Pearl High School shooting

School shootings have always been a topic that has fascinated the country and the world, especially when they involve students. They divide the nation, experts, and the press, who scramble to answer the question, why? One of the most shocking and easily recognizable to ever occur was the Columbine High School shooting of 1999. Not only did many lose their lives, but the attack was perpetrated by two young boys who led otherwise pretty normal lives. Although Eric Harris’s motives have been made…

essay "Too Close for Comfort" written by Katherine S. Newman in 2004, a discussion of a school violence to the possible causes for such extreme behavior. The essay focuses on school shootings, how and why they occur especially in small towns. It begins with a harsh and unforgettable memory of the massacre in the community of Malcolm, Neb. A 17-year-old who prepared 20 homemade bombs and brought them to the school parking lot. It is said that these attacks usually happen in urban cities but for…

School mass shooting is the biggest threat to the school safety and the public health, it somehow has become an American routine and rapidly increased since last thirty years. The School Shooting of Columbine, Sand Hook, and Virginia Tech have become the “icon” of American history because innocent children and students are killed in schools where they are supposed to be safe and to learn knowledge from. As the public, we condolence the dead and their families and condemn those offenders and…

A massacre is a brutal slaughter of a large number of people. The shooting was at the Columbine high school in Littleton, Colorado. Two teens went on a shooting spree, killing 13 students. This shooting affected many lives in Colorado. Because of this shooting, school safety has become the main concern for the students. The school administration has required all schools to practice lock down drills, having anti-bullying zones, zero-tolerance policies and the practice of A.L.I.C.E. On April…

It was just a normal day at Columbine High School, after a long prom weekend. Students were just gathering together in the cafeteria eating lunch. While on Monday, April 20, 1999, two seniors by the name of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold called this massacre Judgement Day. This massacre “Judgement Day” was the largest massacre before the twentieth century. This shooting shocked the whole world, and it still is to this day. People till this day what motivate them to murder thirteen innocent people…

He continued and said, “Our president was shot and killed.” This is what Nancy’s high school teacher said in the middle of class on the day John F. Kennedy was killed. John F. Kennedy's assassination was traumatic around the whole country, if not the whole world. Nancy Zuber was willing to be interviewed on what she thought of the situation. At the time Nancy was a student in eleventh grade at reading high school in 1963. Nancy Zuber was sitting in her book keeping class. “We were taking a test…

it was the principal consistently shooting on a school grounds. On April 20, 1999, two teens went on a shooting binge at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, slaughtering 13 individuals and injuring more than 20 others before turning their firearms on themselves and committing suicide (Gumbel, 2009). 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…

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold perpetrated the Columbine High School massacre on April 20th, 1999. Both were seniors at the school, both kept journals largely concerned with planning the massacre, and both killed themselves at the conclusion of the shooting. Both had been bullied severely, but had friends other than each other. Harris had a history of depression and suicidal thoughts, and was prescribed medication for this. Klebold had more severe depression,…

The plague of gun violence as taken over the country. School shooting occur from all corners of America. In the Schoolyard chapter of Rick Bragg’s book, described the school shootings at Westside Middle School orchestrated by two juvenile. On March 24, 1998, two boys ambushed students and teachers outside Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Andrew Golden, 11 years old, and Mitchell Johnson, who was 13 years old, was responsible for the tragedy. The two boys, dressed head to toe in…

guy but his mother is not. The sequence of there life background all leads up. There was a president that got shot, can you guess who? “On the day president Kennedy was shot, my ninth grade class had been out in the fenced playground of a public school Number 13, (38 Judith Ortiz Cofer). What if the shooter accidentally hit one of…