In the florida shooting that happened on Valentine's day, 2018, many students participated in a Walk Out, where they exercised their right to assemble peacefully, and gathered in their football fields for 17 minutes to honor those killed in the shooting and promote gun control to prevent these things from happening again. The universe decides what is what. Civility is rewarded, and Barbarism is punished. The person who did this is barbaric. He took away seventeen human’s right to live, stole the parent’s children, and much more. Nikolas Cruz, a nineteen year old boy, had been stockpiling weapons and had many suspicions raised about him, went into the highschool and shot fourteen students and three staff members. In the short story, Two Friends, the two friends …show more content…
While when Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing, is supposedly in the wrong, Claudio gets angry and rather than confronting her, shames her and calls her a whore in the church. She is so shocked that she “dies” all due to the anger and barbarism of Claudio’s unkindness. Instead, in Much Ado About Nothing, although Beatrice is rude and angry towards Benedick, when she is weeping over the wrongness of what has been done to Hero, he still comforts her. Here he shows kindness and civility, pushing aside his prideful ways and anger. Dehumanization is a major point of barbarism. In Les Mis, the Thenardiers also dehumanized Cosette. They forced her to eat with the dogs, work, and was only given rags to wear. She was also subject to abuse with no regard for her life. When Fantine sent her a skirt, it was given to the other children while Cosette went cold. In this she is no more than a slave, which is clearly seen as barbaric. They've stolen her right to be a human being. Slaves were forced to do work with no pay, often malnourished and harmed in the process. When Jean ValJean finally finds her, she is pale and sickly, overly thin and