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Hate In Our Society

In Andrew Sulivan's article "What So Bad About Hate" and Dave Culle's "Inside the Columbine High Investigation," both authors talk about hate and its impressions on our society. Sullivan says that there is no way to abolish hate, but that we have to learn to live with it. Cullen states that all ...

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Argument-based Homicide In Ame

rica Feeling alienated by fellow classmates, two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO who referred to themselves as the Trench Coat Mafia went on a rampant killing spree which took the lives of themselves, twelve other students and one teacher (Obmascik 1). This incident caused an ...

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Argument-based Homicide In America

Feeling alienated by fellow classmates, two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO who referred to themselves as the Trench Coat Mafia went on a rampant killing spree which took the lives of themselves, twelve other students and one teacher (Obmascik 1). This incident caused an ...

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The Tragedy At Columbine

The Newsweek article, "Columbine's Tragic Wake", describes the troubles and pain still taking place in the community of Littleton, Co. The people of Littleton are searching for answers and blaming everyone and everything for the tragedy. By placing blame, the community hopes to speed up the ...

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1999 Columbine High School Shootings

In the small suburban town of Littleton, Colorado, two high-school seniors, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris committed a horrible crime together in their school. They killed students, a teacher, and then committed suicide in the middle of a school day. The boys had a plan to set off bombs in the ...

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Hate Crimes

" are acts of violence directed against people because of their racial, religious, ethnic, gender, or sexual identity. They are also acts of violence against the American ideal: that we can make one nation out of many different people." Hate crimes are motivated by bias against the ...

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Wrestling 2

Professional wrestling programs are among the most popular shows on television; they often represent six out of the ten top-rated cable shows each week. In addition to boosting ratings, the World Wrestling Federation's (WWF) increased emphasis on violence, raw language and sexual suggestion has ...

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Natural Born Killers

Oliver Stone’s Portrayal of the Effects of Violent Media When I was young the only time I willingly woke up early was on Sunday mornings. I would throw on a robe over my pajamas and run down stairs with my brother to the living room and sit myself in the middle of the couch, which was directly in ...

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Should The Ten Commandments Be Posted In Public Schools?

? October 1st, 1997—A 16-year-old in Pearl Mississippi is accused of going to Pearl High School and shooting nine students. Two die. Dec 1st, 1997—Three students are killed and five injured as a 14-year-old opens fire at s prayer circle in the hallway at Heat High School, West Paducah Kentucky. ...

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Why Read Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust

A book I have never read, but hope to read eventually is Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. My father, who bought a copy of the book when it first came out years ago, told me that the main idea of the book is that the Holocaust happened ...

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The Debate on Gun Control

The Debate on Gun Control In the United States, where about a third of the population owns firearms, discussions have been held for many years about whether or not it should be banned from selling and carrying it. The shooting in Las Vegas has given a top public plan debate about free access to ...

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