Bowling for Columbine

According to a data analysis conducted by Harvard School of Public Health, the percentage of college shootings has tripled over the past five years. What should our governments, state or national, do to reduce this statistic? What practical steps should be enforced to protect the safety of college students? Whether it be the college’s administration, or a law produced by the state governments, colleges should be forced to devise an evacuation stratagem for precautions, install an overhead…

Kingdom Come expresses the culture of violence through the recklessness of the metahumans. There are many graphic depictions of the results of the metahumans fighting each other. In the article Killings on Campus by Neal Gabler, Gabler suggests that the group of people that are very susceptible to the violence “have always been alienated teenagers, and the media have always supplied models for them, often violent ones and yet most of them managed to resist emulating the violence. In fact, many…

Minden, Nevada exchanged several instant messages using MySpace social media with his classmates from his home computer. Wynar bragged about having an arsenal of weapons and threatened to shoot and kill several classmates on the anniversary of the Columbine School Massacre. Wynar also bragged he would kill more students than those who died at Virginia Tech, which at the time was the deadliest school shooting on record. Several students reported the instant messages to school authorities,…

The mass shooting and Sandy Hook Elementary School, changed many people's’ lives forever. Some people lost their lives, others lost their friend, child, sibling, or loved ones. This country will forever be changed after this shooting took place. On December 14, 2012 A gunman was running rampage in Sandy Hook Elementary School, in Newtown Connecticut. Many did not know how to initially react to the situation but a mother, Nicole Hockley, took leadership to help mend her own life along with those…

Entering the Conversation #1 In “Let Teenager Try Adulthood”, Leon Botstein writes that schools finally confronted something suspected after the shootings that happened at Columbine High School in Colorado. He also writes that american high school is ”obsolete and should be abolished.” Botstein says that after the shooting high school students, current students and alumni, had stories about cliques and popularity. He explains that high school is “a world defined by insiders and outsiders, in…

Seventeen years ago, two high schoolers in Littleton, Colorado carried out the violence of a video game into real life. 13 innocent people lost their lives that day and 20 were injured. The two shooters later turned the guns to themselves (“Columbine High School Shooting”). This horrific incident could very well have been prevented if violence in media was controlled and if the teens were not exposed to the violence through media. Violence in media is causing more violence in the real world, it…

Haylee Hancock English 2010 Professor Gibson Synthesis Paper Do Video Games Cause Violence? Violent behavior in kids and teens has been growing a rate that is a little scary. Since the horrifying shooting at Columbine High School, many people have been interested in the issue of does violent video games cause violent behavior in kids and teens? This arguments has been around since the late 1970’s when Death Race came out. Are video games the reason why the rate of violent behavior in kids…

Accidents and natural disasters are inevitable. This is a terrifying reality. However, proper planning can better prepare one for these situations. Crisis intervention plans were made for that purpose. There are different crisis intervention plans that cater to all ranges of crises from car accidents to earthquakes. The focus of this paper will be crisis intervention plans regarding school shootings. When parents take their kids to school they are less likely thinking about the possibility of…

The weakness of these article,the author said that gun on campus is self defense. However, the number of US shooting on school in 2015 has to 52nd shooting. Moreover,there are 21 to 23 shooting on college (52 school shooting, 2015)(Sunburn, 2015). This statics should make a lot of people know that gun is a self defense or not.Also,the gun accidents always make every feel depressed when they heard this news on the television or look on newspaper because they always fear,if it happen with their…

(Which pertains to Id, Ego, and Superego) this is a relatable and credible statement that gives possible reasoning for Dylan's doings. However, Dylan’s actions were forced by his overdeveloped Id Eric. Cullen’s novel Columbine, displays Eric as sole perpetrator, responsible for the Columbine shooting. Eric’s over overdeveloped id caused Dylan, who is going through a state of deep depression became manipulated. Eric’s overpowered Id keeps Dylan from pursuing happiness. The Antagonist lours Dylan…