Columbine High School massacre

The topic of bullying prevention and school safety is the focus of my inquiry. The issue of bullying and safely in schools involves the school environment, student interactions, and the way negative actions disrupt personal and social development. School bullying presents one of the greatest psychological and physical health risks to children in society today. School safety is a top worldwide priority and a key area of academic success. Prevention of school violence is crucial and it begins with…

Fifteen dead, twenty-four injured at a high school in Columbine, Colorado. These were the headlines that shocked our nation on April twentieth nineteen ninety nine. Two Columbine High School students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, carried out this deadly shooting and left a community in turmoil with more questions than answers. What would cause two teenagers to go into a school and commit mass murder? Was it bullying? Was it madness? Was it the fact that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold just…

Bowling for Columbine Summary Bowling for Columbine is a documentary about the gun policy in America. The columbine school shooting injured and took the lives of many students who attended the school. In the movie we follow Michael Moore and watch him break down the reason behind Americas high gun related homicide. Moore found two students that were injured during the columbine massacre. He then went, to K-mart to show the people working there, what their bullets can do. They requested that…

The movie “Bowling for Columbine” was directed by Michael Moore is about finding the true cause of why America is so violent. The film is mostly about the massacre at Columbine high school. Michael Moore shows how easy it was to acquire firearms in America and talks about how large the homicide rate is in the country. Throughout the film, Moore travels to Canada to see why our neighboring country is not as violent and sees that the media in Canada is completely different when it comes to…

The 2002 documentary film Bowling For Columbine written and produced by Michael Moore, explores the reason why American society suffers from gun violence. Michael Moore is a multi-award winning filmmaker producing and directing numerous films including Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling For Columbine which were both winners of the Academy Award for Documentary Film. In the film, Moore investigates several gun-related crimes, focusing on the Columbine high school massacre where two seemingly harmless…

thirteen classmates and then turned the barrel to themselves. The attack happened in Littleton, Colorado at a school called Columbine High school. The perpetrators were two students of the school. In less than an hour they managed to earn the title of deadliest American school massacre that was perpetrated by members of the student body of a school. A title that will belong to Columbine until April 16, 2007 when a student at Virginia Tech killed thirty-two students. Eric Harris was born on…

frustration tolerance and norm erosion (Control theory, University of Portsmouth). Whilst I shall be providing critiques for the theory, I will also be heavily using the case study of the Columbine High shooting as supporting evidence. A strength of the containment theory is that there is evidence for the…

Last week was the eight year anniversary of the tragedy at Columbine High School in Littleton CO. On April 20, 1999, two Columbine students came to school intending on killing as many people that get in their way, if that means by a gun, a bomb made out of a propane tank, or any of their grenades or devices made by hand. Twelve students and one teacher died because of the horror caused by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Eric and Dylan later committed suicide, but who are these kids? Another…

injuring 21 people at Columbine High School on April 20th, 1999. An interesting point to contemplate was the negative self-concept that both Harris and Klebold held. Throughout Harris’s diary journals he would document that he wanted revenge against anyone who he thought had ever wronged him: ‘I hate you people for leaving me out of so many fun things.’ It was also reported that both Harris and Klebold were unpopular students who were often targets of bullying, mainly by the Columbine athletes.…

1999, two students entered Columbine High School armed with weapons. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered their own school, killing 23 students and teachers, and wounding 20. The two students were part of a group, who called themselves the trench coat mafia. This group had about a dozen juniors and seniors who were often referred to as the “misfits” of Columbine High School. After the five hour siege, Harris and Klebold killed themselves inside the library of the school (Brooke, James).…