believe that history does repeat itself, many of the ways our government works now is based on rules that were written about three hundred years ago. The presidents of the
United States have not changed, when Barack Obama became president he was the first
African American president in the history of U.S presidents. There are many ways that history has repeated itself whether it be for good or bad it has happened. Some examples of how history repeated itself are general ideas like economic crashes, assassinations, pandemics, natural disasters, and school massacres. Most British people in the 1700s moved to America to start a better life away from the king, that resulted in a revolution because no one wanted to be part of the kings reign,
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Another way that history has repeated it self it assassinations that happens all over the world at every time. Whether it is terrorism or bombing thousand and millions of people die from it. One example of this is in 1995 where in Oklahoma City two en that where angry at the government bombed a US federal building. It killed 168 people including nineteen infants and children. Another, one of the well known ones was the 9/11 attacks in New York. Terrorist crashed planes into both twin towers and killed hundreds of people that were working that day. Countries have won independence from other countries in recent history as well.
America won their independence from Britain in the 1700s an the Mexican people won their independence from Spain 1821. As well as when India won their independence from
Britain long after we did. History repeats itself in many way. Most recently there have been a lot of school shootings mostly in high school but some in middle school, this has happening before for example in Sandy Hook where kindergarteners where killed. There have been a lot of shootings in the past and present.
The government just looks upon the problem but does not do anything about them, so they keep
George Santayana said, "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." As history is examined it is clear to see that some events that have taken place have similarities to other past events. If these events are studied, many lessons can be learned from them. If past events are ignored, valuable lessons are not taught. Some events that have similarities are the assassinations of Julius Caesar, Abraham Lincoln, and John F. Kennedy. The fear that these leaders would abuse their power motivated their assassins to eliminate them for the good of the people.
In the early 16th century immigrants from England fled their country in search of a better life. They fled their homelands for many reasons; poverty, religious intolerance and persecution, others in search of an adventure or for a new start. They packed up their families and possessions some even brought their servants, embarking on a perilous journey across the Atlantic Ocean and reached the land known today as America. The first of the immigrants landed in two regions; the Massachusetts bay and the Chesapeake Bay. Both these regions would soon be colonies known as Massachusetts and Virginia, both major colonies. Throughout the years more and more people started to flee their homelands in Europe and come to America.
In the United States there has been, “372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870” (BBC). Some recent shootings in the United States, for instance are Sandy Hook, Antigo high school in Wisconsin where there was one death and two injured, Madison high school in Ohio where 4 kids under the age of 15 were shot and injured, etc. One shooting in particular that will be focused on is
The United States will not soon forget the rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut that came just two weeks before Christmas last year. This tragic event resulted in the deaths of twenty students and eight adults. Although the event shocked the nation, the rampage shootings are nothing new. Over the years, many families have lost loved ones to these horrific events. As a result, these mass shootings such as the one that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary caught public attention, leading to a push to find the cause of these events.
School shootings seemed like a new phenomenon, but they occurred for the majority of American history. The first school shooting occurred On July 26, 1764, when a Lenape Indian shot and killed nine children and the school master of the Greencastle, Pennsylvania school (Galvin): as noted in Appendix A. Since 1764, the number of school shootings rose exponentially. In the 1990’s, eighty-six school shootings occurred and between 2000 and 2014, 110 shootings transpired since 2000 (Killam,2008). The development of semiautomatic weapons lead to an increase in deaths. A study conducted in 1990 found through the years of 1986 to 1990; 71 people died, 201 wounded, and 242 people held hostage by school shooters(Galvin). While the area a school serves as one factor in the number of violent acts committed per year, school shootings have not been connected to this. The schools in Chicago dealt with more violent acts, but Sandy Hook Elementary, a small city school had relatively few violent acts committed by students.
The saying “history repeats itself” is used quite often, but how many times have you actually seen it happen? The book Animal Farm portrays the idea of history repeating itself. The character Benjamin and the pigs in the story show history repeating itself throughout the book. In addition to these characters within the book, North Korea displays history's repetition outside the book.
Since 1980 till now, there have been many school shootings. Many innocent lives have been taken. Schools have become less safe. People blame either bad parenting or video games. Bullying is another factor as to why students end up shooting at schools and then ending their own life. It is so tragic and must be stopped.
Perhaps the most famous example of history repeating itself is Hitler 's disastrous campaign in Russia. This event closely mirrored Napoleon 's failure on the same Eastern front in many ways. The most obvious is the fact that the Russians used almost the exact same tactics to win both times. They allowed their enemies to march forward into their homeland almost effortlessly, but while they were retreating they also burned and destroyed anything that could be used by their opposition. By the time Napoleon, and later Hitler, realized this, it was too late as the Russian winter had already set in. This led to both Hitler and Napoleon facing devastating losses as their both their armies were carrying mainly light supplies and thus were not prepared
On the morning of October 3, four people were shot within a span of approximately 2 hours in Aspen Hill, and other nearby areas in Montgomery County. Another was killed that evening in the District of Columbia, just over the border of Silver Spring. In each shooting, the victims were killed by a single bullet fired from some distance. The pattern was not detected until after the shootings occurred on October 3. Fear quickly spread throughout the community as news of the shootings circulated. Many parents went to pick up their children at school early, not allowing them to take a school bus or walk home alone. Montgomery County and District of Columbia schools declared a lockdown, wit...
America, standing in fear, waiting for another mass shooting to break out in front of their eyes. More than 3,000 American Citizens die from gun violence each year (USA Gun Violence Stat.). Sadly, a fraction of the lives lost are mostly due to school shootings. This year alone, 52 school shootings have occurred, leaving 30 dead and 53 injured (52 School Shootings). From the mass murder of Columbine High School and Virginia Tech University to the well known Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, it becomes clear how ordinary people turn into brutal killers. The causes of these horrible tragedies are the availability of guns, media, and mental illness.
According to the Harvard Politics, there were fifty five school shootings between November 1,991 and July 16, 2013 (Gupta). However, since 2013, there have been 142 school shootings (Mosendz). If the ratio would have stayed the same between 1991to 2013 and 2013 to 2016, eight school shootings would be expected to have taken place during 2013 and 2016, not 142. School shootings are becoming more of a problem throughout the years. More and more innocent students and teachers are dying due to school shootings. This is not fair to those that are being shot, or to the family and friends of the ones being shot. Often, tragic events like this are hard for someone to overcome, therefore leading them to continuously thinking about what happened. I thoroughly
1999, Columbine High School Massacre, 12 students and one teacher were killed. 2007, Virginia Tech shooting, 32 students killed. 2012, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, 20 children killed along with 6 adults. 2018, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, 17 students killed. 2018, Santa Fe High School shooting, 10 students killed. The bar graphs on the top right show the number of school shootings since Columbine, which is around 10 school shootings happen every year. The bar graph at the bottom right shows how many students are affected by school shootings, which has increased dramatically since Columbine, from about 5,000 students in 1999 to 12,752 in 2018. The increasing numbers has thus beginning a conversation
In the United States there have been 142 school shootings since 2013. In Australia there has never been a school shooting. “A school shooting is a form of mass shooting involving a gun attack on an educational institution, such as a school or university”(Wikipedia). According to the United States Secret Service, a school shooting is where the school is purposely planned and selected as the location for the attack. A school shooting may occur between any individual, student, instructor, administrator and staff employed institution (Sinnamon, 2016). There is no one profile to describe a shooter but almost all attackers are students at the school. School shootings occur when anyone enters a campus and begins firing weapons such as a rifle, shotgun
Gun violence is a lot of time is gang or drug related. Theses days gun violence is getting in to schools and kids are getting access to the guns. The United States has had a few school shootings. School shootings and mass shooting are on the rise and is becoming a problem. The number of shootings in which a gunman wounds or kills multiple people has increased
Sometimes the aftermath of a war can be just as destructive as the war itself. This was especially true after the First World War. When the war was over, governments were in shambles, unable to govern their own subjects. They could not give their people what they needed, and in the political turmoil aspiring leaders used this to their advantage and took power. After World War One, the totalitarian leaders of Adolf Hitler in Germany, Benito Mussolini in Italy, and Joseph Stalin in Russia were able to take power through the political chaos that followed the war, each government’s inability to provide for their people, and the people’s hunger for change.