Sociological Perspective SOC 100 June 27, 2013 Sociological Perspective In the video “School girl attacks”, a young Middle Eastern girl was attacked by men on motorcycles; she was not doing anything wrong, simply on her way to school when these men threw some clear liquid on her, it turns out that it was acid. The school girl believes that her attackers were the Military, in the video it was sub “the enemy”. From the Conflict Perspective, there is a lot of tension in the Middle East; these attacks are causing tension between the citizens and the military, thus increasing the violence in the Middle East. Examples of these tensions would be the fact that we have acid thrown onto girls, causing their arms and faces to burn, and at times causing them to go blind. The victims are young Middle Eastern girls who simply want to better their lives and get an education.
The Columbine massacre, caused by the devious and hatred filled minds of two young individuals, claimed the lives of many other students and also made the U.S. to take a better look at how unprotected the schools are. The massacre occurred on Tuesday, April 20,1999, at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado. Two students, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, embarked on a shooting rampage, killing 12 students and a teacher, as well as wounding 23 others, before committing suicide. The actual shooting lasted from 11:19 am to 11:42AM. The two walk through out the school shooting anyone that they saw fit to shoot.
“High school teacher lined up students during class – Fired BLANK GUNSHOTS at them.” April 23, 2012 This source explained it was an attempt to regain control over his class. After a stunt like this he will always have their attention. Why he did it will always help an argument one way or another. This source could be one of the most helpful. I yet again used google, and well it still hasn’t failed me.
The Shots That Won’t Be Forgotten As the 61 shots which were fired by the National Guards, 13 of the 61 bullets struck 13 protesting students, leaving nine of them wounded, and the remaining four students dead. Mary Ann Vecchio, a fourteen-year old runaway, saw the body of Jeffery Miller, a student of Kent State University, fell to her knees holding him and cried out in agony, even though she never knew him (“Four Students Killed At Kent State by National Guard, May 4, 1970.”) On May 4th 1970, students from Kent State University gathered together to protest against President Nixon’s decision of deploying American troops to Cambodia in order to complete an invasion. As the students began their protest, they began to turn from peaceful protesting into an unfriendly demonstration which caused the National Guard to step in. The students began to rile up, they began to threaten the guards by throwing rocks, and yelling obscene remarks to them. The National Guard felt they had no choice, but to fire their weapons, causing the four students to be killed (“Kent State Shootings- Timeline.”) Although the shooting was a tragic event, the whole event could’ve been avoided if the students would have left the Guards alone, and if the National Guard didn’t feel the need to shoot the students out of self-defense.
It put the audience staring down the guns of the two high school murderers. It made all collectively share the victims’ own horror. For the survivors, who must have felt as their own hearts had been shot, it acknowledged that unlike the deceased, each would continue to feel the pain. With half the speech leading up to this peak moment and half coming back down to composure, this powerful sentence was placed rightly. Another well written question: “What do we say to this tragedy?” Just before, Gore told us what Cassie Bernall said as she watched the vicious firearm aimed at her, “Yes, I do believe in God.” Gore was counseling his audience to find comfort and hope and forgiveness in God.
Fuad Manuel Asfura Giraldez English 8-3 October 17, 2008 Everyone Bullies Melinda Sordino Last year a boy from the Everest school was kicked out for bullying at school, and was not accepted in some other school. This is why bullying is bad. Melinda, the main character of the novel Speak does not bully, but she is being bullied, and it practically ruins her life. Since the first day of school Melinda has been bullied by her ex-friends and other particular people. Therefore Melinda is still being bullied throughout all the ninth grade.
In order to be accepted, He began to spend time with a group of skateboarders. He was accepted by this group but they also teased and bullied him occasionally. Shortly before the shooting, Williams spoke on two occasions of his plan to "pull a Columbine" at Santana High School, but no reports were ever made of these threats to the school. (Columbine High School shootings, a massacre that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, leaving 15 dead, including the two students responsible for the attack. It was one of the deadliest school shooting incidents in American history.)
My mother had a best friend whose husband was killed in the attacks; apparently he was trapped in the first tower when it collapsed. So, we were visiting that family a lot, and comforting them whenever we could. But what really hit me hard was that this was just one family. After the attacks that day, hundreds and hundreds of people lost loved ones to one of the most brutal and barbaric attacks in human history. I was only in the 2nd grade at the time when the attacks happened, but I still knew how awful it would be to come home from school and find out that one of your parents were killed in a mass murder.
Each of these are extremely tragic events, and will play a large role in the future discussions of school counselors in training. However, what could be considered the most tragic event to occur in a United States school is the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. On December 14, 2012 after shooting and killing his own mother, Adam Lanza shot his way into the Sandy Hook Elementary School, killing twenty children and six adults and wounded two other adults; Adam Lanza then killed himself (Sedensky, 2013). Of the six adults shot were the principal, the school psychologist, two behavioral therapists, and two teachers (Sedensky,
January 17, 1989 Patrick Edward Purdy walked into Stockton schoolyard and open fire with a semi-automatic rifle killing five children and wounding one teacher and 29 other children. March 24, 1998 Mitchell Johnson, 10, and Andrew Golden, 8, took seven guns to school near Jonesboro, Arkansas where they pulled a fire alarm and begin shooting everyone else as they exited the school. They killed four students and one teacher and injured nine others. These and many other random shootings have not stopped. Innocent people are not being protected therefore are dying because there is no control over firearms.