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    Eric Harris Mass Shooting

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    The Incident Tuesday, April 20th, 1999, at 11:10, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, drove to Columbine High School, and parked in front of the school’s cafeteria. As they got out of their cars, Klebold walked over to Harris’s truck and the two grabbed two 20 pound propane bombs from his car. They both walked over and entered the school and planted the two bombs inside of the cafeteria. Klebold and Harris walked back to their cars and waited for the bombs to detonate (CNN, Updated 2018). As Harris is

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    terrorism. Many people believe that the boys did it due to lack of attention, while others believe the boys did it because they played violent video games. These two boys go by the names of Dylan Klebold, and Eric Harris. Dylan Bennet Klebold was 17 years of age at the time of the shooting while Eric David Harris was 18 years of age. For one year, Klebold and Harris were planning out their attack. They wanted this attack to kill the entire school. Both boys despised Columbine High School. They didn’t

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    On April 20, 1999, the unimaginable occurred at Columbine High School in the small town of Littleton, Colorado. A school shooting, perpetrated by, then senior students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold took the entire community by storm. With 15 deaths, including the perpetrators, and 24 non-fatal injuries, the memories of this horrific massacre will forever resonate in minds of all. With a meticulously, thought out plan, the two shooters prepared guns and bombs before performing the sickening act.

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    think one theme of Columbine is that some people do bad things for no apparent reason. Everyone sought someone or something to blame for Eric and Dylan’s actions, but ultimately they were just two kids born with severe mental issues. Nothing happened to them to make them the way they were. Signs of psychopathy were evident from a young age, especially in Eric. They were destined to act out violently in some way or another. b.) Dylan Klebold was tall and gangly with long hair. He loved technology

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    Dave Cullen repetitively stated that students of Columbine wanted to know why Eric and Dylan went into Columbine and killed their classmates and a teacher. They were just point blank psycho. I think this is the theme because of how many times Cullen pointed this out. B) Eric Harris was an average high school boy. He played sports and got lots of girls. He fairly tall and muscular. He would sometimes make disturbing “jokes” about killing people or hurting someone. Never did any

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    Colorado. The atrocity was committed by two of the schools very own students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Still to this day, the ultimate question that has been asked of this terrible event is “Why?” Why would two incredibly intelligent, nice, and popular boys decide to commit such an unspeakable crime? In the novel Columbine, Dave Cullen attempts to shed some light on the inner workings of the boys minds. Cullen describes Eric Harris as quite handsome with “all his features proportionate, clean-cut

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    The Columbine Shooting On April 20, 1999, two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who attended Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado went on a shooting spree, leaving thirteen dead and twenty wounded before turning the guns on themselves and committing suicide. This attack would go down as the single worst school shooting in United States history and the shooting spread fear in people across the nation and caused a rise in security. Schools across America introduced new security measures

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    Role-Playing games with simulated violence is diverting to the students because it distracts students from the real world, it can get way to extreme, and it can also be dangerous.Students at Brooklyn’s high school are playing a game with water guns and all the students that play have to pay money, all the money goes into a pot and the winning student or team wins all the money. Role playing games at Brooklyn's Heights New York City high schools are distracting students from the real world. ‘’Using

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    Bill Clinton Failures

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    -Bill Clinton: The First Baby-Boomer President -The Democratic nominee for the election of 1992 is Bill Clinton : governor of Arkansas who despite accusations of womanizing and draft evasion, is chosen aloingside Albert Gore as his running mate. -Clinton had formed, with other centrist Democrats, the Democratic Leadership Council which pointed the party into a new direction focusing on stimulating the economy, reform of the welfare system, and overhauling the nation’s health-care apparatus

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    On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold carried out an attack on Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. They fired guns towards students, killing thirteen people and injuring more than twenty. Afterwards, they turned the guns on themselves. In ‘Columbine’, Dave Cullen analyses how and why Eric and Dylan massacred those people. When viewed in hindsight, events such as this are inspected to every minute detail; there are always ways to change the outcome. In the event of Columbine

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