Columbine High School: The Day That Shocked The Country

October 2014 COMM 1000-05 Ms. Orozco Informative Speech Introduction Columbine, 1999, 15 dead. Sandy Hook, 2012, 28 dead. How many of you had ever have to practice different emergency drills in elementary school? For either earthquakes, fires, strangers on campus… Now how many of you have actually gone through the real thing? My topic is K-12 school shootings. We all have someone close to us who is in elementary, middle or high school that we care about. It could be a little sister, a nephew, a cousin

The Columbine Tragedy The student sat at her desk on Monday morning in English class, discussing the details of the weekend with her best friend. The bell rang at 8:45 a.m. and her teacher started taking attendance. It was a new week with so many things to accomplish. The teacher finished the morning details by completing lunch count. She then asked her pupils to quit visiting, and to open their literature books and begin reading. All of a sudden a sound rings through the hall, but it is not

acts that take place every day, for example, a day

Gun Control, A Real Solution to Gun Violence? Analysis of the Film Bowling for Columbine One important issue that has raised over the past two decades is the gun control debate, whether gun control is a real solution to decrease the violence in the country or not. While some groups defend that restricting the laws regarding to gun possession, will decrease the statistics of gun murders in the country, other groups pro-gun rights not only sustain these measures will not make any significant change

“BOOM” glass goes flying in the parking lot in every direction, at 11:19 AM the first bomb is detonated and is also heard within the halls of Columbine. The adrenaline in Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris's vein begins but so does the nightmare. It's April 20, 1999 an ordinary Tuesday morning at columbine high school. In about two weeks approximately 300 seniors will be graduating and perhaps attending college. For many students this means that they will be moving to a different chapter in their lives

The day of the Columbine Massacre is a day that will forever burn a hole in America’s heart. The nation was shocked at the news that on April 20, 1999, high school seniors Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris went on a precisely planned shooting rampage at their school, Columbine High School. This event killed a total of thirteen individuals, including twelve students and one highly heroic teacher, and wounded many. The reportedly troubled boys had often accused others of having bullied them, which raised

The Columbine massacre was one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. On April 20, 1999, high school seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot and killed 12 students, one teacher, and themselves. Twenty-five students were also injured, some very critically. While there had been many school shootings in America prior to this, the young age of the shooters, the number of victims, and the randomness of the people they killed shocked the nation. It has been 14 years since this tragedy and

theme of Columbine would be change. Before the horrific catastrophe, an event as gruesome as the Columbine massacre was almost unheard of. Society as a whole would never for one second think that two young, seventeen year old boys would be capable of so much chaos; no one would think that the youth of our times could embody so much hatred. Once terror struck and the shooting occurred our entire country felt the sting of it. America reacted by having stricter security for schools and harsher

Analysis of Michael Moore’s Treatment of His Subject Matter within the Documentaries Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 911 “A documentary may be as a film or television or radio programme that provides factual information about a subject. Typically, a documentary is a journalistic record of events presented on screen.” The main conventions of documentaries tend to be that the documentary has voice-over commentary; the main focus is on the issues rather than relationships

Furthermore, American gun culture begins since the earliest days of the country which often referring to a key component of the American mythic tradition. However, in the America’s beginnings, it was ubiquitous in colonial and early federal life than popular impressions and mythology suggest. As a practical matter, most of the firearms in civilian hand were guns suited to farming use. Such as killing small game and nuisance animals. Moreover, early guns were expensive, cumbersome, difficult and even