger, temper, and crummy attitudes. Gross visuals and music dull sensitivities. They teach the wrong way to handle problems. Make no mistake about this. No matter what defenders of this junk may say, violent movies, video games, and gross music have consequences that include more arguing, hitting,

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    Essay Length: 576 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Bred
  • Violence in Schools

    Violence in Schools

    Do you feel safe as you walk into this high school everyday? If you don't it wouldn't surprise me because in 1990 one in every twenty high school students have carried a gun to school. Recently in this year of November 24 a high school boy brought a gun to school and shot off 12 rounds at his classmates. Several students were injured and 1 student was killed. This event came from the result of

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    Essay Length: 731 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Tommy
  • School Violence and Video Games

    School Violence and Video Games

    Grand Theft Auto, Doom, Mortal Kombat, and Resident Evil. One thing all these games have in common is they are all rated M for Mature. The definition of a Mature rating according to the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is "Titles rated M (Mature) have content that may be suitable for persons ages 17 and older. Titles in this category may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content, and/or strong language." The ESRB states

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    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Tommy
  • High School Cliques and School Violence

    High School Cliques and School Violence

    High School Cliques and School Violence There is an overabundant amount of cliques in high schools throughout the United States. Many teenagers believe the only way to be recognized is to be affiliated with the popular crowd. There are many factors that bring about cliques in high schools. Some are based on wealth, style, and race. But in many cases there are cliques that are a combination of these elements. Socioeconomic status is often

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    Essay Length: 573 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Mike
  • Stopping School Violence in Your Community

    Stopping School Violence in Your Community

    Stopping School Violence In Your Community 2 years, 7 months and 3 days ago, our lives were changed forever. This marks the date of April 20, 1999. When the students arrived that day at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado they had no idea that 12 students and 1 teacher wouldn’t be leaving by the end of the day. What could ever drive two high school students to the point where the only answer

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    Essay Length: 569 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: David
  • School Violence

    School Violence

    I. One of the biggest problems which the United States is faced with is juvenile crime, including violence, especially in our schools. This outburst of violence with our juveniles is frightening, and sometimes I question myself about wanting to be in the situation; but then I just remember why I want to be there and the questions disappear. I just feel that we, as parents, need to take care and claim responsibility for our children.

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Solutions to School Violence

    Solutions to School Violence

    Solutions to School Violence Violence in schools has spread widely throughout the nation. This has caused many problems among students, families, faculty of schools, and residents of the areas. However, their are many possible ways we can stop all this violence in schools. Almost three-fourths of the United States teens are afraid of violent crime amongst their peers (Apfel 23). Violence in schools has become a big problem in today's society. With all the people

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    Essay Length: 2,760 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: David
  • Violence in Schools

    Violence in Schools

    Violence in schools is a problem today that needs more attention than it is being given. This doesn’t just mean school shootings. This means other violence like assaults, rapes, robberies, hate crimes, gang violence, as well as violence with weapons. I think that there is not enough being done to prevent violence like these in schools. Violence in schools is a problem that has been going on for a very long time, and this is

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    Essay Length: 583 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Expanding Knowledge to Decrease School Violence

    Expanding Knowledge to Decrease School Violence

    Expanding Knowledge to Decrease School Violence A Make a Difference Project Critical Need: School violence currently exists in the United States educational system. The number of children who are becoming victims of school violence is increasing annually. Since 1992, the term �school violence’ became widely used in describing violent and aggressive acts that are occurring across all school campuses in the United States. Furlong (2000) describes school violence as being “composed of the perpetration of

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    Essay Length: 3,072 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Victor
  • School Violence: The School’s Responsibility?

    School Violence: The School’s Responsibility?

    School Violence: The School’s Responsibility? The focus of American schools these days have so changed from the “basics” of teaching children to read, write and do arithmetic. Instead of just being an academic institution that was entrusted with teaching our children skills that would enable then to be intelligent contributing members of society, the schools are now looked at as “extensions of the community”. Therefore, according to John Dewey, “ schools should share social burdens

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Yan
  • School Violence

    School Violence

    Even though we live in a capitalist society, I still cannot help but believe, despite my own cynicism, that people are more motivated to achieve something for personal satisfaction rather than monetary gains. Look at Chekov's short story, "The Bet." A man agrees to sacrifice fifteen years of his life in prison in exchange for a million dollars. Obviously his motivation for such an extreme bet is wealth, but by the end of the prison

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    Essay Length: 972 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Mike
  • Why Is Violence in Our Children’s Schools Increasing?

    Why Is Violence in Our Children’s Schools Increasing?

    Why is violence in our children's schools increasing? Our society wonders what the child that opens fire against his or her classmates are feeling or what's on their mind. I believe that the lack of parental involvement in the student's life may cause violence. Media violence can also be looked at as a potential cause for the increase in school violence. With the divorce rates skyrocketing, children spend less time with their parents, and the

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: regina
  • School Uniforms Dont Stop School in Violence

    School Uniforms Dont Stop School in Violence

    What's more, it's still unproved to many that having Johnny wear a tie to school, and Susie a plaid skirt, will help them learn better. And critics of uniforms point out that most policies have been adopted at the elementary school level, which is not where the serious problems of violence and gang activity have flared. In fact, when uniforms were tried at Forestville High School in Prince George's a few years ago, ''the

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    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Violences in School

    Violences in School

    Violence in schools has increased widely through the country. Innocent students, teachers, families and residents of the area could be affected by violence in schools. There are many causes of school violence like drugs, family or emotional problems. However, there are possible ways to prevent violent attacks by students. First, I think the institution should give the students conferences about how violence is affecting our environment, causes of violence and consequences. They should also try

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • School Violence

    School Violence

    SCHOOL VIOLENCE Every year teachers, parents and students prepare for another school session, hopefully the thought of destructive violence such as the Columbine shootings won’t be in their mind. It’s sad to think that violence is a concern at all. It’s certainly a proven fact that violence of one sort or another is part of most schools today. School violence is a problem for everyone. It is a problem that everyone must deal with and

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    Essay Length: 259 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Tommy
  • School Violence Awareness

    School Violence Awareness

    Shaw Couevas English 1002-105 November 27, 2001 Final Draft School Violence Awareness One out of every twelve students would stay home rather than attend school for fear someone would hurt them or hassle them (Kreiner). What can we do to be safe in school? It is becoming more apparent violence is a problem in most schools. But once we are aware that it exists, we can figure out ways to make it less of a

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    Essay Length: 991 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: David
  • Are Children with Special Needs More Likely to Commit School Violence?

    Are Children with Special Needs More Likely to Commit School Violence?

    Are Children with Special Needs More Likely to Commit School Violence? 1. Denise (Smith) Skarbek Denise (Smith) Skarbek worked as a special education teacher for children with mild disabilities before becoming a professor in the department of special education at Indiana University at South Bend. Her interest in special education led her to research the relationship between children with special needs and school violence. In this selection, she explores whether children with certain emotional and

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    Submitted: February 11, 2010 By: Victor
  • Violence in Schools

    Violence in Schools

    Violence in Schools VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS Violence in schools has spread widely throughout the nation. This has caused many problems among students, families, faculty of schools, and residents of the areas. However, there are many possible ways we can stop all this violence in schools. Almost three-fourths of the United States teens are afraid of violent crime amongst their friends (Apfel 23). Violence in schools has become a big problem in today's society. With all

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    Essay Length: 1,048 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Top
  • School Violence

    School Violence

    Violence is a problem many school are facing today. Across the United States violence in schools continues to grow. There are more possibilities of violent acts taking place in public schools than in private schools. Though the years there has always been violence acts in schools. School violence is problems that may come from home, media, neighborhoods, or even from some roles models. “Violence is identified by the federal government as one of our leading

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    Submitted: April 11, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Affect of Media on School Violence

    Affect of Media on School Violence

    Nisha Gajjar AP Lang Affect of Media on school violence. Whether or not exposure to media violence causes increased levels of aggression and violence in young people is the perennial question of media effects research. Some experts, like University of Michigan professor L. Rowell Huesmann, argue that fifty years of evidence show "that exposure to media violence causes children to behave more aggressively and affects them as adults years later." Others, like Jonathan Freedman of

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    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Andrew
  • The Causes of School Violence

    The Causes of School Violence

    The Causes of School Violence School violence is only a recent thing. Roughhousing among teenagers in high school has always been prevalent, however, its extreme forms such as taking out vendettas against students or teachers or bringing deadly weapons to school have only risen in existence in the past thirty years. Now some have placed the blame on the violent video games, television and bad music. The first notable high school shootings didn’t happen until

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    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Bred
  • School Violence

    School Violence

    School Violence In the world today there are many different issues that I feel that need to be addressed. One of these many issues is how to end or even prevent school violence. I have noticed throughout the years that school violence has increased tremendously. Are there programs that are offered to teachers to help with school violence? Why are kids more violent now and are there certain characteristics that each violent child has in

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    Essay Length: 498 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 14, 2010 By: Top
  • Argumentative Essay - Bullying and Violence in Schools

    Argumentative Essay - Bullying and Violence in Schools

    Ndukauba J. Nwosu Professor Absalom English 101, section 13 2 November, 2016 Argumentative Essay - Bullying and Violence in Schools Bullying is a repeated aggressive behavior where one person (or a group of people) prove him/ herself to be is more superior than an individual, which leads them to deliberately intimidate, abuse, or coerce the individual with the intention to hurt that person physically and emotionally. Bullying has been a huge dilemma in schools and

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    Submitted: February 4, 2017 By: Ndukauba23
  • School Violence

    School Violence

    Abstract School violence is nothing new in the United States. Unfortunately, it has been going on since the late 1700’s. The earliest reported school shooting in the United States took place on July 26, 1764 near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania. A school master and nine or ten children were killed by four Lenape American Indians. Let’s fast forward to the year 2017, where a man entered the campus of North Park Elementary school and killed his

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    Submitted: August 2, 2017 By: mrkus44

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