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    regular day of that time. Everyone went about their regular routine; parents going to work, children going to school, young adults going to colleges. But two high school seniors of Columbine High had no intentions of going about their regular days. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered their school with mind made of never leaving that school again alive but not before committing the most heinous and bloody massacre ever committed in the United States history. There has been bombing where the death

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    School.” While at Governors Ranch he was in CHIPS ( Challenged High Intellectual Potential Students), this was a program for gifted children. During middle school is when he met Eric Harris. Dylan’ childhood friend Brooks Brown lived near the house that Eric’s parents had purchased. Soon Dylan and Brooks became friends with Eric and his friend Nate. While attending Columbine Dylan felt like he never really fit in with the other students. Even though he felt that way he as very active in the

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    Columbine Analysis

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    The tragic story of Columbine by Dave Cullen analysis’ the bitter events that were caused by Eric Klebold and Dylan Harris. Although tough to read, the description and imagery within the book about the intense news reports, the role both boys played, and the somber realization of a inspirational marter story furthers the reader's understanding of the truth. Cullen wrote with the purpose to develop each character while going in depth to tell the truth and dispel any rumors that were connected to the

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    Second Amendment. The shoot out consist of two high school boys by the name of Eric Harris who was eighteen and Seventeen- year- old Dylan Klebold; who then turned the guns on their selves. Eric and Dylan bought four guns to school that killed twelve students within the first fifteen minutes, one teacher fatally wounded (bled to death in library waiting for help to come), and twenty- three others wounded. Neither Eric nor Dylan was old enough to purchase a weapon, so Dylan’s friend Robyn Anderson

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    Chaos erupted on the Virginia Tech campus as the actions of a lone gunman claimed the lives of 33 innocent students on April 16, 2007. What if 5 or 10 of those 33 people had a weapon on them at the time of the shooting? Would it have changed the outcome? In the last few years, there has been growing violence on US campuses. For example, the Columbine High massacre in 1999, where two students killed 13 and wounded many others. Another example is the University of Iowa shooting where a former student

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    On April 20, 1999 a massacre happened at Columbine High school. This is a day that Cassie Bernall died. Two boys one day decided to show up to the school with guns. Many people have two of the wrong conclusion as to what happened that day. The first one is the two boys wanted to get revenge on the bullies that made them miserable at Columbine. They were known as the “Trench Coat Mafia outcasts” The second conclusion is the unexplainable: We can never understand what drove them to madness that

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    Awil Salah Osman and many other kids are being terrorised and tortured to be child soldiers and some think that they need amnesty when really they do not need it or get it. There are more than 200,000 kids in the line of fire shooting and killing other people. The article Armed and Underage states that the kids were given two choices to run or to stay and be a fighter. Two kids ran From commanders and were shot dead with ak-47 rifles. Some others may say that the kids were fighting for rights when

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    The columbine shooters were two students, Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17. There are many theories as to why they did their actions, but none of them have been proven correct. One theory is that both Dylan and Eric were influenced by bullies. They believed that since they only chose jocks, christians, and minorities, it meant something. Another theory is that they were apart of a group called the Trenchcoat Mafia. Lastly, many believed that Eric and Dylan

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    April 20th, 1999 is a day that will never be forgotten, on that day the first school shooting massacre accord. At around eleven fifteen a.m. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris opened fire on students at Columbine High School in a suburb of Denver, Colorado. What drives two teenagers to the point of mass murder? These kids had come to a dark road in their lives and they succumbed to it completely and that is when they began to plan for the biggest school shooting. What drove these two teens to their

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    Columbine: Beyond the Massacre (Option B) The perpetrators who gave insight to many psychological fields and named as inspiration for unfortunately similar occasions, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris’s legacy will forever remain as homegrown terrorists. On April 20, 1999, Klebold and Harris opened fire at Columbine High School, consequently ending the lives of fifteen—including themselves—and injuring numerous others. In the nearly two decades following the Columbine High School massacre, the United

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