...The Columbine Massacre: Why They Did It In April of 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris made a decision that deeply affected our great nation. Together, they decided to enact upon the teenage rage that had been building in them for years and attempted to murder hundreds of students with both bombs and guns. They successfully killed fifteen people--thirteen students, a coach and finally, themselves. They left an impact on America’s Society, many calling for gun control and higher security of school campuses. Dylan Klebold is perceived in the Columbine novel as a depressed, suicidal teen that followed Eric and was practically hypnotized under his influence. He would attempt to commit crimes with Eric, even though he had difficulty covering his tracks and lies when confronted about them, as demonstrated on page 200 of the novel, paragraph two, “Dylan was no good at deception. He kept getting caught. Eric did not. Tom Klebold noticed that Dylan had a new laptop. Eric could have weaseled out of that one without missing a beat-- it was a friend’s… he’d checked it out of the computer lab. Dylan just confessed. His dad made him turn himself in.” Dylan was a sociopath, between his violations of the law, lying(although not very convincing as demonstrated...
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...Research Paper On April 20th, 1999, 13 people were killed and more than 20 others were wounded in what is now referred to as the Columbine High School Massacre. As one of the first major school shootings, the Columbine High School Massacre prompted a national debate on school security. Since then, many other shootings have happened, including a recent shooting in a high school in Florida. In other words, school security has become a serious issue. Because of recent shootings and attacks, schools have continued debating on whether or not increasing the amount of security is a good idea. Security changes such as uniformed officers, cameras, and check in and out policies, are some of the things being considered. Increasing security, even though...
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...On the morning of April 20, 1999, 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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...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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...School shootings have begun to take the United States by storm, leaving behind a path of destruction. Children as young as six years old partake in gun violence (Rosenblatt). The most widely remarked school shooting of this generation is that of Littleton,Colorado. Columbine Highschool Massacre marks a strong turning point in the gun violence being brought into school across the United States (Roberts). Since the year 1999, 262 school shootings have occurred across the United States (Roberts). The largest of these events occurred on April 16, 2007, tragedy struck on the campus of Virginia Tech College. It was nearly 8 years to the day after Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris put Columbine High school under attack. Seung-Hui Cho brought injury...
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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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..."It was the one time that year I stayed for lunch and when the shooting began. I hid under a table and started praying and just moments later the shooter was right behind me and shot me close range -- my shoulder, hand and across my neck. I pretended to be dead, hoping he’d move on, and he did." This is just one of the harrowing stories from a survivor of the 1999 Columbine massacre Kacey Johnson, Johnson was only 17 when she experienced up close just how bad gun violence in America can be. The Columbine High School massacre is a day that Littleton Colorado will remember forever; Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold open fired on students and teachers and left thirteen people dead before killing themselves. The Columbine tragedy and the reasons it...
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...The Columbine High School massacre in Littleton Colorado will always be remembered as an unforgettable horrific event that still leaves a mark on the town today. The controversial filmmaker Michael Moore took his take on it and ventured into the creation of events that took place that day. The documentary that was produced, directed, and written by Moore deconstructs the events of this particular decimation and uses his techniques to compose a use of visuals, sounds, editing, and political messages. He portrays his viewpoints as well as cultural perspectives through archival footage, interviews and intertextuality. He makes sure to have a purpose for each shot to leave a harsh yet defying impression in our minds. "In Moore’s eyes, the Columbine...
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...Education has evolved from a commodity to a necessity to survive. Ever since Columbine, the officials are required not to tell the news, information they are not sure about. Many different news media took advantage of the students that were still in shock by telling them to describe what happened without giving to much information. The news media failed to realize that they were still in shock, and not in their right mind. However, they still got away with taking advantage of students and any information they obtained. Two senior students in Littleton, Colorado, shot up their high school, Columbine. They shot at random, not because they were bullied or that they did not like a certain group, but because they wanted to wipe out mankind. Many lives were lost that day, a teacher, students, and lastly themselves. During the columbine shooting, as you may have seen, the news media collecting information from the police. The police kept saying that they would enter the building in a few minutes, and then kept changing their mind. Eventually when they did go in, many people were injured, mentally disturbed, or brutally murdered. Now that Columbine and many other mass shootings have occurred, they realized that they could have avoided most of those deaths. If police and SWAT would not have took so long, many others may have not been injured, and they might of have caught the shooters and arrested them. Since then, police, SWAT, and any other law enforcement are required to come up...
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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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...The early morning of April 20, 1999 was filled with the wonderful smell of breakfast in the air, the everyday sound of school buses driving on their way to pick up children, and the sound of teenagers laughing together on their way to school. It was a normal, promising day in the small town of Littleton, Colorado. But in a few hours, that beautiful day suddenly became a horrible nightmare the world would not soon forget. At approximately 11:10 am, two teenage students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, arrived at the front doorsteps of Columbine High School. About two minutes later, Eric and Dylan walked into their school cafeteria where they had placed two duffle bags filled entirely with twenty pound bombs, simply waiting for the bombs to explode inside of their vehicles. Shortly after, Eric and Dylan began a horrific shooting spree in both the cafeteria and the library. By 11:35 am they managed to kill twelve students, an instructor, and wounded at least twenty other students. Shortly after...
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...The Columbine High School massacre or simply Columbine was a school shooting that occurred on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School in Columbine,[2][3] an unincorporated area of Jefferson County in the state of Colorado. In addition to the shootings, the complex and highly planned attack involved a fire bomb to divert firefighters, propane tanks converted to bombs placed in the cafeteria, 99 explosive devices, and bombs rigged in cars. The perpetrators, two senior students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered a total of 12 students and one teacher. They injured 21 additional people, with three others being injured while attempting to escape the school. The pair then committed suicide.[4][5] Although their motives remain unclear, the personal journals of the perpetrators document that they wished their actions to rival the Oklahoma City bombing, as well as other deadly incidents that occurred in the United States in the 1990s. The attack has been referred to by USA Today as a "suicidal attack [that was] planned as a grand—if badly implemented—terrorist bombing."[6] The massacre is reported as being "the deadliest high school shooting in US history."[7] The massacre sparked debate over gun control laws, the availability of firearms within the United States and gun violence involving youths. Much discussion also centered on the nature of high school cliques, subcultures and bullying, in addition to the influence of violent movies and video games in American society. The...
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...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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...head: CAMPUS VIOLENCE 1 Campus Violence has escalated since the Massacre at UT Berketa L. Livingston Liberty University Online ENGL-104 April 3, 2013 CAMPUS VIOLENCE 2 Abstract America’s first encounter with campus violence was in 1966, which occurred at the University of Texas. The U.S. had not seen the last of campus violence, because the next outbreak was in 1999, 33 years later when the Columbine massacre occurred. This tragedy was an eye opener for America, to rethink the safety of its schools and campuses. As tragic as these events were and devastating to the American people, safety of its schools and campuses had not happened. In addition to these two tragic events, another deadly massacre happened on America’s campuses. The massacre of Virginia Tech, this tragic event was one of the U.S. most deadly campus violence that had occurred in America’s history of campus violence. If these tragic events did not really make...
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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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