Columbine High School

For many places, schools are safe environments where kids are able to learn and prepare for their future. Nowadays, people have started to panic about the safety of schools, due to recent shootings and dangerous activities. Many influences factor into this concern, but one event changed everything. On April 20th, 1999, two students of Columbine High School, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, killed 13 people in a horrific high school massacre. The Columbine High School shooting was a catalyst that…

that occurred on April 20th, 1999 in Columbine High School. The events that took place before and after the massacre gave the shooting a whole new different meaning and feel to the community. Cullen was able to capture so many visuals and explanations about people’s stories and the investigation of the shooters along with their reasoning. This book was very well written in the sense that it made the reader understand why this was so much more than just a school shooting. The author’s intentions…

internet helped the shooters, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, acquire their weapons. Both teens found instructions on how to build pipe bombs and other explosives online (Rosenberg 1). On the day of August 20, 1999, both boys opened fire in Columbine High School. Twelve students and one teacher were murdered and twenty one students were wounded (Rosenberg 1). Later it was discovered that Klebold has a website where he posted pictures of the explosives, kept a gun count, and had a hit list. This…

At about 11:19 a.m. April 20 1999 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold dressed in trench coats started shooting students at columbine high school, the weapons used by Eric were: Hi-Point model 995 carbine rifle, and Sawed-off pump-action Savage-Springfield 67H shotgun, now Dylan Klebold used: TEC-DC9 9-mm semi-automatic handgun, and Double-barrel Savage 311-D sawed-off shotgun, both carried various knifes and used bombs but most didn't go off. This was a huge Historical Turning Point in history, this…

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…

He asked many questions to people that they couldn’t answer because no one knows the real reason why the homicide rates are so high in the United States of America. The summary of the movie was basically interviews with people and a few celebrities in America and normal people in Canada about the gun laws, homicide rates, and the tragic shootings at Columbine High School. I see that back in the day in Michigan and Colorado Michael Moore actually got a gun at a bank for opening and account at…

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 first victim of the Columbine Shooting was Rachel Joy Scott. “I’m not going to apologize for speaking the name Jesus. I am not going to hide the light that God has put me. If I have sacrifice everything… I will (Laura Collins3). Rachel wrote in her diary “I lost all my friends at school, now that I have begun to ‘walk my talk,’ they make fun of me.” (Sachin 2) Rachel was picked on about her religion she lost all of her friends they judged her for her faith. Rachel was committed Christian.…

that be a family member teaching a little one kindness, or even on a bigger scale Martin Luther King Jr. leading a revolution to the acceptance of people with different colored skin. Even bad people can make a change for the good, like a school shooter who makes schools realize they need a plan in place for an attack on their students. One person can change the way others think entirely and can impact their lives in a major way. Lori Ann Heyden, my grandmother, had made a huge impact in my…