Columbine High School

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…

event. Mass shootings can happen “in backyards and at block parties, in mansions and housing projects, in quiet neighborhoods and at rowdy bars, at schools, restaurants, churches, gas stations and grocery stores” (Stuart). Stuart also mentions: “They are random, and they are premeditated” (Stuart). In particular, schools are foremost targeted. Schools are targeted because they occupy a large capacity of students and faculty. A timeline graph further displays the tragic mass shootings in the…

I have seen this documentary many times, but the feelings that I got watching it this time were much different. I remember seeing this documentary for the first time as a freshman in high school, often shielded from everything going on in the world. As I watched this time, I watched with a broken heart and a devastated view of the country that we live in. I watched with hope to believe that our country had indeed improved in certain ways; but I was left feeling that same void and…

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…

Introduction After reading Columbine, by Dave Cullen, I was truly shaken. Several times throughout the process of reading this book I had to take breaks. Every page had a bone chilling detail that I just could not get myself to believe. It made me see people in a different way. I could not imagine what it was like for Susan Klebold. If I was taken back by this book and story, I cannot fathom what Susan went through. I am not a mother, so I don’t know what it is like to lose a son or to know…

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…

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.…

He went to work, and that was where he would learn the horror of what had happened earlier that day. What Holmes did not know yet was that at 11:19 am earlier that day, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold began “shooting fellow students outside Columbine High School, located in a suburb south of Denver” (History.com Staff). According to ABC news reporter Susan Donaldson James, by 11:19 am, they had killed twelve students and one teacher. Holmes soon saw on the news at his work that there had been a…

Presenting Situation and Offender Behaviors: Bradley (Bradley) was walking his dog in the park when he encountered another person walking their dog without a leash. Bradley verbally informed them their dog is required to be on a leash. At this point the person ignored him. There were some words were exchanged between Bradley and the other man prior to Bradley walking away, as Bradley was leaving the park he turned around asking the other person if this was their car. The other person replied…

Savannah Mauck Mrs. Greenley Research Paper 1 February 2017 “Columbine shooting” On April 20, 1999, the most deadliest attack in any American high school history had happened (enimwikipedia.org). Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris decided to go on a killing spree on April 20. In 1998, Dylan and Eric were both arrested and sent to a juvenile program after they stole from a van (cnn.com). They both like violent video games, movies, and music (Brezina 23). Their parents had told the news that they were…