Essays on Gunman

Background

There have been numerous conspiracy theories offered in lieu of explanations surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) in 1963(“John F. Kennedy: Assassination or Conspiracy, n.d.”). In addition, details about the assassination have been uncertain for the last 40 plus years due to the fact that many of the tapes with information and evidence have been tampered with, and so many legal experts and scholars, and historians have refuted a lot of the information published on the case and deem them unreliable (“John F. Kennedy: Assassination or Conspiracy, n.d.”). In addition, due to the irregularities and ...

Introduction There is plentiful evidence that America needs stronger and more comprehensive gun control laws. There have been hundreds of thousands of shooting deaths in the United States since the 1990s, when the gun control laws were supposedly strengthened. Mass shootings have been going on for years, at schools, churches, shopping malls, theatres, and other public places. These mass shootings are usually caused by high caliber firearms that pose an overt threat to public safety. There has been a documented increase in the number of women in domestic violence situations who have been shot to death in the last ...

According to the Article by Resnick and Miller about the gay killings earlier this month, it shows how terrorism is prevalent in our country. It is understandable to be homophobic but taking numerous lives at one because of their sexual orientation was unnecessary. The article describes how experienced the gunman was. The gunman Mateen saw that it was his duty to rid the world of the people he killed because of their sexual orientation. The attacker Mateen prayed in a foreign language before committing the outrageous act. His father, however, believes that the attack was not based on religion. ...

Blow Up is a 1966 British-Italian film by Michelangelo Antonioni that tells the story about a London photographer who believes that he accidentally captured a murder on his film. The story in itself covers a day in the life of Thomas- the photographer whose lateness in taking some scheduled photos of different people leads him to having an adventurous but hectic day. The significant event that day is how he accidentally captured a murder scene as he photographed two lovers at a park which brings about Mise en scene to create plot and themes. Antonioni makes extensive use of ...

On December 2, 2015, the usually peaceful city of San Bernardino in California went through turmoil as 14 of its residents were killed and 22 others seriously injured in what seemed to be an unprovoked terrorist attack. Although the suspect and his foreign-born wife were eventually subdued in a gunfight that ended in their deaths, another battle took place in court as the tech giant Apple and the FBI locked horns over the issue of prying into the contents of the gunman’s iPhone. What the investigation agency wanted was for Apple to write a code that would allow ...