The author formats his research into two sections: the first section is the Virginia Tech and then the Columbine shooting. The main focus will be about the Columbine massacre that occurred in 1999. Chen gives a brief summary of the case but focuses more of the psychological field as to why this incident happened. Looking into his research, Chen points out a lot of mental illness attribution, causal attributions, racial exemplars and interracial evaluations. The usefulness of his work is well played including a mass of data/statistics to back up his research. With Virginia Tech, he compares to Columbine on how the suspects have mental issues that caused them commit multiple homicides. “Mental illness would be perceived as an external attribution…
On Tuesday, April 20, 1999 two students ( Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold) of Columbine High School in Columbine, an incorporated part of Jefferson County, Colorado, killed 12 students and one teacher, and injured 21 other students. After the massacre the pair committed suicide.…
Eric harris states in his first basement tape “Don’t think we copied anyone. We had this idea way before anyone else. Ours is better.” On April 20th, 1990 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold opened fire onto their high school, columbine. Twenty four people were wounded, one teacher was killed trying to protect kids in the library. Thirteen students were killed throughout the lunchroom and library. And 24 other students and teachers were wounded. Eric and Dylan both committed suicide after the mass shooting.…
There had been school shootings before Columbine. However, Columbine was the first where cell phones played a substantial role. Cell phones were rising in popularity and many students had one. Many teachers and students called the authorities as well as the local news stations from inside of the school. They were able to give live accounts of what they were seeing, who was injured and where the shooters were (CNN, Kay Jones). The police were also able to gain vital information through discarded phones that were still on call with 911 by listening to conversations and exchanges between the shooters and other victims (LiveLeak, Columbine Massacre). Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered the school at 11:09a.m. and had committed suicide by 12:08. Knowing virtually nothing, the press descended on the school by 12:30p.m. Watching the massacre unfold they reported anything they saw or heard. The news stations often interviewed students who had fled from the building, as well as anxious parents waiting for word. News anchors covered anything and everything they could get their hands on. The majority of the information received by the police immediately after the shooting was assumptions, rumors or figments of the imagination and the police refused to release any information to the…
During the spring of 2007 on the Virginia Polytech Institute campus, a student named Seung-Hui Cho had shot 2 students in a resident hall before entering classrooms and shooting 32 other students and professors (Glum). This event had created a call for necessities in protecting not only the Virginia Tech school but all large campuses in America. Director of Virginia’s 32 National Campus Safety Initiative S. Daniel Carter stated, “That one incident sort of crystallized campus safety in people’s minds as a very, very serious issue.” (Glum). The school itself had warning signs before the incident that also brought into questions how the situation could’ve been different and how potentional threats need be…
The start of this scene begins off with a fade-in to the sign of the school “Columbine High School” as an audio and visual…
The Sandy Hook Massacre is the second deadliest shooting by a single person in American history. According to CNN, this tragic attack took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012. The shooter, Adam Lanza, brought three guns into the school, two of which were pistols, and one of which was an assault rifle. To get into the building, which had an updated security system, he shot his own way into the building with his assault weapon. Lanza ended up murdering twenty-six people. Twenty of the twenty-six were six and seven year olds. As the first authorities approached him, Adam Lanza shot himself in the head, committing suicide (CNN 1-2).…
Yes, Hazzard is effective for his audience because he is showing the truth about how the paramedics.…
It was Tuesday, April 20, 1999. It was an exciting day for me in the fourth grade when I turned 9 years old. However, the people of Littleton, Colorado remember that day as something more and definitely less exciting than my birthday was. On April 20, 1999 Littleton Colorado experienced what we now know as the Columbine Massacre. Two seniors at Columbine High School, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold completed this act killing 12 students, 1 teacher, and injured 21 others before committing suicide. Why would anyone want to commit such a horrific crime? Today I am going to talk to you about the boys and their preparations, the massacre itself, and the aftermath.…
Spree Killings is when three or more killings happens’ without any cooling off period, this often happens at two or more locations. Though cases like the Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado in April 1999, where two teenage boys carried out shootings killing 12 students and one teacher as well as injuring 20 more students and ultimately leading up to the two boys own suicides and the end of the killing spree, was done at one location, the school. Even though there had been shootings at other schools prior to the Columbine shooting it was the…
The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting which occurred on April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.…
11,127 is the number of Americans killed in the United States last year with a gun. 381 is the number of Germans killed with a gun, which is the closest statistic country to the U.S. Why is there so much gun violence in the U.S? What is so different in the U.S. that gun crime is so prevalent? What can we do to change it? All questions Bowling for Columbine poses in the film documentary by Michael Moore. Like the documentary, there is not one simple answer and there are no easy solutions.…
Many people have most definitely heard of the horrifying events of the Columbine High School Massacre. Two shy, bullied, low self-esteemed teenage boys go plant bombs in their school and shoot everyone, right? This is what a majority of people believe and they think the cause behind it has to do with the boys’ clothes, music, and the school jocks and preps bullying them (Rosenburg). This, however, is a misconception. In order for anyone to truly understand what was going on in the minds of these killers, they must first look deeper into the event and know exactly what it is that occurred. They must immerse themselves into the minds of both the murderers and the unfortunate victims. For example, imagine this:…
According to Webster's Dictionary, a massacre is, the violent killing of many people. There have been many school shootings in the history of America, but in the most recent years our country has experienced terror, heartbreak, and frustration. Together we have learned things and been able to prevent other bad things from happening. The most commonly brought up shootings took place at Columbine High School, Virginia Tech, and Sandy Hook Elementary School. These three massacres have been the most modern, deadly events.…
The shootings that occurred at Kent State University, Ohio, on May 4, 1970 have been a dark spot in American history for almost 36 years. It is a day remembered by many names, THE KENT STATE SHOOTINGS, MAY 4 or the KENT STATE MASSACRE. Four students were killed and nine were wounded, all of America suffered.…