Eric Harris kept extensive documentation of his thoughts and plans on his website. Although it did not include his motives like his journal, the ‘blog’ included statements about his making of pipe bombs. The parents of Brooks Brown, Judy and Randy, notified the police of the website. Eric unintentionally gave law enforcement a written confession of his intent to kill, two years before the massacre (165). The actions of the police during this period seemed less urgent than it should have been…
‘’On April 15, 2013, two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three spectators and wounding more than 260 other people. Four days later, after an intense manhunt that shut down the Boston area, police captured one of the bombing suspects, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose older brother and fellow suspect, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died following a shootout with law enforcement earlier that same day” (“Boston Marathon Bombings”).This capture and shootout…
At one point during the interviews producers ask 7-year-old Farah what was one of her favorite things to do and she explained that her favorite thing to do was to help her father make bombs. She was even able to identify the difference between rockets and tank shells by the sound that they make. Producers also used a lot of b-roll footage of them following the family members around in the city and in their neighborhood. Using those…
women are seen as more expendable than men. Even if she did not want to become a suicide bomber, a militant group could force her. A majority of the women who have been forced do not detonate themselves (Rubin). A militant group will hook them to a bomb vest and remote control detonate for them (Rubin). This gives her no choice as to whether or not she personally wanted to go through with it. Not detonating themselves is not a common theme among…
The bomb was detonated on April 19, 1995 just outside Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City shortly after 9am (Nacos, 2016). This catastrophic blast killed one hundred sixty-eight people and injured hundreds more (Nacos, 2016). Among all those victims, nineteen children attended a day care located inside the building (Nacos, 2016). Six-hundred fourteen people were also treated from various hospitals and private doctor offices (Krug, Nixon, & Vincent, 1996). This bomb…
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is a multifaceted organization, providing expertise to America and our allies in order to reduce the potential threat of weapons of mass destruction. This organization was developed to mitigate the potential threat, providing reach-back capabilities, eliminate, and reduce the usage of any chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high yield explosives. We will discuss the creation of the organization, the Joint Improvised Threat Defeat…
hugged her for helping me through everything it meant a lot to me. We went to dinner and home afterwards, I managed to finish packing for college. I will be attending Ashford University to attain my Bachelor’s Degree in law enforcement and specialized bomb technician. I began to play with Rover one last time before I leave tomorrow sadly I can’t take him with me so my little sister Lily will be taking care of him for me. I packed a frame picture of our family portrait to hang on the wall for my…
consideration. The script has a well-defined, three-act structure, and for the most part, the pace works well. There are good setups and payoffs (the gold ring, Jacaranda, and the Knight In Armor egg timer). There’s a solid inciting event when the bomb explodes, but the protagonist’s father…
The term bombs away is used when an air pilot announces to his crew that it is time to drop the bomb. This term is perfect for the book Bombs Away: The Story of a Bomber Team by John Steinbeck. In the book, Steinbeck attempts to expose the American public to the lives of Air Force bombing squads, specifically during the time period surrounding World War II. Not only does he describe the lives of these soldiers for “the men of the future bomber teams and for their parents, for the people at home”…
A possible theme for the book “Columbine” is always pay attention and watch for signs. In the book there is many occasions where Eric and Dylan both showed signs of planning something violent. People knew about the pipe bombs, but no one said anything to the cops. Certain people also knew about them owning guns but again nobody said anything to the cops. The cops also had ways of stopping them and had numerous evidence files that Eric was threatening to kill people but everybody ignored the…