Theories Of Mass Shootings

“The other Rose apparently didn't do very well, for I was placed in the vocational track, a euphemism for the bottom level.”. Rose and his family were unware of the scores being switched, and they didn’t realize what this meant for Rose and his future. The school should have taken action on this problem by switching the scores back and placing the two children in the programs they tested into originally. This connects to Rose’s main idea by showing that the children were overlooked, and that the school was not prepared for this situation to

The Glass Menagerie connection (stage 1 – withdrawal from reality/social alienation/ fear/isolation) Tennessee Williams (Childhood) • Williams often skipped school, did poorly on tests, and was bullied • “He endured the teasing not only from the other children there, but from teachers as well. They mocked him for being the newcomer, for his Southern accent, for his diminutive stature, and for his reluctance to play the rough-and –tumble games expected of boys. “I can remember gangs of kids following me home yelling ‘Sissy!’ – and home was not a very pleasant refuge. If I had been born to this situation, I might not have resented it so deeply. But it was forced upon my consciousness at the most sensitive age of childhood” (Bloom 17).

He made me doubt my self worth which in turn made everything else in my life a lot harder, including school. Once my parents noticed the downfall of my grades, friend group, and overall happiness they took me to a counselor to talk about what was

Book Review Paper Questions A-1 In Dreaming Forward: Latino Voices Enhance the Mosaic by Martha E. Casazza, we read about different challenges and experiences many Latinos face in the education system, communities, and families. College student, Fabian, his problem in the school system was the lack of support and resources he had to face at his high school. “Going to school was like walking into a prison, where the environment is so negative people don’t respect you; people look down on you. There’s no encouragement.” Fabian describes the teachers, counselors, and administrators as unsupportive which ultimately caused him to lose interest in school. The lack of motivation caused him to drop out of school for a while but then after seeing how things were, he went back to school.

In the novel The Catcher of the Rye, the main character encounters a various of other characters that have a meaning to Holden in a certain way. Holden Caulfield: Narrator of the novel. He is a 16 years old teenager, who has been expelled for the fifth time from a different school each time for his poor scholar performance, although he is a very intelligent student but doesn’t put the effort. Holden is a very pessimistic person, that just sees the bad in everything around him but at the same time he tries to protect himself from disappointment. He seems uncomfortable with himself and his weaknesses.

During my Junior Year of high school, I fell into an immense state of depression and was diagnosed with anxiety and attention deficit disorder. Anxiety destroyed my confidence and morphed minor problems into mountains that I dared not climb. My inability to focus and lack of energy further enlarged my issues, and impaired my belief that I could overcome this challenging time. Being a first generation Latina, stigma revolving mental health in our community made it difficult for my parents to understand how depression and anxiety impairs one 's ability to function. Because I refused to seek help, I lost all resilience and motivation to strive forward, and as a result, my grades and relationships suffered tremendously.

As a child, I was always told to dream big by my mother, father, and many others. Nonetheless, living with my mother, stepfather, and siblings in San Jose, there was constantly fighting, moving around, and fear from within, as well as the outside world. I always struggled in school but didn’t think much of it, considering both parents and older siblings were high school dropouts but weren’t in disastrous situations. Towards the end of elementary school, I refused to go to school because of my social phobia, as well as the fact that I would be bullied because of my speech impediment. Near the end of my seventh grade, I went to Modesto with my dad every weekend and found the different environment to be very calming, thus when the time came for him to bring me back home, I would cry in the car and beg to be taken back to Modesto.

In middle school I never had good grades I was always the student who did not understand the lesson. During this time I would get so frustrated i would just give up and not even try. From the beginning of 6th grade to the end of 7th I pretty much had all F’s maybe some B’s in my easy classes. My parents were very disappointed in me and i was disappointed in myself. After 7th grade i decided i was gonna switch gears and start really putting my right foot forward and start paying attentions in school and ask for help when I need it.

When I was very young, my peers were more understanding; all young children can be awkward or shy, it seemed. But the older I got, the harder social interactions became. In middle school and early into high school, I missed more school due to the anxiety attacks that came from my failed social interactions than I did from illness. As someone who is sick often, this was unacceptable to me. Autistic people often obsess over the things that interest them, called “special interests.” Body language became one of these special interests for me in high school as a result of the tedious research I began to get out of this feeling that I was alone in a world where everyone knew a secret I could not find out.

Struggling to make things go straight was not easy for me as I had no friend to guide me through the town and to school. Being new in the city came with negative things such as boredom at school, and as such, I remained silent most of the times when there were no lectures. I remember I was mocked by one of the students in our class and this lowered my self-esteem since I did not understand why she looked at me and started laughing. This moment seemed to be the most harmful experience of my life since I dislike people who mock me. I have had positive experiences in life, but the most impactful in my life is when I started working as a nursing assistant and home health aide in a health care facility.

My cousin now has problems in school, with drugs and the people around him. He has grown to not care for the others the same way his parents never cared for him. What I am trying to say is that it is more of the adults fault for the behavers found in the child. It is said in brain studies that an adolescent’s brain tissue is missing around that age which leads them to make impulsive decisions without reasoning. Know put together the fact that an adolescent has issues and the fact that they can’t reason together.

Bulling in schools seems to be a touchy subject these days. It was as well when I was in high school. I can recall one brief time in school when I was bullied, because of what I had or did not have. There was this boy his name was Paul and he was my tormentor for that brief time. At that time growing up my family did not have much money so we could not afford nice things in particular new clothes.

The scholarly journal provides an overview of mass shootings. It talks about all the killers, the guns used, how they were obtained, and the victims. The Journal provides a lot of information to give a summary of all mass shootings. The journal gives me a brief and important information to know more of the cases in mass shootings. All of the information in the journal provides facts to give into my topic.

Throughout the years, people have visually examined mass murders and wondered at how an individual or a group of individuals could take the lives of another immensely large group of people. Society often mistake mass murders to its close cognation with serial murder and spree killers. The terminology “mass murder” was acclimated around 1980 to establish an individual or group of individuals who kill many (three and more) at once. Some types of mass murders committed by individuals are Disciple Killers, Family Annihilators, and Disgruntled Employees. However, it is not only individuals that consummate mass murder.

His behaviors have led him to in school and home suspensions. On several occasion, David has attended alternative school for his repeated insubordination and disrespect. Overall, after attending the alternative school there were no changes; he remained to have a lack of respect for authoritative figures and peers. To assist with is disruptive