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Extra Curricular High Schools
398 wordsThroughout the country, in each and every school there are cliques the development of cliques is inevitable. While some cliques deliberately exclude people, most cliques include a group of friends who are very close. As a result the people who are left out of a clique feel lonely and angry. Many outsiders are taunting them every day, which only makes them angrier. Eventually these people snap and take their anger out innocent people. The Columbine shooting proves that. To prevent this the high s...
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Law Abiding Citizens Gun Control Laws
626 wordsSome people are for new gun control laws, but I am one of the many that are against them. Now, it is impossible to pick up a newspaper or watch the evening news without being bombarded with the details of another mass shooting, or another child that was killed while playing with a gun. Unfortunately, there are many people who take the easy way out when it comes to a solution to this problem, they choose gun control. There are many facts that support my position in which I will explain. First of ...
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Trigger Locks Violent Crimes
1,251 wordsWith the growing number of reports, on television, about violent crimes at school, it is no wonder that President Clinton is pushing for more gun control. Although the number of violent crimes committed in schools is far less than the number committed at home, the president feels that stricter gun laws need to be in effect. In the light of the recent shootings at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado, there have been serious increases in the number of proposals to help regulate gun use. I...
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Columbine High School Dylan Klebold
625 wordsSchool Violence: The Columbine Tragedy Tuesday, April 20, 1999, is one of the most significant dates to the tragedies of school violence. It all started 1 year and 6 months ago. It was a normal morning in Littleton, Colorado the students of Columbine High School had no idea of the tragedies that would go on durning the day. No one could know, as they went about their normal business, that beneath the calm, an anger had been raging in the hearts and minds of two students, Eric Harris 18 and Dylan...
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Environmental Conditions Environmental Factors
860 wordsThe behavior children exhibit is influenced by environmental conditions, however to a lesser extent than the biological factors that influence behavior, unless the child is severely abused. The environmental factors have a limited impact when it comes to how a certain individual will behave when faced with certain conditions. Children may be taught how to react in certain situations, but just because they see a violent movie or play a violent video game they are not going to go to school armed t...
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Violent Video Games Violent Acts
1,409 wordsFor many years there has been an increase in the cases of violence in schools. Violence, in itself, has been a problem plaguing schools and just recently has it taken deadly actions. But what causes these outbreaks of aggression and hatred to occur? Is it the community where the school is or peers that children come in contact with? Some factors that might contribute to violence in schools is the family influence, society's shortcomings, the media and drugs. But can it really all be blamed on th...
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Columbine High School Dylan Klebold
475 wordsOn the mourning of April 20, Erik Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, sat in their cars in the parking lot of Columbine High School, strapped on their guns and ammunition. and donned long black Western-type duster coats to conceal their weapons. Neither the diversionary bomb theyd planted two miles from the school to distract the police, nor the two propane bombs theyd hidden in the schools cafeteria. had exploded. So the pair simply walked into their Littleton, Colorado, high school and calmly m...
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Haven Yale University Sexual Dreams
1,088 words... to conclude that dreams are about every day life and present day and not instead of latent content of the dream, as Freud believed (Lavie 118). Other recent research suggests that it could be both everyday life and unexpressed content. Which would make all three dream theorists above partially correct (Lavie 118). My next bit of research was a little tougher to find. I wanted to know What do people dream about? To find out this answer I created by own survey. I did a survey of 200 different ...
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Columbine High School Problems At Home
1,791 wordsWhat exactly is the definition of insanity? Insanity is being in a mental state of mind that does not allows you to make correct decisions on events that are occurring at that moment. But this definition is not always the same through out the United States. One persons definition is not always the same as the next. This comes into conflict when trying to decide someones fate in court cases, and this is especially important when it involves a minor that has committed a serious crime. As an exampl...
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Feel As Though They Matter Columbine Shooting Schools
413 wordsViolence has always in been schools for as long as anyone can remember. However, the days of small skirmishes in the hallway between two students are of the least of problems. Today students are much more hostile in schools, and every time the news hits the TV talking about another school shooting it makes everyone involved with schools paranoid, prejudice, and frightened. But what is even more frightening then the acts themselves is the question WHY? . Why did two teenage boys one day decide to...
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Columbine High School Exposure To Violence
1,253 wordsSchool Violence In the past several years, there have been many instances of violent acts (including murder) occurring throughout the United States. Littleton, Colorado; Springfield, Oregon; Edinboro, Pennsylvania; and West Paducah, Kentucky are just a few of the small towns that have been hit by such a tragic event. Due to the fact that all of these are small towns, students, parents, and communities alike are realizing that no town is really safe. An outbreak of school violence can happen anyw...
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Christian Science Monitor Low Self Esteem
1,783 wordsThe problem we are facing today with violence in the schools is a major concern with communities everywhere. Juvenile homicide is twice as common today as it was in the mid 1980 's. It isn't the brain that the kids are born with that has changed in half a generation; what has changed though is the easy access to guns and the glorification of revenge in real life and in entertainment. Crime in and around schools is threatening the well being of students, as well as the staff and surrounding commu...
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Concealed Weapon Laws In Texas
1,550 wordsConcealed Weapon Laws In Texas This year, in February and March, America again witnessed tragic cases of high-profile, gun-related killings in Atlanta, Chicago, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Texas. Twenty four men, women and children as well as three of the gunmen were killed. However, in contrast to past tragic accidents, those recent ones were not accompanied with widespread clamor for stricter gun control. As practice reveals, the killings usually stimulate calls for more Americans to arm and thus...
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Effect Is Felt Columbine Tragedy Effects
380 wordsColumbine: Cause and Effect The Columbine tragedy has struck another victim last week. If all thoughts were that the tragedy was behind us, no one has considered the effects of the massacre. A student that was injured in the massacre was making progress on recovering, when backlash from the tragedy struck. Her Mother committed suicide in respect to what the tragedy has done to her life and her families life as well. This is the effect that the event has spawned, more pain and more suffering. On ...
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Material On The Internet Sexually Explicit
1,843 wordsAs we move on into the 21 st century new questions will arise that we could never even have imagined. The speed of life has increased dramatically in the past years. With the age of the Internet already here questions like, Should the Internet be censored? What should be censored, and how could it be censored? are being asked more and more often. Some people might say that the American dream would be hurt because of a violation in our first amendment right, however if the Internet were censored,...
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Gun Control Advocates Twenty Four Hours
1,554 wordsTeens of the decade are having an easier time obtaining firearms with which they are jaunting around on killing sprees. The most recent incident occured on Tuesday, April 20, 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. That fateful Tuesday began as any other day with a 6: 15 a. m. bowling class which both murderers, Dylan Klebold- 17 and Eric Harris- 18, attended. Both of prominent backgrounds, Eric's father a retired Air Force officer and Dylan's father a geologist, the two belonged t...
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Teenage Boys Murder Rates
990 wordsUnfortunately, we are all too familiar with the massacre that took place in Littleton, Colorado on April 20 th, 1999. That was the day that two teenage boys, armed with multiple firearms and pipe bombs, took on Columbine High School. By the end of the day, 13 people the two killers included were dead, and 23 others injured. Tragedies like these have seemed to become more frequent this past decade, yet every time it happens, the nation again finds itself asking Why? . Fingers are pointed in every...
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Dylan Klebold Mentally Unstable
952 wordsSociety Music Censorship Music Censorship Society in general has always had its faults and glitches, some of which were remedied, others which will never be solved. Media, more specifically in the arts, have never been perfect and have always taken criticism throughout the history of time. In the last few decades or so though, censorship and music has gone hand in hand, one not being able to exist without the other. When a problem occurs in society where music is involved, the masses immediately...
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Low Self Esteem Drugs And Alcohol
1,715 wordsThe problem we are facing today with violence in the schools is a major concern with communities everywhere. Juvenile homicide is twice as common today as it was in the mid 1980 s. It isnt the brain that the kids are born with that has changed in half a generation; what has changed though is the easy access to guns and the glorification of revenge in real life and in entertainment. Crime in and around schools is threatening the well being of students, as well as the staff and surrounding communi...
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School Shootings School Violence
578 wordsWhat with intrusive random searches, zero tolerance, drug-sniffing dogs, surveillance cameras, metal detectors, mandatory uniforms and on-site armed police officers, the schoolhouse these days is looking more and more like the jailhouse. All of this follows, of course, in the wake of the shooting rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. , last spring. It was tragic enough that, in this incident and several other school shootings in the past two years, 26 students were deprived of the...
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