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Columbine, David Cullen

This week: 102 pages
Last week: 127 pages
Semester total: 474 pages

Sentences of the Week: 

"Columbine quickly overshadowed the war" (52).
"The public couldn't wait that long. The media wasn't about to. They speculated" (67).
"Perhaps now America would wake up to the dimensions of this challenge, if it could happen in a place like Littleton" (93).

I liked the first quote because it shows two things. The first was that Americans will always care about domestic issues as opposed to international issues. The second was that the magnitude of the Columbine attack
I liked the second quote because it showed that many of the greatest misunderstandings of the world are the result of impatience.
My favorite quote this week is probably the last one, an excerpt from President Clinton's speech about Columbine. "...if it could happen in a place like Littleton," it could easily happen to a place like Fort Wayne. And that's what affected me most when reading Columbine. Columbine High School is just too similar to Homestead High School for me to be comfortable.