Sharmane Hughes English 101 Ms. Evans 19 September 2012 Assignment #6 Contradicting Denial Tom Junod’s article, “The Falling Man,” debuted a behind the scenes view of how the tragedy of 9/11 affected many different people in various types of ways. Some people were emotionally connected to the tragedy because of the fact that they had lost love ones in the process. Others might be emotionally attached because of the amount of sadness that flooded the United States. Everyone was scared and left wondering what was going to happen next. Junod’s article goes in-depth about the emotions that rose due to the public publishing of a photo that depicted a man on the day of 9/11 descending to his death from the Twin Towers in New York City.
Then in paragraph two he questions: “But is there really a link between entertainment and violent behavior?”(Rhodes). Then he starts giving information that contradicts his claim and supports his opponents but he ends refuting it in the paragraph above. We see this agreeing and refuting structure all over the article. As a reader I found the editorial really confusing when you start reading it, because I did not understand what was he saying or arguing. However as soon as I finished reading it, I understood the purpose of his organization.
If the enemy did manage to create a flying machine then the empire had one to defend itself against them. Thus the emperor was not justified in executing the inventor of the flying machine. ….the most important thing to understand is that it is not the machine or invention which is the problem but it is the people that control it will determine whether it is used for good or bad
The initial impact was devastating which left about 300,000 people homeless out of a population of about 410,000. Many of the people were evacuated to nearby cities, and the others lived in makeshift tents on the beach of North beach. In fact years later in 1908 these refugee camps were still in operation. The overall cost of the damages was estimated at the time to be 400 million US Dollars (around 8.2 Billion present Dollars). The fires that were a direct result from the main shock and the aftershocks were just as damaging because of the uncontrollable burning from ruptured gas lines.
David Laub English 101 A-5 Matt Bougie 4 February 2013 On September 11, 2001 planes flew into the World Trade Center. While some survived the attack many died in different ways. In “The Falling Man” is about the controversial picture of a man falling to his death after the planes smashed into the building. The article explains the story of the events during the attack and after with trying to answer the question on everyone’s mind. Who is the Falling Man?
"It's all in a day's work..." is a frequent response. However, clinical depression is common especially for people who play a role in high profile rescue efforts. A few examples include Robert O’Donnel of the Midland Fire Rescue, Texas who pulled 18 month old Jessica out of a deep well. O'Donnel never recovered from that incident. He became an alcoholic, lost his job, his family and in 1995, about seven years later, he committed suicide with a shotgun (Lunsford, 2002, Babinek, 1997).
Civilization was crushed” (page 103). The population of the United States was dramatically affected by the disaster because the explosion took out the President, so without the Government running smoothly and half of the population blasted out of existence, the civilization of Fort Repose and other cities are dwindling down. “I don’t see how we could get rocked from that distance. Maybe they hit Palm Beach and Miami. Maybe they missed and pitched two in the Glades” (page 93).
Soon the government invested money just for the research of the influenza epidemic, it wasn’t much and the studies for it didn’t begin until the pandemic was over and a lot of Americans began to loose interest in what caused it. (http://www.pandemicflu.gov/general/greatpandemic2.html) The short term effect of this pandemic was that it killed millions of our people not just in the U S but all around the world, which is never a good thing. The long term effect was that it gave scientists and physicians cause to research and learn more about what caused this pandemic and rectify it or at least ensure that this won’t happen to the extent that it did. It also opened up the doors for research into other fields of medicine. Another problem that I reflected on was the way African Americans were still being treated in the 1900’s.
The way Kendrick raps makes the audience seem as if he is we are listening to his story. But with the information we know about him, his friend was the one who go shot. Therefor in the line, “You ran outside when you heard my brother cry for help Held him like a newborn baby and made him feel Like everything was alright” we can declare that the speaker is not Kendrick but the victim’s brother. Already Kendrick opens up a song in a way that hasn’t been seen before. Kendrick tells the tale of his friend’s brother in his own eyes.
For me it always seemed like fires happened to people that no one knew and that firefighters were iconic symbols and not real people. That changed one night during the year I spent in Iraq. Just twenty yards from my living quarters, a friend of mine stood outside his quarters and watched as his belongings burned to mere ashes. Luckily for me, the firefighters contained the fire before it reached any further or I would have been standing there just the same, watching the things that kept me sane (pictures of my wife and daughter) go up in