James Eagan Holmes was born on December 13, 1987 in San Diego, California, raised in Castroville, California. His father is a mathematician and scientist with degrees from Stanford University, UCLA and UC Berkeley, his mother is a registered nurse and he has one sister. In high school he played football and ran cross-country. He attended the local Lutheran church with his family. In 2006 he graduated from Westview High School in San Diego, California. Holmes moved to Aurora, Colorado, where he lived in a one-bedroom apartment on Paris Street in a building where other students also attended health studies. Before attending the University of California, Riverdale, Holmes interned at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in 2006. During his internship he was assigned to write computer code for an experiment. Supervisors described his attitude as stubborn, uncommunicative, and socially inept. Holmes further supported his supervisors' point of view as he was assigned the task of presenting a project to the other interns, which he never actually completed. In his college application essay he wrote of his experience at the Salk Institute stating, "I had little experience in computer programming and the work was challenging to say the least. Nonetheless, I taught myself to program in Flash and then to build a cross - temporal calibration model Completing the project and presenting my model at the end of the internship was exhilarating.” The statement in his college application essay expressed a completely different opinion of him than what the company had stated about their experience with him as an intern. In 2010, he graduated with honors in neuroscience college Holmes was a member of... middle of the paper... movie fanatic While the case was insulted, he entered the theater as a regular patron and left through the back exit to retrieve his weapons. No one had any way of predicting this or prevent this from happening only we can become more aware of our surroundings and not overlook the little things that seem out of place. Entrepreneurs will now have to foresee the possibility of such accidents happening in their businesses perhaps they will have to impose stricter safety measures and increase prices to ensure that. have their customers' best interests in mind. This is no longer the world our grandparents grew up in where you could leave your front door open and not worry about anyone getting hurt. your family. We live in a society where we have to be constantly on the alert for the possibility that the same person next to you will try to harm you.