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Essay Galaxy - It Was For the Best: The Long Island Railroad Massacre
It Was For the Best: The Long Island Railroad Massacre
In the novel Candide, Pangloss response to all of the misfortunes in the world was that "This is the best of all possible worlds." Voltaire expressed this belief throughout the novel, and proved that many of the hardships and evils that Candide experienced were all for the best. He also proved that even the outcome of something tragic could be looked at in an optimistic view.
On December 7, 1993, the world as Carolyn McCarthy knew came to an end. A sudden, irrational, and inconceivable act of violence destroyed her family. Dennis and Kevin McCarthy were riding the Long Island Railroad, when a man named Colin Ferguson rose from his seat, took out a gun, and started to shoot at the 90 passengers in his car. After Colin Ferguson used up the fifteen bullets in the clip s....
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