COLUMBINE HIGH  - AND OTHER MURDERS
 
Excerpt from Harris schoolwork, article on nazism (Click on it to get to the Columbine documents at Sheriffs Office, Jefferson County. big pdf-file)

Another excerpt, short article review:

 

VOCABULARY

School Shooter
Irrational Violence
Adolescence
High School
Massacre
Mass Killing
Youth Culture
Goth Culture
Self-esteem
Esternalize Blame
Anger Management
Images of Violence
Media
Upbringing Styles
Absent Parents
Double Income Families
Youngsters left to themselves
Lack of Trust
Community
Law Enforcement
Self-glorifying Attitude
Solve Conflict
Crime
Punishment
Retaliation
Suicide
Self-destructive

 

Grammar exercise - active and passive. Change, where possible, the passive forms into active, and active forms into passive in the tex below:

Wife, four relatives dead after Louisiana shooting

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (AP) -- A man gunned down _________  four of his in-laws during a morning church service Sunday, abducted _____________his wife and then shot ___________her dead before he was captured __________ nearby, authorities said.

Church members wept as they watched investigators examine ________ evidence and search_______ for clues. Anthony Bell, 25, of Baton Rouge, was arrested __________at an apartment complex, where his wife was found ________dead, police said. It was unclear whether Erica Bell, 24, was killed ________ at the complex, police said. Her three children, including an infant, also taken from The Ministry of Jesus Christ church were found ________ safe, officials said. Erica Bell's mother, church pastor Claudia Brown, was wounded _________and was in serious condition at a hospital, police said, but would not provide further details. Brown's brother, Jeffrey Howard, said his sister had been shot __________ in the back of the head but was able to give a statement to police. Howard said Anthony and Erica Bell had some "domestic trouble" in the past. Anthony Bell faces charges of murder, attempted murder and kidnapping. The small church shares space _______in an old warehouse with a guitar shop in a nonresidential area of Baton Rouge. Bell is believed ________ to have entered and opened fire with a handgun shortly before services were to end around 10 a.m. Hours later, police responded to a 911 call about a shooting at the apartment complex and found _________the woman dead and Bell holding the baby, LeDuff said. It was unclear whether Bell was the father of the children. (21st of May 06)

 

 

LINKS:

Article on the Columbine High Syndrome

Columbine Documents

Crime in the USA

Bowling for Columbine

Dunblane killings

Crime highlights Britain