Eric Burdon

Professor Michael Sandel started the lecture with several scenarios. The first scenario talked about a trolley car on a track. Professor Sandel wanted the audience individually to be the driver/conductor of said trolley car. As one is driving the trolley car down the track, the brakes malfunction; however, the steering is functioning properly. If the driver of the trolley car continued forward, he would crash into five people. The driver of the trolley car had an alternative solution and a…

“I’m going to stay in the car a few minutes. I have to do something before I go in.” Eric Harris said. His sister, Lena, hesitated before getting out of the car because it seemed odd. “Alright, please don’t be late again. You don’t want another detention.” said Lena. She walked into the school and into the library for study hall. The school was very quiet and it was odd, like something would happen at any given time. Usually the school is loud and sometimes obnoxious. “Hey, did you get the…

thirteen individuals were Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. This brutal attack was a shock to America, and the lessons learned need to be known to prevent such a devastating attack from happening again on U.S. soil. The day of April 20, 1999 is one that no one will forget. It was just a normal day for the students and teachers at Columbine High School that morning, but little did they know that around 11:19 a.m. all their lives would be changed forever. Eric Harris, 18…

the Charleston Church Shooting. Although, violence rates in America are steadily decreasing violence is still a major problem in America. First of all, American gun crimes have continued to claim innocent lives. For example, on April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed fifteen students at Columbine High School in Columbine Colorado. The duo placed several makeshift bombs around the school then attempted to detonate them. When the bombs failed to explode they entered the school…

Why They Did It In the year of 1999, a tragedy occurred at Columbine High School, in Colorado, when two kids by the names of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris decided to shoot up an innocent high school. The two managed to kill twelve students, one teacher, and themselves. In Dylan’s early life he was gifted and involved in sports, but later in his life Dylan started having suicidal thoughts. Dylan wrote about pain, conflict, and suicide in his journal. The story quotes, “Death equaled freedom now;…

April 20, 1999, 24 people are injured and 15 people are killed including the shooters. The shooters are Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Nobody knows why they did it exactly. Some people say it was because of bullying, violent video games, or even ‘dark music’ bands. I believe that Eric was a psychopath and Dylan was just depressed and here’s why. Dylan Klebold was depressed. We know this from his diary entries as he talks about suicide many times. Dylan wrote in his journal: “Thinking of suicide…

shooters Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris had been be planning this attack for about a year before they opened fire on the 20th of April in 1999. Dylan and Eric unleashed, killing 15 people total, 12 of which being students and one teacher. The other two? The other two people killed were Dylan and Eric, they took their own lives away. It would become the 5th deadliest school shooting in American history. The shooting was only a small portion of the plan by Dylan and Eric. They had bombs planted…

On April 16, 2007 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado one of the deadliest school shootings in the history of the United States took place. Two teenagers by the name of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold rigged two bombs fitted inside duffel bags to explode in the middle of Columbine High School, when these bombs failed to detonate Harris and Klebold began there killing spree. Resulting in thirteen casualties and twenty injured before committing suicide (History.com). People have come up…

thoughts they are portraying. With Dylan and Eric they seemed to be normal guys from the outside, but the inside showed completely opposite. The closest friends of Dylan and Eric were even shocked from the tragic incident that the two boys were active in. The main theme shown to always know what is going on around you and be aware of the unknown, anything can happen even on a bright sunny day with two seemed to be normal guys. b. Growing up Eric Harris was a normal boy who loved…

The crime was the most exceedingly terrible high school shooting in U.S. history and incited a verbal political confrontation on weapon control and school security, and additionally a noteworthy examination to figure out what spurred the shooters, Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17 (Gumbel, 2009). It's been more than a…