December 14, 2012, is a date that will live in infamy. On this day, Adam Lanza stole the lives of 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Over the past two decades, over 150 women, accused former doctor, Larry Nassar, of sexual assault. On December 1, 2017, Michael Flynn, former national security adviser, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, failing to reveal the talks he had with a former Russian ambassador about lifting the sanctions placed by the Obama administration. All of these horrific events have one thing in common: sin. In a world full of violence and corruption, is it weakness or evilness that causes sin? Famed rapper, Kendrick Lamar, released an album, in April of 2017, addressing all of the sin and violence currently plaguing America. In his album DAMN, he provides listeners with a much deeper meaning than the standard, stereotypical rap album through focusing on the source of violence and destruction. In DAMN, the rapper debates whether we are tainted by evil, or by a weakness deep inside of us. With all the evils that exist in this …show more content…
The thought that a human being with a conscious could terrorize a school in killing innocent students and teachers was astounding. Such a tragedy begs the question of why Adam Lanza decided to commit the harshest of crimes. Following Sandy Hook, authorities investigated Lanza’s background and found out he lost touch with reality. The mass murderer cut off communication with all in his life, locking himself in his room, playing brutal video games and researching murderers. While these actions solidified part of his motives, his intentions were and are still unknown. Was it weakness or evilness that caused Lanza to murder 26 human beings? Was Adam Lanza born with a weakness or did he develop a hatred of the world, overtime? Although these questions may never be answered, the mark he left on the world will never be forgotten, for the sadness and despair he
Who is Zaza Pachulia? Zaza Pachulia is an NBA basketball player for the Golden State Warriors. Even though some may consider him to be a sports star he is still just like any other normal guy. Zaza Pachulia has played for many teams throughout his career. This is an informative essay about Zaza Pachulia’s personal life, his career, and his basketball statistics.
Young and extremely talented, Adam O’Farrill is a modern jazz trumpeter from Brooklyn, NY, who comes from a lineage of marvelous musicians. His father, the widely known Cuban pianist, composer, and bandleader Arturo O’Farrill, has all the reasons to be proud of a son who, at the age of 21, has collaborated with Rudresh Mahanthappa, Vijay Iyer, Ambrose Akinmusire, Joe Lovano, and more recently Stephan Crump’s Rhombal. For this recording, Adam had the company of his brother Zack on drums, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown on tenor saxophone, and Walter Stinson on bass. Outlined for quartet, “Stranger Days was pretty much influenced by film and theater.
On December 14th, 2012, the second deadliest mass shooting was committed by Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook elementary, Newtown Connecticut. Unfortunately, Adam shot 20 children, six staff members, his mother Nancy Lanza, and finally himself. Adam was 20 years old with multiple mental health illnesses. I will attempt to analyze and identify the personality and behavioral traits of Adam Lanza. While identifying Adam Lanza's personality and behavioral traits, I will determine if Lanza was born or made a criminal.
A month after the shooting, the FBI interviewed another witness. She told the FBI that Lanza told her, “he wanted to kill himself and that it would be on the news… Lanza never threatened to harm anyone and never wrote that he had guns or weapons in his home. His postings revealed he had extensive knowledge of the guns and ammunition that had been used in historical mass murders.” His paranoia seemed to be another reason of this shooting.
“In the years leading up to the December 2012 massacre at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School, Adam Lanza went from a merely shy pre-teen to a mentally ill recluse obsessed with
The search of Otzi’s identity was still not over, when archaeologist decided to performed CT scan on Iceman for more evidence. Results on Otzi's CT scan revealed that he was on heavy dose of dried mushrooms. This mushroom is called “Birch Polymorph,” which was used as a pain killer ages ago, also containing similar components that Advil consist of, advertised by modern researchers. It's amazing to see how Otzi found natural resources of mushrooms to reduce his pain. In today's era we rely on visiting the doctors and taking experts advice, when in pain, whereas Otzi was his own doctor.
Nothing is more horrible than mass murders, whether its workplace, school, or any place of public assembly it is a tragedy nonetheless. That’s why the sadistic atrocities that took place on December 14th, 2012 in Sandy Hook Connecticut, where students at the Sandy Hook Elementary school were gunned down by twenty-year-old Adam Lanza who apparently suffered from an obsessive-compulsive behavior. Adam Peter Lanza lived with his mother Nancy just five miles from Sandy Hook Elementary, where he attended school for a short time. He had a brother named Ryan Lanza, who was four years older than Adam. Nancy and her husband Peter, Adam's father, divorced in 2009.
In 1996, Barry Loukaitis, 14 years old, walked into his junior high school in Moses Lake Washington and killed two students and a teacher. He reportedly told friends, at least eight of them according to the article (Dedham 2000) of his thoughts of killing others. He also reportedly had spoke of this for a year prior to the shooting incident. He spoke of specific details such as using a coat to hide a rifle as he did in his shooting. He actually told one friend as relayed by the friend, “ He said that it’d be cool to kill people” and as this friend went on to say Loukaitis had said “He could probably get away with it.”
The book “Rampage The Social Roots Of School Shootings” written by Newman et al, offers many different views and theories behind the issues of Rampage school shootings. In this paper I will give the reader an in depth overview and evaluation of the aforementioned book. Offering researched based reasons to why these school shootings actually happen. They explore the communities of Heath and Westside, the grounds of two horrific acts of rampage shootings by Michael Carnell, Andrew Golden and Mitchell Johnson. They explain various angles of there research such as identifying an issue, how signals given by children can be misinterpreted, the effects of social capital and how mental factors play a role in the acts of the shooters.
What are the reasons that led Adam Lanza to commit such a violent crime against such innocent children? Criminologists till this day don’t understand fully why Lanza would do this but they have their theories. The causes of criminality are divided into four schools: the Classical, Biological, Psychological, and the Sociological (Schmalleger, 2015). In the classical school it says that people have a free will, and they chose to commit crimes. Adam Lanza chose to commit this crime.
A teacher’s son, clad in black and carrying two 9mm pistols rampaged through a Connecticut elementary school, killing 20 small children and six adults, a tragedy President Obama said had “broken the hearts of America” (Williams).” Many people believe that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was planned because of the odd demeanor of the parents or victim, Emilie Parker, the medical personnel who were turned away from the scene, why care flight helicopters were never requested, and questions concerning the validity of the medical examiner. This tragic event was not at all planned because all of these questions can be reasonably answered. One of the reasons people question the tragedy of the Sandy Hook massacre is because of the strange
A twenty year old man named Adam Lanza murdered his mother, Nancy Lanza, at their home. The weapon he used was a .223 calibre rifle. After murdering his mother, he commuted five minutes to Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed twenty seven others, including himself (Ray). Principal Dawn Hochsprung, the vice principal, and the school psychologist Mary Sherlach were in a meeting with a parent discussing their seven year old (Vogel). The
School Shootings: How We All Miss the Point... The aftermath of a school shooting is tragic, depressing, and causes hatred for the lives lost and the person who took them. Everyone, especially the media, tries to interpret why the shooter killed their victims, or why they felt the need to end others’ lives and their own. How We All Miss the Point on School Shootings, by Mark Manson, explains what and why these mass shootings happen. He starts by using examples of shootings and the murderer’s past.
Gregorio Esparza was born in San Antonio de Béxar his birth name was José Maria Esparza. He is known as a defender of the Alamo. He was born on February 25, 1802. Gregorio married Anna Salazar whom he had a daughter and three sons. All of Gregorio Esparza’s family was present during the siege of the Mexican Army but only one of his sons Enrique Esparza was one of the eyewitnesses to see his father’s death.
On April 20, 1999, the unimaginable occurred at Columbine High School in the small town of Littleton, Colorado. A school shooting, carried out by, then senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold took the entire community by storm. With 15 deaths, including the perpetrators, and 24 non-fatal injuries, the memories of this horrific massacre will forever resonate in the minds of all. With a meticulously thought out plan, the two shooters prepared guns and bombs in order to perform the sickening act. Families, the FBI, local officials, psychologists, and more spent a multitude of time trying to figure out the reasoning as to what motivated the two boys to kill and cause so much pain to others.