that has and always will be part of our human behavior. Individuals have a choice over violence and for some they are able to channel these feelings into a nondestructive outlet. Others‚ like the two students who shot twelve people in the Columbine High School Massacre‚ it exhibits a frightening lack of control. There are many influences and outside factors such as gaming‚ music and psychological processes that lead to violence. Violence is an option that one can choose and therefore is part of our
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Germans killed with a gun‚ which is the closest statistic country to the U.S. Why is there so much gun violence in the U.S? What is so different in the U.S. that gun crime is so prevalent? What can we do to change it? All questions Bowling for Columbine poses in the film documentary by Michael Moore. Like the documentary‚ there is not one simple answer and there are no easy solutions. Viewing this film for the first time‚ I learned how appalling gun violence is in the United States. I had no
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The module 2 assignments I will be analyzing administrators’ communications during actual school event. The school crisis I decided to research on specific incident of campus shooting and investigate how administrators responded is Columbine High School in 1999. I will talk about what happen on the horrific tragedies date of April 20‚ 1999 at 11:19 a.m. in Columbine‚ Colorado at Columbine High School. Upon my selection‚ I will be describing the nature and quality of the administrator’s initial communication
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planned days‚ months or even years before. Many of these can be traced back by looking at the journals‚ notebooks‚ or video entries that these people may have kept. The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting which occurred on April 20‚ 1999 at Columbine High School in Columbine‚ Colorado. In addition to shootings‚ the complex and highly planned attack involved a fire bomb to divert firefighters arriving to the scene‚ propane tank bombs placed in the cafeteria‚ 99 explosive devices
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history of shootings in the primary and elementary schools in the United States‚ one is confronted with some brutal realities. Some of the examples include West Paducah (Kentucky) in December 1997‚ Jonesboro (Arkansas) in March 1998‚ Springfield (Oregon) in May 1998‚ and Littleton (Colorado) in April 1999. All these incidents have one thing in common. School aged children who were also avid video game players‚ were at the center of those incidents. More recent violent crime at school which we can
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Background: In the small town of Littleton‚ Colorado‚ Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered Columbine High School on Tuesday‚ April 20th‚ 1999 prepared to unleash havoc on the masses of the school. The two students had formulated a plan months before April 20th‚ part of the plan consisted of assembling bombs that were designed to destroy the cafeteria and the library. Furthermore‚ Harris and Klebold both took note of the amount of students that were inside the cafeteria at each time of the day so
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10HJS Why did the ‘Columbine shooting’ happen? The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting which occurred on 20th of April 1999‚ at Columbine High School in Columbine‚ Colorado‚ United States. Two senior students‚ Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold aged 18‚ embarked on a shooting spree in which a total of 12 students and 1 teacher were murdered. They also injured 21 other students directly‚ with three further people being injured while attempting to escape the school. The pair then committed
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On April 20‚ 1999‚ two Columbine High School students‚ Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold‚ went on a shooting rampage in Colorado‚ killing 12 students and a teacher before ending their own lives (Leftwich 1). Nearly seven years later there seemed to be an annual shooting rampage trend. On October 2‚ 2006 a gunman by the name of Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostage five girls‚ at an Amish schoolhouse in Pennsylvania‚ and eventually shot and killed them before committing suicide (“5th Girl” 1-2). The following
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said Yes. Cassies parents thought that it was just a normal day‚ they didn’t expect anything so tragic to happen in their town. Brad had left for work and the kids went of to school‚ mom was at work when suddenly she got a call from a friend and she had asked if she heard anything about what was happening at Columbine High School. She had no recollection of what was going on so she called her husband who was at home because he went home sick. He had heard some loud noises but never really thought anything
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Hey you think Dylan’s and Eric’s parents go in jail for what the kids did? The columbine shooting happened at the high school where they all went to school. The parents of the two boys should go to jail because they did nothing to stop them. They should be punished for their kids because they went in and killed kids in their school. Dillon had a bomb in his dad’s closet. The shooting happened in 1999 and it was April 20th and it was in Denver. He put a gun under his bed and no one knew it was under
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