Chios Massacre

Teachers with Guns Columbine High School, Sandy Hook Elementary, Virginia Tech, and Umpqua Community College… All are schools that we know very well, not because their great education or numerous awards but for sad tragic events that have filled our televisions and newspapers far too often. Archbishop Alexander K. Sample released a letter after the Umpqua Community College shooting stating, "Sadly, we live in the midst of culture that does not value the dignity and sacredness of every human…

Alan Watts once said “A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.” On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold “murdered one teacher and twelve of their peers” (Senior) inside Columbine High School. The massacre would become the “most lethal” (Senior) in the nation. Almost immediately after the killings took place, the media arrived at Columbine High School. With media comes many myths. After being consumed in the media coverage of the Columbine shooting, Dave…

Devastating, frightening and incomprehensible, school shootings are hardly new to the United States of America. Statistics gathered from just ten school shootings, account for one hundred and thirty-three dead and one hundred and forty-two injured, representing the work product of America’s ten deadliest school shooters. To qualify as one of the ten deadliest, the shooter must have struck a minimum of ten individuals and caused at least five deaths. Yet, the question remains, what type of person…

100. Andrew W.K. - Party Hard The sonic equivalent of shotgunning on a Four Loko, Party Hard is of this unique blend of dumb that is so stupid, it might actually be smart. Chances are, Andrew W.K. won’t win a Nobel Prize for the lyrics of his signature hit (or any other of his songs, really), but no song managed to encapsulate the spirit of doing donuts in an empty grocery store’s parking lot like this one. 99. Eminem - Lose Yourself Lose Yourself was the exact moment when Eminem was seen as…

Ultimate Violence Simulator In no other period of time has there been such exposure to violence as there is today. The world has, long before been consumed by such hatred and acrimony however, it was never praised to children and young ones for the sheer fun of it, but rather to protect something they loved and cared for. Over the decades, human society has begun to expose more violent media to the young masses with acts of entertainment such as movies and TV shows, but within the last few…

a person realize that one choice like that can affect not only the person behind the guns life, but so many other lives also. At the same time the book could give a person even greater ideas to go beyond even what happened in the Columbine massacre. e. The author begin to state how “untypical” the two boys were during the start of their teenage years. All throughout the book the author gives many characteristics of how different and frightening Eric and Dylan were. The whole teenage…

The great majority of school shootings are perpetrated by victims of bullying. School shootings are deadly and alarming, but bullying is intimidating and greedy. These subjects intertwine together because bullying can lead to school shootings. School shootings and bullying both happen in a school environment. Bullying is an aggressive behavior usually among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. A school shooting is an occurrence in which a student uses a gun at…

with guns. This is reflecting that guns can be part of the culture but giving the freedom of guns does not make the United States the safest country in the world. Creating culture People still having troubles remembering the Columbine High School massacre in 1999; It is seen in the documentary when Daniel’s father, the father of one of the children that died in the Columbine High School shooting, almost start to cry when he is talking about his son. He said, “something is wrong in this country…

Murder: the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another; also the subject of an commonly banned book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Banned in some schools -such as Glendale (CA) Unified School District in 2012- for its gruesome details of violence, accounts of rape, and profanity, In Cold Blood depicts the murder of a family. Perry Edward Smith and Richard (Dick) Eugene Hickock, the killers, were hoping to gain wealth and fortune but ended up on Death Row a few years later.…

he article I picked was the columbine catastrophe: it is an article that Andrew Gumbel (2009) will always remember it was the principal consistently shooting on a school grounds. On April 20, 1999, two teens went on a shooting binge at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, slaughtering 13 individuals and injuring more than 20 others before turning their firearms on themselves and committing suicide (Gumbel, 2009). The crime was the most exceedingly terrible high school shooting in U.S.…