...How would you feel if someone you love so dearly went to school one day, a place you thought was safe, and never came back? Well, this happened to many. One day the parents of children sent their children to school and never got to say, “goodbye” or “I love you”. Most likely regretting everything they had done or said to their loved one the day before, or what they did not tell them. Although the Columbine High School Shooting was a tragic event in history, society has benefitted by bringing about school security, practicing evacuation procedures during school, and brought awareness to the issue of gun control. The Columbine High School Shooting was a tragic event within United States history that occurred on April 20, 1999. The traumatizing...
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...Eric Davis Harris and Dylan Bennet Klebold went into the Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado, and went on a rampage killing spree leaving 12 students and 1 teacher dead and over 20 people injured before killing themselves. This crime is known as one of the most deadliest school massacres in the United States history (Pittaro). On the day of the massacre, previously to the attack both Erick D. Harris and Dylan B. Klebold placed small fire bombs in a field three miles away from the Columbine High School and another one a couple of miles away from the fire station. They had set the bombs to explode at 11:14 to distract all emergency personnel away from the school. The two boys then headed to the school...
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...This paper will seek to determine why have school shootings become familiar media events. On April 20th 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, two students of Columbine High School, equipped with multiple firearms including explosives went on a killing spree, before committing suicide (Kohn, 2001). Wounding more than 20 people and causing the death of 13 people, the Columbine High School shooting is considered as one of the most important school shootings in history. School shooting is the action in which ‘multiple intentional killings’ are carried out in ‘educational institutions’ by one or more perpetrators (Böckler et al., 2013, p.3). The devastating event not only appeared on newspapers but it has since been adapted into an Oscar-winning...
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...Could Columbine Have Been Prevented? In Littleton Colorado, April 20, 1999 it was a sunny, cool, normal day. The students of the local high school were going along with their days, when suddenly, according to Cnn. com, at 11:19 a.m., the peacefulness ended with shots being fired throughout the school. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, both students of Columbine, were bullied and excluded by their classmates because they were awkward. The boys decided to try to become famous by getting revenge. The bullying that Klebold and Harris endured while students at Columbine drove them to kill members of their school community. The Columbine shooting was a well planned and well carried out event that required many things to fall into place. As previously...
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...Running head: SERIAL KILLER PAPER Serial Killer Paper: The Columbine Tragedy Carsyn Ehlinger DMACC Abstract The Columbine Massacre was a school shooting that took place on April 20th, 1999, in Littleton, Colorado. Shooters Eric Harris, and Dylan Klebold killed 13 in what was then the biggest school shooting. The Columbine massacre is a topic of interest because it was one of the first heavily reported mass shootings, and had been handled poorly by law enforcement. Today Columbine stands as an example for law enforcement, and is one of the most popular copy-cat murders. On April 20th, 1999, only seventeen days before senior graduation, students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered Columbine High School and killing twelve students, one teacher, and injuring many more before taking their own lives....
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...Between October 1997 and may 1999 there were seven mass shooting in schools. Perhaps the most infamous of the seven occurred in Littleton, CO performed by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. They killed 13 individuals and wounded 24 at Columbine High School. (Kleck, Mass Shootings in Schools, The worst Possible Case for Gun Control) Some gun related patterns that are found because of these seven shootings are, 5 out of the 7 mass shootings had multiple guns. Because they had multiple guns they did not need guns with a large capacity of magazines to shoot many victims. Killers take their time; they deliberately fire at individual victims over a long period of time. Second, Theft is primarily how killers acquire their guns. Of these seven shootings,...
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...Columbine, Sandy Hook, & Stoneman Douglas are just to name a few of the deadliest school shootings in the past 20 years. Safety measures and precautions have been recently set in place to prevent massacres in the future from being a yearly occurrence. April 20, 1999 has a spot in history as one of the most tragic days in US. History. At approximately 11: 20 am, two fellow students of Columbine High School entered with the attempt to kill, destroy, and to attack on everyone in sight. As of November 30, 2012, there was 456 children enrolled in kindergarten through fourth grade at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The school's security protocols had recently been upgraded, requiring visitors to be individually admitted after visual and identification review by video monitor. Doors to the school...
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...If you have attended or have been into more than one New York City public school within the last couple of years, you have probably noticed that they each have something in common. No, it is not the students, or the teachers, or the lunch that everyone claims tastes like prison food. One thing that most New York City and other public schools within America have in common is the fact that they have law enforcement officers present within them. The Columbine High School massacre was an extremely tragic shooting that took place at the Columbine High School in Colorado on April 20, 1999. Two white male students, whose names were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, wore dark clothing that prevented others from identifying them, and they entered into...
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...Motivated to Murder The Columbine High School Massacre occurred April 20th 1999, this was the first mass school shooting that occurred in our nation's history, this horrendous event took place in Columbine, Colorado and was committed by the two deeply disturbed individuals Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. One of the individuals Eric Harris was raised by a former US Marine and frequently moved from place to place and from school district to school district. Harris was noted to have a drive to enlist in the marines just like his father, but was denied enlistment due to psychiatric medication “Luvox” which was prescribed to him for the depression he had been experiencing. Harris seemed to be a happy child, but he was having problems adjusting to the frequent changing of school. When he first came to Columbine High he was noted to dress...
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...into the past. On 20 April 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold followed a carefully planned attack on the Columbine High School in Colorado, using weapons such as guns and even bombs. The two boys who were seniors, murdered 12 students and one teacher before then fatally shooting themselves. Like the Boston Marathon bombing, the Columbine attack was carried out by two people, and it involved some of the same methods such as using some homemade explosives. The Columbine attack can be remembered as being considered a school shooting or even a mass shooting perhaps being the most iconic of a sad string of events but not known as a terrorist attack. If Boston was to be considered terrorism based on the little that facts that are known, then people have to be able to answer these simple questions; Can only white people or people who believe in the Christian faith be considered sociopaths, or seem to deal with other mental illnesses that under some certain conditions then lead them to commit the violent acts? Can the only two white high school students act as a duo without having terrorist intentions? Can Muslims or other people of color, never be subject to the same kind of conditions or analysis as others? Surely the survivors and their families of the Boston bombing massacre deserve no less of an actual detailed accounting of what actually happened than the victims of Columbine? The public cannot and shouldn’t rule out that some evidence can possibly come upfront that the alleged...
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...On April 20, 1999, two teenage boys opened fire on their high school in Colorado. Several problems and issues presented themselves due to miscommunications or laidback approaches. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris killed 12 students, one teacher and wounded 21 others using weapons purchased from private dealers at a gun show. Part of Columbine’s issues should’ve been prevented if the gun laws in Colorado were enforced properly. Although it wasn't entirely Robyn, Eric, And Dylan's fault, the seller shouldn't have sold the weapons to minors because of this the gun laws were not followed resulting thirteen victims being killed. Gun laws in the United States are enforced to ensure safety to U.S citizens. Many states in the U.S are lenient to...
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...Madison Brown Forty-nine minutes. That is all it took for students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, to forever change the lives of the people of Columbine High School. By using bombs, guns and other dangerous weapons, these two boys were able to kill and severely injure a total of thirty-three members of the school. It all started on the morning of April 20, 1999. Harris and Klebold planted bombs near the nearest fire station, that were set to go off at a certain time, hoping they would distract firefighters and other emergency personal. Then the two drove to park in the junior and senior parking lots, planting bombs in their cars. Right before the school’s first lunch began; Harris and Klebold hid bombs in two separate duffel bags, and placed them in the cafeteria, alongside many other bags assembled there. As the first lunch bell rang, the two walked out to their cars, awaiting the explosions of the bombs. While the boys awaited the explosions, they gathered their guns together, ready to shoot any people fleeing the school. When it became apparent to the shooters that the bomb was not going to explode, they armed...
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...Nzingha TaHa February 22, 2016 Creative Nonfiction Dr. Monika Elbert The Killer Day The day started off like any other school day, I cried my heart out. I hated getting up in the morning to prepare for school. I cried brushing my teeth, washing my face, putting on my clothes, and while eating breakfast. I hated the idea of not being able to lay in bed until I was ready to get up. I guess I can blame that on my mom. When I was much smaller my mom used to work nights, when she would come home we would play, listen to music and laugh until we fell asleep. We would awaken when we got good and ready; I thought that was the life. Although some of that changed once she returned to school, my body could not adjust. No matter how early I would go to sleep I never want to get up early. The ride to school was nothing special, it was very quiet rides. Often times I would soak up the scenery. I was always amazed at the trees and the kids walking down Grove Street. I knew where they were going because most of us where in the same class but, I would just watch them as if it was new to me. As my mom pulled up I couldn’t wait to get out of the car, I had no time to give her my sweet goodbyes. I would run to my friends so we could catch up before we entered the building. Once we got to the big red doors, we knew it was time to get serious. So we laughed, gossiped, exchanged snacks and quickly entered the building. No one wanted to be late to class. If you were late to class you would...
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...OLU Lawal English 101 Section 0203 The Bully and the School Having the chance to wake up every weekday and go to school is an opportunity 121 million children around the world lack (Shah, "Poverty Facts and Stats”). On the other hand, the overwhelming majority of the children in the United States, and other First World countries, have access to educational resources. Yet, around 160,000 children in the United States alone miss school because of bullying (Phoenix & Honda, “Our children Faces a Bullying Epidemic”). Since most bullying takes place at school, it is imperative that these schools take actions by implementing anti-bullying policies into their school code of conduct. The schools are primarily responsible for reducing bullying among students and must seek effective solutions to this growing problem. Bullying would not be such a huge problem if school officials stepped up and started intervening. But how can they intervene when many cannot even recognize signs of bullying, or have not been trained on how to properly handle the situation? If not handled correctly, it can worsen and create more issues for the victims. In a survey done by Frank Barone, principal of Amsterdam High School New York, teachers believed approximately 16% of students are bullied victims (Barone,80). Barone also surveyed students, 58% of whom revealed that they are bullied victims. He found three core reasons as to why teachers and faculty members do not recognize bullying. First, the teachers...
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...one high school was about to have one of the most tragic and deadly days in US history. Columbine High School was in the forefront of this tragedy. Two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, opened fire on their fellow classmates and teacher. These two students cut the lives short of thirteen students and one teacher. They then turned their guns onto themselves leaving the nation with no answers as to why? They did leave videotape. This videotape contained Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold planning their attack on Columbine High School. This piece of evidence showed two students that were not part of the "in crowd". They were outsiders, losers, as some would consider them. They were taunted, humiliated, and disrespected by their classmates. But how can two intelligent students do something as deadly as they did. Was it because they had bad parents? Not at all, they even went out of their way to save their parents the blame by repeatedly saying that it was not their fault that they were about to do what they did. So what was the cause of all this tragedy and how can it be stopped so it can never happen again in our middle schools and high schools? Elliot Aronson a social psychologist wrote a book called Nobody Left to Hate, Teaching Compassion After Columbine. This book represents his ideas on how to use certain strategies to have a better school environment that teaches compassion, tolerance while putting education in a winning situation. Aronson discusses the Columbine High School...
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