. . Hence to relegate children to a world of their own is to deprive them of their humanity, and ourselves as well”. Urie Bronfenbrenner “… Mom and dad did most of our teachings… He showed us how to aim and fire his pistol, how to shoot Mom’s bow and arrows, and how to throw a knife by the blade so that it landed in the middle of a target with a satisfying thwock. By the time I was four, I was pretty good with dads pistol… Dad said my sharpshooting would come in handy one day if the feds ever surrounded us.” Page 21 In the story The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls just explained one of the many attributes her father has taught her in life.
Theresa Polejewski Professor Chris Doss WR121 10/18/11 Description of Shooting Dad Sarah Vowell tells an entertaining story about how her father’s political views and interests varied from hers, and how they overcame their differences in the essay “Shooting Dad.” The political divisions (Republican versus Democrat’s) exhibited itself into the Vowells’ house outside appearance with campaign posters everywhere. Vowell’s father was a gunsmith. He sported hunter’s orange, and he plastered the family vehicle with National Rifle Association stickers. Sarah and her family live in Bozeman, Montana. Sarah jokingly calls her patriotic home the “United States of Firearms.”(155)Her father was a passionate gun collector and his home was displayed with guns.
I was a friend of his brother so I knew the Kennedy’s well. So the F.B.I. put me on the case because I am a detective too. I specialize in guns mostly...any way, a man I interviewed said, "I saw a rifle being pulled from a window seal in the Daley plaza." I asked if he could tell what kind of gun it was or what the man looked like.
He became famous for tests he conducted that resulted in adoption of the AS caliber as the official U.S. Army handgun. In November 1914 he retired from the service with the intention of devoting his full time to perfecting an automatic rifle. When the United States entered World War I, he was
Lillian Rubin who wrote “Guns and Grief” gives several reasons as to why Cho Seung-Hui might have fired at Virginia Tech. Lillian Rubin says that weapons are too accessible. Cho Seung-Hui was able to buy two semi-automatic pistols, a Glock 9 mm and a Walther P22 along with all the ammo, no questions asked. Cho walked onto Virginia Tech campus and fired close to two hundred rounds on April 16, 2007. Cho killed thirty-two people and
Unrealistically, the narrator believes that she would be of use to her father more and more as she got older. As she grows older she is separated from her gender and the opposite gender. The narrator’s community believes that the male gender is superior to the female gender. The narrator first experience with this was when the salesman stopped at their house one day and she was introduced by her father, the salesman unacquaintedly express’s, “I thought it was only a girl” (49). This goes to show that the salesman thinks that the female gender is not as great as the opposite gender, they are not valued the same as of what the male gender is.
Hunting Should Be a Constitutional Right Hunting is a time honored tradition in the United States. Many families have enjoyed long histories of deer,raccoon,bear and other game hunting. For some people the game the shoot provides meat for their families or helps ease the cost of groceries. For others hunting is a sport or heritage. Some people think that hunting should be stopped, well others believe that hunting should be a constitutional right.
Madge discovers Bob, the mechanic from the gas station where she filled the car up earlier in the day, stranded with his motorcycle on the side of the road. The passenger explains to her “Mrs. Haley …. I’m not a woman. I’m John Tabor.” Mr. Tabor had spent the last few months searching for his wife’s killer.
There are people who are mentally ill that are able to purchase guns with the intent of killing people. Laws for purchasing guns should be strengthened. A simple background check should not be the only thing in the way of a person purchasing weapons. The National Rifle Association was founded in 1871 as a sporting and hunting association, they supported most gun control regulation for its first 100 years. Now the National Rifle Association members are in favor requiring an extensive background check, and “69 percent support requiring all gun sellers at gun shows to conduct criminal background checks of the people buying guns; 59 percent favor mandatory registration of handguns; and 77 percent favor a waiting period for the purchase of a handgun.” All of these are would make it harder for people to purchase guns and allow proper documentation for every gun.
In my opinion, Mitch Albom’s argument that gun control is necessary was the most effective. In his essay, the short stories about the man gunned down on the freeway, the firefighter being shot while putting out a blaze, and the sixteen year old shot while sleeping really grab the attention of the reader. Albom uses pathos to emotionally appeal the reader. In my case, when I was reading the essay the example stories made me very emotional. While reading the examples, I could not help but to put myself in the shoes of the victim’s family.