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Quest III
October 13, 2006
Juan Arcila
School Shooting
Levin, A. (n.d.). Grief travels through Amish country. USA Today, Retrieved Thursday, October 12, 2006 from the Academic Search Premier database.
Sean D. Hamill. 911 Transcripts Are Released in Amish School Shooting; Killer Was Calm. The New York Times, Retrieved Thursday, October 12, 2006.
Joshua Partlow and Raymond McCaffrey. A Plain and Profound Farewell; Pennsylvania Amish Community Buries Girls Killed by Neighbor in Schoolhouse Shooting. The Washington Post. Washington, D.C.: Oct 6, 2006. pg. A.14
These three articles discuss the catastrophic actions that Carl Roberts decided to take on October 5th, when he decided to enter an Amish school, hold 11 girls hostage and eventually kill five of them and himself. This is a global issue due to the fact that the United States has been fighting during the last few years to ensure its security and to make sure that any possible terrorist attack can be controlled and avoided in the best possible way. However people deciding to enter a school and kill five girls all of them under 13 years