Columbine

The Columbine High School Massacre was a controversy among society questioning the public. The two teenagers who did this inhumane act were keen playing participants of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. An estimate of 97% of young adults participate in the entertainment of virtual experiences, influencing the gaming industry whom are responsible for national violent video game sales. Video games contribute to youth violence. I have many reasons to support my claim, the two most significant supporting…

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 led to mass hysteria throughout America. Columbine High School is located in Littleton, a suburb of Denver. Named after Colorado’s state flower, Columbine was established in 1973. Sadly, this school would experience a disastrous event. Two…

Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, making the argument that global warming is real and humans are the cause for it, but we can also do something about it. On the other hand you have Michael Moore film, Bowling for Columbine, who is trying to make the argument that the gun violence in America is in large part due to the fear that is present in our daily lives in America and that is why we have more gun violence than other countries. Although they both did a job in presenting their arguments,…

Anything can influence the mind, finding a person to blame for anything that occurs is not difficult, especially when having an extension of media connections. Media influence can cause misunderstanding in cases which violence appears. Such as the Columbine massacre in which Marilyn Manson was put to blame. This simply shows that media influence needs to be monitored in the way it is shown in our daily life for it might get misinterpreted and hide the true meaning to the thing on hand. Manson…

In Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore attempts to persuade the viewers that the Columbine High School shooting could have been avoided if America as a nation did not have such a high gun violence and loose gun control laws. Moore uses music, archival footage, humor, and real-life interviews to get his point across to the viewer. In the scene when Moore plays the song Happiness is a Warm Gun by the Beatles he uses various videos of people with guns in order to show how guns are seen as such…

The 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.…

In American society, violence runs rampage throughout the country causing its citizens to be trepidacious and demoralize. One of the major components of violence in America emanates from guns. In the documentary, "Bowling for Columbine", Michael Moore, a famous filmmaker, addresses the ubiquitous situation in America. He argues that the use of gun in America co-insides or correlates to the recent massacres; as a whole, America should have stricter gun control laws. Throughout the film, Moore…

Harris suffered with anger management problems. Even though this issue surfaced many times and doctors had prescribed him antidepressant medication, this anger issue clearly surfaced to an extreme level during the planning and execution of the Columbine massacre. These medications play a significant psychological role in Harris’ mind with unknown side effects of the time of suicidal thoughts and increased violence. The doctors prescribed a disaster for a child struggling with anger problems by…

Michael Moore made the documentary Bowling for Combuline. In Moore’s documentary, he explores gun violence in America and the probable causes of it. One of the probable causes he addresses is the fear mongering used by the media. Moore also put a cartoon about the history of America which shows the relationship America has with guns. Within his documentary, he also gives different examples of gun violence in America. One example is, a shooting of a six-year-old in Flint, Michigan. In Bowling for…

Columbine On April 20th, 1999 in the town of Littleton, Colorado the nation was horrified. Two high school seniors, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, killed thirteen and injured twenty four before turning the guns and proceeding to take their own lives.1 This was the school shooting that changed everything. It opened people's eyes to possibilities of murder-suicides happening in schools. It didn’t just affect their little town or even the state of Colorado, it prompted national debate and made…