Essays on Mass Murder

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 ...

Nomothetic profiles are used to develop the features of an offender by examining a group of offenders, and even though they do not give an actual feature, they give a possibility of offenders. This study focuses on examining the characteristic of a distinguished group and come up with theories about specific cases. They are also hypothetical in that, they are not far from the actual truth about a group because they use extensive measures to get knowledge about criminal and their distinguished groups (Petherick & Turvey, 2008). The principle objective of nomothetic profiles is to collect as much information as ...

Abstract

This paper describes in detail the explanation about mass murders, the definition of mass murders and the reasons why mass murders are committed. The paper also discusses why people are prone to mass murders and what major causes that trigger mass killing. It describes in detail the relationship between ethnic, religious, social and political reasons that relate with mass murders and why people are forced into killing others. There are also references in the paper taken from mass murders of the past, exemplifying the major mass murderers penned down in history, and it also mentions the recent trends in ...

Introduction

The paper aims to tackle the constituents of Genocide. It also aims to tackle the differences and similarities of the Holocaust and the Rwanda genocide. Although at the core, both the Rwandan Genocide and the Holocaust are originated in racist ideologies, deep hatred and discrimination; at the surface they present the world in different views. The ways society accepted and aided both circumstances as well as the socio-cultural factors that provoked these atrocities were differentiable. In order to attain the paper’s objective, this paper will first give the definition of genocide, then facts about Rwanda Genocide and holocaust. ...

Sociology Issue

Sociology refers to the study of the social life of human beings as well as their societies and groups. This is an interesting and compelling topic because of its main subject matter is the behavior of human beings as social beings. Sociology has a very wide scope, which ranges from the world wide social processes investigations to the analysis of the past and current encounters between people in a public place. This scientific study that focuses on the social behavior of human beings in a collective perspective focuses on various groups of activities. Such activities include social, political, economic as well as ...

Introduction

This paper seeks to explore one of the themes in the Fisher King movie which is homelessness. The paper will first discuss the movie itself. It will basically dwell on the plot with the aim of getting the causes, risk factors, impact and the solution to homelessness as depicted in the movie. Thereafter, the paper will tackle homelessness as a sociological issue. It will explore the causes, the risk factors, the social impact and the solution to homelessness.

Review of the Fisher King Movie

Fisher King is a movie about a radio shock-jock who tries to salvage himself by helping a man whose life was completely traumatized. It is ...