Columbine High School massacre

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.…

The plague of gun violence as taken over the country. School shooting occur from all corners of America. In the Schoolyard chapter of Rick Bragg’s book, described the school shootings at Westside Middle School orchestrated by two juvenile. On March 24, 1998, two boys ambushed students and teachers outside Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Andrew Golden, 11 years old, and Mitchell Johnson, who was 13 years old, was responsible for the tragedy. The two boys, dressed head to toe in…

There is a fad on the rise, and not the good kind. Although crime has been and continues to decrease, a contagion is occuring when it comes to mass murders, and specifically mass shootings in schools. Christopher Harper-Mercer, 26, opened fire at his school in Roseburg, Oregon killing 10 people including himself. This paper will examine the details of this mass murder case and Harper-Mercer’s life leading up to the shooting and his death. The issues that will be discussed include Harper-Mercer’s…

guy but his mother is not. The sequence of there life background all leads up. There was a president that got shot, can you guess who? “On the day president Kennedy was shot, my ninth grade class had been out in the fenced playground of a public school Number 13, (38 Judith Ortiz Cofer). What if the shooter accidentally hit one of…

Kingsolver grabs everyone’s attention with the Columbine High School shooting to prove that extreme violence is never "senseless”. With that shooting it happened in the Columbine High School was a very tragic event in the United States. Kingsolver felt that adults were taking the blame of only the children. But mainly boys for wanting to pick up the guns and bombs and behave the way that they do. Kingsolver believes that it is the horrors of our society and challenges we take. Our history as a…

Two teens went on a killing spree at Columbine High school in Littleton, Colorado, Killing thirteen people and wounding more than 20 before turning the gun on themselves. One student while hiding for his life calls 911 and describes the location of the school and what the murders looked liked. If it weren’t for him innumerable more could have died. In multiple schools to a few teachers having a phone out is a distraction and disrespectful. In several schools, there are consequences of having…

Columbine shooting On a normal school day at Columbine High School, students were attending lunch and doing class work in the library not expecting anything in particular to happen. Actually no one in the U.S. expected or was ready for what came to be on April 20, 1999 to the 1,945 students attending Columbine High School. On April 20,1999 at 11:19 a.m. two Columbine students wearing trench coats went on a rampage outside of the school shooting students and staff. The students were Eric Harris…

Columbine shooting This story is about some kids that went in to a school and killed people with machine guns. This school is currently the most popular high school in the worlds. There were 12 students and 1 teacher killed. They killed a girl named Rachel that was a senior and she was such a nice girl she started a chain reaction that is all over the world. The kids that killed Rachel killed themselves at the scene. The question is, should parents of the kids that killed the students be…

today's school system, one of the major issues is, and always has been, school violence. Which can range from a brawl amongst students, to more tragic events, for example, school shootings. Many of us have witnessed a fight in middle school or high school. Which usually have no permanent effects. But school shootings usually have a different outcome, on January 4, 2012, in my hometown of Brownsville Texas, a student from Cummings middle school was shot and killed after running around the school…

He continued and said, “Our president was shot and killed.” This is what Nancy’s high school teacher said in the middle of class on the day John F. Kennedy was killed. John F. Kennedy's assassination was traumatic around the whole country, if not the whole world. Nancy Zuber was willing to be interviewed on what she thought of the situation. At the time Nancy was a student in eleventh grade at reading high school in 1963. Nancy Zuber was sitting in her book keeping class. “We were taking a test…