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    In the film, Bowling for Columbine, the director Michael Moore takes an extent look at what could have made these teenagers to do such a thing. He doesn’t just look at the terrible event at Columbine High School, but also at the NRA's effects on people, the 2nd amendment, other school shootings, and how the United States compared to other countries gun-control explanations such as Canada. Michael Moore looks as a sociologist would such as C. Wright Mills in which he explores the outside factors of

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    Jack Congdon English 3 Honors Lawson August 8, 2017 Summer Reading Essay For this assignment, I read the non-fiction account of Columbine by David Cullen. The novel consisted of two separate, yet parallel, storylines; Eric and Dylan’s preparation for the massacre, and the recollections of the survivors as they struggled to deal with the aftermath. The literary piece is filled with details, sub-plots, and other information which could take an essay in of itself to fully discuss and flesh-out. However

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    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. One of the most obvious characteristic of a school shooter would be parental neglect. This

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    The Columbine shooting was a tragic event that brought high school safety into a new light. Both of the seniors committing the crime killed themselves before they could be questioned, causing the terrified public to blame the incident on the media, specifically Marilyn Manson. While The Crucible and the Columbine shootings are similar in people standing up for incoherent children and deaths for selfish reasons, they are also very different. Children in high school were killed in the Columbine shooting

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    Surely you can’t receive a free gun at a bank, in America you can. Michael Moore wrote, directed and produced the documentary Bowling For Columbine (2002). This film deconstructs the massacre at Columbine High School and other school shootings. The impacts that may be causing these shooting in America ae thing such as the media, politics, gun history, racism and many other important aspects to achieve a reaction from Americans to research what is the cause of these shooting. The target age for this

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    children no matter where they are. It's crazy how we now have to take extra precautions to protect children while they are even at school. School shootings have gotten more frequent and deadly in the past few years. Approximately 17 years ago on April 20, 1999 in a small town called Littleton, Colorado, one high school was about to change forever. It was one of the deadliest school shootings in the nation's history. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were believed to be the gunmen. They were both very intelligent

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    Campus Violence

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    Running head: CAMPUS VIOLENCE 1 Campus Violence has escalated since the Massacre at UT Berketa L. Livingston Liberty University Online ENGL-104

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    High school is where we create our most memorable moments. Memories that will sync into our minds and will remember for a lifetime. Some wish they could press rewind and hit play to relive it again. However the students in Littleton, Colorado, experienced a life changing event they wish to never remember. On April 20th 1999, two teens killed 13 people and wounded more than 20 at Columbine High School (History.com). According to History.com,“the Columbine shooting was, at the time, the worst high

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    and our whole school year is ruined" (Brackely 1). Casey Brackely, once a student that attended Columbine High School, remembers the tragedy of the horrific Columbine shooting that killed and injured many students. Mass shootings in the United States have been on the rise since the 1980’s, especially in the last decade. These shooters motives and profiles are almost all terrifyingly alike. Many of these shooters try to imitate and parallel the tragic shooting of the Columbine High School in 1999. These

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    Bowling For Columbine

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    Short analysis 2 – Bowling for Columbine (2002) Production Values In the documentary Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore uses a number of production techniques to address the issue of gun control in the United States as effectively as possible. The film deconstructs the events of the particular high school massacre of Columbine, as well as other school shootings. It further looks more broadly on American gun culture, the media coverage/media inspired fear, politics, poverty, and various other

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