The topic I am interested in writing about is analyzing the character Tate from the first season of American Horror Story. Tate had a very some problems as a child. His father left when he was six years old and he has an unstable relationship with his mother. He had traumatic events that happened and depression may have influenced his desire to kill, but ultimately it more about the way he processes information. I am going to connect him to the Columbine shooting that took place on April 20, 1999. The massacre was committed by Eric Harris and Dylan Kiebold. The connection the media made to video games is not a valid correlation, because everyone that plays video games would be shooting people. My thesis is Tate, Eric and Dylan are similar
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The media will broadcast information before everything is released and most of the information about people's lives are not known until months later. I want to look at information about their lives and find accurate conclusions to why they killed other people. My primary sources are the show and a psychological book. The book is called, Why Kids Kill:Inside the Mind of School Shooters by Peter Langman. The book is written by a psychologist and focuses on the reasons why children kill. I have also found two other books and an interview of one of the mothers from the Columbine shootings. I want to use the information I obtain about the Columbine shootings and connect it to Tate. I am focusing on articles that incorporate detail information about Eric and Dylan's life. I plan to look up other articles that particularly analyze Tate and use my own analyze of him from watching the show. I am still unsure of how I am going to organize the essay. I want to start with talking about American Horror Story and Tate. This section is going to give an analyze on Tate based off of my observations and with using scholarly articles. The main focus is what causes to continuously kill especially since he displays moments of regret. Then I will look Eric's life and try to find entries from his journal. The next section will be on Dylan's life and the final section is going to compare all three people. The conclusion I will talk about how my reasons of why differ from social media and also talk about how school safety procedures have benefited from the
The media will broadcast information before everything is released and most of the information about people's lives are not known until months later. I want to look at information about their lives and find accurate conclusions to why they killed other people. My primary sources are the show and a psychological book. The book is called, Why Kids Kill:Inside the Mind of School Shooters by Peter Langman. The book is written by a psychologist and focuses on the reasons why children kill. I have also found two other books and an interview of one of the mothers from the Columbine shootings. I want to use the information I obtain about the Columbine shootings and connect it to Tate. I am focusing on articles that incorporate detail information about Eric and Dylan's life. I plan to look up other articles that particularly analyze Tate and use my own analyze of him from watching the show. I am still unsure of how I am going to organize the essay. I want to start with talking about American Horror Story and Tate. This section is going to give an analyze on Tate based off of my observations and with using scholarly articles. The main focus is what causes to continuously kill especially since he displays moments of regret. Then I will look Eric's life and try to find entries from his journal. The next section will be on Dylan's life and the final section is going to compare all three people. The conclusion I will talk about how my reasons of why differ from social media and also talk about how school safety procedures have benefited from the