Bowling for Columbine Essay

I believe that movies, music, and television shows play an important role in influencing cultures. Especially well-known movies, like Easy Rider, could impact the viewers’ perceptions. This movie showed a “hippies” counter-culture (Ferris & Stein, 2014) in the U.S. that many Americans did not know about, such that they considered the behaviors in the culture to be deviant (Ferris & Stein, 2014) that they need to be punished. The way George and Billy were killed by the rednecks in the movie…

getting more and more violent every year. Over $11.7 billion were sold in video games in 2008. Most kids have reported to own a game that was not appropriate for their age. The first time this problem surfaced was when 13 students were massacred in Columbine, Colorado. Video Games are the reason for all these horrible crimes because the games are getting more violent, kids are numbed from the violence that’s happening and parents are in disbelief that their kids would do something that…

School shootings can happen anytime, and at any school. How many more innocent children have to be killed by armed gunman for our to carry concealed weapons? Calling 911 is no longer a solution. Waiting for the police to arrive is time for you to die, become injured, or fight back. Many schools do not have the necessary security, have violent students, and an intruder could attack at any time. The Arkansas Christian Academy has recently let faculty members carry firearms. We can’t stand by and…

Rowling, J. K. (1999). Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. New York: Scholastic. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is about three friends named Harry, Ron, and Hermione who all go to the wizarding school of Hogwarts. During the first few weeks of the school year, Harry hears a weird voice that nobody can hear. Throughout the following weeks, the voice becomes more savage and killer like saying things like ”Rip ….tear …..kill ….time ..to..kill.” Vicious attacks begin happening to…

A tragic event occurred at 10PM on Saturday night. Jeremy and Jean-Louise Finch were attacked by Mr. Bob Ewell. This occurred after the pageant at the local high school earlier in the evening, in which Scout played the ham. Mr. Arthur Radley saved the children and from Mr. Ewell with the very knife Mr. Ewell intended to use to kill the children. Before the attack, all seemed normal in the town to most of its inhabitants. This Halloween celebrated the fruit of Mrs. Merriweather’s brilliant mind.…

Gun Control: Do NOT Fire Away When teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold opened fire on their students at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 they struck fear into the hearts of parents and schoolchildren nationwide. By the time the pair committed suicide, 12 of their classmates and one teacher lay dead. It was, at the time, the deadliest school shooting in American history, creating a cloud of fear that hung-over schools around the country. But the massacre did not result in…

A coroner says a .38-caliber pistol was recovered where a Delta State University teacher died from a single gunshot to the head after he is suspected of killing a colleague and his ex-girlfriend. Washington County Coroner Methel Johnson said Tuesday that Shannon Lamb killed himself about a mile south of his parents' house on the northern outskirts of Greenville. Johnson says Lamb died in the wooded backyard of a home where he knew the residents, after abandoning his still running car. She says…

In today’s world, a perfect life is hard to come by. What most people think is that you will have a straight line into success, without and bumps or setbacks. That is wrong. Life is not perfect to everyone, and hardly anyone will go from being a child to being successful very easy. Becoming successful takes years of education and working hard. But, no matter how hard you work, life will always have a set back for you. You just have to know how to face them.. There are multiple things that…

Firearms can be used for protection or otherwise used for dangerous intentions. For example, the military use them for appropriate reasons. Hunting, my family hunts, sometimes it is much cheaper than buying meat from the grocery store every week. On another note, school shootings are a large reason people are frightened of concealed carrying. Teachers may have good intentions for their students, but who knows if they are actually mentally stable? I do not think teachers should be allowed to…

Should child soldiers be given Amnesty? Child soldiers are victims and be should given amnesty because they are forced to kill even drugged to think that killing is ok, even know it’s not. They are also so young they are taken advantage of. Some of them should not be granted amnesty because they chose to be in the army so they basically chose to kill. But with the evidence below child soldiers are victims. They are victims because they were forced into being a soldier. Usually people volunteer…