9/11 Research Paper
September 11, 2001. A day no American will ever forget. It was a day that this nation realized that we as Americans are not invincible. We can be hurt. Planes flew into both the north and south towers of the world trade center. The towers collapsed killing thousands of people. This event has been not only terrifying, but it has also been insightful. In my English IV class, we read multiple articles that were published after 9/11. These articles gave us insight by looking into the historical significance as well as the memories of that terrible day. Reading about 9/11 has been very insightful, because we have considered the historical significance of it. The article “Security vs. Freedom” shows a lot of the historical aspect of 9/11. It explains
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The article “The Real New York Giants” shows a lot of memories in it. The whole article, the firefighters talk about how things were before 9/11. They would go every year and play football games against other fire departments around the area. After 9/11, they still played, but they were missing many of their friends who had died in the 9/11 attacks. These men were now only in their memories. This is insightful to me because it shows how attached they were to each other. This was there family. They pushed through the hard times and kept going. It really showed how big of an impact 9/11 had on the people involved. In addition to that article, we read one titled “The Falling Man”. This article had a huge part in talking about memories. This story went into the details of how the restaurants workers would wear certain things to work every day, and who would wear what. They were trying to find who the man was in the falling man picture. The photographer went to different families who could have been the families of the falling man. He would ask them things about their lost family member, such as if they wore an orange shirt to work that day. The people knew whether they did or not, which is amazing that they would remember such a small detail. This is insightful to me because it shows me how something as big as the 9/11 attacks make you remember the smallest things about the
The article “The Real New York Giants” shows a lot of memories in it. The whole article, the firefighters talk about how things were before 9/11. They would go every year and play football games against other fire departments around the area. After 9/11, they still played, but they were missing many of their friends who had died in the 9/11 attacks. These men were now only in their memories. This is insightful to me because it shows how attached they were to each other. This was there family. They pushed through the hard times and kept going. It really showed how big of an impact 9/11 had on the people involved. In addition to that article, we read one titled “The Falling Man”. This article had a huge part in talking about memories. This story went into the details of how the restaurants workers would wear certain things to work every day, and who would wear what. They were trying to find who the man was in the falling man picture. The photographer went to different families who could have been the families of the falling man. He would ask them things about their lost family member, such as if they wore an orange shirt to work that day. The people knew whether they did or not, which is amazing that they would remember such a small detail. This is insightful to me because it shows me how something as big as the 9/11 attacks make you remember the smallest things about the