Columbine High School massacre

April 20, 1999, 24 people are injured and 15 people are killed including the shooters. The shooters are Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Nobody knows why they did it exactly. Some people say it was because of bullying, violent video games, or even ‘dark music’ bands. I believe that Eric was a psychopath and Dylan was just depressed and here’s why. Dylan Klebold was depressed. We know this from his diary entries as he talks about suicide many times. Dylan wrote in his journal: “Thinking of suicide…

The Columbine school shooting was a mass murder of students and teachers at Columbine high school. The shooters Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris had been be planning this attack for about a year before they opened fire on the 20th of April in 1999. Dylan and Eric unleashed, killing 15 people total, 12 of which being students and one teacher. The other two? The other two people killed were Dylan and Eric, they took their own lives away. It would become the 5th deadliest school shooting in American…

Columbine. Some used to remember this as normal place to go to school. Now it’s remembered as the chain reaction of school shootings. Many students here weren't born before this terrible incident on April 20, 1999. It was a normal day at Columbine High School in Colorado when two bullied students decided they’d had enough, and went to shoot up the school. The the two students made a tape describing how they hated the bullies at their school and wanted revenge. Their names were Eric Harris and…

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…

Student’s Name Instructor’s Name Course Date Controversies in the Laramie Project Introduction The Laramie Project is a play that revolves around the death of a student at the Ottumwa High School. The circumstances that lead to the student's murder was that he was gay and that made him the odd one out in the eyes of his fellow students who had negative thoughts about his lifestyle. However, that is not the only reason behind the composition of the play that was the Laramie project. The principal…

On December 14, 2012, a gunman entered an elementary school in Sandy Hook, Connecticut and killed 20 innocent children between ages six and seven, and six adults. The day started like any other day. Teachers were attending a morning meeting. The halls were decked with the artwork of students and clay self-portraits. Nearly a year later, a novelist, children’s book writer, and an award-winning author named Brian Doyle wrote an article titled Dawn and Mary, a tribute to the two women. His article…

carry guns in our schools, specifically grades kindergarten through eighth. As an eighth grader, I do not believe that teachers should be allowed to have a gun in school and also do not feel comfortable going to school in an environment that contains guns. Our country is at a point of crisis where we are trying to solve gun safety in schools, many people believe that arming teachers is the solution and some districts have already armed teachers. But is bringing guns into schools the solution, if…

to Hate Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion After Columbine, is a book written by social psychologist, Elliot Aronson. Within the book, Aronson addresses issues such: as bullying, taunting, humiliation, and exclusion in the atmosphere of school classrooms-which are said to play major roles in triggering the pathological behavior of the shooters. I always had an interest in the understanding of mass shootings specifically, the Columbine incident, which inspired my rationale for selecting…

21st century, the majority of society has dismissed the topic of bullying from it not being a current issue but focuses on other significant issues instead. Bullying has been an issue that has lingered in schools since the beginning of the educational system. Although it is still in today's schools, it has evolved over time from physical to cyber bullying. Sadly, plenty of people can resolve this issue, but are afraid due to the fear of being physically beaten or humiliated. Even in Flannery O'…

Remembering that a person sometimes can move in and out of a crisis and therefore, the use of PFA allows the clinician to move in and out of the crisis as well. Review of Sources When researching information regarding psychological first aid and school trauma, it is imperative to be able to successfully identify what is and is not an appropriate source. This can be ascertained by asking oneself several questions related to where the source was published, when it was published, the credentials…