Criminal law investigators did say they recovered some of the rounds that had been shot from outside the bedroom window. While Holland 's two-year-old daughter survived the incident, relatives say they found the toddler covered in her mother 's blood. Investigators believe she may have seen the gunman. The child spent hours alone with her dead mother after being shot to death over the Fourth of July weekend. According to neighbor Mark Baker, he called the victim a great person who never caused trouble.
"Rachel's Tears: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine Martyr Rachel Scott" by Beth Nimmo and Darrell Scott is a story written by parents of a girl who was killed in the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999. After her death, they found journals and other writings that showed them that their daughter had an intimate relationship with God. They share her writing and their experiences in this book to help others who struggle with faith. Everyone has a unique way of worshiping, and Rachel communicated with God through her writing.
He became the only President of the United States hit by a bullet while he was in office and survived. After the attack his
Columbine High School can forever be associated with the massacre that took place April 20, 1999. Dave Cullen, author of Columbine, captures the heart wrenching and cruel events that unfolded that April through his analysis of the normalities within the day and specific dialogue. Using many rhetorical devices, Cullen develops an agonizing emotion behind the terrible truth; it can happen anywhere. While spreading the terrible truth, he manages to also spread light on the events of April 20 in order to debunk bullying motives and help all people understand the idea of psychopaths.
Several students ask who it is, unknowing that it is Jessica before the accident she was in. Jessica tells a lie and says that it is her sister, Anne. People wondered if Anne went to school with some of their younger siblings. Jessica adds to the story that Anne died and leaves the classroom for a burn treatment at the nearby hospital. After Jessica leaves, many students were making twisted stories of what they thought killed Anne and burned Jessica so badly.
Abigail Macias English 1301 October 23, 2015 Umpqua Community Collage Shooting Tragedy struck the community of Roseburg, Oregon after a shooting at the Umpqua Community College took place on October 1, 2015. The shooting has the community devastated after claiming ten lives, including that of 26-year-old Christopher Harper-Mercer whom authorities have identified as the shooter, and leaving nine others injured. The victims, whom’s ages ranged from 18-67 included: Lucero Alcaraz, Treven Anspach, Rebeka Ann Carnes, Quinn Glen Cooper, Kim Saltmarsh Dietz, Lucas Eibel, Jason Dale Johnson, Lawrence Levine (a current professor at the community college) and Serena Dawn Moore. Harper-Mercer, an enrolled student at the community college, first opened
Annemarie is a young ten-year old girl who witnesses a tragic event in the year 1943. along the way Annemarie is lied to. Sometimes adults lie to children for their protection or they are not old enough to handle it. In Annemarie's story she is affected by lies and truth, her relationship with the adults in her life, and her journey from girlhood to womanhood.
Anne Frank was a Jewish girl that lived during the Holocaust. She wrote a diary that was found after the Holocaust ended. One of her most famous quotes was, "Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. " This quote truly demonstrated her belief that mankind shows kindness and compassion toward one another. In her various quotes, we can find many reasons for her belief that man is overall good to one another.
Victoria Leigh Soto Victoria Leigh Soto was a teacher in the United States murdered during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. When Adam Lanza entered the school armed to murder those inside, she hid her students. Victoria Soto died shielding several elementary school children from Lanza’s gunfire. == Biography of Victoria Soto== Victoria Leigh Soto was born on November 4, 1985, in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
The day before the shooting she had stayed two days at a New Hampshire hotel as part of an experiment in letting her son stay home alone and be independent. She was shot four times in the head by her son the morning after she returned. The rifle used to kill her was found by police next to her bed. Adam then went to the Sandy Hook Elementary school where he shot dead 20 first-graders and six educators with a semi-automatic rifle on December 14, 2012, before shooting
When she was growing up, she went to San Francisco 's Elite Katherine Branson School for Girls. Her mother was worried that she would never marry because she was always the tallest in her class at 6 feet 3 inches. Which did give her an advantage, because of her interests. She loved to play golf, tennis, loved to hunt, and much more. She always got into trouble because she was a prankster.
This story is abut a girl that was writing her daily days while she was in the holocaust She was venting her fears and frustrations, and contemplating her everyday life. She was given the diary as a present from her parents in 1942, and named it Kitty. Through her diary writing, Anne Frank was in many ways her own counsellor in a time of great suffering and tribulation. She realized that writing down her thoughts and feelings could help her cope with the anxiety of the war and Nazi persecution.
(Hook) World War II was a dark period in the history of the world, where about six million Jews were killed in Nazi concentration camps. (Bridge) A few of those individuals were Anne Frank and her family. (FS1) Anne Frank and her family were Jews, living in a time period where it was illegal to be of that ethnicity and religion. (FS2)
As Booth began his bold escape, the fate of Abraham Lincoln was unknown. According to “Abraham,” Charles Leale heard the pistol fire and Mary’s scream, so the twenty-three year old doctor sprinted towards the wounded President . When Leale reached Lincoln, the young doctor saw the physical condition of the President. “He found the president slumped in his chair, paralyzed and struggling to breath” (History.com). “Assassination” states that the doctor reacted quickly by ripping the President’s shirt open for a physical examination, but Leale could not find the bullet wound.
The video that made me think the most, was Prison Kids: Juvenile Justice in America. They interviewed many kids, parents and the government officials who worked alongside these programs. This video was the most interesting to me because you do not hear much about kids being arrested. The video goes into something that was discussed in class several times, as well as a controversial topic in society.
