As a child Adam lanza had little contact with his father and was not properly nurtured by his mother and the school he attended. As a result, his mental issues were allowed to get out of control and he ended up committing a horrendous crime. Everyone remembers the events that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. Before Adam Lanza decided to go to Sandy Hook with a gun, he attended there as a child. In 1998, Lanza began first grade and received speech and language services along with occupational therapy. When Lanza arrived in second grade he was removed from occupational therapy and in fourth grade was removed from all special education. This lead Mrs. Lanza, his mother, to write the school a letter voicing her concern. …show more content…
Mrs. Lanza was concerned about her son and what was going on with him and the school expressed, indirectly, that they weren’t worried or that they didn’t seem to care as much of the problem. This is evident because if they wanted the mother of a community member to not be concerned because the school wasn’t concerned, they could have sent a letter at least allowing her to know that they cared about her concerns and her son. The school was a place where Adam Lanza could go to learn and develop, but the school didn’t have the amount of imagination it takes to nurture someone. The school wasn’t the only contributor to the lack of nurturing in Adam’s life. When Adam was growing up, his father wasn’t as present in his life that someone needs in order to get the correct amount of nurturing he need in order to grow and develop. Adam Lanza wasn’t the only person being destroyed and affected by the absence of his father in his life, Adam’s mother was experiencing issues with her husband and was worried about the way her husband was being a father. Mrs. Lanza often wrote to a friend about how she was concerned about her husband and the effects he was having on their …show more content…
Lanza wrote to friends she clearly addressed that her husband wasn’t spending enough time with their father. The only time Mr. Lanza wanted to be a father to Adam and Ryan Lanza was when it was fun and the actual parenting wasn’t needed. Mr. Lanza gradually became an aloof father, with him being a fairweather father, Adam wasn’t allowed the type of nurturing a boy needs from a father. Mr. Lanza never imagined the kind of nurturing his son Adam would need as he was developing and growing. The influential lack of nurturing was present consistently in the early years of Adam Lanza’s life. Even though most of it occurred when he was a child, the lack of nurturement in Adam’s life was there, slightly or considerably, while he was developing and growing. Nurturement wasn’t only lacking from his father and his school, his mother also couldn’t imagine how much nurturing it would take to nurture Adam. As an adolescent, Adam had mental problems which were diagnosed by doctors, but these problems were never nurtured. HIs mother was a key component to never having his problems nurtured. At 13 years old Adam was taken to the Emergency Room by his mother for a “crisis evaluation”. The only reason to bring Adam to the Emergency Room was to get a medical note saying he could stay out of school.
“followed by a discharge diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ... Danbury Hospital provided information to her regarding next steps for evaluation and treatment.
On December 14, 2012 Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School and started shooting. Before he even walked into the school he had already killed his mother Nancy Lanza. He shot her in the head and them left her home to go to Sandy Hook. That is how Adam Lanza’s day started and it got worse from there. Police don’t know what triggered the events that happened that day, but they do that he had a lot of mental diseases and he was also anorexic. Police do know that he planned the event out because he studied books about mass murders and played video games on school shootings. He didn’t plan what he was going to do when he walked inside Sandy Hook all he knew was that he was going to try and shoot someone. Adam Lanza acted alone in the
Sandy Hook elementary school had a shooting in December 14,2012 in Newtown. A 20 year old man name Adam Lanza shot 20 children ages between 6 to 7. He as well shoot six adult staff member with a bushmaster xm-15 handgun. They also believed he killed his mother before he went to the school wearing a black fatigues and a military vest.
Adam Lanza’s dad says the boy would have killed him “in a heartbeat” and wishes his psycho mass murderer son had never been born. Peter Lanza dubbed his gun-crazy boy “evil” for killing his mom, 20 kids, six staff and then himself at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012."He said one of the families had said to
Adam Lanza forced his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. Adam Lanza killed 20 first graders and six adults. The shooter aged 20, Adam Lanza, killed himself after committing his crime. All of the guns and ammunitions were bought by Lanza’s mother. Adam Lanza stole the firearms and committed his crime.
You’re walking into school and it’s like any other day. Since it’s December, most teachers are getting ready for winter break with parties and festivities...until you hear a series of gunshots echo throughout the hallway. Then an announcement comes on, telling everyone that the school is under lockdown. But when the police arrive, it’s already too late. This is what happened to the children at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Several years after the shooting, Adam Lanza, the shooter, was believed to be suffering with several mental disabilities, but he was never diagnosed. During elementary school he was also bullied and beaten as a child at school by classmates.
Not one person from Sandy Hook, Connecticut ever thought this sort of event would ever happen. On December 14, 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty children and six adult staff members in a mass murder at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Before the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Lanza shot and killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, at his home in Newtown, Connecticut. After the shooting, Lanza successfully committed suicide before he was detained. Which left, the state, officials, and the entire country to question why Lanza would do such a horrible act of violence to innocent children and staff members of the school. Also, questioning the security of schools, and even our country. There are many conspiracies of the
The author creates pathos by exposing the reader to whom and how conditions impact families and youth. Duffield writes:
When parents dropped off their kids at Sandy Hook Elementary School they had no idea that they would never see their children ever again. On that day, Adam Lanza burst into the school that day killing 26 innocent people, 20 of which were children. None of those families had any idea that that day their lives would change forever. Sandy Hook Shooting has changed the way people lived and the way people sees the world.
14, 2012. 20 lives were taken away between the ages 6-7 including 6 staff members by 20-year old Adam Lanza ( David Morgan). The Sandy Hook Elementary shooting was one of the worst shootings in U.S. history that prompted the controversial debate over gun control and whether there should be safer regulations on guns. Similarly, six years after the tragic shooting of the Sandy Hook, The Parkland, FL sought the same experience of an active shooter Nicholas Cruz 19-year old, contributing to the lost of 17 lives. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students took action by protesting the rights to a stricter gun legislation that should have been enacted to protect the lives of students all around and stop the massive school shootings by letting the hands of the mentally disabled gain access to destructive weapons and cause fatal consequences at the end (“How Many More School Shootings”). Therefore, due to the series of school shootings gun laws should be
On December 14th of 2012, in the town of Newton, Connecticut a man named Adam Lanza forced himself into Sandy Hook Elementary School and opened fire on the students and staff before ending the spree by taking his own life. At the end of the tragic event, Lanza had killed
Adam Lanza was born on April 22, 1992 as a seemingly healthy baby boy. It was quick to turn the tables when he was referred to a Special Education pre-school. It was quickly noted that he showed early signs of impairments with speech, language and even a delay in motor skills (Ziv, 2014). It was believed that removing him from normal classes would aid him and his development, however others carried a different opinion that it would hurt him instead by isolating him. He carried these developmental delays throughout his childhood before he was redeemed as adequate to return to normal classes in the fourth grade after passing a speech exam. At this time, Lanza’s mother felt that it would be fitting to have him moved to a Catholic school, which created a sense of indifference in Adam Lanza. It caused many anti-social issues and caused him to feel like an outcast within his school. As a fifth grader, he exhibited examples of aggressive behavior and thoughts by submitting an essay titled “The Big Book of Granny” which contained violent passages (Katersky & Kim,
This mass killing shocked the nation wide, of a man walking into a elementary school and shooting any and everything in site including young children. He was a determined man that planned to kill years ahead, and didn't care who he hurt or killed. Adam Lanza thought he was corrupted by his society. He sympathized for chimpanzee that nearly killed a women, “And his attack wasn’t simply because he was a senselessly violent, impulsive chimp, which was how his behavior was universally portrayed,” he continued, “He knew that [his owner] was trying to coax him back into his place of domestication, and he couldn’t handle that, so he attacked her, and anyone else who approached them.” This man’s goal was to bring pain to peoples lives, thinking he was doing people a favor. He knew to get rid of anything that could have corrupted him and take over his mind so the first person he killed was his mother. Lanza shot his mother in the head 4 times, took her car, drove to Sandy Hook, shot children and teachers, then killed himself. This was a shock that many people could not
The occurence of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting of December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut. The gunman, was 20-year-old Adam Lana, who first shot and killed his mother at their Newtown home. He then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School where he fatally shot 20 children and 6 adult staff members. As first responders arrived, Lana committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. The shooting began at approximately 9:30 a.m. Sandy Hook was the deadliest mass shooting at a high school or grade school in U.S. history and the second-deadliest mass shooting by a single person in U.S. history, after the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre. This shooting yet again assured the nation that gun violence is still as big of a problem as it was back in the late 90’s when 27 teenagers got killed in another mass killing in Columbine, Colorado. We as a nation must stand up and oppose mass murdering because these actions are not only unjust but inhuman as well. The increase in gun violence can be decreased by, identifying the regions in the country where the most gun violence occurs and restricting their access to limiting or monitoring the availability of guns and ammunition.
In December of 2012, 23-year-old, Adam Lanza, killed his mother, then proceeding to enter sandy hook elementary school in Connecticut armed with a shotgun. After an hour and a half of chaos, 6 teachers and 20 students didn’t walk out of that school alive. One of those students was Emilie Parker; a sweet little blonde haired girl who’s fate changed my life as well as the life of my friends. Upon further investigation
The case study of Angela and Adam describes a situation in which a Caucasian teenage mother, Angela, does not appear to have a bond with her 11 month old son, Adam. According to Broderick and Blewitt (2015) Angela and Adam live in the home with Angela’s mother, Sarah. Angela’s relationship with her own mother is described as a bit dysfunctional as Sarah is reported to continue to be angry with Angela for becoming pregnant in the first place. Sarah’s anger has caused her to deny Adam’s father the ability to come to the home and play an active role in Adam’s life, therefore putting more of a strain on Angela, who has already had to drop out of high school in an attempt to take care of Adam on her own. Angela has openly admitted to aggressive behavior towards Adam such as grabbing his face and handling Adam in a rough manner. In return, Adam has reacted by being avoidant of his mother and he is reported to not respond to his mother as an 11 month old child should and he is not reported to have an appropriate bond with his mother.