Argumentative Essay On Losing A Princess
Courtney Hart
Ms. Davis
College Prep English
31 March 2017
Losing a Princess As she lay in bed on August 30th, Darlene Sheets never imagined she would receive the news that was about to come. “I had fallen asleep for a couple of hours after showering that night and turned on the television around 1:15 on the morning of August 31st.”, Sheets remembers. It was then when the news was released. The top story: Princess Diana Killed in Horrific Car Accident filled the media. While coming back from a late night dinner and a night out with then boyfriend, Emad Mohammed al- Fayed, Princess Diana’s driver was racing to escape paparazzi. “I believe that there was a car coming from the other direction when they began to enter the tunnel and that is when the driver veered to miss having a collision”, Sheets recalls. The car was traveling at a very high speed when it collided with a concrete wall and ultimately bounced into a support pillar. As help arrived and ambulances made their way through, anyone could see that the outcome was not …show more content…
The public could describe the princess in many ways, but when the media tried making those comments negative people stood up against them. Princess Diana helped others rise up from dark times in their lives, not fall down. So, why was the media overly concerned with portraying her to be this way? Money and greed are the answers to this question. Even the negativity made money, therefore paparazzi had to make it happen. Sheets commented on this by stating, “People act as if they are blinded by the wealth such things, that are not even truly worth it, bring to them”. This sense of greed and money hunger is what could have contributed to the death of the princess and the others. If the paparazzi would not have cracked down so hard to get that one shot of Fayed and the princess, their car may not have been traveling at the speed it
Ms. Davis
College Prep English
31 March 2017
Losing a Princess As she lay in bed on August 30th, Darlene Sheets never imagined she would receive the news that was about to come. “I had fallen asleep for a couple of hours after showering that night and turned on the television around 1:15 on the morning of August 31st.”, Sheets remembers. It was then when the news was released. The top story: Princess Diana Killed in Horrific Car Accident filled the media. While coming back from a late night dinner and a night out with then boyfriend, Emad Mohammed al- Fayed, Princess Diana’s driver was racing to escape paparazzi. “I believe that there was a car coming from the other direction when they began to enter the tunnel and that is when the driver veered to miss having a collision”, Sheets recalls. The car was traveling at a very high speed when it collided with a concrete wall and ultimately bounced into a support pillar. As help arrived and ambulances made their way through, anyone could see that the outcome was not …show more content…
The public could describe the princess in many ways, but when the media tried making those comments negative people stood up against them. Princess Diana helped others rise up from dark times in their lives, not fall down. So, why was the media overly concerned with portraying her to be this way? Money and greed are the answers to this question. Even the negativity made money, therefore paparazzi had to make it happen. Sheets commented on this by stating, “People act as if they are blinded by the wealth such things, that are not even truly worth it, bring to them”. This sense of greed and money hunger is what could have contributed to the death of the princess and the others. If the paparazzi would not have cracked down so hard to get that one shot of Fayed and the princess, their car may not have been traveling at the speed it