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Barbara Dority author of “The Columbine Tragedy: Countering the Hysteria”, illustrates how society becomes hysterical after a teen commits a mass school shooting. The Columbine shooting occurred April 20, 1999 in Littleton, Colorado. It was caused by two adolescents Eric Harris and Dylan Kledold, collectively killed 13 students and wounded 23 others. After the Columbine shooting, society looked in every direction for who is to blame for such a horrendous act of violence caused by teens. Dority expresses how society tends to panic, and take away the youths’ pleasures such as video games, music, and the very basic rights young people have. While society posit that media or Goth music is the catalyst for teen violence, it is not the media or Goth who are to blame for teen violence.

Bowling for Columbine isan interactive or participatory documentary directed by Micheal More ( Farenheight 911, Sicko ) in 2002. In this documentry More explores the 1999 Colimbine Masacare, he investigates what lead up to this masacare as well as how Colombine reacted to it. He reads into the violence in the United States and the fact that america has the highest gun-murder rate in the world, he questions the right that Americans have to acessing guns. It is created with many conventions of the interactive documentry genre; the documentry has direct engagment with the audience, More is a part of the events that are recorded so he has a direct impact on what is happening; we get a clear understanding of the situation from More’s point of veiw.

Also, she provides her spoiled character Bertrandes modern qualities, such as lying, deception, desire and betrayal are really appealing to the modern reader. At the same time, the Vigne has bias as well, in favor of the fake Martin. For instance, Arnaud’s characteristics, wit, brilliance, sparkle, deception, greediness, boldness and appearance can be found in a modern personality. For him, shining Arnaud as the heroic figure, the director’s bias is clearly obvious towards this character throughout the movie. Yet Vigne with his movie, characters, and themes is able to capture and keep the audience’s attention. I felt myself hoping he would win through (despite already knowing the ending). Honestly, I have put this bias down to the filmmakers, perhaps pandering to their star actor, (Gerard

Terror, shock, desperateness, all feelings of the Columbine victims. Through the narration of the encounter between Patti Nielson and the shooters during the beginning moments of the Columbine shooting in chapter 11 of Columbine, a memoir, Dave Cullen adopts an informative tone in order to focus young adults’ attention to the ruthlessness of the Columbine shooting.

On December 6th, 1989, the Ecole Polytechnique engineering school in Montreal would – unbeknownst to everyone in the building – become the backdrop for one of the worst mass murder incidents in Canadian history. 14 women were shot and killed at the hands of a shooter named Marc Lepine, and 13 others were gravely wounded in the process (Maser, 1987). No outright reason was apparent other than the letters left on his suicide note, but it marked a troubled life that began from his troubled childhood. Factors that may have led up to this incident needs to be examined in further detail, using a psychological explanation and a criminological theory. This paper will use the social learning theory to analyze the behaviours that led up to this

Sandy Hook Elementary School. San Bernardino. Paris. What do all of these places have in common? They fell victim to unpredictability. Mass shootings are not new to our society, but they are still a devastating problem that should not exist any longer. Mass shootings connect to the novel, Fahrenheit 451, through both the unnecessary violence and the absence of humanity that are evident in the novel. Mass shootings are a devastating problem in our society, and now their numbers have escalated to a new level. This change reflects how both our society and our humanity is beginning to crumble, solutions like banning unnecessary and excessive fire arms are currently being enacted.

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Michael Moore’s documentary is filled with an ample amount of logos, ethos, and pathos which helps get his message through to the audience. In ‘Bowling for Columbine’, Moore talks about the horrific shooting, which occurred on April 20th, 1999 at Columbine high school. Moore explains how Michigan has a disturbingly big tolerance for firearms and actually see it as a necessary item that everyone should have. Guns in Michigan are so easily accessible that it can be obtained at a bank for free if you open up an account with them. Moore demonstrated this to be true as he so easily walked into the bank empty handed and came out with a rifle. ‘Bowling for Columbine’ revealed how America has the worst murder rate when it comes to shootings even though

“In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it. In nineteen minutes, you can revenge” (Picoult). Those words are of the opening lines of Jodi Picoult’s best seller, Nineteen Minutes. Although this novel is heart wrenching, and cuts into the ‘grays’ of school shootings, it is anything but original. Lead character, Peter Houghton, is an almost perfect profile replication of 1999’s Columbine shooters, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. A simple personaltiy analysis will reveal that both Peter and Columbine Shooters suffer from parental neglect, the violent virtual world, ruthless peers, as well as easy access to weapons.

The beginning of the nonfiction, Columbine by Dave Cullen, takes place four days before the Columbine massacre at Columbine High School’s assembly in Littleton, Colorado, just before the weekend of Prom. Ironically, Principal DeAngelis, the one who had hosted the school assembly, provides a lecture of everyone coming back alive and safe after prom. Soon after, on April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold arrived at Columbine High School with two bombs based on portable propane bottles, decoy bombs in their cars and across town, and dozens of small pipe bombs, along with guns and ammunition. Their original and only plan was to shoot anyone and everyone who escapes from the building after the bombs detonated, and they had expected to be shot to death by police; however, their plans partly failed when the bombs planted inside the school did not go off. Although their plan of distraction did not succeed as expected, Harris and Klebold entered the school and began shooting and firing pipe bombs for a little over fifteen minutes. Afterwards, after roaming the school for a short amount of time, they returned to the library where most of their victims had died, set off one final bomb, and committed suicide by shooting themselves. Although their bombing failed, the ensued shooting resulted in a new era of school violence and had left “a lasting impression on the world.” However, by the end of the day, the horrifying incident was falsely blamed on bullying, the popular “Goth”

Furthermore, the many causes of why something this mind blowing could actually happen in our country and feel so close to home. It is absolutely amazing how the viciousness of a single person could affect the lives of so many people. Several people had begun to wonder what might have been the cause of this massacre. One of the causes brought to attention was the fact that Virginia Tech College didn’t take proper responsibility when notified by faculty and students that Cho may be a dangerous individual. If fact, if the school would have looked further into the gunman’s history and the many complaints people were constantly filing against him then maybe this wouldn’t have happened. However, we must not go back in time and say “what if” because that will not change what has already happened. Another cause for this tragedy may be the violent movies, music, or television shows. Several of people are influenced by the things they see whether they want to admit it or not is a different story. It seems like the more graphic and gorier the movie the better; however, the people who write these movies don’t think of the impact the movie may have on an individual’s life. Last, this cause brings me to the wonderful thing called videogames. Videogames these days have come along way from what they used to be. Back in the day

After studying Bowling for Columbine (a documentary film series), I have been invited to contribute an analysis and evaluating essay to Cinema Verite’s next addition, disclosing how filmmaker Michael Moore successfully persuades the audience to adopt the invited reading.  The invited reading is that the United States government cultivate a culture of fear which directly impacts gun violence as citizens are granted accessible gun ownership and which also implementing unemployed citizens.  Michael Moore presents Bowling For Columbine a documentary comprising of confronting and proactive messages on America’s gun control, incorporating techniques composed of mise-en-scene, cinematography, and post-production. The documentary title Bowling for Columbine refers to a massacre on the 20th of April 1999 where two Colorado students murdered a teacher and twelve classmates at Columbine High School. Mise-en-scene and cinematography are used when Michael Moore validates the absence of gun control by obtaining one himself from

Newman begins her book by telling the stories of two different rampage shootings, at Heath High School and Westside Middle School. Once she establishes the shooters and the subjects of her study, Newman lays out her thesis and explains that her research shows that many factors contribute

Bowling for Columbine is a documentary about how guns are a bad influence and pollute the mind, rather than supplying safety, which is the real reason behind the possession of a gun being legalised. Michael Moore, the film maker, wrote and produced the film to emphasise his point on why guns should never be sold or purchased again. The main story Moore focused on was one that was absolutely shocking and could astonish you from start to finish: The Shooting at Columbine High School. The ordinary and average school was put through an attack by two absent minded children who destructively killed 1 teacher and 12 students, not including the many more they injured. Moore also tried interviewing people whose lives had been affected due to guns.

Michael Moore is a writer and a filmmaker and he is well known for criticizing American politics and the society in general. Moore had a specific bias against gun control and it allowed him to consider the biggest controversies surrounding the topic. Bowling for Columbine is a one of Moore’s famous documentaries, he decides to make this after the Columbine high school massacre that occurred in 1999. Something he looked for in this film was how the violence in the society has an impact on the children and how they would be different if raised in a safer area. In “ Bowling Columbine” Moore uses various codes and conventions to discuss the link between America's obsession for guns and how it connects to their murder rate. The use of animation, interviews with the victims and witnesses helped call attention to social criticism, which Americans should be ashamed of.