Jeff Weie Research Paper
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The story of Jeff Weise
Jeff Weise was a 15-year old boy, who on Monday, March 21, 2005 shot 9 people, including his grandfather, his grandfather’s girlfriend, a school teacher, a security guard and five of his fellow students, at Red Lake Senior High School, Minnesota, with a .22-caliber gun.
We’ve studied his life through his personal journal on LifeJournal.com, his Flash videos on the Newgrounds website and on his debates on the neo-nazi forum in the US. The picture we get of Jeff Weise is that he was very confused and messed up by his hard life. Through his harsh experiences in his relatively short life, he gathered a lot of dark thoughts.
Jeff’s father committed suicide in the late 90’s, and that must have had quite an effect on Jeff’s childhood. His mother lives on a nursing home, because she suffers from a brain damage she got in a car …show more content…
Jeff disliked mixing of races, and believed Hitler was right with his thoughts in the 1940’s. You could say Hitler replaced the father figure in Jeff’s life. Jeff was fascinated by Hitler’s ‘accomplishments’, and did a lot of research on Hitler and Nazism, before he proclaimed himself to be a Nazi. He was described to wear a long, black trench coat all year long, and the rest of the students bullied him because of his looks.
Nazism wasn’t the only extreme thing Jeffrey was interested in – he was quite a fan of violence, and extreme art was something he enjoyed. He made flash videos (short cartoons on the internet), with very violent content, and he was fan of the goth-rocker Marilyn Manson. Many American parents believe that mr. Manson’s music affect their children’s behaviour, but we don’t think that it causes young teenagers to commit such terrible actions as school shootings. But in Jeff’s situation, dealing with such a weak mind, these songs may affect his view on
The story of Jeff Weise
Jeff Weise was a 15-year old boy, who on Monday, March 21, 2005 shot 9 people, including his grandfather, his grandfather’s girlfriend, a school teacher, a security guard and five of his fellow students, at Red Lake Senior High School, Minnesota, with a .22-caliber gun.
We’ve studied his life through his personal journal on LifeJournal.com, his Flash videos on the Newgrounds website and on his debates on the neo-nazi forum in the US. The picture we get of Jeff Weise is that he was very confused and messed up by his hard life. Through his harsh experiences in his relatively short life, he gathered a lot of dark thoughts.
Jeff’s father committed suicide in the late 90’s, and that must have had quite an effect on Jeff’s childhood. His mother lives on a nursing home, because she suffers from a brain damage she got in a car …show more content…
Jeff disliked mixing of races, and believed Hitler was right with his thoughts in the 1940’s. You could say Hitler replaced the father figure in Jeff’s life. Jeff was fascinated by Hitler’s ‘accomplishments’, and did a lot of research on Hitler and Nazism, before he proclaimed himself to be a Nazi. He was described to wear a long, black trench coat all year long, and the rest of the students bullied him because of his looks.
Nazism wasn’t the only extreme thing Jeffrey was interested in – he was quite a fan of violence, and extreme art was something he enjoyed. He made flash videos (short cartoons on the internet), with very violent content, and he was fan of the goth-rocker Marilyn Manson. Many American parents believe that mr. Manson’s music affect their children’s behaviour, but we don’t think that it causes young teenagers to commit such terrible actions as school shootings. But in Jeff’s situation, dealing with such a weak mind, these songs may affect his view on