September 11 example essay topic

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A walk along the University of Arizona mall yesterday afternoon one might think it was an average afternoon. A local band played at one end, a few fraternities and sororities had set up tents to recruit students and many people zipped along to class and lunch. September 11, 2001 It couldn't have been any different two years ago, remembers Brian Klinsport, a media arts senior. "All of my classes were canceled, and everyone huddled around small TV's in the union that were barley getting reception. No one even talked, it was crazy", Klinsport said. Mark Neville, 26, an east coast transplant whose father worked in Manhattan at the time, was roused from a bed in San Francisco by a frantic call from his mother telling him that his dad was O.K. Neville was glued to the television for hours.

David Castleberry, 22, a senior in the food and beverage program at Northern Arizona University, had stopped in to a 7-11, where his father worked. "When he told me I didn't believe him. But he got out a little T.V. and we watched the towers fall. No one in the store cared that there was a line, they just couldn't believe it", Castleberry said. September 11, 2003 Klinsport did not go to class today. It was not because his classes were canceled he was just tired.

The anniversary did not dawn on him until he turned on the television to watch baseball's Chicago Cubs, he said. "For a few weeks I was on edge, but now I don't even think about it. With the recent war in Iraq, I am too focused on other media events, said Klinsport. Neville, a self-proclaimed conservative, says he is less worried today because of the job the current government is doing. He said he would be more worried if a democrat had been in office. "The attacks on the world trade center made me more aware of what is going on around me.

I pay a lot more attention to how things affect me", Neville said. Castleberry, on the other hand, worries about the Bush administration and their response. "Many people's civil liberties have been and are being taken away. It was a tragic event, but it has had serious repercussions for people all over the country, not just in New York", Castleberry said.