The Batman Theatre Shooting

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This theory is about an idea of which social interactions over the course of a person’s life shape behavior. The real world example I will be using to describe this theory is the “The Batman Theatre Shooting”. On the day of July 20, 2012, “Dark Knight Rises” a movie was just released to movie theatres around the world. Many people were waiting for the movie to come out but not knowing what was going to be in store for them later on that day. James Eagan Holmes was a student out of University of Colorado-Denver of Medicine. He won a federal grant for full tuition and also 26,000 in living expenses he was majoring for a Ph.D. Neuroscience. His professors tried to tell him to find another career after he flunked a major exam. That put him in a since of depression. As a teen, James Holmes was referred into being more withdrawn and rarely started conversations. His friends and classmates started to check on him less and started to be antisocial. He never wanted to have a conversation with his friends nor did he want one with his parents. But in March 2012, he told his friends and classmates that he admired the “Joker” and said he wanted to be just like him. His friends allegedly just ignored the whole comment all together but soon they will be reminded of the comment. He also sought out internet dating sites hoping he could find someone with his beliefs and compassion. He also wrote something disturbing on his wall; it said “would you come visit me in prison?” basically scaring or removing ones that didn’t have the same interest as he did and hoping ones that did share the same would comment to his page. He just withdrew from the university a month before that day. He had no criminal record, not even a parking ticket. To deal with the ...

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... to the money. I recommend that he should keep the money in the restaurant and do all the accounting there instead of trying to do it at his house. In the restaurant you have a lot of locked doors and a security system and a a lot more witness’s if the alarm was to go off.

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