winning documentary; ‘Bowling for Columbine’ explores the reason for the violence in America and the reason for the Columbine High school mascara. In April 1999 two students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a shooting rampage killing twelve students‚ a teacher‚ and injuring twenty-one people‚ before committing suicide. Eric Harris killed out of anger. He killed in judgment. He killed because of his self-perceived uniqueness and his wish to exist alone‚ without the burden of others. Dylan Klebold
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Eric Schlosser. New York‚ NY: Houghton Mifflin Company‚ 2001‚ 383 pp. Notes. $13.95. "This book is about fast food‚ the values it embodies‚ and the world it has made‚" writes Eric Schlosser in the introduction of his book‚ Fast Food Nation. His argument against fast food is based on the premise that "the real price never appears on the menu." The "real price‚" according to Schlosser‚ ranges from obliterating small business‚ spreading pathogenic
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Lianna Kirmser/Cross 12/17/12 Research Paper On April 20‚ 1999‚ the small town of Littleton‚ Colorado would forever be changed. On Tuesday morning two senior students by the name of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold entered Columbine High School with the intent of killing hundreds of their classmates with guns‚ knives‚ and bombs that they hand made in their homes. They began opening fire on their peers and setting off explosives all around the school. Before students had the chance to put together
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plagued the town of Littleton‚ Colorado. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold‚ the shooters‚ have very diverse backgrounds. Eric was intelligent while being cool at the same time. He manages to get superior grades‚ while doing shameful things. However‚ “Dylan Klebold was a meek‚ self-conscious‚ and authentically shy. He could barely speak in front of a stranger‚ especially a girl” (Columbine 6). Judgment Day‚ the most tragic day in school history‚ is what Eric and Dylan called their mass murder. This
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In Littleton‚ Colorado on April 20‚ 1999‚ high school seniors Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris arrived at their school with the intent to become the most prolific killers the country had ever seen. Inspired by the Oklahoma City bombing‚ they planted homemade bombs in various areas of the school to exact large scale death and destruction‚ while armed and waiting outside to shoot any escaping survivors. In addition‚ they placed explosives in their cars to target arriving emergency personnel. After the
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responsible for this incident were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. These two senior students were responsible for killing twelve students and one teacher; they were also responsible for injuring an additional twenty one students on their rampage. A few other students were injured while trying to escape the school. Columbine is considered the fourth deadliest school massacre in history. It was said to be that there was not one target but everyone was a target on Eric and Dylan’s rampage through the high
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crimes that children commit. When two young men‚ Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold‚ went on a shooting spree in Littleton‚ Colorado‚ killing fifteen people‚ including themselves‚ there was a public outcry for censorship of every type of entertainment and changes in gun laws despite Eric Harris’s journal entry titled‚ “Last Wishes” asking that no one be blamed‚ other than himself and Klebold‚ for the massacre (“Diaries and Journals of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris”‚ par. 2). After the 1999 school shooting
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called it dylan and eric would be caught stealing and having dangerous weapons by police‚ teachers‚ and their own parents. I really don’t know how much trouble someone has to get into before they figure out that they are not going to change and only worse things can happen before they get into big trouble‚ because they never really got into just a lot of trouble like jail time they always got out of it and i think the longest they were grounded was for a month.
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April 20th‚ 1999. Do you remember where you were when you heard the news? The tragedy shocked the world‚ being that it was the worst school shooting at the time. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed twelve students and a teacher. Injuring more than twenty other people‚ then ending it by turning the guns on themselves. In Columbine by Dave Cullen he gives insight into the lives of the shooters‚ the victims and the police force behind the case. Cullen conducted nine years of research with various interviews
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Eric and Dylan were more than ready for their assault when they arrived at their school at 11:10 a.m. (Rosenburg). They headed straight for the school’s cafeteria with two duffel bags‚ each one concealing a 20-pound propane bomb (Rosenburg). They set them
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