El Mozote massacre

involved in the killings of these innocent children and teachers. This shooting made a huge impact on many people, but particularly Nicole Hockley, “Hockley has since become an example that a mother’s love is a powerful force: Three days after the massacre, together with others who lost loved ones in the shooting, she cofounded Sandy Hook Promise, an organization to prevent gun violence, both through fighting for stricter gun laws and by focusing on mental-health education. It has gone on to…

The film by Michael Moore in 2006, “Bowling for Columbine” demonstrates how Michael Moore reaches a sizable audience, for example gun owners. He also explains the causes of gun violence in the United States. With Michael Moore using Columbine High School as an example sets a standard throughout the film. Moore establishes the ethos by describing his childhood and his passion for guns and by mentioning his membership in the NRA. Moore also studies the unexplained theories for the violence at…

Entering the Conversation #1 In “Let Teenager Try Adulthood”, Leon Botstein writes that schools finally confronted something suspected after the shootings that happened at Columbine High School in Colorado. He also writes that american high school is ”obsolete and should be abolished.” Botstein says that after the shooting high school students, current students and alumni, had stories about cliques and popularity. He explains that high school is “a world defined by insiders and outsiders, in…

A vegan is defined as a person who does not eat any food that comes from animals and who often also does not use animal products (Merriam-Webster). The People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) use videos such as Paul McCartney’s Glass Walls and other forms of media to push their agenda onto the world. Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s transgressive exploitation of the human body through shocking, strange images that parallel with slaughterhouses to push the vegan agenda onto its…

Seventeen years ago, two high schoolers in Littleton, Colorado carried out the violence of a video game into real life. 13 innocent people lost their lives that day and 20 were injured. The two shooters later turned the guns to themselves (“Columbine High School Shooting”). This horrific incident could very well have been prevented if violence in media was controlled and if the teens were not exposed to the violence through media. Violence in media is causing more violence in the real world, it…

the shooting: the date, names of perpetrators, their roles, the school, and how the massacre happened. This general opening is a bit of the already known narrative surrounding Columbine. It exists to show the fact, and Solomon follows the paragraph with the blame people attributed to the massacre in a similarly detached manner. I found this to be a wise choice structurally. It is removed enough to portray the massacre for what it was. It sets up the fact, leading into the more emotional pathos…

High School, there was a service held for those lost on April 20. Many close friends of the students and teachers lost, stood up and told personal stories (Columbine Service). Following the shooting, on May 11, about a month after the Columbine Massacre, Mark Manes was charged with recklessly providing a handgun to a minor. Manes was the 22-year-old who provided Harris and Klebold with the handgun that was used to kill 23 people (Pankratz,…

Haylee Hancock English 2010 Professor Gibson Synthesis Paper Do Video Games Cause Violence? Violent behavior in kids and teens has been growing a rate that is a little scary. Since the horrifying shooting at Columbine High School, many people have been interested in the issue of does violent video games cause violent behavior in kids and teens? This arguments has been around since the late 1970’s when Death Race came out. Are video games the reason why the rate of violent behavior in kids…

Sure, knives and fists are far more common than guns, but guns intensify the violence and increases the probability of death. Another incident, one that I hold very close to my heart, is the Virginia Tech Massacre. Seung-Hui Cho was born in South Korea in 1984 and became a permanent resident of the United States in 1992. This twenty-three-year-old was a senior at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University majoring in English, who massacred thirty-two…

The weakness of these article,the author said that gun on campus is self defense. However, the number of US shooting on school in 2015 has to 52nd shooting. Moreover,there are 21 to 23 shooting on college (52 school shooting, 2015)(Sunburn, 2015). This statics should make a lot of people know that gun is a self defense or not.Also,the gun accidents always make every feel depressed when they heard this news on the television or look on newspaper because they always fear,if it happen with their…