Bowling for Columbine

Script Ideas for narration: Documentary 1 Night Trap: a. In 1993, The United States senate held a hearing on the subject of violent and grotesque video games such as Night Trap and Mortal Kombat, made for the Sega CD, and its effect on people. This was due to people feeling dreadful or anticipated for others that play these games that would act in an hostile way because of the time they spend on the games nature. During the hearing of the games Night Trap and Mortal Kombat, developers had time…

Imagine day you’re sitting in class and all the sudden you hear loud sounds like gunshots, and the principal came over the intercom and said to lock all doors there is a shooter in the building. The teachers and students have no way to fight back due to the law on carrying arms on school premises. How would you feel in that situation versus if your teacher was able to carry? The question should be ask because the percentage of school shootings has risen 3.6% over the years. Teachers should be…

In the article, “Confessions of a Liberal Gun Owner,” Justin Cronin, a liberal award-winning novelist and a professor at Rice University, describes the experiences he has underwent during in his life that caused his beliefs of gun control. Cronin wrote this article after a shooter entered an elementary school and killed 27 innocent people. He believes it is too easy for Americans to buy guns, but he also believes many people who are against guns do not look at the reality of gun control. They…

Lake View School Name Institution Lake View School On March 4th the year 1908, the American Society mourned the lives of 172 students and two teachers who were trapped in by the fire that occurred at around nine o’clock in Lake View School. The fire was said to have escalated as a result of uncovered cables in the boiler room. The uncovered wires were exposed to woods which led to the fire outbreak in the basement of the school building. The fire incident led to the formulation of new…

Cynthia Sylvestre July 12, 2015 Professor Cavalier The village In the movie The Village the people live in a village by the name of Covington. Now Covington seems to be a tiny village in 19th century Pennsylvania, that’s occupants go about their daily lives afraid of the creatures that live in the woods which is why they don’t go into the woods and are instructed since infancy by the elders that control the village that the monsters do not come out of the woods and the villagers do not go into…

We trust our teachers to mold and develop our children into outstanding young adults, and we enact policies that make sure every child has a safe education. It seems though, we can not put the same trust and polices together to provide a safer education for the new generation. With all the school shootings happening, teachers are beginning to speak up and say they are comfortable carrying concealed handguns in the classroom. While in the classroom the teachers word is law, many parents are…

The idea of having to wear a school uniform originated from England when boys with hair above their shoulders and girls with dresses below their ankles. School uniforms are slowly coming back and they are being used in more public schools today. Public schools should use school uniforms because students would not be jealous of others and students would be more focused on their grades rather than their clothes. If schools used uniforms students would be less jealous of others. In Detroit a 15…

“EDUCATORS: WE DON’T WANT TO BE ARMED; Administrators and teachers strongly oppose the idea that they need guns in class” in the Tampa Bay Times written by Times staff writer Ben Montgomery). Because of the dramatic increase in school shootings since the Columbine High School attacks, America is faced with the dilemma of whether or not to arm teachers during school hours. School staff should not be armed because having guns in school is not an effective way to prevent an attack at the school…

America has the most school shootings in the entire world and this country thinks that teachers should not carry guns. Liberals believe nobody should carry guns at all but they forget that criminals do not abide by the laws and are going to do what they want. The weapons that are used in school shootings are brutal. Criminals use pipe bombs, and primarily rifles since they are better for mass shootings. Banning guns will not change a thing the only way this is possible is if we take action by…

Gun control What is the number one reason that parents worry about their children in schools? The reason is the increased numbers of school shootings across the United States. The school shootings happen almost twice a week during last year which often end with the killer shoot and kill about a dozen of school students before the shooter were killed by the police's lethal force. The result can be damage families, community, and friends. In order to stop the school shootings in the USA, the…