Tlatelolco Massacre One of the most tragic and heartbreaking events in Latin American History on record was the Tlatelolco Massacre, which took place on October 2, 1968. This event is important in Mexican history because government police and army forces shot down hundreds of unarmed Mexicans, mostly student protestors. An estimated 300 deaths, thousands injured and jailed, and many disappeared This time period was the beginning of the Olympics in 1968 with Mexican president Gustavo Diaz Ordaz in office. During that time many student and labor union protests were erupting around the country. President Ordaz wanted to put México’s best foot forward.
On August 9th, 2014, an eighteen year old boy named Michael Brown was shot dead by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. The cause of this shooting has been hotly debated, and the subject of many recent protests around the country. This essay will attempt to list and analyze potential causes of the shooting, including the fact that he didn’t listen to the cops and that Brown was the aggressor in the attack. When Darren Wilson first saw Michael Brown, it had nothing to do with the fact that he had just stolen cigars from a convenience store, but rather the fact that he was walking down the middle of the street, or jaywalking. Wilson pulled his car up and told Brown and his friend to get out of the street.
The Michael Brown case is a tragedy that shocked many people across the country. As per article in Time, he was a young man who was supposed to go off to college soon. He was unarmed with his hands up, yet he was shot to death by police. This unfortunate event has caused a lot of protests. Many protests were peaceful, however, the police applied tear gas against citizens.
However, the law was never recanted, and they are still in effect today. For this, the Egyptian people despised their dictator. After 18 days of protest, the Egyptian people overthrew Mubarak. He and his most trusted ministers were placed on trial within 9 months, and accused of corruption, conspiracy, profiteering, fraud and money laundering.To understand this unforeseen change in power, one must first examine the unexpected spark to the Egyptian Revolution. The Egyptian Revolution began with the death of Khaled Said, a 28-year old man in Alexandria, who was beaten to death by the police because he was protesting against the government.
Bowling for Columbine The title of the documentary, Bowling for Columbine, pays homage to the events of April 20, 1999, where in Littleton, Colorado Erick Harris and Dylan Kiebold when bowling at 6:00AM before going on a shooting spree at Columbine High School. They killed a teacher, twelve students, and injured countless others both physically and mentally. The world gasped, confused as to how and why such an event could occur. Having really little clue what to expect in turning on Bowling for Columbine, I found the vignettes a bit overwhelming and the flood of statistics shocking. I often found my self-pondering one fact or another forgetting that the movie was still on!
Today there is not a more hotly debated issue than gun control. The most recent school shooting event has prompted an “I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it any more” moment just like it did in Sydney Lumet’s 1976 movie, Network. How many more school shootings do there need to be before the government stops talking about it and steps up and does something about it? It all seems to have started on April 20, 1999, when two high school students who were armed with weapons and bombs entered Columbine High School and killed twelve of their fellow classmates, one teacher and injured many more. On December 14, 2012, a lone gunman killed twenty first graders and six school teachers and administrators with an assault style rifle at the Sandy Hook Elementary School just outside of Newtown, Connecticut (Jonson).
In light of recent events in Ferguson, MO, Mike Brown, an eighteen year old St. Louis native was gunned down by a Ferguson police officer. This case of potential police brutality caused riots to rage in the city of Ferguson, MO. Rioters burned down a gas station and burglarized many small businesses in the area. Could all of this been stopped with one simple solution? Numerous stories arose from the shooting.
These kinds of events were not supposed to happen at a simple high school in Colorado. They especially were not supposed to happen at Columbine. The events just described occurred on April 20th, 1999 at Columbine High School. Two high school students possessing illegally obtained guns barged into the high school and opened fire, killing fifteen people including themselves and injuring twenty-four others (Carter, Gun Control: Overview). Up to that point, this was the most significant school shooting massacre in American history.
The Columbine High School massacre is recognized as the fourth deadliest school massacre in the United States history, 13 people were killed (12 students and 1 teacher) and 24 students were injured at the hands of two senior students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. After embarking in the massacre, both students had committed suicide. This gruesome massacre provoked discussion on a number of issues including the nature of high sc hool cliques, bullying, as well as the role of violent movies, video games and music. Eric Harris was born in Wichita, Kansas on April 9, 1981. Growing up Eric's family often relocated, because Eric's father was a U.S. Air Force transport pilot, while his mother was a homemaker.
Columbine high school massacre. The Columbine High School massacre (often known simply as Columbine) was a school shooting which occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine, an unincorporated area of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. Two senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, embarked on a shooting spree in which a total of 12 students and 1 teacher were murdered. They also injured 21 other students directly, with three further people being injured while attempting to escape the school. The pair then committed suicide.