Other - Education - April 2007

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2007-04-16 17:16:27 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does having a low educational level affect the way I will grow up? will it be hard for me to go to college out of state? how are they giving the valedictorian scholarship to people in Florida if they have a low educational level than the onest that get the scholarship up north! by the way, how can I get that scholarship. I am in ninth grade and I am in the IB magnet program. Is it true it's even more advanced up north? how can I fully benefit from this program. I want to know all the secrets about it and how to get credit and be a more intelligent person.

2007-04-16 16:51:34 · 5 answers · asked by yag1891 1

I am taking a survey for school, and my subject is names. I am jusr asking for first names to add to my data. If you can help out, put your first name only, and if you are a male or female (I am creating to graphs, one for males and one for females).

2007-04-16 15:45:49 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

I got a letter in the mail from them last year, but when I sent my information in, I never heard from them again. Now, I got another letter, what is the benefit of this?

2007-04-16 14:36:26 · 6 answers · asked by jazzie2007 1

It needs to be an important person in the early American History.

















Thanks

2007-04-16 13:06:12 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

i need an exaple of a metaphor.

2007-04-16 11:19:19 · 3 answers · asked by ? 1

2007-04-16 11:10:59 · 1 answers · asked by steven25t 7

BLACKSBURG, Va. - A gunman opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then, two hours later, shot up a classroom across campus Monday, killing 32 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history. The gunman committed suicide, bringing the death toll to 33.

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Students complained that there were no public-address announcements or other warnings on campus after the first burst of gunfire. They said the first word they received from the university was an e-mail more than two hours into the rampage — around the time the gunman struck again.

Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said authorities believed that the shooting at the dorm was a domestic dispute and mistakenly thought the gunman had fled the campus.

"We had no reason to suspect any other incident was going to occur," he said.

He defended the university's handling of the tragedy, saying: "We can only make decisions based on the information you had on the time. You don't have hours to reflect on it."

Investigators offered no motive for the attack. The gunman's name was not immediately released, and it was not known if he was a student.

The shootings spread panic and confusion on campus. Witnesses reporting students jumping out the windows of a classroom building to escape the gunfire. SWAT team members with helmets, flak jackets and assault rifles swarmed over the campus. Students and faculty members carried out some of the wounded themselves, without waiting for ambulances to arrive.

The massacre took place at opposite sides of the 2,600-acre campus, beginning at about 7:15 a.m. at West Ambler Johnston, a coed dormitory that houses 895 people, and continuing at least two hours later at Norris Hall, an engineering building about a half-mile away, authorities said.

Two people were killed in a dormitory room, and 31 others were killed in the engineering building, including the gunman, police said.

"Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions," Steger said. "The university is shocked and indeed horrified."

Steger said the university decided to rely on e-mail and other electronic means of notifying members of the university, but with 11,000 people driving onto campus first thing in the morning, it was difficult to get the word out. He said that before the e-mail went out, the university began telephoning resident advisers in the dorms to notify them and sent people to knock on doors to spread the word.

Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum would not say how many weapons the gunman carried. But a law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was incomplete, said that the gunman had two pistols and multiple clips of ammunition.

Police said they were still investigating the shooting at the dorm when they got word of gunfire at the classroom building.

Some students bitterly questioned why the gunman was able to strike a second time.

"What happened today this was ridiculous," student Jason Piatt told CNN. "While they send out that e-mail, 20 more people got killed."

Students and Laura Wedin, a student programs manager at Virginia Tech, said the first notification they got of the shootings came in an e-mail at 9:26 a.m., more than two hours after the first shooting.

The e-mail had few details. It said: "A shooting incident occurred at West Amber Johnston earlier this morning. Police are on the scene and are investigating." The message warned students to be cautious and contact police about anything suspicious.

Student Maurice Hiller said he went to a 9 a.m. class two buildings away from the engineering building, and no warnings were coming over the outdoor public address system on campus at the time.

Everett Good, junior, said of the lack of warning: "I'm trying to figure that out. Someone's head is definitely going to roll over that."

"We were kept in the dark a lot about exactly what was going on," said Andrew Capers Thompson, a 22-year-old graduate student from Walhalla, S.C.

At least 26 people were being treated at three area hospitals for gunshot wounds and other injuries, authorities said. Their exact conditions were not disclosed, but at least one was sent to a trauma center and six were in surgery, authorities said.

Up until Monday, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was in Killeen, Texas, in 1991, when George Hennard plowed his pickup truck into a Luby's Cafeteria and shot 23 people to death, then himself.

The massacre Monday took place almost eight years to the day after the Columbine High bloodbath near Littleton, Colo. On April 20, 1999, two teenagers killed 12 fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives.

Previously, the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history was a rampage that took place in 1966 at the University of Texas at Austin, where Charles Whitman climbed the clock tower and opened fire with a rifle from the 28th-floor observation deck. He killed 16 people before he was shot to death by police.

Founded in 1872, Virginia Tech is nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia, about 160 miles west of Richmond. With more than 25,000 full-time students, it has the state's largest full-time student population. The school is best known for its engineering school and its powerhouse Hokies football team.

The rampage took place on a brisk spring day, with snow flurries swirling around the campus. The campus is centered around the Drill Field, a grassy field where military cadets — who now represent a fraction of the student body — once practiced. The dorm and the classroom building are on opposites sides of the Drill Field.

A gasp could be heard at a campus news conference early in the day when the police chief announced that at least 20 people had been killed. Previously, only one person was thought to have been killed.

A White House spokesman said President Bush was horrified by the rampage and offered his prayers to the victims and the people of Virginia.

"The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed," spokeswoman Dana Perino said

After the shootings, all entrances to the campus were closed, and classes were canceled through Tuesday. The university set up a meeting place for families to reunite with their children. It also made counselors available and planned an assembly for Tuesday at the basketball arena.

After the shooting began, students were told to stay inside away from the windows.

Aimee Kanode, a freshman from Martinsville, said the shooting happened on the fourth floor of West Ambler Johnston dormitory, one floor above her room. Kanode's resident assistant knocked on her door about 8 a.m. to notify students to stay put.

Police said there had been bomb threats on campus over the past two weeks by authorities but said they have not determined a link to the shootings.

It was second time in less than a year that the campus was closed because of a shooting.

Last August, the opening day of classes was canceled and the campus closed when an escaped jail inmate allegedly killed a hospital guard off campus and fled to the Tech area. A sheriff's deputy involved in the manhunt was killed on a trail just off campus. The accused gunman, William Morva, faces capital murder charges.

2007-04-16 10:43:49 · 15 answers · asked by . . . nvlll . . . 1

2007-04-16 10:11:45 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am at school right now. (6th pd) What is your favorite subject?

Mine has to be geometry or graphic arts

2007-04-16 10:01:24 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hi, recently in upstate new york there was alot of rain and snow. My school was closed today because of the bad roads, and I just found out that parts of our school is flooded. I was wondering, does anyone no if they can send us to school when parts of the hallways and classroms are flooded? Will they send us and jsut keep us away from that area? Or will we not go at all?
Thanks in advance

2007-04-16 09:15:59 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

It's a piano class. I am not good at piano whatsoever, and I pretty much got stuck in the class. This class is an hr and a half long, and I don't know anyone in it. All we do is PRACTICE the whole time, which gets boring. I have no intrest in learning piano at all. How can I make this class go by faster?
It's the first class of the morning!

2007-04-16 07:54:18 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

When you watch a flock of birds they swoop and dip and change direction all at the same time - like there's some kind of communal intelligence or brain telling them what to do. It's not a case of 'follow the leader', they really do change direction at the same time. You also see this with shoals of fish. How does this happen?

2007-04-16 07:29:25 · 5 answers · asked by gorgeousfluffpot 5

I am moving to rochester, Ny, Where can i find out what the crime info is in rochester, Ny ? I do not the zip code where i will be moving to.

2007-04-16 05:33:14 · 3 answers · asked by Brian M 1

2007-04-16 05:19:31 · 5 answers · asked by vikastherealman 1

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2007-04-16 05:05:10 · 45 answers · asked by d 1

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2007-04-16 01:00:48 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

imagine if we didn't at all pass our gcse' s and we weren't accepted at a college. what would happen to our future??? just been wondering....

2007-04-16 00:51:13 · 12 answers · asked by Seungyong W 5

2007-04-15 21:59:23 · 11 answers · asked by Peter N 1

any number from 1-40

2007-04-15 20:33:27 · 8 answers · asked by kitofabian 1

We are travelling through New Mexico and we keep seeing Jackalope stuff but we have no clue if they are real. Some people say they are real but rare while others tell us they are fictious....which is it? If they are real has anyone seen one? I am very curious! Also what animals are they a cross between? Thanks ;)

2007-04-15 19:07:32 · 11 answers · asked by LenaRose 2

they realize some of us like my self had learning dissabilities, and anouther thing is some of us were always bullied in to tears just about every day of are school going days so we like myself did not get the chance like every one else to learn like every one else and that I did the best I can for the only way I knew how to do what I needed to do. When your in tears almost all the time in school how does one learn what they need to learn. I graduated in 88, I find it hard to forgive all those who teased and picked on me , and all those years still lives with me today, But I get by in life trying to improve my self the best I can. Why is it the people judge people by the way the think the way they write and by what they look . .

2007-04-15 16:24:56 · 6 answers · asked by dianemelloniemarlenejerryginder 3

And what did you do in return?

2007-04-15 16:24:53 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-15 15:50:17 · 10 answers · asked by Mizz_Sunshine 2

2007-04-15 15:33:35 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-04-15 15:25:53 · 7 answers · asked by Janelle Alexandria 3

Islamic marriage in particular

2007-04-15 13:54:53 · 2 answers · asked by traveler 2

Does the test scores of these tests affect ones choices in what college one can attend?

2007-04-15 11:50:55 · 4 answers · asked by Christina Marie 1

2007-04-15 10:46:18 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm not the best speller in the world, but I do check my spelling before posting a Question.

2007-04-15 09:45:25 · 5 answers · asked by lennie 6