filmgoers alike. The cinematography takes you on a waltz throughout a seemingly typical day at an unnamed high school‚ stopping through the journey to focus on the stereotypes of school. The jock‚ the quirky artist‚ the cliqued girls‚ the skateboarder‚ they are all represented and representative of his film. Van Sant created a film‚ seemingly without a staunch opinion on the horrors of the Columbine shootings. The movie seems distanced from the actors and their actions: an unaware participant from
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reader of the history of violence in schools and it also addresses the different causes that influence school violence. It looks at this issue though a theoretical viewpoint‚ and names some of the theories that apply to this subject. It also informs the reader of statistics that relate to the subject. It portrays the different types of acts that make up the term school violence‚ as well as giving the reader some examples of cases in which the subject “school violence” was pertinent. It uses excerpts
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reduce the number of people who are dying because of individuals who have mental or medical issues. Shortly after the massacre at Columbine High School in 1999‚ the National Rifle Association endorsed background checks for all buyers of firearms at gun shows. This would have closed an infamous loophole that allows private‚ non-dealer sales with no checks. Three of the Columbine shooters’ weapons had been bought at gun shows but the NRA’s willingness to compromise angered hard core gun advocates
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The Columbine Massacre Psychopaths revolve in our worlds‚ some severely dangerous to the community‚ others not so much. The shooter of Columbine‚ Eric Harris portrays the signs of psychopathy extensively. The purpose of this paper is to assess Harris using the PCL-R to determine whether Eric Harris is in fact a psychopath. Writing this paper will conclude if he is psychopathic or not‚ and to which degree if he is. All of the twenty traits will be assessed to come to a conclusion. The paper will
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written by Nancy Gibbs and it was published in “Time Magazine” 19 March 2001 The main subject in this article is school shootings. School shootings are very common in American schools. One of the reasons why school shootings are so common is because the children get inspired by each other or they are get bullied. The children feel that they have a sort of power if they bring a gun to school. I think that holding and carrying a gun in such a young age should be completely out of their range because
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unPersuasive Writing task: Banning of guns in America Ever since the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook elementary school‚ it has brought attention to the people around the world for the introduction of the banning of guns. In recent years‚ the firearm related deaths in America soared to over 30‚000‚ but in Australia in the same year‚ we have only had 236 deaths resulted from firearms. This is a huge difference and the major reason why is because of the introduction of the gun laws which banned certain
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References: 1) Dave Cullen (1999‚ 23 September). Inside the Columbine High investigation. A Salon News Exclusive. Retrieved September 08‚ 2007 from http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/09/23/columbine/index.html 2) Kathleen O ’toole (1997‚ 12 November). Rock & Roll: Does it influence teens ’ behavior? Stanford Online Report. Retrieved September 08‚ 2007 from http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/1997/november12/teenmusic.html 3) Bowling for Columbine Article. (n.d). Retrieved from Wikipedia‚ The Free Encyclopedia:
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A gun‚ like any other item‚ cannot work itself. It is therefore necessary to differentiate its key purpose from the finality imposed on it by its user. A firearm is scientifically speaking a bullet launcher and‚ like any weapon‚ since it is indeed a weapon‚ its primary and intrinsic purpose is to serve as a means of attacking or defending‚ or more clearly of hurt or kill. Rendering the Washington Post‚ more than 270 million firearms are in circulation in the United States. Per Latitude news‚ this
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What is accepted in sports as the norm may be seen as deviant in other spheres of society and what is seen as the norm in society can largely be seen as deviant in sports. Only on a racing track can you drive at speeds over 200 miles per hour at high risk of collision‚ outside the racing track it would be seen as a criminal offence. The social vacuum that has been created around sports is significantly proven to be different from the society we live in day by day. Deviance in sport can be argued
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simple “guns aren’t dangerous‚ but people are dangerous. On Tuesday‚ April 20‚ 1999 the Columbine school massacre happened in Littleton Colorado near Denver. “Two senior students‚ Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold‚ embarked on a massacre‚ killing 12 students and 1 teacher. They also injured 21 other students directly‚ and three people were injured while attempting to escape. (en.wikipedia.org) After the two high school students went on a wild shooting spree which lasted for about an hour and ended with
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