Columbine High School massacre

Sort By:
Page 50 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Decent Essays

    If the game is a first person shooter, players have the same visual perspective as the killer. After exorbitantly savage occasions, first person shooter games frequently go under examination. In many countries, a few first-individual shooter amusements vanished from the business sector for some time after the killings. Does extraordinary battling on a level screen show additionally bring about forceful conduct, in actuality? Analysts from the University of Bonn discovered mind movement designs in

    • 447 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Twenty years after the largest mass murder on European soil since the Third Reich, one question still remains unanswered. How did this happen when the eyes of the world were watching? Why were death squads able to, unchecked, massacre more than 8,000 men and boys in a UN protected “safe zone”? According to eyewitness accounts of survivors, “They stripped all the male Muslim prisoners, military and civilian, elderly and young, of their personal belongings and identification, and deliberately and methodically

    • 1086 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Leave it to the governing body of college sports to look common sense directly in the eye, and rather than use it, hit it over the head with a steel chair. Braxton Beverly, a 4-star recruit who is now a member of the North Carolina State Wolfpack, briefly attended classes at Ohio State. Originally committed to the Buckeyes, when Thad Matta was shown the door, Beverly left with him. Since he attended class, the NCAA considers him a transfer rather than a player who re-opened his recruiting process

    • 404 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Decent Essays

    terrible bullies may suffer hard time at home. There are two types of bullies. There are cyber bullies and physical bullying. Cyber bullies bully online. Physical bullying is when they kick or punch. To begin with, bullies around the world make kids at school commit suicide. All bullies when they make a student commit suicide they have to suffer with the guilt on their shoulders their whole lives. When bullies make a student commit suicide their conscience tells them “hey, you drove someone to commit suicide

    • 314 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Hook) After student Dimitrios Pagourtzis shot and killed 10 of his classmates at Santa Fe High School, traumatized survivor Paige Curry coldly remarked, “‘[school shootings have] been happening everywhere, I've always kind of felt that eventually [one] would happen here, too’” (Vera). (Bridge) Curry’s message displays the visible desensitization to school shootings, thus reopening the nationwide conversation regarding gun control. (Divided Stasis/Thesis Statement) (Opponent’s claim informed by 3

    • 971 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Filmmaker Michael Moore takes up the lane and splits the nation with his controversial documentary Bowling for Columbine. The Oscar winning film shows America and it’s gun culture within it. Made in 2002, a bit after the infamous columbine shooting, this movie was made to open up all discussions on media and gun control. By asking the question of why America is so violent compared to other civilized countries, Michael Moore successfully raises awareness of the causes of gun violence. But how does

    • 661 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In the past few years, school violence has gone up significantly. This leaves people with the question of, what is the reason for this? Many sources say that one of the reasons is social isolation with teens. isolationism is one of the main factors to school shootings because being ostracized, neglected, abused, bullied and devalued in societies are its foundations. Social isolation over prolonged periods of time leads to the deep entanglement of negative emotions. As a result, violent tendencies

    • 944 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The amount of school shootings has profoundly increased in the past few years. Recently, there was a school shooting that occurred in a Florida school, which took seventeen innocent lives. This event has aroused a question on whether teachers should keep guns in their classrooms to protect themselves and their students. However, guns will cause more fear and problems in the lives of parents, students and teachers. America wants to strive toward having safer schools, but arming teachers is not a logical

    • 576 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Florida, this past week. As details emerged, news organizations once again engaged in a grim tradition: tallying the massacre on an ever-growing list of school shootings in the United States. They were diligent about security. They instituted lockdown procedures. They practiced active shooter drills. They trained their staff. Yet, a mass shooting tragically happened in their high school. They feel helpless. We saw the faces of children, parents, staff and the community grieving over senseless loss of

    • 645 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Unified Command Essay

    • 999 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Address, in-depth, how one of the crises in the text have influenced the U.S. emergency response programs and/or mutual aid agreements. The April of 2007 Virginia Tech shooting highlighted “the need for many diverse organizations to have a common incident command structure as a framework for an organized response” (Miller & Rivera, pg. 11); more specifically, the situation called for a unified command in order to better manage the incident. A unified command is created when the incident commander

    • 999 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays